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Deezy

2012-08-02, 01:55 AM

At the end of the ChinaJoy Expo video posted on the Planetside YouTube Channel, There's a date @ 2:16 for 10/12/2012. Anyone know the relevance of this date? Possibly a chinese launch date?

foam

2012-08-02, 02:04 AM

18-10+2012=2020.

My god, that means in 2020 the pyramids will open up and fucking summon Alien beings from another planet to kill us all

iMarx

2012-08-02, 02:18 AM

18-10+2012=2020.

My god, that means in 2020 the pyramids will open up and fucking summon Alien beings from another planet to kill us all

This

Fuel Truck

2012-08-02, 02:54 AM

I called my friend in China and he said that they always give out release dates at China Joy, so I'm pretty sure that is what it is.

Novice bot

2012-08-02, 02:59 AM

I called my friend in China and he said that they always give out release dates at China Joy, so I'm pretty sure that is what it is.

It's the date for Open Beta. Which in China translates to "Free-to-play."

Anubisstargate

2012-08-02, 06:13 AM

So looking at the new video where the Chinese were playing Planetside 2 at Chinajoy. I was almost about to close the video down after I saw most of it, but no. Look at 2:16 on the video, now the UK do the date of [DD : MM : YYYY] Americans [MM : DD : YYYY] Asians [YYYY : MM : DD] So look at the video xD

PlanetSide 2 at ChinaJoy 2012 -- Asia's No.1 Gaming Expo. Sign up for Beta Now! - YouTube

Thunderhawk

2012-08-02, 06:16 AM

Needs more "?" in the title ;)

So what you're saying is 2012 / 10 / 18 ?

(Seeing as there is no Month 18 in the gregorian calendar)

Sunrock

2012-08-02, 06:18 AM

Anubisstargate

2012-08-02, 06:19 AM

Asians do their date as Year, Month, Days! ... So it's the 18th of October this year!!!

Littleman

2012-08-02, 06:51 AM

I really don't think this game will be release din October... Even if SOE have that as a dead line now I think it's a sure bet that it will be pushed back.

TBH I will be surprised if the game is out before Dec...

I'm under the impression beta is for balancing the weapons of war, and less so about stability and bug hunting, the bulk of said problems having been handled by hired testers and the tech test.

Once the game goes open beta, it's essentially released anyway, being an F2P.

Beta will take as long as SOE needs, but for balancing purposes, I can't imagine that taking too long with thousands of people contributing to the data pool.

Stew

2012-08-02, 06:58 AM

I'm under the impression beta is for balancing the weapons of war, and less so about stability and bug hunting, the bulk of said problems having been handled by hired testers and the tech test.

Once the game goes open beta, it's essentially released anyway, being an F2P.

Beta will take as long as SOE needs, but for balancing purposes, I can't imagine that taking too long with thousands of people contributing to the data pool.

More people will simply be more confusing more useless tread about misconception and wrong impression !

when a game hit (( OPEN BETA )) in a developpement process the balancing is quiet done , Open beta is mainly to stress servers and to test if the servers will be able to handles lets say 1 millions people at the same time , patching speed and all thats stuff with millions of people downloading the updates etc..

i never seen a game testing the balance issue in the open beta and anyway a videogame constantly change stuff nerf or buff stuff because a game is never perfect !

Lantis

2012-08-02, 08:09 AM

How many times does this thread need to be posted? Same speculation's occurred at least three times in only the first two pages. Is it too much to ask to actually look around, just a little, before posting your 'new' thoughts?

Most common and likely thought is that it is the start of the Chinese Tech Test or Closed Beta. Either way, I'd suggest you read through those other threads for more speculation.

dafuq

2012-08-02, 08:12 AM

soon (2013)

Flaropri

2012-08-02, 09:33 AM

Clearly Oct. 18th is when China will finally get their version for Beta.

Clearly.

Trip

2012-08-02, 10:11 AM

nope, i dont believe that for a second. the game has been in techtest for what a 5 weeks? and thats just tech test. beta will likely be quite a bit longer. Also i dont read chinese so thats a big variable to my understanding.

sgtviper

2012-08-02, 10:27 AM

10-8-12 is GDC i hope that isn't release that only would leave little more then 2 months for the closed and open beta and for them to fix any issues,

opticalshadow

2012-08-02, 10:30 AM

duke nukem forever o.0

dafuq

2012-08-02, 10:32 AM

hitler will be reborn at this date and the mayas will capture him

Mox

2012-08-02, 10:36 AM

It is the date when Smed will anounce the date for the anouncement of the delayed start of beta :D

Doxy

2012-08-02, 10:47 AM

It is the date when Smed will anounce the date for the anouncement of the delayed start of beta :D

sounds 100% true =]

Katanauk

2012-08-02, 10:59 AM

A release date that they won't meet I think.

Sephirex

2012-08-02, 11:03 AM

It's China's closed beta or tech test date if its anything of importance.
They can't even figure out the US closed beta date, why would they already have full release date ready to go, and then only release it to China?

nope, i dont believe that for a second. the game has been in techtest for what a 5 weeks?

This is the third week.

Duddy

2012-08-02, 11:12 AM

This wouldn't of been the only place this date has popped up.

If you look through the legal jargon for the FB app, this date shows up in there too; having just looked for the exact text I can't find it again though.

Pretty sure it was saying that the things you could unlock were only valid for redemption after that date.

It is also coincides with SOE Live... so speculate as you undoubtedly will.

Deezy

2012-08-02, 01:37 PM

Does anyone here read Chinese/Mandarin/whatever the fcuk that is?

QuantumMechanic

2012-08-02, 02:33 PM

Does anyone here read Chinese/Mandarin/whatever the fcuk that is?

I believe they have two spoken languages (Mandarin and Cantonese) and one single written alphabet shared by both (... "Chinese" I guess). And no, I don't read it.

Mythoclast

2012-08-02, 03:36 PM

18-10+2012=2020.

My god, that means in 2020 the pyramids will open up and fucking summon Alien beings from another planet to kill us all

Even worse. The time is 2:16? 2x1=2. 2x6=12. 12-2=10. 1+0=1. Now save that 1. We will need it later.

Like you said, 18-10+2012=2020. 20+20=40. 4+0=4. We all know what 4 is, 2+2 or two 2s. 22. Remember that 1 we had earlier? 22+1=23. Twenty-falarking-three. It's everywhere.

Razorhard

2012-08-02, 03:39 PM

18-10+2012=2020.

My god, that means in 2020 the pyramids will open up and fucking summon Alien beings from another planet to kill us all

Yep, you hit it on the head. Sad but total fact.

Magpie

2012-08-02, 03:45 PM

Galron

2012-08-02, 08:13 PM

Probably the date they have to take out the non TR races so there is only a communist option.

The Loverator

2012-08-05, 08:29 PM

It's the date for Open Beta. Which in China translates to "Free-to-play."

Honestly?

This doesn't sound needfully like the Game will really come out in 2012... ...

greetings, LV. :wave:

Salad Snake

2012-08-05, 11:02 PM

i never seen a game testing the balance issue in the open beta and anyway a videogame constantly change stuff nerf or buff stuff because a game is never perfect !

Battlefield 3 still had people taking double-damage per hit if they happened to be moving at impact. If that's not a huge bug, I don't know what is.

(Though I do wish they'd never taken out the whole wrecking-ball ammo crates, was awesome to make a hole in some cover to fire out of)

Probably the date they have to take out the non TR races so there is only a communist option.

I shouldn't have laughed at that, but I did.