I just heard the news on the SOE podcast, its not great news for the game, but looking at the forums and the way the dev support was last dated 2005 it does look like a game left to just run to the end which is a shame in my opinion since out of all the MMO's this is the one that I think has the best potential for the concept simply since the genre is familiar to most people, yet it has no competition (and even better would run on the PS3 with no effort at all).

I've read a interview with a top person from Blizzard mentioning Planetside with some praise, really got a hunch something like this could be the next big thing.

I wonder if this changes the lipstick on the wall list you mentioned of the at risk SOE MMOs in the recent videocast?

There was something odd about the European servers though since they weren't covered by the station pass, seems like they had a different operator so maybe this is more related to that.