FPS Guru Live Interview Friday

[Hamma]

http://www.planetside-universe.com/news-fps-guru-live-interview-friday-2763.htm

[Tikuto]

I already feel like it's going to be 'Ugh. Old news... :('

[Crazyduckling]

I already feel like it's going to be 'Ugh. Old news... :('

That's been the case for the past few months, but keep in mind its because they've been so open to us (which is awesome). At this point, I think we're all waiting for one detail, the rest we can get after that.

I guess I'll watch and see if there's anything new, but I agree.

[Sabrak]

Maybe it'll be old news for us.
But not necessarily for FPS Guru's "readers".

[Kipper]

All the interviewers I've seen have been too nice... they want to start using techniques like finishing off with "So, thats Planetside 2, and Beta is out next month, right?" and just see if someone slips up :)

[Satexios]

I was thinking the exact same thing as you guys. When you look at the questions from the last interviews with Gamebreaker and Games Radar it is pretty much the default standard questions that Higby probably dreams about after giving the exact same answers over and over again.

Then again asking "critical" questions means they no longer get exclusives so they toss a bone to each other :P

[Stardouser]

Well, thus far, nothing has been so obvious as the pre-BF3 release interviews where it seemed like the only question interviewers were allowed to ask was about prone!

[LZachariah]

Right; one of the reason most of the news is already known to us is that Higby, T-Ray, and the team give us the inside info first and foremost, almost every time, God bless them. But hey, E3's coming up, so I think new amazing stuff will be on the horizon!

~Zachariah

[NCLynx]

Hopefully he throws some new stuff at us too, whatever that may be.

[laelgon]

I think it's easy to forget that a lot of people haven't really heard of or been following Planetside 2, especially for those of us on here. I imagine that E3 is going to be the beginning of the big marketing push for ps2, and then we're going to start getting a lot more information.

[Immigrant]

Hope we hear some brand new details.

p.s. I anyone wonders about time that's 10 PM GMT.

[Mod]

11PM/23:00 BST ;)

[Immigrant]

If that's 23:00 by BST then it's Saturday 00:00 my place. :cool:

[Sabot]

I am an unbelievable pessimist when it comes to how most companies treat fans, the press and media. However I must say that I am royaly impressed of how SOE is handling PS2. Developers seems to be very close to the community of people that actually knows what the game have to be and cares about it. Bureaucracy and corporate greed = bad games, and they seem to understand that. I don't know where I'm going with this... just wanted say I appreciate SOE for handling it the way they are! :p

On topic: Old news or not... not everybody is here to get all the info first. And despite my previous rant, even I understand they do have to keep most of the major things that still are subject to change somewhat secret to not instil false hope/rage in the community and possibly lose players.

[Bravic]

Are you an fan of Planetside? Have you been waiting anxiously for a squeal?
What kind of squeal? ... OH! "Sequel"! For some reason I instantly thought something completely different.

[Tatwi]

I was thinking the exact same thing as you guys. When you look at the questions from the last interviews with Gamebreaker and Games Radar it is pretty much the default standard questions that Higby probably dreams about after giving the exact same answers over and over again.

Well, I don't feel bad for thinking the exact same thing! I sort of hope that they spend their time discussing who has the better sock drawer layout. Now that is some fresh conversation!

[RadarX]

Well, I don't feel bad for thinking the exact same thing! I sort of hope that they spend their time discussing who has the better sock drawer layout. Now that is some fresh conversation!

You guys probably won't find most of it ground breaking news, however I'd be surprised if at least one new thing isn't mentioned.

[laelgon]

You guys probably won't find most of it ground breaking news, however I'd be surprised if at least one new thing isn't mentioned.

Oh, you tease!

[Xyntech]

You guys probably won't find most of it ground breaking news, however I'd be surprised if at least one new thing isn't mentioned.

This is pretty much what I was expecting. Most of these bigger interviews usually reveal something new. We just follow the game too closely, so we will rarely be able to get inundated with "new" information the way more casual followers are.

I look forward to seeing it either way. It's usually pretty cool to read them, even if it's all stuff I've already heard. I guess I just like to see PS2 get press, and see what information is being put out there for Joe Public.

[Tapman]

I am curious as to when Planetside 2 articles, videos, etc. are going to ease off explaining the history and core functions of the game to everyone, how long before we can just focus on the nitty gritty details. I think it's no wonder the devs have stopped answering all the re-posted questions on these forums, they are forced to answer them all the time as it is. There's little to be discussed and debated at this point from the shortage of new information releases lately and the recognition that just about anything could change during/after Beta.

[Purple]

You guys probably won't find most of it ground breaking news, however I'd be surprised if at least one new thing isn't mentioned.

do you mean something along the line of a new base screenshot? or when beta will drop? in any case keep up the good work.

[Sabrak]

do you mean something along the line of a new base screenshot? or when beta will drop? in any case keep up the good work.

He said "no ground breaking news".

[Hamma]

It's going to be hard to please those of us following the game so closely for sure. We have to remember they are also promoting this game to people who have never heard of it before so repeat information may not be good to us - but it is good overall.

[Athanasios]

GMT please?

[Hamma]

Just a reminder this is tonight.

[Brusi]

It's in 8hrs from now, if that helps ;p

Does that make it 10pm GMT?

Ah well.. *bump* all the same

[Hamma]

17:00:00 Friday May 11, 2012 in US/Pacific converts to
00:00:00 Saturday May 12, 2012 in GMT

:D

[Kipper]

Are you gonna link/rehost it? I don't know that its gonna reveal anything to me that can't wait until morning ... :)

[Hamma]

I'm assuming they will YouTube it afterwards. If so we will put it up

[Hamma]

You can now watch it here on PSU if you want to roll that way ;)

http://www.planetside-universe.com/news-fps-guru-live-interview-friday-2763.htm

[Gonefshn]

You can now watch it here on PSU if you want to roll that way ;)

http://www.planetside-universe.com/news-fps-guru-live-interview-friday-2763.htm

Sounds awesome! I am bored at work alone and literally watching the countdown on FPS Guru's page.

