News: Special Announcement Tonight "Faction Smackdown"

[Graywolves]

The rules say we get no compensation, I thought the shirt was compensation..

[kklkit]

Originally Posted by basti

So, recording anywhere? :o

EDIT: Of coz I am a ninja ::troll_face::

[Coreldan]

Originally Posted by basti

So, recording anywhere? :o

EDIT: Shoot, ninjaed!

Originally Posted by Graywolves

The rules say we get no compensation, I thought the shirt was compensation..

I think it means more like "If you submit your slogan, you give it us and thus you cant later try to cash in with us using your slogan".

[Canaris]

just got done watching the whole show, that was hilarious, Faction smacktalk rules!

[basti]

Just got to the part of T-Ray asking for me. The fuck. Okay, promise: I never go to bed ever again if something like this comes up.

[Coreldan]

Originally Posted by basti

Just got to the part of T-Ray asking for me. The fuck. Okay, promise: I never go to bed ever again if something like this comes up.

Yeah, it's pretty cool how far they go in just interacting with the community. I would've been quite honored if they would've been missing me in a live show like that

[basti]

Anyway, Laughing my ass off. Yea, we need T-Ray on THe AGN, or Higby again, with T-Ray coming along to "boost the view numbers"

[Jennyboo]

Originally Posted by Higby

sorry you guys are disappointed in the contest, we thought the chance to immortalize your own slogan into your favorite faction would be pretty exciting.

Originally Posted by T-Ray

You guys gotta lay off Higby, this is the same guy that risked his job to show you guys a small piece of the game on AGN. That took some SERIOUS Balls. not too many people were happy about that, but he did it for you guys, the fans. There will be live demos, gameplay vids, and hands ons coming soon but dont bash the dude. Bottomline, you would NEVER get this level of interactivity from ANY other studio. PERIOD. SOE has 'allowed' us to do itsh that other studios would have fired us for 10x over. Higby is my partner in crime so give the man props not problems.

I have nothing but the outright respect for the both of you and the entire PS2 team just ignore all the silly people being negative. I personally think that the slogan contest is a wonderful way to include the community as a whole. Just think guys you could submit something that could be a part of a iconic game. Just like PS1 a game I will personally never forgot and I have very high hopes that PS2 will be just like that a "never forget" game. So show a little love and respect to the man (Higby) and the entire team that has done everything in their power to include us and be grateful. Rant done.

[Hyncharas]

For a little extra I'd be happy if was a Polo Shirt instead of a T-Shirt. Then you could conceiveably have your Clan logo on the front with the faction logo and slogan on the back...

If I win I'm CDL, by the way

In the interests of recruitment for the new game, my slogan for the TR is based on the fact that it's a republic - a force composed of the public being given constitutional rights to protect the public's interests. We have security from a government composed of a proper political process and a centralised planetary force to guard against terrorism; we have equality that provides, with legislation, equal civil rights without favouring one area over another; and we have unity where it brings all colours, creeds and backgrounds together for a common cause.

A radical faction like the NC that is divided by the opinions of many different cells, or a religion like the VS that acts more like the Catholic Church 1,000 years earlier for an alien race with the power to destroy a planet, would NEVER be societies I wanted to live in. Nobody said that running a republic was easy, but at least most of them try to give all people a voice and equal opportunities.

[basti]

To add on Jennys: Ive been playing and waiting for MMOs for almost 10 years now. I have been in plenty Pre-Beta phases for games, waiting for every bit of information, cheering whenever something new gets released. Most times, you dont hear much till a certain point, and then its just a random ongioing information release without any direct community Interaction.
Sometimes there was some interaction, but it was rather rare events.
During Jumpgate Evolutions Pre-Beta Phase (witch it never left ), we had several Dev-Chats via IRC and Voice, with one of those actually started and partially organised by myself. Devs also posted on Fansites, but rather irregulary.


And now, we have this. Planetside 2 's pre-Beta phase. The dev-Community interaction is unheard of. We have The Creative Director posting here almost every day, the Art Director posting here after almost every news release (gotta get that up man, post MOAR! ), loads of other guys posting here every now and then, almost all of the devs reading here, and even the big Boss Smed himself appearing here once in a while.
And thats on a fansite.



Really, dont take that for granted. Instead, be happy. Ofc we all want more information, more screenshots and more videos, but dont be mad at them just because they dont spam us with information atm. Be happy that they send out those screenys, read our crap and even reply to it. You get your video at some point anyway, but having dev interaction in the meantime rather than waiting and doing nothing is AWESOME!

[KCTitan]

Well said, Basti.

[Quovatis]

I enjoyed it and had a good laugh. But T-ray, you need to work on your poetry skills. VS are better than that.

[TheRagingGerbil]

I'm famous!

In all seriousness though, that was worth watching last night. Made me laugh.

I don't think I've ever even heard of this level of interaction with a community. I love the PS2 dev team. Great work guys!

[Xyntech]

Lol, that was great.

I always miss these things.

TRay! Representing!

Love ya Higby... But fuck the NC. Your tweets rule, your sandwiches look delicious, but you're a smurf. There can be no peace between us.

[Miir]

I have to say I was a bit disappointed that the big announcement was a contest.

But the show was great and that made up for it. Higby and TRay are hilarious. You guys need your own reality TV-show. I'd totally watch it.

Thanks for being cool and keep doing what you are doing. It's making a difference!