News: Chinese Interview with John Smedley

[Miir]

It can't be popular in China without an auction house. What would the farmers do?

[dpranker]

The way I read it he was just giving examples of different payment models that are going to be popular in the future as monthly subscriptions become less popular, not that PS2 is going to have a real money auction house.

What would even be on the auction house? I guess you could trade resources or something, but that doesn't make much sense to me

[NewSith]

When asked about the business mode and beta schedule, Smedley reveals that the game will be free-to-play, but it may not be the microtransaction type as he mentions (gives the example of) the model of buy to play and Diablo 3's auction house.

I think that's what was meant, but not that buy to play

I don't think Smed could say that it's going to be f2p, but b2p at the same time with RL money auction house between players.

EDIT:

Originally Posted by dpranker

The way I read it he was just giving examples of different payment models that are going to be popular in the future as monthly subscriptions become less popular, not that PS2 is going to have a real money auction house.

What would even be on the auction house? I guess you could trade resources or something, but that doesn't make much sense to me

You claimed an unfair 1st place.

[Aractain]

I didn't take the auction house idea seriously, its kinda dumb in D3 it would be just stupid in PS2. (I read it as "it could be this, or this or this" but Sith's explanaion makes more sense).

More importantly is the 2000 number (scale? size? scope?), the events (meaning this is probably going to happen as it was mentioned before) and the F2P (which is obivous if they want money) also the beta date, giving a mid 2012 release date possibility (as I suspected).

Right?

[Hamma]

Originally Posted by Vancha

Cue a thread of premature reactions based off some badly translated chinese.

Pretty much.

It's important to note more than anything that this article is translated and thus, may have some crap in it that makes little or no sense. Of course the general overview is probably sound but the translations are horrible.

Originally Posted by Tigersmith

These ai invasions better not have teamwork between empires.

Sounds that way to me.

But who says you can't start attacking another empire during the invasion?

[Zulthus]

Originally Posted by basti

God damnit guys, would you SHUTUP?

We know about the AI Invasion thing since Fan Faire! It dosent even matter at all right now, its something WAY WAY WAY post release.

And what the fuck are you talking about an auction house? Theres not a single word about that related to Planetside 2. Read the goddamn article and stop just taking random words...

Basti knows it all. Basti does not allow discussion on the forums. Basti cannot post his thoughts without attacking people.

Why don't you read the article before posting mindlessly? He says he mentioned a buy model such as an Auction House. So, while he 'mentioned' it, it's POSSIBLE that there might be an Auction House. And, since it's in a PS2 article, I'm pretty damn sure it has to do with PS2. Just a wild guess.

[Hamma]

Let's try to be civil and take the article with a grain of salt please.

Smed was giving examples is how I read it, basically examples of how the monthly sub model is dying. No need to get all of your armor in a wad over it.

[basti]

http://translate.google.com/translat...ct=url&act=url



"cost over $ 50 million to create the FPS masterpiece"

" John said "Planetside 2" will use the free model, the specific details of the charges has not been determined." <-- thats about F2P, P2P etc. READ IT OUT LOUD, NO DETAILS!

[Tigersmith]

Originally Posted by basti

http://translate.google.com/translat...ct=url&act=url



"cost over $ 50 million to create the FPS masterpiece"

" John said "Planetside 2" will use the free model, the specific details of the charges has not been determined." <-- thats about F2P, P2P etc. READ IT OUT LOUD, NO DETAILS!

Ok basti lol. You made your point. we can at-least discuss it. People have different points of view on these things lol.

[NewSith]

Originally Posted by Tigersmith

Ok basti lol. You made your point. we can at-least discuss it. People have different points of view on these things lol.

No offense but (the) people are making panic, instead of discussion.

[Malorn]

Maybe folks missed this in all the AI invasion stuff (which we have heard about before) and the F2P announce, but....

Skills directly affect a character's ability of increasing weapon damage, modifying vehicles, and crafting.

But wait, it was mentioned a second time in that same short article...

Territory control is about taking control of resources which offer the necessary materials for creating weapons and upgrading equipment.

Crafting? seriously? I get the resource system and the desire to be eve-like which had player manufactured items.... but that really took away from the action of the game and made economy, production, and logistics full-time jobs that were incredibly boring but necessary to succeed in the game.

[Hamma]

Honestly you have to expect panic before actual discussion.

Things are being discussed that were not in the original PlanetSide and thus people are going to panic before actually discussing things.

I'm updating the main page a bit, stupid translations.

[Dark Atlantis]

LOL, NOW i am able to pay for games (got a job) and now every damn MMO goes f2p ....
I hope there will also be some "large-scale beta testing" for eu :P Would like to be one of the first europeans to play the game.

[Lunarchild]

Originally Posted by Tigersmith

hmm. well not really what I wanted.


Alien invasions? Really? sigh
And free 2 play.. Eww but would have to hear the specifics.

The Alien Invasions I believe were mentioned before, and they said it won't be in for launch. That means we still have plenty of time to convince them it's not a good idea And I doubt they'll add it in unless it really adds to the experience.

Interestingly enough the 500x500x500 is not the max of the engine... Should provide some interesting ways of expansion later on, that's for sure.

As for Free 2 Play / Buy 2 Play, I was kind of expecting that. Especially the buy 2 play is good for the population of the game. But like you said, need more specifics.

[Aractain]

Isn't "crafting" just "customisation"?