2 hours 31 minutes 58 seconds left.

I wish I had a life :doh:

[Kipper]

2 hours 31 minutes 58 seconds left.

oh, that makes it 11pm UK, midnight Europe.

[bjorntju1]

There is an countdown here: http://www.fpsguru.com/game/284/article/2134/Livestream-Interview-with-Planetside-2.html

(top right, under the search bar)

Oh well, cant wait :) Does anyone know how long the stream will run?

[Hamma]

No idea :D

[Gonefshn]

Oh well, cant wait :) Does anyone know how long the stream will run?

Until Beta.

[JPalmer]

Watch this while you wait

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwNVQvygCNQ&feature=youtu.be

[Gonefshn]

This just went online!! :D

[MyMeatStick]

It's live bros

[JPalmer]

Not a professional as I expected and the stream keeps dying.

[Purple]

im getting ads every 2 min. always when i want to hear what they are saying.

[Gonefshn]

Seriously sucks it keeps saying it goes offline for me too every minute or so, then Its an ad before it comes back. :confused:

[bullet]

They're experiencing some technical difficulties.
:groovy:

[bigcracker]

Well this interview is depressing cuts out all the time i could of done better job over Skype

[Xyntech]

I miss most of these live events, so I guess this is to be expected.

Sorry for jinxing the stream everybody. I'm leaving so hopefully it will improve :p

[MyMeatStick]

I thought it would be more professional than this :L

[sylphaen]

Overall, decent interview for beginners but crippled by many technical issues.

Questions were mainly about explaining the concept of PlanetSide to a non-MMOFPS crowd (e.g. Will fighting be instanced or sandboxed ? Will there be vehicles ? etc... )

Good for viewers who heard about PlanetSide and what a MMOFPS can be. IMO, TRay and Higby did a great job in explaining everything while also conveying a lot of excitement.

The interviewer seemed somewhat distant from the topic of his interview.

[VelRa]

This sucks but Higby rocks :love:

[Brusi]

i didn't get any ads... maybe ad-blocker?

[dorgo]

the interviewer is total crap, should be Hamma doing this

[Crazyduckling]

stream just dropped again. wowwee.

[Synical]

Did someone really just ask if Planetside 2 has vehicles?

I know it's not really mainstream, but come on, why waste time asking questions like that :mad:

At least TRay and Higby ran with the question and expanded on it giving new people an idea of just how crazy the customization of loadouts is going to be.

Edit - Oh and yeah, the interviewer is really doing an awful job.

[VelRa]

No one asked if there is hit detection either, but that's how this guy interpreted it...

[Crazyduckling]

Did someone really just ask if Planetside 2 has vehicles?

I know it's not really mainstream, but come on, why waste time asking questions like that :mad:


I think the interviewer doesn't know a whole lot, so he attributes questions to the chat, even though we didn't ask it.

[FIREk]

The stream was absolutely pathetic... :/

[Johari]

So I only caught like MAYBE half of that becaues of the issues we had with it continuously going offline and whatnot.

Thanks for trying but you gotta make sure your stream is prepared for something like this.

[Mod]

Well, props to the T man and Higgs for taking the time out to do the interview...

Had to stop listening half way through they as it was quite painful. I think the kindest thing we can say is that the stream didn't quite go as planned.

[Graywolves]

Stream was clegged up real bad.


Higby and Tray rocked it like they always do.



But the two questions I heard were:
'Vehicles?'
'Hit Detection?'

[Burnzblood]

Did Arclegger drop a Galaxy on that stream or what? Hopefully its re-posted w/o interruptions.

[Bags]

Didn't radarx say that we'd gleam something of interest?

[Crazyduckling]

End of stream thoughts:

I'm pretty sure they started early, so if the stream was working then, I missed it. The stream kept cutting out, and i watched a thousand ads. Same questions as always.

1/10 would not watch again.


Didn't radarx say that we'd gleam something of interest?

He said he wouldn't be surprised (doesn't mean yes or no), but the interviewer had no idea what to ask.

[RadarX]

Didn't radarx say that we'd gleam something of interest?

Gleaning something of interest is pretty subjective. They answered a question on hit detection that we've never discussed before.

[RSphil]

that was a painful stream.

[Raymac]

Damnit Arclegger. This is why we can't have nice things.

[Gonefshn]

The Stream definitely was ridiculously horrid but cut the guy some slack on the interview, the point wasn't to address the Devs for PSU it was to talk about planetside for the community on FPSGuru. He even asked about Hit Detection like chat said.

Asking the basic questions is important for the target audience. Even Radar X warned we wouldn't get anything groundbreaking.

But we do know.... CLASSIC SKINS! :groovy:

[Bags]

Gleaning something of interest is pretty subjective. They answered a question on hit detection that we've never discussed before.

Did they? I couldn't get the stream to work for more than 30 seconds of a time. Must have missed that.

[RSphil]

i watched the follow button mainly :(

[laelgon]

We also got the galaxy gunship confirmed, which I don't remember being talked about before. Guess we now what that big 4 gun turret is for now.

[Crazyduckling]

Gleaning something of interest is pretty subjective. They answered a question on hit detection that we've never discussed before.

Would you mind repeating it?

All we got was "yes" then the stream cut out. Maybe that was it and it was a joke, but seriously, we didn't see most of the interview...even though we were watching the whole time.

