The author mentions that people may ask "how come I never heard of it and people aren't still playing it?"

The game is still going if anybody wants to try it out. There's not too many people left now compared to the earlier years, but it's still a lot of fun and the battles at peak times can still be hectic.

The best advert for Planetside 2 is Planetside 1. Why not give it a try?

http://planetside.station.sony.com/

Just remember that the Terran Republic rules Auraxis, so make sure that you join the red and black army. Killing the New Conglomerate hippies and Vanu Sovereignty technophile noobs never gets old.

Good article, totally agreed on the original game.

It was so far ahead of its time and that hurt it in the long run. Nowadays combat on the scale of PlanetSide can be fully realized with all of the new technologies and experience gained over the past 10 years.

This game if successful has the potential to change FPS gaming for a long time.

Originally posted by NiKKeZ

The author mentions that people may ask "how come I never heard of it and people aren't still playing it?"

The game is still going if anybody wants to try it out. There's not too many people left now compared to the earlier years, but it's still a lot of fun and the battles at peak times can still be hectic.

The best advert for Planetside 2 is Planetside 1. Why not give it a try?

http://planetside.station.sony.com/

Just remember that the Terran Republic rules Auraxis, so make sure that you join the red and black army. Killing the New Conglomerate hippies and Vanu Sovereignty technophile noobs never gets old.

IF the company was smart..they would make the CURRENT game ftp....build a cadre of players  for the new game

Jesus save me from the Cluster @#% that is Darkfall.

Planetside 2 cannot come fast enough.

Planetside and EVE are the only games I have ever played where I tell stories to non gamers about them....and they are actually interested.  This game is going to kick butt!

I'm glad this got you guys excited!

I'll be getting more articles out too; be it a war story, some more history + explanation of the first game,  or maybe even an interview with some of the devs :D

I can't wait.

Its rare for me to post in the mmorpg forums these days, but i had to add to this.

I too recall the days of planetside with a fondness.

I had a 56k modem, and a sub-par computer with 200 megs of ram, a pathetic onboard graphics card and nearly no processing power.

With all the lag, with all the pain and sorrow...

I still played and paid to play planetside for at least a year. Why? because i loved to hack. I loved being stealth, i adored signing in on early mornings and sneaking into places to cap us some shinys for the days battles. It felt accomplished.

I couldn't get to the big fights, my old cpu wouldnt take them. So i did what i could, and those small fights were wonderous.

Now, in the future, i see the prospect of planetside again and Smile.

Because this time im ready. I have broadband, and i have a high-end gaming cpu. I enjoy bf3, but it just cannot compete with the feeling that planetside gives you: Total War.

That said, to the others above:

They already did try that, they introduced a F2P mode called the reserves. Basically, they did it as a 'story' thing where free players were the reserves brought in for reinforcement. Much like grunts, they were restricted in levelling and couldn't go past level 15, i think.

But the planetside numbers still dropped despite that (I returned for the reserves on my gaming laptop, STILL not good enough to play planetside XD)

All i remember of Planetside was lag lag lag lag lag lag lag....