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Viper_NL

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« on: March 28, 2002, 10:00:45 pm »
I`m going to ask about a subject that probably has come up for a thousand times:
I know PS is going to be free (No charges whatsoever) but with almost every Online game if it becomes populair they will ask money to play...
Maybe it wont happen to PS, but if it does I`m willin to pay.
Just wanted to let you know...

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« Reply #1 on: March 28, 2002, 10:30:10 pm »
trust me, this will stay free, as long as the servers stay free, which at the worst(this is all a guess by the way) they would have to temporarily shut the servers down to find new free ones.  and this is for the devs, whats teh capacity of the servers?


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« Reply #2 on: March 29, 2002, 12:10:29 am »
dont see how they could... it is open source right... i dont see how they are going to make an open source game pay unless they take away the open source thingy... and that would defeat the purpose of this project...

they also told all the developement team that it would be free so if they were to go paid iam sure there would be some angry people

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« Reply #3 on: March 29, 2002, 12:24:43 am »
Yeah, the reason that I joined PlaneShift because it was free and I can\'t pay for other MMORPGs so it would be a great waste of time and lots of other stuff if PlaneShift went P2P which would make me very unhappy. ^_^

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« Reply #4 on: March 29, 2002, 12:33:19 am »
Ive got a question about that.  Most servers cost money.  If these are free my guess is they wouldnt be that great, and would have lots of bugs and connection problems and wouldnt be stabley up all the time.  Is that the case?
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« Reply #5 on: March 29, 2002, 10:05:30 pm »
Thats what I am afraid of 2, and when they get a better server > it costs money.... :(

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« Reply #6 on: March 30, 2002, 06:47:09 am »
well supposidly if i remember correctly they were planning on setting up their own computers as servers wern\'t they?? i thought i remember someone saying that before this new board was opened up.

although if that were true i dont see how they could possibly support anyhting voer like 100+ people at 1 time
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« Reply #7 on: April 05, 2002, 06:36:10 am »
you guys are really scaring me now. I hope they find away to keep the game stabile and fun. If I find the game sucks i\'ll be sad. here are some of my ideas on how they could make the game lagg free: Maybe they\'ll work an advertisement system up to pay for good servers? Maybe they have extremely powerful computers to act as servers that can support lots of players? Maybe they\'ve been able to optimize there game code so that they don\'t cause alot of stress on the server side and let the users computer do most of the hard work or I could be wrong and there whole game might suck but I hope not cause I wanna be one of the first bastards to play.
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« Reply #8 on: April 05, 2002, 10:29:19 am »
I reckon if they need to, they should have like a bar at the top that has a constant stream of ads to pay for servers and stuff or something like that.

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« Reply #9 on: April 05, 2002, 12:02:32 pm »
Having to click on advertisements before you\'re allowed to log in would probably keep the server free, even thought it could get a bit annoying, it would be worth it to keep it free.

There could also be a option to send a sum of money to the Planeshift team, and in return you get special privileges like maybe access to a special guild and a  item or something  :) (i was thinking after a year or 6 months or so you would have to pay another sum of money to keep the privileges...)


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« Reply #10 on: April 05, 2002, 08:50:11 pm »
Naw lets not give \'em any ideas like that. We wanna

 keep the game totaly free. That would support a sort of

 segregation between players. Like only people who

pay get to save there character \'n shit. I feel that\'s

stupid because the whole feel of an mmorpg is the fact

of all the people playing and when you set up a system

 where people who pay get special privilages over the

 freebie then your not being fair. I mean what would

any mmorpg be like if all the people who couldn\'t pay

decided that they didn\'t wanna play? It wouldn\'t be any

fun for the people who are paying I\'ll tell yah that. also

 slowly but surely people would look for other games to

play. I mean half the people here left \"the other game\"

because they stoped caring about all the gamers and

only introduced new stuff to the paying player. I mean if

 i wanna pay to play a game i\'ll go out and buy a game

that i\'ll own forever and not just for a month or so. I feel

that some of these mmorpg sites are missing out

because they don\'t wanna take mmorpg\'s to the next

level. Don\'t get me wrong i think that some of the

mmorpg\'s out deserve to get paid but others just piss

 me off. Like Avalon why the hell should anyone pay for

 a bunch of text messages written on a server side

applet?

there getting out of hand. Has anyone checked out

alien adoption agency? Now that game is good and fun

 but i don\'t think that the non paying restrictions should

be so high. thats one of the main reasons i don\'t care

for that game. It\'s time some one (hint, hint) built a

 peer to peer

 mmorpg. All this server crap is getting on my nerves. If

you let the people setup the network then you don\'t

 have to worry about paying (take a look a morpheus).

Cause it\'s not on a centralized network and everyone

 contributes bandwith we don\'t need a server to house

 the files. I believe until they work a game

that doesn\'t

only rely on servers we will never truely have a totaly

free mmorg.

note:
PlainShift Dev\'s Lead the mmorp gaming industry and create a decentralized gaming network! That may rely on severs but us\'s peer to peer technology. I\'m not an expert or anything but i have done my fare share of reading up on the latest technology. and this is my two cents worth and the only idea i could really come up with to help. all i can give for a good example is morpheus. Give the Power to the people!  :)
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« Reply #11 on: April 05, 2002, 09:39:45 pm »
Yeah, I agree with the no-paying thing, eventually they would bring in some thing that only lets unpaying people stay on for an hour a day or something, and that would suck.

And - P2P MMORPG? wtf? explain please, like how would it work and stuff? it\'s an interesting idea.

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« Reply #12 on: April 05, 2002, 11:42:01 pm »
WOW dude.. thats an awful long post dude..
I will read it tomorrow :)
really tired now..
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« Reply #13 on: April 06, 2002, 12:06:00 am »
I think ps should go with some other ways of making money from the start... some examples that would cost real money are

Custom Engravings on armor and weapons

Custon Flyers

Custom tatoos

Well, anyway things that make to game more fun for you, but don\'t change gameplay, or give you an unfair advantage...

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Peer to Peer MMORPG???
« Reply #14 on: April 06, 2002, 12:56:30 am »
I don\'t understand how a peer to peer system would work with a MMORPG.  As I understand,  with a peer to peer system you only connect with ONE machine.  So, if you have a Peer to Peer MMORPG,  you connect to another player\'s machine and there are only to characters in the world) (excepting NPCs and monsters)

I don\'t know a lot about how exactly the peer to peer system works, but if it works as i think it does, then i will be of no use in a game like this.