News: Jimmy Whisenhunt Joins PlanetSide 2 Team

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As a competitive player at heart, (with a background in many different FPSes, CS 1.6, Tribes, PS1, Quake, etc) believe me when I tell you that the PS2 team needs someone like Whisenhunt on their team. This dude spent a good portion of his life playing FPSes, and with that he's obviously gained quite a bit of knowledge as to what makes a good FPS.

It's an incredibly sound decision, and it further reinforces the great job the PS2 devs are doing to reach out to the community and communicate effectively with us (remember, not many devs do this!). They're hiring on a competitive player who is familiar with good game development and can provide accurate, meaningful input from a player's perspective.

To those worried about his background in CS somehow drastically changing the entire development of PS2, a product literally weeks away from beta, I'm pretty sure that wasn't the goal of his hiring. From what I understand, his position is to help fine-tune the weapons in PS2.

I honestly couldn't have asked for anyone better for this position, as he's already given a lot of meaningful input into the development of CS:GO (that has actually made it into the current build of the game) through VODs alone.

And to Whisenhunt, sorry about the rabid fans trying to get your goat. They kinda go into witchhunt mode when they smell new blood. Welcome to the community, and I'm glad you got on board!