The games release is wayyyyy too rushed.

[berzerkerking]

From the time I started following the Planetside community here I though i saw and in-depth project, with our suggestions being considered and weighed in, and responded too in the forums here. The Beta was doing things right. Constant patching and character wipes, and great response to feedback. At that pace I believed we'd have an incredible release by Christmas 2013, but instead the game will be release without any optimization of frame rate, and Only two unpolished continents. This game was supposed to be the God-killer true, and incredible war, and I was shaping up to be with time. Now I see almost no hope for that dream. For all those who agree with me PM email Facebook, and twitter the hell out of these misguided bastard we all love and delay the launch. Don't let these Dev's get off with better than the other guys.

Update 10/252012
I talked with T-ray today about the optimization issues. He says that they are still working on it,and mentioned the 5 year plan. It seems like were just going to have to wait for incremental updates to better the game instead of the release they had originally planned. SOE has them by the balls, but they're still struggling

[berzerkerking]

[Crator]

Well, Smed did say when release date was 1st announced that they would not release the game until it was ready. Even though the Alpha Squad package stated a release date, Smed said it didn't matter about the release date listed. If the game wasn't ready by then then they weren't going to release it. He stated it was there to satisfy the lawyers.

[GhettoPrince]

Honestly? I'm really impressed with what they've done so far, especially after I remember the state of this game as recently as August.

[berzerkerking]

Originally Posted by Crator

Well, Smed did say when release date was 1st announced that they would not release the game until it was ready. Even though the Alpha Squad package stated a release date, Smed said it didn't matter about the release date listed. If the game wasn't ready by then then they weren't going to release it. He stated it was there to satisfy the lawyers.

Do you have a link to that/

[OpolE]

Way to early. 3 Planets to fight on will be crap.

[Crator]

Originally Posted by berzerkerking

Do you have a link to that/

I wish I'd have saved them. They were Tweets. I did a little searching but nada. Let me search a bit more. Is there an easy way to search Twitter for stuff like that?

[thegreekboy]

They're releasing due to financial pressure. Don't be so shortsighted.

[UzumakiW]

There are already so many threads about this that I'm sure we're close to drowning in them.

Short answer, man: They're going to release it when they say they will, whether or not we like it. Might as well wait and see how it goes and stop whining about it every five minutes.

[camycamera]

i thought they would release an open beta, but i guess not. it should have been open beta, because it might just end up being an open beta that is out of beta. from what i have heard, (and seen from my low-end PC), the game is not optimised fully yet. also, apparently there is a bit of weapon imbalance, and something about not as much teamwork as the original PS, or something about the bases being too easy to capture.

too many problems, too little time. from what i have heard, SOE always rushes releases, but this is not me speaking.

they just better do something drastic and fix the problems though. but we are getting another map though

[Galron]

Literally every set date for this game has been pushed back weeks (or even months if you count the gap between PC Gamer keys in the mag and actually being able to use them)

What makes you think release will be any different?

[PoisonTaco]

Well I think PS2 is in a better state than Medal of Honor which released yesterday. They had a 1.7 gig patch on day one to fix bugs. Willing to bet there's even more.

So yeah PS2 should at least be better then that.

[Fear The Amish]

yeah i have hope, especially after the changes since august. If they focus on just bugs/optimization this will easily be a shipable game by due date. Then every week just add in the meta game components. But seriously folks its a F2P title it will constantly be updated because that is the only way to make money remember even the most polished game f2p games (LoL, CS pre 1.3, Dwarf fortress) started out rougher then our current beta and then blew up. So i easily have hope for this one doing great.

[OnexBigxHebrew]

Here it is:

Step 1) Smed/Higby: Hey, investors/company/potential players! We can make this work, we promise!

Step 2) Beta release is delayed over and over after needless smedley-fueled speculative dates, draining hype/interest in the game to next nothing. Fearing community mutiny, beta is released in a severely broken state.

Step 3) Various players who stuck around to see it dislike PS2 and abandon ship upon seeing what an empty, incentiveless mess it is.

Step 3) Alpha Squad generates working capital at the expense of dignity, preying on those who built 10 years of e-peen and rep in planetside 1, a more ambitious and unique experience in its time.

Step 4) PlanetSide 2, for some reason unbeknownst to those using logic, announces a release date that is both too early and on the heels of behemoths Halo and Black Ops - games even F2P junkies are statisticaly likely to buy.

Step 5) Having no one left to stay and pretend that PS2 is good - or even acceptable the way it is - and with no random people for the 3 or 4 PS2 guilds to prey on, bad game dies.

Step 6) PS2 becomes the new SWG zinger thrown at Smedley Q & A sessions, and he tells haters everything they've learned from PS2 to make Everquest 8.5 great.

Unfortunately, kids, the game just suffers from the jack of all trades proverb. It's sub-par as a shooter, sub-par as an mmo, and sub-par as a map-driven strategy game. Unfortunaly, PS2 does not amount to more than the sum of its parts. It's simply the average of them. Meh+crap+nah\boring=Suck.

I hyped this game soo hard. I keep checking in from patch to patch to see if it becomes a rewarding experience for anyone that doesn't hang 10 years of gaming reputation in Planetside - and it doesn't. Anyone who isn't either completely married to the concept of planetside or willing to sacrifice valuable time to nuthug mouthbreathing guild leaders in forums will NOT enjoy or play this game. Sorry kids, it's just not any fucking good lol. I hate to keep posting here but the fact that this game could have been so awesome and had such a hardcore community has let me down about it big time.

[SKYeXile]

I happen to recall saying all this time that the combat would be rather poor.