News: Chinese Interview with John Smedley

[TigerClaw]

F2P model scares me; I have played a fair few F2P games.
They always seem to feel cheap, I’m not sure why. It could just be that most F2P games have bad graphics
Although judging by how much time and money has been poured in to PS2 I seriously doubt that it will have bad graphics.

I’ve been playing PS2 since beta so maybe I’m just stuck in my ways, I like PS1 because the P2P model seemed to keep the people who really enjoyed the game playing and the people who just jumped in to muck around out.

Maybe if they had the free-to-play model based on fodder-side where they are limited to br6 or whatever the ranking system is, and then if you pay the monthly fee you can play with no restrictions

Either way Smedley I commend you on spending your time to come on here and clarify questions we have, and just genuinely make us feel like you are taking an interest in what we have to say.


ps i think PU is getting its bandwidth sucked dry

[bjorntju1]

Again, could you please clarify if the beta is US only or also playable by people in the EU? Thanks!

[Logit]

Originally Posted by Shogun

so true!
no npcs, only gm-controlled alien overlords or whatever!
quests will unfold via global chat from eyewitnesses, no need for npcs

You know what else we could do? SHOOT REAL THINKING PEOPLE.

I will never choose AI over PvP regardless of how long or how short the time frame of the event might be.

On the F2P aspects, I really hope they make you purchase a boxed copy of the game as to deter hackers.

I'm on board with the LoL style, but it would be beneficial for at least a boxed purchase, which I think we can all live with.

[Sanoskay]

good example of cheater site that are already putting out hacks for bf3 and its not even out yet in September
***Link Deleted***
you also got a planetside undetected hack site
***Link Deleted***
soe should really look in to this

Edit-
Im pretty sure they already know about them, their youtube videos are all over the place. I took away the links. As I dont want people to find those planetside hacks Thanks - Tigersmith

[Tigersmith]

Before all of you say F2P Model is Garbage. They are actually putting money into this game. Its not some 500k budget F2P game. Give it a chance.
According to the article Planetside 2's Budget is $50 Million Dollars.

Here are budgets for Previous MMOs

Star Wars The Old Republic (Bioware) - $80+ Million
World of Warcraft (Blizzard) - $63 Million
Rift(Trion Worlds) - $50 Million
Vanguard (Sony Online) - $32 Million
Everquest 2 (Sony Online) - $25 Million

[Sanoskay]

Originally Posted by Sanoskay

good example of cheater site that are already putting out hacks for bf3 and its not even out yet in September
***Link Deleted***
you also got a planetside undetected hack site
***Link Deleted***
soe should really look in to this

Edit-
Im pretty sure they already know about them, their youtube videos are all over the place. I took away the links. As I dont want people to find those planetside hacks Thanks - Tigersmith

understandable jsut want to put it out to SOe dev they should really look deeper into them

[FriendlyFire]

Originally Posted by Smed

Well please understand that our goal here is to give you accurate info. We're trying not to do our thinking on some of these subjects too publicly until we have a better handle on it ourselves.. and then we want to get your feedback before we set it in stone for launch.

Thanks for quoting me!

Well anytime you want our opinions, we are happy to run around with our hair on fire, until you calm us down again.

[Draep]

The CEO of the god damn company replied to this thread on a third party fansite. I'd say thats pretty much /thread. Dude says he'll announce ideas as they are set in stone, works for me.

[Sanoskay]

Originally Posted by Tigersmith

Before all of you say F2P Model is Garbage. They are actually putting money into this game. Its not some 500k budget F2P game. Give it a chance.
According to the article Planetside 2's Budget is $50 Million Dollars.

Here are budgets for Previous MMOs

Star Wars The Old Republic (Bioware) - $80+ Million
World of Warcraft (Blizzard) - $63 Million
Rift(Trion Worlds) - $50 Million
Vanguard (Sony Online) - $32 Million
Everquest 2 (Sony Online) - $25 Million

im not stating that it be garbage i just stated it just opens up to hackers. i mean we don't know down the line if the program that dev of planetside 2 will work or if they are actually dedicated teams to detect aim botters like i stated before that i know Global Agend don't affiliate with them and not to compare to them but hi-rez granted to their consumers they had a program and a team to detect aim botters i had a clan mate of mine threaten by a GM to get his account band for abuse of the reporting system of a obvious hacker in a match and yet the hacker still plays on. and as soon as hi-rez switch to F2p and putting out pay to tokens to buy gear more hackers filled the game

[Raymac]

Can people who are saying the sky is falling because of a possible npc AI event please try to understand what an "event" in Planetside is?

It's temporary. It mixes up the normal gameplay to keep it fresh. If it sucks, they won't do it again.

The devs have repeatedly said that Planetside 2 is a PvP game. Having an occasional event that uses AI will not change the game. IT WILL STILL BE 99.9999% PVP

[Shogun]

that´s what i would like to see.

in short-time events maybe even the gms can play commanders or giant overlords on alien side, only spawning ai grunts as cannonfodder, or zergling type critters or something.

when the event is over, gameplay is back to normal without ai. and if the event was great, it will be done again some time.

[xlopwat]

The only thing i worry about with F2P is the community. Every game i have played with the F2P scheme is infested with little turds who like to grief and use their swearing machine gun.
While probably having more people in the game, we could be bringing the wrong type of people here..
Really think this will bite SOE in the ass if even slightly..

AI invasion sounds cool and i see no reason why it would be a bad thing though!

[Tigersmith]

Originally Posted by xlopwat

The only thing i worry about with F2P is the community. Every game i have played with the F2P scheme is infested with little turds who like to grief and use their swearing machine gun.
While probably having more people in the game, we could be bringing the wrong type of people here..
Really think this will bite SOE in the ass if even slightly..

AI invasion sounds cool and i see no reason why it would be a bad thing though!

This is something im really worried about. Its what we are all going to have to live with. Hopefully there will a mass ignore feature.

[Raymac]

Originally Posted by Tigersmith

This is something im really worried about. Its what we are all going to have to live with. Hopefully there will a mass ignore feature.

Nah, just bring back DanB, or even Son of DanB, and we won't have to worry about that sort of problem.

[Shogun]

if you get mouthpooped kindly point the offender to fireflys general direction and enjoy the show ;-)