[Soothsayer]

stream cut out at hit detection and when it picked up they were talking about their twitter handles.

[Raymac]

But we do know.... CLASSIC SKINS! :groovy:

Yeah. That was pretty epic!

Also, they mentioned a "Galaxy Gunship" with 6 different kinds of weapons, if I'm not mistaken. Looks like the Galaxy will be pretty versatile.

[RSphil]

The Gal sounds like a jack of all trades. could be interesting

[sylphaen]

CLASSIC SKINS! :groovy:

I must have missed it with all the break-ups. Great news !
:cheers:

[Tcakes]

The live stream was horribad, and deep down i knew it was going to be a typical "gamer" interview. Still super mad props to everyone involved. thanx again to t-ray and higby for even doing the interview. ill just be sticking with the the agn night. seeing as how its geared more for "us" and the devs know that. that is more than likely going to be the only place to get even remotely new info until after e3.

[Shogun]

ok, so in the few bits i could actually see they confirmed the galaxy can be sidegraded to a 6 gun galaxy gunship or a drop-pod launcher.

they also confirmed retro style armor cosmetics for the store.

that are two things of interestf for me. i would like to know if there was more during all the ads and cuts

[Synical]

Well, we did indeed gleam a few pieces of information such as the Galaxy gunship and stuff about classic skins. I also didn't hear what was said about hit detection, so that could have been important as well.

I'll take it.

:D

[ringring]

anyone catch what waqa the answer on hit detection?

[bullet]

Worst interviewer ever. I watched the first 3 min vid and I feel bad for Higby and T-Ray because they had to go through this garbage.

[Brusi]

Well this interview is depressing cuts out all the time i could of done better job over Skype

You can stream from skype?

[Gonefshn]

Well, we did indeed gleam a few pieces of information such as the Galaxy gunship and stuff about classic skins. I also didn't hear what was said about hit detection, so that could have been important as well.

I'll take it.

:D

How "Synical" of you :p

[Crazyduckling]

X-post from Clegged Up.

http://www.planetside-universe.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=477&stc=1&d=1336776734

[Brusi]

anyone catch what waqa the answer on hit detection?

I thought this was already answered ages ago?

I believe its a mix of client and server side.

[sylphaen]

The poor interviewer seemed to wake up when Higby started showing socks on air. He seemed to be wondering what was happening and how it got to that point....
:D

TRay and Higby are boss, if you don't make the interview process perform, they'll take it over !
:thumbsup:

[Purple]

Gleaning something of interest is pretty subjective. They answered a question on hit detection that we've never discussed before.

ya i heard it get asked then i got an ad the a disconnect so i have no idea about it.

[Murph]

That guy was awful, so you guys seemed like you had more to say when he asked about beta then he cut you off, also yea whats the deal with hit detection

[SuperMorto]

Its was nice to see folks spamming PSU. Its about time some of the users here gave PSU some coverage.

Makes me proud!

[Murph]

Oh hey SuperMorto, are we going to have the pleasure of watching you mentally melt down again today?

[Duddy]

Its was nice to see folks spamming PSU. Its about time some of the users here gave PSU some coverage.

Makes me proud!

Was nice to see people promote PSU.

What wasn't as nice was some of the shit talking that also took place. Sure the stream wasn't that great, but do we really need to respond to that by coming off as a bunch of gibbering idiots.

And yes your "McDonaldsGuru" comment is included in that Morto.

[Synical]

How "Synical" of you :p

:rofl:

It's hard to be cynical when it comes to anything Planetside.

:D

[duomaxwl]

Galaxy Gunship and classic armor makes me very happy. Glad to see we'll be able to get those.

Oh hey SuperMorto, are we going to have the pleasure of watching you mentally melt down again today?

Look at this badass. :rolleyes:

[Hamma]

Its was nice to see folks spamming PSU. Its about time some of the users here gave PSU some coverage.

Makes me proud!

:love:

Thanks all for doing that! I didn't have a chance to watch the stream I was commuting home ;)

Any mention of this ending up on YouTube?

[JPalmer]

Higby said during the start that they were getting a second angle and taking pictures. Sounds like preparation for a official video to me. Hell it is kinda required after that mess.

[WorldOfForms]

I recently worked for a gaming site for several years, and when I interviewed devs, I always did research beforehand. Learn whatever I could about the game in question. Look at what games the dev had made in the past. If I wasn't hugely familiar with the genre, I'd look at that.

This is all standard, bare-minimum legwork for a journalist. And yet, whenever I asked questions that showed I did my homework, devs looked quite surprised and delighted. Because that's not what they're used to dealing with.

It's called doing your job and showing respect to game creators. It's also required if you want to show you respect your own audience. And it's not like it takes tons of work.

[Burnzblood]

I recently worked for a gaming site for several years, and when I interviewed devs, I always did research beforehand. Learn whatever I could about the game in question. Look at what games the dev had made in the past. If I wasn't hugely familiar with the genre, I'd look at that.

This is all standard, bare-minimum legwork for a journalist. And yet, whenever I asked questions that showed I did my homework, devs looked quite surprised and delighted. Because that's not what they're used to dealing with.

It's called doing your job and showing respect to game creators. It's also required if you want to show you respect your own audience. And it's not like it takes tons of work.

:D Nicely said, yea this guy was not prepared...and probably in his mother's basement :p

[RadarX]

I recently worked for a gaming site for several years, and when I interviewed devs, I always did research beforehand. Learn whatever I could about the game in question. Look at what games the dev had made in the past. If I wasn't hugely familiar with the genre, I'd look at that.

