Planetside 2 and Professional Gaming

[Xyntech]

Originally Posted by Talek Krell

That's what we need, is it? Planetside re-imagined as a horse race?

And he's out of the gate! He has the LLU! He's running for the finish line and... OH! He got reaver spammed.

[Captain B]

Or if the LLU makes it:

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLL!! !!!

Also, good read, Talek.

[Kalbuth]

Originally Posted by Xyntech

And he's out of the gate! He has the LLU! He's running for the finish line and... OH! He got reaver spammed.

FFS, don't make me laugh @work, plz!

[Tigersmith]

Really like Esports but this idea is kinda weak. This is a MMOFPS.

[Captain B]

I just caught up on my Colbert and heard about this:

http://www.topshotta.com/double-xp-i...-mountain-dew/

I put this here because e-sports is incorporating corporate sponsors, and we already have it directly affecting our games. Talk about a cash shop: if you eat healthy food and have a busy schedule, you're getting doubly screwed in gaining XP compared to those who sit in a pile of broken Mountain Dew cans covered in cheese dust playing marathons of CoD. Like wtf...

And we were SO CLOSE to getting over our gamer stigmas! Way to take us back 20 years, capitalism!

[Bags]

That bit was pretty funny.

[Graywolves]

When I go Pro in PS2, I'm gonna get sponsored by coca-cola, and get customized avatar covered in coke logos and my ATV is gonna be a polar bear and my mozzie/galaxy will be a sleigh.

[SKYeXile]

Originally Posted by Graywolves

When I go Pro in PS2, I'm gonna get sponsored by coca-cola, and get customized avatar covered in coke logos and my ATV is gonna be a polar bear and my mozzie/galaxy will be a sleigh.

I'm already sponsored by Burger king, not the burgers though, just the coke and Ice.

[Bags]

Burger king? It's the B.K. Lounge.

[Traak]

Wonder if we will have billboards by the highways. Or roads. Or paths.

[SuperMorto]

Hold on loads of gamers.............. 1 game.................hmmmmmmmmmmm.

This could work big time.

[HELLFISH88]

I'm going to play devil's (lol) advocate here for a minute and purpose an interesting direction. Cannot Planetside 2 utilize in E sport's characteristic's while at the same time altering it's format? "Round type" match's would be cool but who's to say streaming the game itself isn't as well? Think of it as something similar to 24 hour news. I remember one of my favorite "icing on the cake's" from Planetside was the ability to log on to the Website and track the Auraxis live map. It was always fun to monitor that at work or school; especially if you knew other people who played the game. Really brought the magic out. Imagine in 2012 when we can pick up even quicker more detailed maps on our Smartphone's or even stream specific "Camera streams" from points in game. Maybe not at strategic and tactically relevant location's but at least in dynamic settings that would encourage interesting combat. People would intrinsically be brought there out of lust for attention and glory(good luck getting all 300 of our vanguard's off this hill Assholes <3) or even some negligible but interesting bonus. Like a cave mod type concept.

This idea would of course fulfill the attention and Spectator-centric side of E sports.

This concept could be built upon with idea's like the streaming map as well as building stat tracker's around it. Like a Gross overall "time held" Race:

Lapis Lazuli Server:
NC: 27 months, 18 days 23 hour's and 59.9 seconds
VS: 9 month's 23 day's 16 hour's and 33.5 seconds
TR: "Like 17 hour's or something right?"
[SERVER GROSS: 37 MONTH'S, 31 DAY'S FIFTEEN HOURS AND 92.14 SECONDS]

(Fucking sexy pie chart's and graphs)

E-sport's is a form of stage just as conventional sport are.

All you need is a good stage and the magical will follow.

[Zulthus]

Lol @ Professional Gaming

[TRex]

Liking everything Effect said so far in this thread . I think there is a place for this as long as its not an integral part of everyday playing. Or else it could end up with people queuing up to do the esport and not bothering with the main game.Once a week, month or whatever.

[Hyncharas]

I think the best way to incorporate it would be every few months; perhaps integrating these "division" (clans) of each empire into the continuing story of the PS2 fiction with some objective gameplay. In turn the divisions that take part are mentioned as part of a storytelling log of events during the days-long conflict, which is then posted on the official website for everyone to read.

I'd be happy to help SOE with that since I do a lot of story writing these days, and each clan could record a voice transcript as an MP3 to assist with the battle report process.