News: Community Message from Matt Higby

[Johari]

I just can't help but have a giant f#*&ing man crush on Matt Higby after seeing him make videos like these. Not only him but TRay and all the other developers who comes on PSU or make twitter posts responding to the community. Really there are a lot of things the Sony in general does that I do not like but then I see you PS2 devs doing there jobs and caring so much that I just can't help but love you guys.

Please carry on knowing that we stand behind you.

[Xaine]

Love to you Higby.

We are the community, the original Planetside hipsters. We loved it before it was mainstream.

[LtCarman]

Maybe I've just been hanging around developers like DICE for too long, but I definitely get the whole "indie vibe" from the PS2 dev team. I have to constantly remind myself that SoE isn't an a small indie developer. The fact that you're constantly on reddit and PSU is amazing. Probably the best interaction I've seen between a developer and a community in a long time.

[Serpent]

Damn, it's been too long since I've seen such a personal video coming from such a powerful developer team.

I'm not a supporter from the very beginning (PS1) and I don't consider myself to be, but that was still a very thoughtful video.

Keep up the good work, we're all here for you

[ShadoViper]

Originally Posted by Suiciderunner

It's moments like this that make me proud to be a part of this amazing community. :]

Exactly.

Thank you Devs!

The amount of community work that went on from the initial announcement until now has been truly special to be apart of. Being able to see the interaction between hardcore's and dev's was something i didn't think could really ever exist in the industry right now like it did here. It has been a real pleasure to be able to see honest people talking with us and not shoveling PR smoke up our asses all this time. It's nice to see Gamers talking to gamers, not Suits talking to Sheep.

If I'm to be honest. Seeing all of this has really given me a different perspective on an industry i had skepticism going into.

Once again, thank you to everyone that is working hard on this project and thank you to all the people on PSU that have been around this whole time debating and discussing. It's been a blast to read everything!

[Tatwi]

Awe, thanks man! You brought a man-tear to my eye. It's been really great to be able to interact with you guys and gals. The SOE gang has heart.

[IHateMMOs]

DICE, Infinity Ward, Treyarch, BioWare, Blizzard and all in between need to learn from you and your team Mr. Higby.

[Serpent]

Originally Posted by IHateMMOs

DICE, Infinity Ward, Treyarch, BioWare, Blizzard and all in between need to learn from you and your team Mr. Higby.

Very true. Frankly they could all learn from each other (though I don't care much for IW at all)

[opticalshadow]

Ive been here since the day PS launched, playing infil, because its the only role i could even get 4 fps on at the time my trash computer. i remember the days of massive sanctuary raids, teh 8 hour long battles for a single tower, the days when iw as in school, i would fight till 4 am, get a few hours asleep, go to school come home, and my outfit, my soldires, still fought the cont, still fighting the battles i was apart of hours before.

and i will be here until the servers close forever, if ever it happens. i wont leave until im forced, so thankyou matt, and the PS team, thank you for nearly a decade now, of memories, friends, enjoyment. sometimes in vent, or ts, i run into another PS vet, and like war vets of real life, we share hours recalling memerable battles, deeds of soldires, and great loss, shareing our war stories from across diffrent sides.

thank you guys for what you gave to us, for what you continue to bring us. thank you for staying true to what you created, as so many developers lsoe sight of what they were, your keeping true to what youve always been, and im so happy, that you maintain this relationship with us, a rare thing now adays, to not just have PR messages, but just the ones for us.

[Hamma]

This thread is also a prime example of why I love this community so much and pour so much blood sweat and tears into it.

The Devs and the community!

[Truemedic]

Thank you so much the dev team! That felt like a heart to heart talk rather than a mass media broadcast. I haven't been apart of this community for long but I'm happy to been able to contribute the little pieces I have and I will continue to do so!

Keep up the AMAZING Job!

[Phobos]

This vid is really awesome, I can tell how sincere Matt is about this, and Matt, you can thank for the original planetside and its devs for making us so supportive about PS2! We really cant wait for beta.

[DDSHADE]

Thanks Matt! Really been dreaming of PS2 to be announced and made real some day since shortly after the start of the original PlanetSide

You guys are making my dreams come true! Keep it up, can't wait!!

[SixShooter]

That is just damn awesome. What a great team and a great community to be a part of. I love this shit and it's obvious that the dev team is putting a lot of love in to it too.

[proxy]

Originally Posted by NCLynx

I think there was a period of about 5-ish years or so when I figured a sequel to Planetside would simply never happen.

The fact that it is in fact actually happening is amazing. I hope that I'll be able to attend Fan Faire or something else that the Planetside 2 Dev team would be at because you all deserve so many rounds of free drinks.

Having made my first character back in February 2004 it's been an awesome 8 years and I can't wait for it to continue on into Planetside 2.

Word. I would check google, find that stupid URL that someone registered, sigh, lament. Then smed made a blog post and I was all then I didn't here anything forEVER and I was all - then I saw a bunch of new stuff and was all , but now I'm just