This is all standard, bare-minimum legwork for a journalist. And yet, whenever I asked questions that showed I did my homework, devs looked quite surprised and delighted. Because that's not what they're used to dealing with.

It's called doing your job and showing respect to game creators. It's also required if you want to show you respect your own audience. And it's not like it takes tons of work.

A number of the comments in chat (yes we saw them) were unnecessary and a little disappointing. The type of promotion we got from FPSGuru was really good for the product and we welcome it.


I spent roughly 3 years covering every MMO both good and bad and it's a lot harder than it looks. The technical issues were very unfortunate but going under the assumption the interviewer had no PS1 experience, it's extremely difficult to learn that much about the game in a short period of time. He was asking questions that a non-PlanetSide fan is going to ask. A lot of you folks are already on board, but wouldn't you like a hundred thousand more?

Ultimately folks, this was a general interest interview to raise the level of awareness about the product. We did not hype this up as a revealing stream because that was the expectation I wanted to set.


PS: My understanding Hamma is this will go on YouTube.

[Naz The Eternal]

Bit of an unprofessional interviewer... Not what I expected from FPSGURU.The staff I know from the sister site MMORPG.com do things with the utmost professionalism.

Well on the bright side we got the gunship info.. I didn't catch anything about the hit detection, what was said about that?


He was asking questions that a non-PlanetSide fan is going to ask. A lot of you folks are already on board, but wouldn't you like a hundred thousand more?

Well you're absolutely right Radar, but one can not ignore the obvious contrast between the 2 camera feeds during the interview. On one side Higby and Tray are all suited up and on the other.. well you saw the feed.

[Stardouser]

A number of the comments in chat (yes we saw them) were unnecessary and a little disappointing. The type of promotion we got from FPSGuru was really good for the product and we welcome it.


I spent roughly 3 years covering every MMO both good and bad and it's a lot harder than it looks. The technical issues were very unfortunate but going under the assumption the interviewer had no PS1 experience, it's extremely difficult to learn that much about the game in a short period of time. He was asking questions that a non-PlanetSide fan is going to ask. A lot of you folks are already on board, but wouldn't you like a hundred thousand more?

Ultimately folks, this was a general interest interview to raise the level of awareness about the product. We did not hype this up as a revealing stream because that was the expectation I wanted to set.


PS: My understanding Hamma is this will go on YouTube.

When are you guys going to declare full scale war on BF3?

[Papscal]

Wow- fucking junk.

[Mastachief]

A lot of you folks are already on board, but wouldn't you like a hundred thousand more?



No.



I want 2-3 million more. if you only attract a 100k you have failed :groovy:

[Hamma]

Let's stop flaming teh broadcast at least guys. I personally know how hard it is to make that stuff happen well :) At least maybe we got some new eyes on the project.

Let's also not raid casts like this and flame the interviewer or people in the channels watching the streams. That makes this community look horrible - we need to and are better than that.

[Mastachief]

TL;DR

Behave children! :evil:

[basti]

edit: Hamma got a point, removing the /rant :)

[Synical]

He was asking questions that a non-PlanetSide fan is going to ask. A lot of you folks are already on board, but wouldn't you like a hundred thousand more?

Sure, a hundred thousand sounds nice, but we would prefer a million more.

:p

[duomaxwl]

TL;DR

Behave children! :evil:

qfmft

[Hamma]

Let's stop flaming teh broadcast at least guys. I personally know how hard it is to make that stuff happen well :) At least maybe we got some new eyes on the project.

Let's also not raid casts like this and flame the interviewer or people in the channels watching the streams. That makes this community look horrible - we need to and are better than that.

TL;DR

Behave children! :evil:

.

[Synical]

Sorry Hamma, posted that last post before I read the last few. Not trying to step on any toes.

[Graywolves]

thinking about this from the interviewers perspective. I feel very sorry for the unfortunate events. I'm sure that he would have asked some better questions had the time been permitable.


It is hard to ignore some things like how the devs had to introduce themselves.


It could have been much better. But it can be hard to do everything you intend to do or how you want to do it when something as big as the stream failing is going on. I imagine more time was spent trying to pick up where was left off between stream going down as well as attempting to solve the problem. His eyes being on chat were probably limited due to this as well.




The interviewer did a decent job of maintaining a form of composure with the issues going on.

[PeteHMB]

Agreed. Let the hardcore new stuff come out at E3. For now just get the general basic word out. Haven't watched the broadcast, waiting for youtube.

[Raymac]

True. I'm not ripping on the interviewer for asking questions with answers we all know. (Although asking "Vehicles?" made me groan, I couldn't help it). I did chime in with the peanut gallery a little bit only because it was frustrating watching it and having ads pop up out of nowhere every minute or 2. You do that to any audience and there will be rumblings. Other than the technical glitches, I thought it was cool.

[Aurmanite]

Seriously, lay off. Not everyone is dedicated to EVERY single copy paste title coming out. Considering there are HUNDREDS this year and Planetside 2 has yet to receive even a 'Diablo 3' Ranking in consumer awareness, the guy did very well.

Not knowing is what everyone is going to be use to. Us 300-500 hardcore fans aren't going to popluate the damn game. Duh.. Winning.

Edit: After reading through damn near the entire 8 pages... How can this community possibly consider, that there is a fact, that everyone is knowledgable about PS2?

People DO not know about PS2 yet. Spread the word guys.

Diablo 3 is Amazon's most pre-ordered PC game ever. Even a Diablo 3 ranking in consumer awareness would be a massive success.

In regards to the communities reaction to this interview, some of you should be ashamed. Especially if you were part of the negativity in the stream chat, and even moreso if you like to think that you work so hard to promote a game you love.

But really...this was a webcast interview. Who cares?

