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[Ieyasu]

Gump you appear to not care for BF3 or MW3 which is perfectly fine. The problem however is that BF3 for example has sold roughly 15 million copies and PS2 is trying to tap into that market. by comparison at its peak I think the original Planetside had 70-80k active subscribers. Its clear from the scope and scale of this game that the goal is to blow those numbers out of the water.

In all honesty from what little Ive seen so far Planetside 2 has more in common with being a BF3 Online than it does being a true successor to the original Planetside, but that doesnt mean im not excited to play PS2. as has been mentioned before modern gamers wouldnt play a game like the original Planetside now because its too slow paced (for reference I played from open beta to summer of 2010 off and on). Its this same reason that I chuckle when I see people complaining about vehicles health regenerating or the faster ttk times because thats what modern gamers want. they want to spend the bulk of their ingame time engaged in combat and not running to repair or heal more than they are killing. its nice to talk about it on forums and see people state their often times well throught up arguments in favor or against this or that, but at the end of the day the experiment with regards to whats popular has been run already by games like MW3 and BF3 that have sold tens of millions of copies. Higby himself has said that people should expect all the things theyve come to expect from a modern fps with regards to planetside. they way they deliver that is by taking those aspects from other games cause they sure as hell arent pulling them from the original Planetside.

We're dealing with Sony afterall and their corporate mission objective isnt to make people happy at their expense. its to turn a profit by giving people a quality product. That profit is going to come by luring people to play planetside 2 and then make microtransactions. the way they lure them is by making an awesome game that will appeal to the masses. which they are in the process of doing now.