planetside.station.sony.com — SOE has released the Planetside Reserves promotion. Planetside is a MMO First Person Shooter, and the Reserves program allows new users to create an account for the game for free, with certain limitations to Battle Rank and Command Rank. Apologies for posting the story twice, but the official link just came up now with a new URL for download.
Mar 25, 2006 View in Crawl 4
emraithMar 26, 2006
Anyone having a problem with the official download, psreserves.zip, try using <a class="user" href="http://www.greyfalcon.net/psinstall.zip">http://www.greyfalcon.net/psinstall.zip</a> then once you get the launchpad up with that, change the shortcut link to "C:Program FilesSonyStationLaunchPadLaunchPad.exe" /game:planetside /batch:2007908 /plan:426 this should let you download through the regular update server, and give you the right option for a new account
dracoMar 26, 2006
Has everyone forgotten, that Sony is behind RIAA and DRM root kits.
emraithMar 27, 2006
this is an online game..there is no rootkit in it....the game is normally $12.99/month(or less), this is an option to play the game completely free of charge. yes there are a few ads in the game when you're in the sanctuary, but thats it. there are no ads when you're in an area that you can actually shoot stuff. i'm rarely in the sanctuary for more than 2 minutes....and anyway, theres ways(search planetside official forums) to block all the ads by adding the ad servers to your hosts file...game is free, if you dont like it, or think soe is out to h4x0r you into paying for their game, dont bother with it..we got enough idiots in the game already
emraithMar 27, 2006
yeah, agree 100% with Hamma. the game might suck or get boring to you if you're not in an outfit, or one that sucks. but i've been playing this game for 1.5 years, and theres definately been times where ive been very frustrated and almost cancelled my account. this isnt just a 32 player random scrub run around and kill stuff deathmatch...this game you actually have to communicate and work together to get stuff done.. you need guys to do support, medics, engies, hackers.. need drivers for vehicles, with gunners that actually know what theyre doing. dropping 10-30 guys onto a base and knowing that everyone with you knows what the hell they're doing is an awesome thing.....
emraithMar 27, 2006
dont use a dropship then.. and "I hated this game because your reward is your weapons, not actually conquering of territories." have you actually played the game? there are no server resets. it sounds to me like you played in beta and are stating how a game was then, compared to when its been in retail for almost 3years... the whole point of this game is to conquer bases and lock continents. there is no currency in the game, you're reward for killing stuff and capping bases is you advance in battle rank, meaning more cert points to have more flexablity to what you can do or use..
emraithMar 28, 2006
did you read the actual post at all? the game is free now. you have complete access to the game, including the Core Combat areas that was added in an expansion pack. there is no monthly fee, you're just capped at level 6
hoogaMar 28, 2006
I just want to say that this installer is probably the best thing anyone could come up with for this game.Use it if:- You have trouble downloading the HUGE official installer (this installer installs as part of the launchpad, so downloading can be resumed)- You previously had a paid subscription and want to change your client to a Reserves subscription
theregurgitatorMar 29, 2006
This is one of the best games I have ever played, I defineatly recommend anyone to try it out, I mean come on, it's free.
valenshyfterApr 8, 2006
Its not entirely true what you say about no skill...it just requires a great deal adapting a character to a situation. I am no saying that this game is not without its flaws, but if you set your character up right emp grenades specifically, you can knock a tank out on its ass and vulnerable for any who wish to pound the hell out of it. So when you say the vehicles in the game are ruining the game play its not entirely true.