[SniperSteve]

A number of the comments in chat (yes we saw them) were unnecessary and a little disappointing. The type of promotion we got from FPSGuru was really good for the product and we welcome it.

Consider that the official scolding from the PS devs.

[Carbanu]

I just finished watching the recording on FPSGuru via Twitch and I thought it was a great example of how awesome TRay and Higby are and how lucky we are to have such an involved team of developers literally on OUR side. This was great to spread the word that is Planetside 2.

The MMO gaming revolution must be televised! I will probably choke on my own tongue if I see a Planetside 2 TV ad, oh the possibilities!

[PeteHMB]

I just finished watching the recording on FPSGuru via Twitch and I thought it was a great example of how awesome TRay and Higby are and how lucky we are to have such an involved team of developers literally on OUR side. This was great to spread the word that is Planetside 2.

The MMO gaming revolution must be televised! I will probably choke on my own tongue if I see a Planetside 2 TV ad, oh the possibilities!

A TV ad during primetime in the weeks just before release would be awesome...but SOE would have to pay out the ass for it. I don't see a TV spot happening.

[WorldOfForms]

A number of the comments in chat (yes we saw them) were unnecessary and a little disappointing. The type of promotion we got from FPSGuru was really good for the product and we welcome it.


I spent roughly 3 years covering every MMO both good and bad and it's a lot harder than it looks. The technical issues were very unfortunate but going under the assumption the interviewer had no PS1 experience, it's extremely difficult to learn that much about the game in a short period of time. He was asking questions that a non-PlanetSide fan is going to ask. A lot of you folks are already on board, but wouldn't you like a hundred thousand more?

Ultimately folks, this was a general interest interview to raise the level of awareness about the product. We did not hype this up as a revealing stream because that was the expectation I wanted to set.


PS: My understanding Hamma is this will go on YouTube.

To be clear, I was not one of the people posting negative comments on the stream.

Of course the more coverage of PS2 the better. I was just trying to give some perspective of what I've seen in the game journalism world.

I also wasn't criticizing any of the PS2 team. Heck they did a great job with what was asked.

I'm just saying, even in a general interest interview, even if the interviewer is going to ask obvious questions to cater to people who don't know anything about a game, it could be done in a way that sounds like the interviewer at least did their homework.

[Lorgarn]

I'm going to be quite honest here. I didn't particularly enjoy the interview, not because of its content rather than because of its obvious technical issues. While I understand it can be like that sometimes, I didn't stick around for long.

From what I saw though, Higby and TRay are always sporting that wonderful mixture of charm, fun and professionalism. I'm a fanboy and I'm not afraid to admit that. I've been following games in development for more than a decade now(like most of you) and it usually takes something "special" to get "us" coming back for more. At least, this is my take on it.

So again, for me the interview was lackluster thanks to the technical issues rather than the content itself. I'd watch Higby and TRay talk about trashcans.

[Alexious]

Is there a text transcript of this interview somewhere?

[Satexios]

Shame I missed it but I'll wait for transcript or youtube coverage. Though I see some replies I wonder if something went wrong with the interview or the interviewer?

[Shogun]

A TV ad during primetime in the weeks just before release would be awesome...but SOE would have to pay out the ass for it. I don't see a TV spot happening.

don´t know how they will do it in the rest of the world, but in europe EVERY ad-block will be spammed with a planetside 2 spot for sure!

pro7sat1 is spamming spots for their free to play games all the time, and those are low level cheapass games by now. so it is set in stone that they will promote their new flagship game ps2 with a massive tv campaign. after all it will be their first AAA title.

[Satexios]

A more important question.. where do we get TR socks?

[Mechzz]

pro7sat1 is spamming spots for their free to play games all the time, and those are low level cheapass games by now. so it is set in stone that they will promote their new flagship game ps2 with a massive tv campaign. after all it will be their first AAA title.

I'm a luddite and don't have satellite tv so I've never seen a pro7 ad in the UK.

If their reach is to Germanophones only then I'll need to dust off my old English/German dictionary nichtwar?

*ham German accent*
"For you Tommy TR, ze var is overrrr...."

[Sinistrad]

I think Higby's outrageous waistcoat deserves a louder shout-out. Sharp.

[Aaron]

I think I should have said something in the chat to reduce spam/flaming that was going on. That looked really bad. Anyone who saw that would probably guess the fanbase was made of a bunch of little children. RadarX found it "disappointing." Although I didn't contribute to the negativity, I still feel ashamed because of the behavior that went on.

Sorry, PS team!

[Mechzz]

I've watched the first few mins of the recording on FPS Guru, but couldn't get any further. They've edited out the streaming breaks, which is fair enough, but I really felt the interviewer showed poor form by jumping on the beta question to start with, got politely pulled back for introductions, which he should have done, then asked the same question again to the same effect.

Higby and T-Ray were very professional, but I couldn't watch further due to the poor quality shown by the interviewer.

Obviously didn't see the chat spam, but I'm disappointed to think that some of our community would disrupt an event in the way they seem to have.

[Satexios]

Tears in my eyes.. Higby: "You haven't seen Wall-E??!?"

Other than that it was a terrible interview but at least Higby and Tray made it fun. Kudos for that.

[2coolforu]

Is there a recording or transcript anywhere? I missed it and it appears as if some new info was revealed.

[Brusi]

What was so bad about this interview? Wasn't groundbreaking but you should have expected that.

apparently ad breaks mid-question and the stream dropped out maybe 5 or 6 times... little bit rage inducing

[Hamma]

No transcript or YouTube yet that I am aware of.

[SuperMorto]

And yes your "McDonaldsGuru" comment is included in that Morto.

Hold it!!!

