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View Poll Results: Release client and server hosting files for fans, if PlanetSide is ever discontinued?
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Old 2012-06-20, 01:12 PM   [Ignore Me] #1
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Hello everybody!

I have a proposal that is quite simple and humble. If PlanetSide eventually becomes discontinued, I would request that SOE kindly provides server and client files required for fans to set up their own legitimate Sandbox server for PlanetSide.
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Old 2012-06-20, 01:15 PM   [Ignore Me] #2
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Everything has an end. Planetside had a good run, but just like all things in life, you eventually have to say goodbye.
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Old 2012-06-20, 01:29 PM   [Ignore Me] #3
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Originally Posted by ODonnell View Post
Everything has an end. Planetside had a good run, but just like all things in life, you eventually have to say goodbye.
That's the silliest thing I've ever heard, we're on the Internet!
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Old 2012-06-20, 01:33 PM   [Ignore Me] #4
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Yeah, I doubt SOE will want to hand over secret in-house built code to the masses. Have you ever heard of http://www.swgemu.com... They basically reverse engineered Star Wars Galaxies... Crazy stuff....
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Old 2012-06-20, 01:40 PM   [Ignore Me] #5
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Originally Posted by robocpf1 View Post
That's the silliest thing I've ever heard, we're on the Internet!
Exactly. One of my biggest issues with modern console and PC games is that there's no way to get back in once service has been discontinued. Since PlanetSide has no single-player mode, there is no way for players to get back in to do anything or even look around after the online service has been discontinued.
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Old 2012-06-20, 02:21 PM   [Ignore Me] #6
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Let it die with dignity.
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Old 2012-06-20, 02:33 PM   [Ignore Me] #7
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Simply, that is not something SOE does or ever has done.
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Old 2012-06-20, 03:07 PM   [Ignore Me] #8
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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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Old 2012-06-20, 03:14 PM   [Ignore Me] #9
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Originally Posted by Mastachief View Post
Let it die with dignity.
This. A new era is coming to fruition for Planetside, we need to be looking forward, not worrying about how to handle the relics of the past.

Aside from that, what the hell would you really do with it? Planetside 1 had notoriously difficult code & assets to work with.
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Old 2012-06-20, 04:44 PM   [Ignore Me] #10
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Originally Posted by robocpf1 View Post
That's the silliest thing I've ever heard, we're on the Internet!
Not really. We aren't talking about a Singleplayer game. Multiplayer games and MMO's all have an end. A new or better game comes out, popularity fades, companies go bankrupt and can't support it, etc... Planetside 1 doesn't deserve to fall from glory and remain a shell of its former self living in the shadow of its potentially better, bigger, and more successful big brother. If PS2 was a total flop I could understand wanting sandbox servers, but at this time PS2 looks like everything we hoped a sequel would be.
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Old 2012-06-21, 01:38 AM   [Ignore Me] #11
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I would like an offline mode reinstated to allow you to go and look about. Even Old Oshur.

You -can- do this with original discs...there -is- an offline mode...so I know it is in the coding.
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Old 2012-06-21, 01:15 PM   [Ignore Me] #12
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Even if an independent server were opened, it would suck due to lack of people.
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Old 2012-06-21, 04:00 PM   [Ignore Me] #13
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Originally Posted by Sobekeus View Post
Even if an independent server were opened, it would suck due to lack of people.
But at least you would get to play with yourself in a sandbox....ummm...wait. That didn't come out right.
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Old 2012-06-21, 05:15 PM   [Ignore Me] #14
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I would assume that this would not be in the cards, for all the reasons already sited. While I dearly loved and am still playing PS, when the time comes I will be ready to make that a memory.. a very good memory.
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Old 2012-06-25, 01:26 PM   [Ignore Me] #15
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Keep in mind that PS1 won't necessarily be taken down the moment PS2 is live. It may be switched to free-to-play and left running for players to see what the original was all about.
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