SmedBlog: eSports Support

Hamma · 2012-08-11, 12:51 PM

I'm doing targeted feedback threads on all items from Smed's Blog. This one is for eSports Support.

Esports support - we plan on doing this pretty soon after launch. We plan on making this a big big thing and putting a lot of our resources behind it.

Thoughts!

IHateMMOs · 2012-08-11, 12:54 PM

How would Planetside 2 work in eSports?

JPalmer · 2012-08-11, 12:57 PM

Originally Posted by IHateMMOs

How would Planetside 2 work in eSports?

Create Server

Set map limit to a staging area and a base.

Get two Outfits(Have like a 100 player limit per side, maybe a resource limit too)

First to 3 wins?

IHateMMOs · 2012-08-11, 12:58 PM

Originally Posted by JPalmer

Create Server

Set map limit to a staging area and a base.

Get two Outfits(Have like a 100 player limit, maybe a resource limit too)

Best of 4?

Oooooooooh. Kinky.

ringring · 2012-08-11, 01:06 PM

Not my thing....

JPalmer · 2012-08-11, 01:10 PM

I like the idea. Gives the Outfits a chance to fight each other with their best players with no interference from zerg. Plus people would remember the names of the Outfits and big rivalries would be a hit.

Could potentially be awesome.

SpottyGekko · 2012-08-11, 01:25 PM

Yes, I think the eSports idea is a good one.

As long as it is an add-on to the main game, like having Battleground islands where the eSports matches can be played.

It can potentially raise the exposure of PS2, and if it ends up being successful, it is very effective free advertising for the game.

Outfits that want to compete in the eSports matches can practice tactics and co-ordination while playing in the main game as well, so the presence of eSports in the game does not have to mean that those who want to play matches are never going to play in the "main game". There's room for cross-over.

Hamma · 2012-08-11, 01:27 PM

Originally Posted by IHateMMOs

How would Planetside 2 work in eSports?

Guess this is the real question really. How would it work? To me this reads as if they are adding tools for e-sports for broadcasters..

AnamNantom · 2012-08-11, 01:38 PM

Originally Posted by JPalmer

Create Server

Set map limit to a staging area and a base.

Get two Outfits(Have like a 100 player limit per side, maybe a resource limit too)

First to 3 wins?

Not sure I like this.

Seriously? Only if you put these e-sports things on the same server and didn't prevent people from coming in to smash things up

I want it all to be seamless. Now, maybe, if you kept it within the limits of an empire... for example, Terran Republic sponsors a futuristic version of football or "laser tag" and people can tune in to watch same-empire sports teams duke it out. Maybe then.

NOT if it's TR vs NC vs VS. THAT breaks the story. That makes it seem like all three factions are friendly and merely wanting to have friendly competition.

Mox · 2012-08-11, 01:45 PM

That is nothing i want to see in PS2.

Goku · 2012-08-11, 01:52 PM

Originally Posted by Mox

That is nothing i want to see in PS2.

Don't participate then? There is nothing wrong with having competition like this at all.

Comet · 2012-08-11, 01:55 PM

I don't care for eSports. I find that if you try to add eSports into a game not originally designed around it that it effects the core game too much. Ala WoW arena.

XxAxMayxX · 2012-08-11, 02:01 PM

Im not sure about this I love the idea of esports but unless they let all of us use the tools for it i don't really want any of it.

Rat · 2012-08-11, 02:06 PM

Originally Posted by Comet

I don't care for eSports. I find that if you try to add eSports into a game not originally designed around it that it effects the core game too much. Ala WoW arena.

I dont see how WOW areana affected the core game. I didnt do much arena, but I didnt give a crap that others were into it.

Tatwi · 2012-08-11, 02:06 PM

I can't help but feel that E-Sports nothing more than dollars and man hours thrown at a niche of the gaming world that majority of gamers couldn't really give a shit about. It makes me sad that time will be taken away from actual Planetside 2 game development for this. If SOE wants to sub contract a marketing company to handle E-Sports, that's fine, because they would have to meet their metrics and make it work within the frame work of the game itself. But spending man hours on it, for the five or six new players it might bring to the game, it's a complete waste.

Originally Posted by Rat

I dont see how WOW areana affected the core game. I didnt do much arena, but I didnt give a crap that others were into it.

The sad reality that Blizzard constantly screwed up how classes functioned in PvE and normal PvP for the sake of making them work better in arenas is what pissed off most WoW players about E-Sports in WoW. It's not treated like a second game and it has had a negative impact on game as a result. Want details? Google it.