The reason I said that was he was drinking what looked like a McDonalds drink, paper cup and a straw. I was drinking beer, I maybe did say something I would later regret. But it was the drink that made me say it (and that I mean the one he was holding fuck!). Take a look at the video its not what you first imagine. But I later could see why it would be taken the wrong way.

Silly me as usual!

No harm intended!

Anyway in the lads defence, it was TwitchTV that was broken last night. As I was streaming and I had very much the same problem.

[Crazyduckling]

If the interview had no technical problems, I'm sure the community would have behaved much better in the chat. We've seen interviews before, and if there is nothing new, we usually say, "whatever. nothing new. lets move on." Because this was live, plagued with issues that should have been tested and resolved before the interview, it made people very unhappy.

Then when it became clear he was not asking anything new, people became more unhappy. I do think he could have looked into the game more before the interview, but the whole mess was the result of multiple things compounding in to a miserable failure by the community and the presenter.

IMO, when the interviewer says in the middle of the stream "Sorry, my internet sucks", he shouldn't be doing the interview unless he knows it will be okay. The community had some right to be upset with the quality, but both were at fault. Once again, if there were no technical issues, I believe the community would have reacted much better, and would forget about the interview as soon as it was over, like most interviews.

tl;dr interviewer should have known his technical problems. his questions were fine. the community overreacted. not entirely their fault.

[Crazyduckling]

Here's an edited transcription of the interview. Only the more important parts were transcribed. Each one of the videos represents where the stream cut out.

Video 1:

FPSGuru: First Question. When is beta?
Higby: Come on!
Tray: Did you even introduce us yet, man?
Higby: Yeah!
FPSGuru: No one cares about that. They care about beta.
Tray: Ooh. They do care. Okay. So, we're going to do the introductions, seeing how you're not going to. This is Matt Higby and he is.
Higby: I am the Creative Director on Planetside 2.
Tray: Thats correct.
Higby: Right.
Tray: And I am the Senior Art Director on Planetside 2.
Higby: Tramell Isaac.
Tray: Tramell Isaac. Thats correct, and lets go. Hit it.
FPSGuru: Alright. When is beta? Thats what everyone wants to know.
Tray: Alright, next question.

Video 1 end.
Video 2:

Tray: It'll be on the news. Channel 5 will be talking about it, so don't worry about it. We'll let you know when its all good.
Higby: We're just waiting until we have something that we're all really proud of, and then we want to have other folks come in and...hold on. It says theres something wrong with our internet connection. Is our internet connection working?
FPSGuru: You cut out for a second, but now you're back.
Higby: Okay, we're back. Well, we just said when the beta would be while the internet connection was messed up. We made the announcement.
Tray: Aww, you did say...(something. Blah blah.) Sorry.
FPSGuru: I guess no one will ever know.
Tray: But the bottom line, like Matt was saying: We don't want people...(stream lag)...a crappy experience during beta. I mean, obviously its going to be buggy. I mean, but that's the whole point. We need to test it, but we don't want it to be so buggy that people are turned off by it. So, give us the time to make it right, and when you get it you can give us some feedback then. But until then, stop asking.
Higby: And I mean, we're moving really quickly towards having beta, having external people. At E3 is going to be the first time that people outside of our team, have gotten hands on with the game, except for a very few, select number of people.
Tray: Yup.
Higby: E3...Anyone who is at the show is going to get hands-on with the game, be able to play, anything they want.

Video 2 end.
Video 3:
This was mostly the general overview of Planetside 2. Not going to transcribe what we already know.

FPSGuru: You mentioned the competitive aspect. Do you have plans to bring it into the e-sports scene at all?
Higby: Yeah. Down the road for sure. There's a lot of people on our team that are...

Video 3 end.
Video 4:

[Continuing to talk about e-sports]
Higby: ...advantage over somebody else. You're going to be able to unlock the same weapons by playing the game, and each individual weapon is just going to change your play style, not give you more or less power. So, the actual competitive nature of the game is just incredibly important for us to be able to maintain so that we can have a legitimate tournament mode, e-sports mode further on down the road.
Tray: I think that, to kind of sum it up, Planetside is first about skill...(stream lag)...skill based game and its about choice. So, how you choose how to outfit yourself, how you choose to look, how you choose to equip your weapons, what weapons you like to use, what type of class you like to use, and then it always goes back to the skill.
Higby: Yeah. I'll tell you one more thing too is teamwork. Planetside 2 has massive teamwork.
Tray: Yeah, for sure.
Higby: When you're talking about coordinating hundreds of players to do a single attack or capture a single base, once again thats another thing that is totally unrivaled, completely unprecidented, and really just gives you a unique gameplay experience.
Tray: Yup.
Higby: So there.
Tray: What's next?

The rest of the video is about making Planetside 'modern'. Bells and whisles, AAA, etc.

Video 4 end.
Video 5:
7 seconds talking about graphics
Video 5 end.
Video 6:
37 seconds of banter – stream went down.

Tray: The game looks great. I mean, we've taken it to the next level. Its on par with what you see shooters coming out with in the next year or so, and the bottom line is we want to make sure that when other companies are trying to come to the table with this free-to-play FPS thing, they're actually trying to match the quality that we're putting out there.
Higby: Raising the bar.
Tray: And I get a lot of people...There's a number of times where people ask me on Twitter, its like, you know, “How much is the game going to cost”? And like, “Dude, it's free”. The game is free. AAA title that's free, and thats kind of hard to believe, because the game looks so awesome.
Higby: Are we still a AAA title or AAAA?
Tray: I don't know. I think is was AAA and a half or something.
Higby: Okay, three and a half.
Tray: Its so far beyond what people can understand.
Higby: We'll get it to AAAA. It will be AAAA.
Tray: So, I mean the game looks great, it looks like any other title out there that you would expect the type of high quality aspects. Forgelight has been pushing it. You know, built from the ground up specifically for Planetside 2, so we've got a leg up in the technology department on that. You know, most people take an engine, they...

