Sifting through BS

[LimpBIT]

Ok now, I have this person from my an old clan talking to me. He claims that there is a Planetside 2 in the making, and that planetside was simply a test to see what people like. Is this true

Question 2- Did SOE simply host the servers and take care of billing for SWG? Or did they actually produce it and decide what goes in and what doesnt go in for it.

Question 3- Same as question 2 but for MxO

[Jaged]

Rofl typwns a crackpot. Hes cook, but ... a crackpot.

[LimpBIT]

Rofl typwns a crackpot. Hes cook, but ... a crackpot.

ahh who else would make shit up online to make himself look cool?

[Hamma]

:huh:

[Heavygain]

Uhh... o.O

[Giovanni]

God damnit Hamma... more back crack? How many times have we told you...

[Black]

im having one of those wtf are they talking about moments right about now

[Ivan]

http://members.dragonwolves.com/hamma/misc/ivanwtf.jpg

:lol: sorry had to use it.

[xmodum]

This picture shall forever be our own "WTF?!" Designated picture.

[Jennyboo]

:rofl:

[Giovanni]

Oh I'm pretty damn sure this WILL get out. It'll be on the WTF picture circuit.

[LimpBIT]

10 replies and still no answers :(

[I Hate Pants]

Is that you Ivan?

EDIT: Just saw the other thread.

[Hamma]

I don't think anyone knows the answer.

[Ivan]

Ok now, I have this person from my an old clan talking to me. He claims that there is a Planetside 2 in the making, and that planetside was simply a test to see what people like. Is this true

Question 2- Did SOE simply host the servers and take care of billing for SWG? Or did they actually produce it and decide what goes in and what doesnt go in for it.

Question 3- Same as question 2 but for MxO

#1 SOE has not said anything about a Planetside 2. And I doubt it was "just a test."

#2 I believe the Dev team for SWG was employed by SOE so I guess you could say SOE produced it. I'm not sure on that though.

#3 SOE bought MxO from some one else. I can't remember who. So all SOE did was take it over.

[LimpBIT]

#3 SOE bought MxO from some one else. I can't remember who. So all SOE did was take it over.

monolith

[Ivan]

So, happy then? Questions answered?

[LimpBIT]

well I was hoping to get more than 1 person to answer it so I could check out some things, but it seems as though planetside 2 doesnt exist. That guy is just full of shit.

[Giovanni]

well I was hoping to get more than 1 person to answer it so I could check out some things, but it seems as though planetside 2 doesnt exist. That guy is just full of shit.

Good job sherlock.

I doubt the whole thing would go entirely over the heads of the major gaming sites.

[Jaged]

More evidence of typwn being full of shit. I was talking to him recently and he told me that he used his PSP as a GPS device with out any hardware add ons or anything... just software. I knew he was full of shit, but I played along and installed the software that was supposed to do this. It dosent work (duh). Aparently he later explained that the PSP has what he calls "non real time GPS". In his own words:
[00:35] typwn: Non-real time is a map.
[00:35] typwn: Technically

Thats right... I installed a map on my PSP because this idiot called it non real time GPS...

And for everyone else besides ridean who is probably confused. This is the same guy who was telling Ridean about planetside 2

[Hamma]

This guy needs a bitch slap;

[Ivan]

This guy needs a bitch slap;

INDEED!

http://www.more-than.net/images/bitch.jpg

[Giovanni]

Jaged needs a bitch slap. If you're that fucking gullible you need a good beating.

[Jaged]

Jaged needs a bitch slap. If you're that fucking gullible you need a good beating.

I knew all along that he was full of shit. I went along with it purely because I wanted hard proof to tell this guy he was an idiot.

[LimpBIT]

Yea I called him out on being full of shit, and he said "Well they didnt say they were making planetside 2, but they said a new FPS!" Now this is true, SOE's president did say himself they were making a new FPS. But is there ANY indication its going to be planetside 2? Didn't they lose money on planetside? How fucking stupid do you have to be to make a sequel to a game you lost money on?!?!?!?

[Setari]

Yea I called him out on being full of shit, and he said "Well they didnt say they were making planetside 2, but they said a new FPS!" Now this is true, SOE's president did say himself they were making a new FPS. But is there ANY indication its going to be planetside 2? Didn't they lose money on planetside? How fucking stupid do you have to be to make a sequel to a game you lost money on?!?!?!?

Not a game, but does Xbox ring a bell?

[Jaged]

Not a game, but does Xbox ring a bell?

Thats entirely different. Im guessing microsoft knew they were going to loose money on the Xbox. They diddn't care, they had money to loose. They wanted a foothold in the console industry and they got it. Planetside was not the same kind of investment.

[Setari]

Thats entirely different. Im guessing microsoft knew they were going to loose money on the Xbox. They diddn't care, they had money to loose. They wanted a foothold in the console industry and they got it. Planetside was not the same kind of investment.

Well, they're still losing money on each 360, so really the only difference here is that Microsoft has the ability to burn $4 billion, whereas SOE doesn't.

[LimpBIT]

Well, they're still losing money on each 360, so really the only difference here is that Microsoft has the ability to burn $4 billion, whereas SOE doesn't.

exactly, thats why I ask why they would a planetside 2? Thats what this discussion is about :p

[Ivan]

Where has it ever been said from SOE that they lost money with Planetside? I highly doubt that if they've lost money that they would let the game last 3 years. Sure, maybe it wasn't the big money maker that they hoped it would be but I don't think that they went into the red with Planetside.

[LimpBIT]

Where has it ever been said from SOE that they lost money with Planetside? I highly doubt that if they've lost money that they would let the game last 3 years. Sure, maybe it wasn't the big money maker that they hoped it would be but I don't think that they went into the red with Planetside.

I know ive heard it from more than one person. Ill try to dig up an article on it.