Holy mackeral. I've been so bored recently that I was fooling around checking my SOE account last night. Low and behold, I found that my PS account was active...but I knew I had not paid for a thing since like 2006 concerning PS.
Turns out there is a 45-day activation for every account until August 27 or something; you think they could e-mail you and say something. If you're bored, come play! If you have Vista, I know how to get it to run fine on it, and it's free...what could be the problem?
If you need to download it, go here: http://launcher.station.sony.com/
Afterwards, just tell it to install Planetside.
Also, they are allowing name changes now - one per account. All's you have to do is /appeal and ask to use your one-per-account-name-change-request. Very painless. I am finally free of all Cadet1288's! I am now PathfinderAF on TR.
They are merging Werner into Gemini on August 25, as well. The battles are good, even during the day. It's not what it used to be, no, but it's free, so if you're bored, why not!
For the Terran Republic!