Video 6 end.
Video 7:

FPSGuru: You cut out at the last second, but most of it was there.
Tray: Aw. Dude. Seriously?
FPSGuru: For the old fans, will there be any easter eggs in Planetside 2 that reference Planetside 1 or other games that SOE has done?
Higby: Planetside 1 is all through out Planetside 2. Anybody who played the original Planetside is going to see an extremely familiar experience when they get in Planetside 2. It feels like Planetside.
Tray: (to Higby) He's talking about more like, kind of, stuff that people find. Just over the last...
Higby: Hidden stuff.
Tray: Yeah hidden stuff, well, not really hidden, like: The last couple weeks we've been kind of exploring some customization stuff. (to Higby) You know what I mean? You want to tell them about that?
Higby: (whispers to Tray)
Tray: Yeah, we can talk about it. Alright. So, the plan is to take some of the old Planetside character skins and actually put them in Planetside 2 as an option to your character. So, if I'm a light assault, I will have the light armor from my Vanu clan or low poly and low texture, looking next to the high tech version of my light assault version in Planetside 2. And that will be one of the some of the things you can purchase for yourself to customize for your person. So, those are the types of things. So if you're talking about easter eggs, like throwbacks, those are the types of things we are talking about. We're also doing like, hood ornaments that you can put on your vehicle that will showcase games: Planetside, Free Realms, Everquest, Everquest 2. You know, little characters that you can put on your vehicle. When you somebody over, they'll see that in the kill cam.
Higby: It'll be the Vanu imprint right on their ass.

Talking about 9 years of games since Planetside.
Talking about open world combat, territory system, fully PVP, post-launch community suggestions (which was cut off)

Video 7 end.
Video 8:
38 second video. Its all about the players after the game launches.
Video 8 end.
Video 9:

Mostly general information in this video.

5 minute and 5 year player balance. Its about skill. Talking about constant community interaction, and they try to reply to their tweets. Enjoy the interaction.

Higby mentions 'dozens' of vehicle weapon systems for the main vehicles. Galaxies can be gunship or spawn point, not both. Gunship holds less people (not great for hotdropping apparently). Gunship has 6 weapon hardpoints. One variant has drop pods for quicker dropping (I'm guessing)

Video 9 end.
Video 10:
12 seconds long. Nothing worth noting.
Video 10 end.
Video 11:
42 seconds long. Interviewer suggests that big outfits could be OP against the other factions. Higby says thats part of the game. Not an issue.
Video 11 end.
Video 12:
End of interview comments.
Video 12 end.

End of interview.

[Graywolves]

Thanks for the post Crazyduckling.

[Zulthus]

You can watch it here

http://www.fpsguru.com/streams/fpsguru

[Aurmanite]

Hold it!!!
But it was the drunk that made me say it.


Oh, cool.
No one is responsible for their actions while being intoxicated, right? There's a pattern of behavior here.

I didn't hear the bits about having the retro skins, I will definitely be hauling some old school TR rexo.

[Aurmanite]

Derp double derp.

[Garem]

A TV ad during primetime in the weeks just before release would be awesome...but SOE would have to pay out the ass for it. I don't see a TV spot happening.

Hate to keep a rather dead subject up, but even LotR Online put out a few TV ads when they went free-to-play. SOE has a gem in its refinement right now. We've seen some great stuff, and there's great stuff to come. They can and should consider TV spots to suck in players who don't normally consider computer games. Console gamers will come to PS2 if we can reach them (and they've got the computers to handle it).

[Shogun]

I'm a luddite and don't have satellite tv so I've never seen a pro7 ad in the UK.

If their reach is to Germanophones only then I'll need to dust off my old English/German dictionary nichtwar?

*ham German accent*
"For you Tommy TR, ze var is overrrr...."

ja you should learn german anyway, because it will be the main language of the world when we finally take it over! muaharrharr! ask basti ;)

i don´t know anything about pro7´s ambition to advertize in the rest of europe. in germany they have quite a number of tv channels and the main channel (pro 7) has a lot of ads for their f2p games. that are low quality f2p games like dark orbit, a testdrive game and some pirate games that mostly look like browsergames. no AAA(A) games in their portfolio so far.

germany is one of the biggest markets for computergames, so the media presence here will generate a lot of customers. but i am sure pro7sat1 will expand their promotions to other european countrys and will set up tv ads on other channels as well. the whole soe/pro7 deal seems to be something big for both companies.

by the way, the pro7 games might be low quality, but the tv-spots are not bad at all. FAAAR better than the pathetic everquest "wings" trailer made by soe we saw a month or so ago.

and a bit more on topic:
i don´t think the interview was too bad. the tech issues just killed it.
ok, the interviewer should have known how professional our devs are and a little preparation to adapt would have been nice, like dressing up a little and use a nice background.
nothing wrong with the questions there, for an informative interview for total newcomers. that were pretty much the questions someone would ask who doesn´t know a shit about planetside, and that´s ok. because our glorious two master devs know how to expand the answers and add the important stuff to easy plain questions. like they did with the "are there vehicles?" question.

i didn´t look at the chat, so i missed the bad comments, but i´m ashamed about this issue. it´s still the internet, and disappointment turns into nasty ranting very fast. so i guess the tech issues are to blame mostly. but we all should be aware, that it´s stupid to rant anywhere outside of this forum! we can do flamewars here and most of the time something constructive will arise sooner or later, but at other places it will look like we are all stupid 12 year olds! embarrassing, that things like that happen on an interview WHILE higby is telling the world, how awesome the interaction with this fine community works!

higby uses the community to promote the game and show off the uniqe way, they took with the developement of this game. so we are part of the game before we even played it. we should be aware of this and represent this! just think of it before you hit the send button on a ranting post next time.

