CGW Mini Article

[JetRaiden]

anyone see this? about Planetside? for the planetside anniversary, planetside members will be able to reactivate their account for the week of May 17, and play in an effort for SOE to stage the biggest battle ever. Theres also mention of a small tournament style gameplay for PlanetSide coming this fall. They said there will be smaller maps, and mroe "fast-paced" gameplay, with a reference to Counter Strike. no one say 0FN or I will cut you.

[Rbstr]

Haven't heard of that yet

god no nothing like counterstirke better touch this game ever.

[JetRaiden]

no they just meant like fast paced combat LIKE counter strike. you can change a group of people on an opposite empire to a "duel" basically, and you fight on a smaller map. they said it should be in game (or test server) by late summer.

[EarlyDawn]

I'm wondering wether or not the smaller battles are going to have an effect on the larger game, globally.

Regardless, I could care less unless these changes bring more players to PS.

[ViperGTS]

Nice.

[Hamma]

I have not heard anything of this, link plz.

[JetRaiden]

no online version, so I took a pic with my digicam.

I forgot to set the camera to a higher res. its still readable to a certain extent though.

[Mag-Mower]

uhh, dont you have a scanner? uhh?

[JetRaiden]

no.

[AztecWarrior]

Kick-ass!!!

[Hamma]

Interesting indeed, going to check this out.

[Duffman]

http://psforums.station.sony.com/ps/...ssage.id=58781

[Hamma]

Spork Comments:

Originally Posted by SporkfirePS

The article is real, though I have not seen my copy yet so I can't verify the text.

So, a couple of things to talk about:

1) Yes, a good portion of this is, in fact, being discussed. The reason I haven't told the community anything is because this is the nature of press relations: I would like more players. To do that, I need media coverage. The media is not interested in information that has already gone public, so we must give them an exclusive. You guys know that when all of the design and development details are hammered out, you will be the first to see the specifics. It has always been like that, and that is very important to me.

2) We didn't write the article, so these are not necessarily our words. When we explain plans to a journalist, we have to give comparisons. Think of any game preview you have ever read. They will call out past games as an example of the general style, such as Virtua Fighter 4 meets Choplifter! So, what you should be taking out of that is not that we plan to change PlanetSide's gameplay to mimic another game. Rather, we have ideas to take the best elements from certain styles of game and use them to make our game even better.

3) We get sued if we release false subscription numbers to the press. We dislike being sued.

[oddfish]

all i'm going to say is i dislike ANY concept that pulls players from the actual global battlefield and sticks them in a little battle "room." Keep the PlanetSide fighting on the god damned planet. Don't have people fucking around in little "battle rooms, hooraynoobroxorssoxorswoottehwinnar." I just think that's a bad idea. There's a zillion other things that the Devs could do to introduce more players. A zillion.

[Hamma]

We have no REAL statement on what wil actually be done that was in that article, Spork just said the article is "real"

We will have to wait and see what happens