Way to keep Planeshift free

[TheGeneral]

I don\'t think anyone minds these old posts, since they have some of the good stuff ppl(some who don\'t even show up here anymore) talk about.
ONE more thing, THE most important one, refrain from spamming.
*looks at Shanky* *looks at Shanky\'s profile*
Shanky, you remind me of someone.....

[Shanky]

Do i really Alucard? eh, oh well. Anyway, i dont think a post about a topic that has been discussed millions of times, and was also recently (within a few days) needed to be brought up.

[Rageburst]

In EQ, many customers pay extra to unlock better service (game questions, moderation, tech support,...), quests, areas.

I think it would be acceptable for some people to pay to get better service... or it can be in exchange for game money (EQ currency exists... Ebay), experience, or pre-made characters.

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In Shen Mui (sp?), they used a few soda companies like pepsi to sponsor their game. You can buy pepsi cans in the virtual soda can machines.

[Shanky]

Time is more important than money to the PlaneShift team

[Bigfoot]

RageBurst:- Have you actualy played EQ before?... since none of what you said is correct.

Ive played EQ for 4 years now, the only thing you have to pay extra for are the recent additions they have incorporated such as teh Name Change service(50$ for a new name), Character Server Move service (50$ for haveing your character with no equipment allowed transfered to a new server) and the Ledgends server (A server that costs 30$ a month and has dedicated GM\'s and unique items). All of these recent additions bar the Ledgends server have been from what Ive seen and read a complete and utter flop, and the ledgend server has attracted little attention. Not realy surprising to me ^^

Customer server, techsupport, GM\'s, Quests and the like are not \"premium\" services you have to pay more for they come as standard in your 9$ errr make that 12$ now ^^ monthly fee, then again EQ\'s customer service makes the Gistapo(sp?) look like angels (waiting 5 hours for a  GM to final be told sorry we can not help you).

Just thought Id clarifiy your post (not that I like EQ myself, more of an addiction than a Like).

[Marduk]

/didn\'t look at dates it was just new

/isn\'t homophobic so won\'t use slurs n e more

/likes cheese with a passion

[Vengeance]

Actually, EverQuest does have some sort of \"Ultra Deluxe\" edition which costs I think $49.95 a month, and lets you go on custom quests, for custom items, and have special customer support.

I about crapped myself when my wife said she was interested in signing up for that...  ;-)

- Vengeance

[Shanky]

You\'re right Venge, it\'s called Legends, you get better servers, better items, more and better quests, better tech support, the whole 9 yards, for an extra $30 a month... 8o

[Bigfoot]

I thought that is what i said?...

you dont get better quests however, they have dedicated GM\'s for the server that make constant story events for the players, the ingame quests are the same as the normal servers. And many of the items players want to see are made for them and there are far more unique  items and weapons armor etc due to this. Franctly i cant see why they have to charge extra for it when its some thing you should get as the main package (Verant and Sony however try to make as much money from there ever dwindling franchise as they can). Like I said i dont think many people use the ledgends server... most like yourself gag at the idea of the exorberant prices.

[Cyonamie]

Stormhammer (legends) does have an extra zone, the jagged pine forest, its like lvl 40 plus

my neighbor has 3 accounts on legends, how he pays for that i dont know, but any way, he has been in there, he said its nothign great

[Spartan8]

I thought we already figured out the money thing.

Catalians wark as slaves at petrock factories in hopes to revive the fad...

[AfricaX]

I have been saying the idea of at the Loading screen instead of the picture of some place in Yliakum you could have an advertisement.

It\'s a kick arse idea and won\'t ruin the In-Game Experience

Whats wrong with you people lol it takes an idiot like me tofigure this out?

[Link]

Ok, maybe you dont get how ads work, if you put them in game you dont pick where they go, they will have to be someone where the person playing will always see them, like on the bottom of the screen.

[Xolon]

I like the idea of Paxx.
paying a little fee, to gain some more hours gamming a day.

But on the other hand, let the Dev\'s first make their game, alpha and beta test it.. When that all goes well and Ps has got a nice repuation. Then u can think about how to continue with maybe some p2p in it.

Dont forget the main goal of the ps team;

Trying to make a good rpg online, wich is free of charge.

If they really cant pay fir it, then they should discuss a maybe p2p mode. But not now when the game is only in Techdemo available..

-Xolon-

[Cyonamie]

u people really burn me, rune scape is the same way, it was meant to be free, but when the greedy bastard gower figured out that people would pay to play the game, he starting charging after they finished \"beta\".
if planeshift is meant to be a free mmorpg, and if they servers r free, i will not donate a dollar to it.  sure everyone works hard on it, but they all volunteered to make a game that was FREE
read this thing, it is a quote from what gower said at the launch of runescape
http://www.gamesdomain.com/elite2/gdreview/news/3982.html
 

Andrew Gower, the game?s designer, said: \"I wrote Runescape because I felt there should be a multiplayer RPG game which was easily accessible to everyone without people having to pay a monthly fee or make a huge download. I also wanted to prove what Java is capable of, as many people told me it couldn\'t be done. Now I\'ve shown that it can!\"