News: RPS interview with Higby

[Vancha]

Well it looks like a lot of people still have to come to terms with the fact that PS2 isn't PS1.

Complaining that losing the MCG/JH/Lasher dynamic from PS1 would be the death of empire diversity when the quote states that every empire gets their own version of every weapon class...I mean, really?

I know they've said they're making this game for the core PS players, but do you really think the hundreds of thousands of players that might end up playing PS2 would appreciate that they can't have a chaingun on their empire of choice because of 0.1% of the playerbase's "sentimentality"? I'd like to see ESMCGs, and ESLMGs too. Bring on the TR/VS shotguns. Show me a spread of Vanu energy pellet goodness.

This is a new game. If PS1 had never existed and all 3 empires got their own variant of the MCG/JH/Lasher, do you think a few years down the road people would be calling SOE stupid for doing so? Do you think it'd even cross their minds that the game could be improved by taking two of those weapon classes away from each empire? Of course not.