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Gameplay => General Discussion => Topic started by: Strata on March 08, 2002, 09:51:40 pm

Title: Tribute to the devs
Post by: Strata on March 08, 2002, 09:51:40 pm

i just wanna say that this planeshift project is really grat and has a well adept team that is good at what they are doing and do it well. Even thought it is free and as much as i hate to say this i feel that this game shouold be distributed in stores and stuff. I mean this has like everquest it shouldnt really be free well any way good job devs you are doing a great job ;)

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Post by: Kiern on March 08, 2002, 10:31:22 pm

or maybe it is that EQ should have been free  :D

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Post by: Weitang on March 09, 2002, 02:05:41 am

Umm, EverQuest is a HUGE game, far more big then PS, and it requires a lot more cash to run most likely.  EverQuest has maybe.. 30 servers?  Each server is most likely ran by computers faster then the public can buy.. supporting around 2000 people on each.. with a HIGH speed internet line.  EverQuest must have to get lots of money to run these, because with just the purchase price, they can make cash, but will lose eventually when they have to pay the bills for their servers & team.  I actually dont know how much this would cost, but im guessing that it would cost a lot more then PS would atm :)  EQ probibly was not charging either when the betas were going on.

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Post by: Kiern on March 09, 2002, 02:11:51 am

lol i was just joking dude  :D

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Post by: kyalin on March 09, 2002, 02:54:24 am

If I am right, I think EQ id run by a company, I dont THINK that ps is ran by some company, because they are taking voulanteers. Because it isnt some big name company they arent obsessed with profit, which is a good thing, othewise wed be paying.

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Post by: Nightbird on March 09, 2002, 04:38:23 am

now, back to the point of this thread ...

hear, hear! three cheers for the wikkid cool dev team that owns you all.

And as far as MMORPGs are concerned the one thing that ticked me off was the $50 you pay at retail, plus expansion sets ... then everymonth you still gotta kick in more dough ... pick one or the other, high retail price or monthly fee, because they are dinking us at both ends.

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Post by: meket on March 09, 2002, 06:40:22 am

ya...they do a fantasitc job wiht jsut putting up with everyone..and thier i think ps should have this and this...and OH YA I WANT THIS...which everyone ay one point i think, has done.

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Post by: mistwalker on March 10, 2002, 08:25:08 am

I think that either the software should be free, or the gameplay should be free. So you don\'t have to shell out $50 for the game, and another $20 for a month to actually see if you like it. At least diablo 2 doesn\'t do that.

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Post by: ninkwi njadro on March 10, 2002, 08:40:20 am

I know what I would do if I made a game as good as PS!! I Would just steal a server! to run it on!!!

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Post by: Bigfoot on March 10, 2002, 01:48:23 pm

ok gona clear a few wrong answers here.. ^^

EQ is developed by Verant interactive (may they burn in hell) and there owned and run by Sony Online.

Every game \"Server\" for each world in EQ is infact made up of a heap of servers.. each one running an indirvidual Zone, there all linked together as a network.

So for the \"Tribunal\" server, you have around 150 zones, each one run on an seperate machine, and the Tribunal \"server\" is just one of about 40 world server network groups. I base this ont eh fact that they can bring down indirvidual Zones while teh game is stil running for repair and maintence, which you couldnt do if the entire world was only run on a single machine.

To do what EQ does even for one world server... it costs a shit load of money, far more than any normal person can setup.

Oh and no we aint a company... since i last looked. The Producers( not the people that make teh game but teh people that forward the development money) get around 90% of the profit from game sales, the devs tend to get the other 10%... hence the reason Warez is bad, i think of it from teh devs point of view ^^, screw teh producers. Thats one reason games cost as they do.

Hmm been a while since I was here... still waiting for my new PC... there delaying it :( damn them. should arrive on wednsday or thursday if there Letter of apologie was right.

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Post by: Nu Sham on March 10, 2002, 03:40:00 pm

well welcome back to the forums anyhow, Bigfoot =)

even tho EQ invests so much money in game servers and world and game development and w00tever, im sure PS will be Wehhhhhhaaaayyy cooler, and all eq players will move to ps..

(and then sony will buy ps and ruin it.. heh)

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Post by: Kiern on March 10, 2002, 05:08:07 pm

oops well maybe i shouldnt have said that........anyways, i agree with meket good job with putting up with everyone  :D  8)

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Post by: Cyonamie on March 10, 2002, 05:32:20 pm

*slowly hides in a corner* not all eq players are moving towards ps............and yes it costs a lot to run eq.  runescape, back when they had 3 servers they said it costed about 50,000 dollars a year to run, this also includes the site.  If this isnt a pile of sh*t that they made up, base it off the price of what eq costs with like, 200servers:) tehy have a good reason for charging  money, also it keeps 3 year olds from running around.  Hopefully PS will find free servers so it will remain cheap(well um actually no cost at all :P )

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Post by: whitti on March 10, 2002, 10:46:10 pm

We love Tribute. Hopefully you\'ll have to pay lots of it to the Governament in PS MWAAHAHAH!

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Post by: Strata on March 16, 2002, 05:01:13 pm

lol