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May 20th
PlanetSide on May 20
Sony Online Entertainment sends word that PlanetSide, their MMOFPS, will launch in North America on May 20. Here's the announcement, which includes more on plans to integrate voice communication into the game:
Sony Online Entertainment Inc. (SOE), a worldwide leader in massively multiplayer online gaming, announced that its highly-anticipated massively multiplayer online first-person action game, PlanetSide(tm) will make history when it launches on May 20. The groundbreaking game will allow thousands of players to fight online in an all-hours-of-day global war that has never been seen before in the first-person action genre. The company also announced that it will add squad-based voice chat functionality to PlanetSide, further enhancing the experience of fighting together with a squad and working as a team. PlanetSide will be available on May 20, 2003 in North American retail stores.
"There has never been an online action game as ambitious as PlanetSide. We are combining a game world that can support the fast action of a first person shooter with the character growth, development and scale of an MMORPG," said Michael Lustenberger, director of product marketing at Sony Online Entertainment. "The result is a truly new and unique experience as players are immersed in battle with thousands of other people from across the country, while they hone their skills and become elite combat units."
PlanetSide has a suggested retail price of $49.99, which includes a 30-day free trial subscription to the game's online world. Additionally, the game will carry a monthly subscription fee that will be announced at a later date for continuing access to the game world. Players can subscribe for additional months using a credit card, or purchase PlanetSide 90-day Game Cards, which open the PlanetSide universe to those who choose not to use a credit card.
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Yuck. I've said it before and I'll say it again: if I'm going to shell out $10 a month, the software itself should be a free download.
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Yeah. 30-day free trial subscription is really a $50 trial subscription!
If you don't like it after 30 days do you get your money back?
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I think a more reasonable price would be $19.99...
But what the hell, capitalism at work.
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Capitalism at work means I'll be voting "nay" with my wallet. :) I was under the mistaken impression that beta dudes would not have to pay the up-front fee. If it's going to cost that much, I would need a lot longer than 30 days free.
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Shrug...I'll happily pay, and I'm guessing 10s of thousands more will too.
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I'm starting to be a little shaky about it.. dunno if I will pony up the dough or not. :nuh:
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I'll probably pony up the $$$ but I'd like to see how many AK are in for this. If we get a good number who are committed then I'm in.
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Many people pay for a game that doesn't even get played for a month before its put on the shelf.
Getting continued support and enhancements for $10 doesn't seem too bad IMHO.
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I'll p(l)ay. It should hold my interest for a few summer months. I hope with the monthly revenue they add more classes, vehicles, etc.
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Its more than likely though that the monthly cost will be closer to 13 dollars.. of course there have been rumors of it being as high as 20 (highly doubtful)..
13-15, seems to me like that would be the range they would go for on monthly fee.
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I currently pay for 3 everquest accounts that I haven't really touched in a while. Whats one more monthly fee for Sony. I'm enjoying this game, and probably will for a while as long as friends and friends of friends continue to play. But once people start leaving the game will get boring just like EQ no matter what kind of "High End" crap you do.
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If those are the rates I will probably not go for it. $50 then 10-15 a month is something I am not willing to do. Paying a monthly charge and then calling fixing the faults in your programming ehancements is BS to me.
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Welcome to the future, boys. ALL subscription based games you first pay for the product then pay a montly fee. All the games are like that. Get used to it, you will be seeing a lot more of it. If it is a pay for play game then you will be buying the box for 50 bucks then paying 10-15 a month to play. This is actualy normal and has been the case since Ultima Online.
I am sorry, I am so used to the model that it does not suprise me at all. In fact if we were able to play without the initial 50 dollar cost I would have been shocked. As has been said before how many times have we shelled out 50 bucks for a game that we did not even play for a whole month? I see no big deal.
You will see more for your monthly fee than just bug fixes I garuntee that. Bug fixes is what you get in free-to-play games.
I'll buy the game if we have enough others into it, I just don't want to go solo. But it sounds like we have a lot of people that are still in the free-to-play mindset that will not go for it. That is fine, we don't have to go for the game. But I am suprised at the amount of hostile posts we have here about a small montly fee with a regular game purchace up front. I dunno, it seems normal to me. There are days I spend more than 15 bucks on a pizza that I only enjoy for a short time and as has been spoken before many times have I purchaced a game and not played it for an entire month.
Oh well, not every game is for every person.
Edit: And I agree with Squid, $19.99 sounds more reasonable to me. But I'm not the one who makes those calls. 50 bucks is the way it is, in this and all massively multiplayer games.
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I'll pay the cost of admission, while it is somewhat high I can figure out in the first 30 days if this is really going to be worth a monthly fee or if I should juts set this one on the shelf and let it collect dust.