Planetside 1 being shut down.

[Okjoek]

In about 10 days the original Planetside server will be shut down. The game has been online since 2003 and since I've played Planetside 2 since February 2015 and ever since it has been my go-to online game so I naturally wanted to play the game just once just so I can say that I was able to play the original. It's actually surprising how bad the graphics are considering Halo 1 was released 2 years earlier I think and PS2 is a lot more user friendly IMO. Regardless I can see why PS1 is nostalgic to older members of the franchise. I think DBG, the company that acquired the game shortly after I joined last year has been doing a great job with the game which has me relieved since I expected the worst like I figured the new company would milk the game for what it's worth before discarding the corpse. But instead DayBreakGames has kept a steady flow of updates coming and I feel confident that they will allow this game to hold a candlelight and more to its predecessor.

 

[Nena Trinity]

I guess they did not find it profitable anymore...

[Okjoek]

2 minutes ago, Nena360 said:

I guess they did not find it profitable anymore...

Probably not. It's been F2P since 2014 and as PS2 keeps growing and more PC hardware capable of running PS2 keeps rolling on in I don't personally see much reason to have the game up either aside for nostalgia. I think with the passing of PS1 and some of the greatest updates to the modern game in a while (construction system came out last month) they should definitely push for a hard re-marketing of the game sometime since it's been out for about 5 years.

[SLAYR]

15 minutes ago, Okjoek said:

Probably not. It's been F2P since 2014 and as PS2 keeps growing and more PC hardware capable of running PS2 keeps rolling on in I don't personally see much reason to have the game up either aside for nostalgia. I think with the passing of PS1 and some of the greatest updates to the modern game in a while (construction system came out last month) they should definitely push for a hard re-marketing of the game sometime since it's been out for about 5 years.

The original planetside had been quite dead for a while there have been almost literally no people on the one remaining server, and there hasn't been a direct link to download the game on daybreak's website for a while now. 

 

And it did seem like they did try to remarket the game with the construction system.  If anything there needs to be more competition in the mmofps genre as there is literally no other game like the planetside series.

[hex4]

PS1 has amazing graphics, easily game of this year.

[Praesi]

WIth PS2 i dont see any Reason to keep PS1 live.

[typographie]

22 hours ago, Okjoek said:

It's actually surprising how bad the graphics are considering Halo 1 was released 2 years earlier

I'm surprised you're surprised by that.  Even with a two year difference, Halo 1 was a linear corridor shooter that didn't have to account for much variation in what the player could see or interact with. It's just plain easier to push graphical boundaries in a game like that than one where hundreds of players can take part in the same battle on a huge map. There's different standards for different genres, because they don't all have the same hardware demands.

[Okjoek]

2 hours ago, typographie said:

I'm surprised you're surprised by that.  Even with a two year difference, Halo 1 was a linear corridor shooter that didn't have to account for much variation in what the player could see or interact with. It's just plain easier to push graphical boundaries in a game like that than one where hundreds of players can take part in the same battle on a huge map. There's different standards for different genres, because they don't all have the same hardware demands.

Yeah good point, I retract. 

 

The only way I can really see them making a Planetside 3 is more optimization rather than actual content. What I mean is this game is about 5 years old and the slow growth of CPU hardware hasn't been nice to the game. I don't think the engine that the game currently uses was ever given a lot of praise.

 

I mean obviously the decision was made that PS1's aesthetics weren't enough. At some point in another 5-10 years will somebody be able to say the same about PS2? Maybe, but I have a hard time imagining that since the game looks pretty darn good on Max graphics settings the way it is. Don't get me wrong it's no Witcher 3 or DOOM of today, but it's not bad looking by today's standards for the scale of the game which comes full circle to your rightful criticism of my comment.