Back from SOE

[Hamma]

I arrived back from the PlanetSide pre-release event late last night. Had a bunch of fun out in San Diego, I don't have much to announce as it was mainly a press event for some journalists to do final pre-release reports on the game. The event was held at the ESports Arena in downtown San Diego. http://www.esportsarena.com it was a blast playing PS with it presented on a big screen. :D All the big dev team members were there, SmokeJumper (Dave Georgeson) Kevin McCann (Stryker) Terrence Yee (Solis) SporkFire (Victor Wachter) and Tramell "T-Ray" Isaac.

Questions/Comments? Post here. I will probably do a writeup on my experience here in the next several days. :D

[FoRaKiOn]

so they ar estill plannig on Releasing Plaetside on may 19 as usual? or are there gonna be some delays or anything? cause if so im gonna buy it the first day hehe :D

[Squeeky]

Awesome Hamma!

Pics? Writeup please!

Exactly what went down

[Hamma]

May 19th is the date :D

[Squeeky]

Originally posted by FoRaKiOn
so they ar estill plannig on Releasing Plaetside on may 19 as usual? or are there gonna be some delays or anything? cause if so im gonna buy it the first day hehe :D

I'd say its 96% certain they are releasing May 19th if there holding a press release event ATM :)

[FoRaKiOn]

thats good to hear, so i can save up my best buy gift cards and when it comes out i will use them and buy it.... cheap but hey it works i got 2 15 dollar ones already so thats $30 off the price which will help significantly sinc ei dont have much money, and are they implementing anything new to the game (besides platoons) befor ethe release date or are the platoons all and leave everything the same.... sorry but im bored at school listening to my teacher talk so i will ask questions here instead ;)

[Squeeky]

Platoons are coming Post Release, I'd say within the first second feature patch you could expect Platoons :)

[FoRaKiOn]

thats cool, they should (if they arent already) take those platoons and make them divisions, then make your way up to a Army or Core..... that would be cool cause that would mean alot of ppl in one army or core fighting for a place and that would be neat to have hehe, thx for answering the questions.... post all your info on whats going on here..... hehe tell me anythign and everything :D

[Hamma]

http://staff.planetside-universe.com/hamma/esports.jpg

[Hamma]

btw PlanetSide was also posted in one of those "Coming Soon" type posters at the movie theatre. It owned :D

Problem is my camera completly sucks at night and you cant tell what it was :(

[Squeeky]

more pics please

[Hamma]

There are no more. You cant see any of them, flash is busted and the night mode sucks :mad:

[Squeeky]

:(

[Hamma]

btw that is the big screen at the front of the room.

The walls of the entire place are lined with plasma tv's as well :D

[BlehBlehAmiga]

One thing I've been meaning to double check, is May 19 shipping day, or day it will be released in stores? There's usually a day or 2 lag between the two :) I keep hearing May 19 referred to as the shipping day, which means it probably won't be available until 20-21 or so.

[PR24]

Originally posted by Squeeky
Platoons are coming Post Release, I'd say within the first second feature patch you could expect Platoons :)

Squeeky you work for SOE? I don't even think they know those answers yet :lol:

[Squeeky]

Originally posted by PR24
Squeeky you work for SOE? I don't even think they know those answers yet :lol:

No...

But Dave "SmokeJumper" Georgeson stated this in the Beta chat on the launchpad :)

[Hamma]

Platoons will be a commander ability of some form as I understand it. I dont think it will be to long after release.

[Indecisive]

i want my orbital strike :tear:

[Destroyeron]

Originally posted by Hamma
btw PlanetSide was also posted in one of those "Coming Soon" type posters at the movie theatre. It owned :D

Problem is my camera completly sucks at night and you cant tell what it was :(

Next time take the poster. :P

[xuur]

Gah! You were here in SD and didn't even say hi, let alone invite me!


fine. FINE!

PS: I sux, I didnt even know there WAS an Esports arena. Figures they open it after I dont work downtown anymore. I'll be lookin forward to hearing what you thought of my fair city.


x

[Hamma]

It's a great city, I like it quite a bit.

Visited last december for the preview event too ;)

[BUGGER]

Originally posted by Hamma
The walls of the entire place are lined with plasma tv's as well :D Woa......its like going to BestBuy for the first time.....and to make it better, every tv got PlanetSide on the screen....something we all want to see.....ahhhh...:drools:

[simba]

do you know when it will be released in Europe? If its long time after the release should I pre-order?

[Hamma]

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May 23