Updated: PlanetSide Changes

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Could there possibly be some huge changes coming to PlanetSide? A recent CGW article mentions a few possible things coming down the road. (This snippet was typed on the OF by a user)

More important are plans for the future , which include a free major update to wash the taste of the Core Combat expansion out of our mouths . The usual balancing tweaks are in store , but SOE also plans to add slighly faster-paced "Counter-Strike style" play in a tournament mode . Two teams from two different factions will be able to square off on smaller maps . And to help see who is best , there are plans to add stat tracking (kill-to-death ratios , amount of time played per session , and so on) to the entire game . How this will be carried out has yet to be determined , as SOE is in the middle of planning stages , but we've ben assured that it'll happen by late this summer

For more details, check out this thread complete with a scan of the article. Also, check out this very hot thread on the Official Forums.

Sporkfire has commented in the official forum thread:

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.

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