PlanetSide is going to hell.... - Page 3

NightWalker XI · 2003-07-22, 03:40 PM

Ok:

1. This thread is here for people to discuss their opinions on what I posted and what they think of PlanetSides current direction, so you flaming trolls can go back to your holes.

2. The games release date WAS ewarly but you guys have to understand SONY probably gave the Devs a deadline, when that was reached the game was released, thats how the industry usually works unless the game has very big stability issues.

3. The CTF thing is not being over inflated, it is a bad idea, I agree that sitting in a CC for 15 minutes is pointless especially if 10 MAX show up and kill everyone (happened alot to me) and that combat need to be more outside instead of the same bases, yet this CTF like idea is no good, CTF is an old concept, this game promised us new, if I want CTF I can play good games that give me it for free like BF 1942, Unreal 2, etc

4. The community needs to be heard, the wishlist forum is pointless, so far I haven't seen the major ideas on the wishlist forum implemented, these are among many: Platoons, new base designs...etc

Happy lil Elf · 2003-07-22, 04:18 PM

2. The games release date WAS early but you guys have to understand SONY probably gave the Devs a deadline, when that was reached the game was released, thats how the industry usually works unless the game has very big stability issues.

You got it partly right. In many cases, especially for games tying to pull something like this off, a deadline is set and the deadline is unrealistic. Executive types don't like waiting and realize people will buy unfinished games anyways, since they have been doing just that for years.

3. The CTF thing is not being over inflated, it is a bad idea, I agree that sitting in a CC for 15 minutes is pointless especially if 10 MAX show up and kill everyone (happened alot to me) and that combat need to be more outside instead of the same bases, yet this CTF like idea is no good, CTF is an old concept, this game promised us new, if I want CTF I can play good games that give me it for free like BF 1942, Unreal 2, etc

You have no idea what this system will be like. You have only the vaugest hints at what it is. You do not have enough information to form an educated opinion. That said yes you are more than free to have the opinion that this will be the destruction of planetside. It's an uninformed and ignorant opinion, but it can be yours all the same. There are many of us who will wait until the changes are actually mapped out or *gasp* brought to the test server so we can expreience them first hand and then discuss them. Flying off the handle now accomplishes nothing and is very premature.

4. The community needs to be heard, the wishlist forum is pointless, so far I haven't seen the major ideas on the wishlist forum implemented, these are among many: Platoons, new base designs...etc

You haven't seen them implimented because it takes a lot of work to do the vast majority of the ideas presented. Know what else? The vast majority of them will never, ever, be implimented. A stupendously awesome idea != a practical idea that can actually be implimented. Could you remind me where the Lattice system came from again? I think it starts with a "The" has a "players" on the end...

P.S. Platoons aren't from the wishlist, they're from something that was supposed to be in the game "By the end of beta or shortly thereafter".

Cease · 2003-07-22, 04:25 PM

Nightwalker: yet this CTF like idea is no good, CTF is an old concept, this game promised us new, if I want CTF I can play good games that give me it for free like BF 1942, Unreal 2, etc

Spork: What we are envisioning is not a simple capture and deliver game. That's been done - you've all done it and for a game shipped in 1997, it would be pretty innovative.

I'd say give 'em a chance to at least outline what they plan to do. Obviously its going to have some similarities to CTF otherwise they wouldn't have given it a CTF moniker, but lets at least see what the details are before we judge.

NightWalker XI · 2003-07-22, 04:54 PM

I know Platoons are originally from BETA and that exactly my point, all this time plus people asking when its coming, if its coming and if they can put it in soon and after all this time still nothing?

Happy lil Elf · 2003-07-22, 05:43 PM

4. The community needs to be heard, the wishlist forum is pointless, so far I haven't seen the major ideas on the wishlist forum implemented, these are among many: Platoons, new base designs...etc

Ok, I may have misunderstood you, but you sure made it easy to do

Winged_Nazgul · 2003-07-23, 02:01 PM

Originally posted by NightWalker XI
if I want CTF I can play good games that give me it for free like BF 1942, Unreal 2, etc

Did you know that you can play good games featuring King of the Hill gameplay for free too?

Did you also know that there is already CTF in PS in the form of ANT runs?

gonnagetyou · 2003-07-23, 02:52 PM

Planetside is not going to hell. The attitudes of players and those who want everything now, now, now are however.

Christ people a game like this has never been done before and the idea was that it would grow as time went by. It's only been a couple of months since it came out and I've heard nothing but whining from people with no patience and who expect the devs to just pull this shit out of their ass and give it to you as soon as you can dream it up.

Are there bugs? Yes. Have we gotten fixes? Yes. Will we get more fixes and more toys? Yes.

You can call those of us that are having fun and patiently waiting for the game to grow crazy if you want. Flame away, makes no difference to me. But, at least we got the right attitude.

Hamma · 2003-07-23, 03:12 PM

^^^