The PS2 hype machine - Page 2

TacosWLove · 2011-12-07, 11:50 AM

Originally Posted by Raymac

Worry after some actual video is released. It's obviously still a bit early.

For example, nobody gets excited about a movie until the trailer comes out. People need to see things.

We have a different perspective because we are following the development much closer, but when people actually get a look at this thing, (a real look, not that lame 5v5v5 pre-alpha announcement trailer) they are going to flip out over this game.

tl;dr Don't Panic

Totally Agree. However the first PS didnt even have a trailer that showed more then 10 measly people fighting. If this is suppose to a massive battle with thousands of player, then show me one! Use bots, gief us all betta invites, w/e. But as Ray says, this is something we will need inorder to get ppl jucied about this massive FPS. People need to a a front line of war with some no mans land in the middle where cloakers go to die!

Canaris · 2011-12-07, 12:07 PM

also I think hype machine is a bit aggressive and macho, let's change it to the

PS2 - Love machine! bow chicka wow wow

Honestly wanting/demanding video and whole website overhauls is a bit premature, let the Dev's do there magic and make an awesome game, graphics and videos that then can be used for sites and fansites will be better for it.
Patience my friend, a lil patience

Mirror · 2011-12-07, 12:32 PM

Where is the hammer???

Xyntech · 2011-12-08, 12:14 AM

Originally Posted by Hamma

I also think calling it an "embarrassment" is a bit rash and to be honest, it is personally insulting to me and my staff who work hard everyday to bring this site to you for free. There are much more "embarrassing" fan sites out there on the internet.

Meh, fuck that guy. Haters gonna hate.

I'd still like to see Planetside 2 spruced up ASAP, just so we make sure that SOE puts it's best foot forward on this thing. Maybe with some links to PSU

But they are getting paid. You guys are doing awesome as a fan based organization. I look forward to seeing Gryphons new design.

Again though, we don't even have a beta date. Once we do and we start to have a better understanding of what kind of time table we're on, then we will all be in a better position to assess how quickly what needs to be done where.

Until then, just do what you can with what we have. PSU and the PS2 devs are doing their part and more. The rest is all on us for now.

wolfkrone · 2011-12-08, 01:18 AM

Originally Posted by Xyntech

Meh, fuck that guy. Haters gonna hate.

This will be a shock for you so brace yourself. A good community isn't actually a place where everyone is constantly in agreement, but feel free to rally around some virtual flag restating my points as your own.

Hamma I am sorry that I struck a nerve. I used embarrassment in the context of PS2 failing to have a modern dedicated site to sing its praises generally, not that I was embarrassed with your efforts. PSU has been amazing, but I guess I am quite excited to see all the irrelevant content flushed away and the brand new look.

As for straight up demanding a video, that is quite unfair. I was trying to give some feedback on their marketing strategy that I thought they might find useful.

Xyntech · 2011-12-08, 01:57 AM

Originally Posted by wolfkrone

This will be a shock for you so brace yourself. A good community isn't actually a place where everyone is constantly in agreement, but feel free to rally around some virtual flag restating my points as your own.

Who said we can't disagree? I reserve the right to say 'fuck you' to anyone in the context of supporting the work that the PSU staff is doing. Just choose your words better next time if offense isn't your intent.

I've agreed with some of your points in both of my other posts in this thread. I'm not trying undermine you or whatever. Good communities are full of agreements, disagreements, and often a little of both at the same time. As long as we're all excited about PS2, I see no problems.

Missundaztood · 2011-12-08, 02:32 AM

Given the obvious amount of resource SOE has put into this release it would be silly not to spend appropriately on marketing.

Ok, no commercial/advertisement campaign on TV but plenty of exposure in magazines (which it has) on the web (which it has) and word of mouth which it sort of has.

Crator · 2011-12-08, 11:01 AM

Really surprised the current PS2 website from SOE doesn't have more on it, especially a forum. Perhaps they are still working on it though. You would think this would be something a company would have up though. Especially for a game that they are calling their flagship product. But, that's how SOE rolls it seems. They are using PSU to communicate with PS fans which is good to keep the info semi-secret to the rest of the world. But there should be some place that everyone can go to discuss things.

