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Re: Preservation of PlanetSide 1 - User Sandbox Servers
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SOE probably doesn't want to give people the tools to "compete" with itself.
And before anybody objects that PS2 is way better and more awesome, so it wouldn't offer any competition, two things to note: if you're objecting, clearly you want to continue playing PS1 to some level. SOE would rather channel that desire into playing PS2. Secondly, go look at user stats for the original Counter-Strike -- it's still going as strong as Counter-Strike: Source. Again, SOE wants those people playing the new product.
The worst-case scenario in SOE's mind is that they release the PS1 code and allow private hosted servers, and people go to town modding it, increasing interest in not-PS2.
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