News: PlanetSide 2 Editorial

[Hamma]

http://www.planetside-universe.com/n...st-do-2541.htm

[DOUBLEXBAUGH]

Judging by his "Improve Indoor Fighting" section the author wasn't very good at the game. There is defiantly things that could be done to make indoor fighting better, but what he describes is mainly user error.

The rest is just what a lot of us have been saying since 2004 to fix the original PS. Fix lag (ADADAD warping), better balancing, don't sell power in the store, actually market the game unlike PS1.

[Senyu]

My concerns are also the F2P and the marketing. I think they will market it much better this time and hopefully it will be enough to spread. But the F2P model still worries me. There is so much that can go wrong with F2P, just have to wait until they release the details

[Goku]

Originally Posted by Senyu

My concerns are also the F2P and the marketing. I think they will market it much better this time and hopefully it will be enough to spread. But the F2P model still worries me. There is so much that can go wrong with F2P, just have to wait until they release the details

F2P is needed for sustained pops. I am all for that. No reason to have this game die just a few years after launch like PS did due to only having a sub.

[Crator]

Always good to see more press for PS2!

[Zulthus]

Originally Posted by Goku

F2P is needed for sustained pops. I am all for that. No reason to have this game die just a few years after launch like PS did due to only having a sub.

I don't think sub fees had anything to do with the death of PlanetSide. It was all BFRs.

[Crator]

BFRs and balancing issues. And not listening to the community about such things right away.

F2P should defiantly sustain big populations for longer periods of time. No reason not to try this model out. A lot of bigger name gaming companies are fitting proper models to work for them now.

[Goku]

Originally Posted by Zulthus

I don't think sub fees had anything to do with the death of PlanetSide. It was all BFRs.

There was multiple reasons for the game dying out. Among the major ones being BFRs, but I still think the sub was the final nail in the coffin. How many FPSes do you know of requires a sub? Next to none as far as I know. I cannot tell you how many gamers I know refused to even try PS due to the monthly sub. If SOE can do F2P and get most people to spend a few bucks here and there on the game it will be far more successful then the original in terms of pop and revenue. Hence why they are doing this.

[basti]

There are many reasons for PS not being as succesful as it could be, but that doesnt matter at all.

Planetside 2 is a FPS. Means you go for FPS players, and FPS players are unlikley to pay a monthly sub, because they never did that before. On top of that, the subscription model is dying. Free to play seems to be the way things are going, and jumping on that train is not a bad idea, especialy because it will allow a lot of people to try the game properly.

And as someone got BFRs out already: would you stop the mindless hatred already? BFRs propblem arent that they are BFRs, the problem was that they were completly overpowered and changed battles way to much because of their power.

[Mastachief]

my major worry with f2p is hacking

I will add for all these people that keep quoting "other fps games dont require a sub" firstly they are not MMO and secondly who do you think pays for the servers that you play on?

[Mirror]

The only additions to the game that SOE got right were the Liberator, Skyguard, Lodestar, HSR, Vulture and Router. Idk there might be a few others.

They never ran proper tests for most of the additions and so they were added with a lot more fire power than they were meant to have. This was why BFRs failed so badly and well because they completely ruined game play when they were indestructible.

[Zulthus]

I also read in another article that Vivox is integrated, and I would have to individually mute people. Since this game is going F2P, I forsee one of my biggest annoyances are the whining and crying 8 year olds that begged their mom to buy the game for them. I hope the voice chat in-game is removed. (Not TS3, vent, etc. ofc)

[Senyu]

Just so I see where people stand, are you meaning F2P as in the sense you buy the game once 50$ and do not pay a subscription. Or just completly free gameplay like LoL?

[Goku]

Pretty sure there will be a way to disable it altogether. I haven't read much into this system. Is it something like everyone with in X distance can hear you or is it meant for squad/platoon setups? Either way I do not plan on using it most likely. With the wide spread use of TS3, Vent, and Mumble by Outfits I think it is a waste of development time.

[Mastachief]

I dont get the local voice thing either, in the monolith event in 2005 we had 170 nc in mont on solsar defending against poplocks from both vs and tr. atleast 60 of us at the back door imagine 60 halo kiddies spaffing local voice chat you'd spend you time muting them