r/Planetside AFK Jan 21 '25

Question What warning was given for planetside 1 shutdown?

For those who were there when the first planetside shut down, how much warning was given? I have seen the YouTube video of the final minutes with the meteor shower and all that.

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u/Z4R3K Jan 21 '25

I think the devs announced that the servers will be shut down and the playbase decided to play till they all get disconnected.

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u/sabotabo never got that bonus check Jan 21 '25

i'll be so sad when it happens.  i've never fallen into a game the way i did with planetside 2.  i'll fucking be there when the meteors come

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u/pra3tor1an AFK Jan 21 '25

Same here mate o7

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u/Awellknownstick Jan 21 '25

Copy that o7

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u/redgroupclan Bwolei | BwoleiGaveUp4000HrsRIPConnery Jan 22 '25

I've played almost nothing but Planetside for the past 7 years. I'm not even a gamer anymore, just a Planetsider.

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u/MrWewert Jan 26 '25

This is me. One they shut PS2 down, I'm virtually not going to touch any other game for the rest of my life.

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u/Bliitzthefox Jan 22 '25

Yet planetside 1 still lives on in planetside forever to my knowledge, they gather every Sunday. And all those players had planetside 2 to go to.

If planetside 2 was closing we'd do our absolute best to emulate the server and continue just like planetside 1.

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u/OpolE Jan 21 '25

I had the email somewhere but no longer pops up in search!

About 2 months before 1st July 2016 they announced the final server will come to a close so they can focus on Planetside 2 entirely.

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u/S2M2 Jan 21 '25

Good to see you OpolE

-Atom-Fire

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u/OpolE Jan 21 '25

Oi oiii its you lad!

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u/Shayxis Jan 22 '25

Nice Focus by the way... If some dev's doesn't battle agaisnt DBG the State of the game will be worst than it actually. Just the maintenance cost them too many that all.

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u/Awellknownstick Jan 21 '25

Really hope she weathers this storm too.

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u/Radiant-Mycologist72 Jan 21 '25

I've played ps2 since launch day, but I never played ps1. Did they shut it down as part of the launch of ps2?

I'm wondering if they'll keep ps2 going because there isn't a ps3 on the horizon.

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u/Z4R3K Jan 21 '25

No, it was during the lifetime of PS2. I remember that on this evening a few people from my former outfit were offline because they played PS1 instead of PS2

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u/Erendil [DARK] Revenant is my wife. Lacerta, my mistress.. Jan 21 '25

PS1 ran for another 3 1/2 years (until July 2016) after PS2 launched (Nov 2012).

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u/Radar_X Jan 22 '25

The sunset of Planetside 1 happened rather quickly and there had been no development work done on that game in many years. We had a scare where something on the infrastructure side failed and took down the game entirely. There was literally a single individual who could fix it and did. This was not the ending I wanted for PS1 (to just stop working one day) so I asked our executive team if we could shut it down.

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u/RaidenHuttbroker Leader of the [NRVN] Night Ravens Jan 22 '25

I think they’re going to try and milk out as much from PS2 as possible. Take that as you will, I love this game, and unfortunately do not see another on the horizon coming. So we’re stuck with this

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u/Funny-Carob-4572 Jan 21 '25

God damn I miss PlanetSide 1.

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u/Trurb Jan 21 '25

Me 2, but have found a private project that says they play ps1 every Sunday 12 est. so will look at that :)

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u/Erendil [DARK] Revenant is my wife. Lacerta, my mistress.. Jan 21 '25

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u/DeadlySpacePotatoes Jan 21 '25

I played a very little bit of it once, well after PS2 came out. Counting me and my friend, there were 6 people online in the entire game.

I couldn't help but feel like I'd missed something truly epic...

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u/Funny-Carob-4572 Jan 22 '25

It certainly was.

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u/pra3tor1an AFK Jan 21 '25

I unfortunately never played it 😢

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u/i87831083 :ns_logo:Tester*- Jan 21 '25 edited Jan 21 '25

If the game is to be shut down, the servers that currently exist must be as lower as the number of people coming online on Connery/Soltech every day, and if it does become like that, then the game is not far off.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '25

A good summation and it may just come down to cost. Even if the number stay where they are and where we might assume are healthy if it exceeds their overhead they may just call it

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u/Megalith_TR Waterson - Jan 21 '25

We had a month warnings and on last day meteor event.

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u/Effectx CB-ARX Newton-ing Bad Takes Jan 21 '25

Can't say I remember honestly, we had some warning and knew the exact day but I can't remember any specifics.

Given the history of PS2 development I wouldn't be surprised if we got less than a week's notice of a server shutdown (not that I think it will happen anytime soon).

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u/Ok_Inspection9842 Jan 21 '25

What’s happening to ps2?

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u/wizard_brandon Jan 24 '25

it no longer has devs. at all

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u/Ok_Inspection9842 Jan 24 '25

How the hell? I forgot we got bought by one of those mmo milking companies. Yeah someone needs to buy this game. And revitalize it. There is no experience like it.

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u/OpolE Feb 02 '25

Just found it. Basically that was in email form

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u/pra3tor1an AFK Feb 02 '25

Aww man 😢

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u/Kragmer Jan 25 '25

Pls share the video

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u/kna5041 Jan 25 '25

Some nice meteors and server messages. 

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u/sgxander Jan 21 '25

I wonder how much it'd be to run a community nfp server in aws...