Debunking some myths regarding PS1 playerbase demise.

[Goldeh]

Originally Posted by MrBloodworth

You forgot something that lead to the breaking of the cert system.

Cert bundles.


All the stuff you mention in the OP is SOE chasing the session based players. Session based thinking does not belong in a team based, objective based, persistent game.



Not for the time. No. Not for the Budget. No. Also, it was the only FPS with a subscription requirement. Failure means they did not recoup the development investment. They did, many times over.

Perspective.


Sad thing is, for Planetside 2. Its session based thinking all the way. Coupled with the idea that scale is the only defining feature. They scraped everything else ( to a point ) in the hut for speed. But have thrown many thing out with the bathwater.



You are part of the problem with modern gaming.

Eh, can't really be session based when there is no session it's persistant.. Furthermore, all we've seen so far is gunplay (which is something Hig and the team should really stop with the gunplay streams) and nothing else really. Haven't even got a good look of the multiple bases, some of which have doors, or real vehicle combat.

So ya, it's liking judging a whole mansion by looking through a small window, wait until NDA n' beta to make real judgments.