FPS Guru Live Interview Friday - PlanetSide Universe

Matt Higby will be joining the FPS Guru team this coming Friday May 11th at 3PM PDT.

Are you an fan of Planetside? Have you been waiting anxiously for a squeal? We here at FPSGuru feel you, that's why we set up a live streaming interview with Matt Higby, Creative Director of Planetside 2!

Where: www.fpsguru.com/streams/fpsguru
When: Friday, May 11th @ 3PM PDT
How: Because Matt and the team are awesome!

So be sure to check it out live on Friday! The interview will also be recorded so if you miss out you can check it out later.

Check out the live video below starting at 5PM PDT and chat live about it here.

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2012-05-09 12:10 PM

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2012-05-12 09:57 PM

Aurmanite

Re: FPS Guru Live Interview Friday

Derp double derp.

2012-05-13 01:55 AM

Garem

Re: FPS Guru Live Interview Friday

Originally Posted by PeteHMB

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).

2012-05-13 06:03 AM

Shogun

Re: FPS Guru Live Interview Friday

Originally Posted by Mechzz

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.

2012-05-13 07:40 AM

Mastachief

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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

2012-05-13 07:54 AM

Kipper

Re: FPS Guru Live Interview Friday

Originally Posted by Mastachief

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.

2012-05-13 08:20 AM

Stew

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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 !

2012-05-13 08:52 AM

Shogun

Re: FPS Guru Live Interview Friday

Originally Posted by Mastachief

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.

2012-05-13 09:32 AM

MacXXcaM

Re: FPS Guru Live Interview Friday

Originally Posted by Shogun

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

2012-05-13 10:53 AM

Ceska

Re: FPS Guru Live Interview Friday

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.

2012-05-13 11:05 AM

Shogun

Re: FPS Guru Live Interview Friday

Originally Posted by Mastachief

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?

2012-05-13 12:21 PM

Tikuto

Re: FPS Guru Live Interview Friday

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.

2012-05-13 12:45 PM

Tatwi

Re: FPS Guru Live Interview Friday

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

2012-05-13 04:36 PM

Mastachief

Re: FPS Guru Live Interview Friday

Originally Posted by Shogun

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

2012-05-14 01:02 AM

outsider

Re: FPS Guru Live Interview Friday

Originally Posted by Crazyduckling

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

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

.

I won't say anything more on that one.

2012-05-14 01:56 AM

Ruffdog

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Thanks ducking for taking the time to post all that