[Mastachief]

Shogun Germanys games market is tiny compared to the uk

2008 UK $5.59bn of games sales
2008 France $4.05bn of games sales
2008 Germany $3.8bn of games sales

You only have to look at Planetside to see that its probably around 65% of the Werner server comprised of UK players.

So the Prosat deal does not make too much sense to me as it will most likely completely over look the UK market

[Kipper]

So the Prosat deal does not make too much sense to me as it will most likely completely over look the UK market

It might be that I don't watch the right timing slots, or I record most of what I watch and then skip the ads - but I almost never see advertising for anything but the biggest games on TV, and even then only at Christmas.

It would be welcome, but I think the internet is probably the best place to advertise an online game - also, getting out there and generating some viral buzz through communities, review sites etc - which is already starting to happen.

[Stew]

This as been the worst live stream interview ive ever seen in my life !

We were asking questions and he never stop to ask random noobs questions when we ask specifics !

I tough he was going to say whats u guys drink and eat lollllllllllll !

[Shogun]

Shogun Germanys games market is tiny compared to the uk



only because half of the uk sales are germans who import the uncut version from the uk. german versions are always cut and worthless. so we have to import from the uk or austria. same for movies.

the werner stats are no indicator for the market because the game wasn´t advertized at all and almost nobody in germany knew about this game. i only found it because soe had an ad-banner for it on the starwars galaxys website some day.

[MacXXcaM]

i don´t know anything about pro7´s ambition to advertize in the rest of europe. in germany they have quite a number of tv channels and the main channel (pro 7) has a lot of ads for their f2p games. that are low quality f2p games like dark orbit, a testdrive game and some pirate games that mostly look like browsergames. no AAA(A) games in their portfolio so far.

Oh, just yesterday I saw a Need for Speed ad on Pro7. I was quite surprised by a title like that in their portfolio.

the werner stats are no indicator for the market because the game wasn´t advertized at all and almost nobody in germany knew about this game. i only found it because soe had an ad-banner for it on the starwars galaxys website some day.

Same for me. I only found out by coincidence while googleing (or altavista-ing back then ^^) for MMO titles. I told some friends about it and they haven't heard of it either but were very grateful I told them :D

[Ceska]

I knew about the game in France thanks to a magazine with a special 2001 E3 cover. I followed the game. But didn't saw much about it afterward.

[Shogun]

2008 UK $5.59bn of games sales
2008 France $4.05bn of games sales
2008 Germany £3.8bn of games sales



now i see what you did there ;)

you know that £3.8bn is actually more than $5.59bn?

[Tikuto]

I see where they're doing multiple things distasteful on customization. Strangely enough, I expected potential fail from customization and I'm starting to believe that expectation is actually happening. Basically, I suspect they've never thought-through customization thoroughly enough at all...

Aw man... :( Probably the biggest downer since discovering PlanetSide 2 started development.

[Tatwi]

Can someone go back in time and make this an interview with Totalbiscuit instead? Even on the ye ole interweb, journalism requires skill... :)

[Mastachief]

now i see what you did there ;)

you know that £3.8bn is actually more than $5.59bn?

Simple typo should read $3.8bn.

You are wrong, buying one or too violent games doesnt sway the numbers. Also planetside was not promoted anywhere, the numbers i put at 65% uk players on werner is a hugely cautious estimate, if i used the 3 outfits i was part of as an average i'd say its closer to 70-75% UK| 10% NL | 15% mix France/germany/austria/israel/denmark/norway/finland/USA.

Like i said is seems odd to have gone with a company that does nothing in the UK

[outsider]

Tray: But the bottom line, like Matt was saying: We don't want people...(stream lag)...a crappy experience during beta. I mean, obviously its going to be buggy. I mean, but that's the whole point. We need to test it, but we don't want it to be so buggy that people are turned off by it. So, give us the time to make it right, and when you get it you can give us some feedback then. But until then, stop asking.


I played planetside for 2 years everyday. I still played it after core combat. I even played it after the mechas stomped around... never complained. Out of respect for TRay and Matt I'm not asking, I'm just .. you know .. putting it out there :D

Once, my toon got bugged and I gained health every time I got shot by the enemy. Even after I figured out how to die ( from 14 million health! ) and reset, I kept getting nasty tells for weeks and weeks. and despite the hate I still didn't quit!

Once, I looted a chaingun and discovered it had infinite range and a cone of fire of 1 pixel. I threw it out! and stood over it until it despawned!

You know I'm just sayin'.. just putting it out there. Respect and all.

But we kept coming back, when it was laggy, when it was buggy, when it was hacked, when it was empty and we're still here!

you know, out of respect not askin', just putting it out there, just so you know :D.

I won't say anything more on that one.

[Ruffdog]

Thanks ducking for taking the time to post all that

[Kipper]

I just watched the first two 3 minute segments over on the FPSGuru site, but I couldn't bear to watch any more :(

It was pretty clear that T-Ray and Higby were enthusiastic and up for some good PS related banter, but the guy doing the interview was utterly disorganised and didn't seem interested.... If he'd done some background research I think even those of us who are avidly following development might have learnt something new.

If only it were possible to get someone (maybe from here) with a bit of enthusiasm and knowledge to re-interview - even one that only featured video/audio from the devs so that the whole video could be re-edited and published by other gaming sites.... C'mon SOE, make it happen ;)