BuzzCutPsycho · 2011-12-09, 06:46 AM

Am I the only one who thinks this craze of doing updates via twitter is utterly retarded? What happened to the days when companies would post all current information on a well designed website which could be easily checked and referenced at any given time?

One of the major reasons why I'm still out of the loop when it comes to PlanetSide 2 information is because I can't stomach scouring some nerds twitter page for important information especially while their main page is practically empty.

Hamma · 2011-12-09, 06:51 AM

That is why many people have taken the time to do it for you. We also post all the major relevant stuff to PSU.

Is it utterly retarded? No. Different than anything we have seen before? Yes. It's the developers interacting directly with the fans. If we did not have this outlet we would have nothing but to wait between Marketing pushes to sites like PC Gamer among others.

BuzzCutPsycho · 2011-12-09, 07:04 AM

That is why many people have taken the time to do it for you. We also post all the major relevant stuff to PSU.

Great. Fine. I appreciate that you take the time to do it for me. I still think it looks cheap to have a game's homepage sitting barren and empty for the most part.

Is it utterly retarded? No. Different than anything we have seen before? Yes. It's the developers interacting directly with the fans. If we did not have this outlet we would have nothing but to wait between Marketing pushes to sites like PC Gamer among others.

I don't know about that. I'm more fanciful of using forums to interact with my developers or communities as opposed to this twitter nonsense. If I recall correctly PS2 had plenty of relevant information back in 03' before twitter even existed and PS1 actually had a functioning and updated homepage.

My opinion remains that it is retarded. Just like F2P is retarded but both are the way of the future and in time I'll learn to accept both.

Thanks for doing the legwork btw - Saves me from making a twitter account. Which much like everything else I'd only eventually end up getting banned from anyway.

Captain1nsaneo · 2011-12-09, 08:05 AM

Originally Posted by BuzzCutPsycho

Great. Fine. I appreciate that you take the time to do it for me. I still think it looks cheap to have a game's homepage sitting barren and empty for the most part.

So... you're saying that the PS2 website should be a giant link to PSU?
I'm for it.

Buzz, while I accept that yelling at children to get off the lawn is an enjoyable pass time which many of us are guilty of, sometimes it's better to steeple your fingers and watch the tykes trip over their own feet. I agree with you on social media being vaguely silly but I'm more an enemy of the loss of privacy it brings. If the devs are willing to give up some privacy and give us goodies then sit back and enjoy it. All the good info will eventually trickle down the grapevine and will show up here in some form.

Alaska · 2011-12-15, 07:18 AM

I don't know if anyone out there watches G4tv, but I just got done watching the latest episode of Feedback and they had Ted Price(CEO of Insomniac Games) along with Cliff Bleszinski(Design Director at Epic Games)..and this may not sound like such a crazy thing, but Cliff mentioned Planetside and Planetside 2 during one of their conversations. It wasn't a long drawn out conversation about the 2 games, but I believe in the very short amount of time Cliff mentioned the game..it shows that even big time developers and CEO's of companies may have a special place for Planetside in their heart. :P

Ted did say Planetside was ahead of it's time. I think we can all agree on that. ^-^

I guess the reason I posted in this thread was because after watching the episode it got me thinking about ways to get PS2 hype and I think having Higby or TRay on a future episode would be fucking epic! Hell, ..it could be any one of the developers that have spent time talking to the community and such.

If you're interested in watching the latest episode, Click here. This episode is very short, normal episodes being around 40 minutes to an hour. Cliff mentions Planetside around 12:50.

It may not seem like much, but it'd definitely worth looking into. =]

Hamma · 2011-12-15, 10:00 AM

That's pretty cool

Senyu · 2011-12-15, 10:20 AM

Before PS2 is released, before this website changes, I will remember the highly anticipated times of waiting for every letter to come out of SOE's mouth of PS2 on this forum. And all the crazy speculation that was made. Good times to remember.

Here's to more good times ahead for this game, the devs, and the fans. Cheers.