SOE Launches Planetside Fodder Program

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday March 27, 2006 @07:13AM from the go-shoot-someone-but-not-someone-real dept.

RobinH writes "Sony Online Entertainment hopes to recruit more players to its aging MMOFPS title Planetside with the launch of its new play-for-free version Planetside: Reserves. According to a story in Gamasutra, 'The freeplay option limits players to a "battle rank" of six, with higher ranks only available to those with a paying account. PlanetSide is already part of the Massive in-game advertising network, and has been running billboard and other adverts since August 2005, presumably helping to fund the game's continued operation via this alternative model.'"

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Re:LOL HTTP DL Only?? by GreyFlcn · 2006-03-27 08:29 · Score: 2, Interesting

Well, I've done my best to polish up my installer over the weekend.
Put in about every detail I can think of for the trial.

It's a 1MB web installer.

Completely simple, compatable, and just about perfect in every way :)
http://www.greyfalcon.net/psinstall.zip

I'm also the guy who ran the installer last year when we had only 7 day trial keys.
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/05/ 1713229
Got about 7,000 downloads off that marketing push

As for the Devs, we've got a new Producer, really capable guy.
Last two patches have been fantastic.
And the next one looks pretty sweet as well.

Join the Fight :)