I'm currently listening to music from PlanetSide in the background, which made me think back to the glorious times when I played it and how it's the best MMO game EVER and the only true MMOFPS to date... But unfortunately poorly maintained at first and a victim of its own lack of advertising (and, subsequently, lack of popularity).
So, any other PlanetSide vets out here? :)
FIREk - Werner, Terran Republic, BR25 CR4, ex-Outcasters officer.

Heah! I played it for some time. Actually there was a re-launch of this title in Russia 2 years ago. So it added some fun to the game.
P.S. Check Werner, I think all new meat is there :)

Back to the topic (which Crysis shouldn't be :P), I suppose you make a valid point about reaching too high... SOE does, however, have a bad reputation for killing their own MMOs... ;)
The net code looked like it was written to cope with high-density action on 56k modems, which was probably a good idea at the time, but the resulting "warping" issues were never fixed, which is the game's biggest problem (as they made the game quite unfair). I think they could make some changes and allow PlanetSide to use up more resources (connection-wise), since nowadays practically everybody (and their grandparents) has some sort of relatively high-speed Internet connection. ;)
This month looks like it's gonna be a handful, but I think I'll resubscribe in two weeks to see how the game is doing... :)