[Baneblade]

The things that killed PS1 were very simple:

CSHD

Almost no 'serious' fps gamer can abide CSHD.

BFRs

It was silly from concept to fruition to bring these things to PS1.

P2P

FPS gamers are not used to subscription model games. The idea of paying for the ability to do what they can do free in any other game is an automatic turn off.


The Reserves program proved that PS1 could have been a raving success just by being F2P from the get go. BFRs proved immediately to be a game killer, but SOE never reneges on a mistake and would rather crush their existing player base under the jackboot heel. CSHD was allegedly a necessary evil integral to the way things worked ten years ago.

All PS2 had to do was be a graphical upgrade of PS1, without CSHD, BFRs, and be F2P to be SOE's star franchise.