Planetside 2 and Professional Gaming

[Captain B]

I think the best way to incorporate it would be not to incorporate it.

Leave the game a game. There's a reason my fiancee' loves PlanetSide and hates most other shooters. The feeling of camaraderie in PS and the lack of "you suck newb" on an individual level makes it feel more like a game instead of a sausage fest. Honestly, it's one of the reasons I enjoy it so much and don't get into multi-player shoot-'em-ups very often.

See a previous post for why making an FPS (or any "competitive" game) more competitive than it is naturally is bad.

[Talek Krell]

Originally Posted by HELLFISH88

Things.

You mean like continuing news coverage? There may be some merit in that idea, although I could also see it working poorly.

Announcer: And now the latest from the frontlines
Field Reporter: I'm here at Leza...again...still...

[Metalsheep]

Trying to make a game an E-sport is what kills more games than anything else i've seen in my time gameing.

I am not against the idea of Esports, i used to play Halo 2 professionally sponsored, but i also watched the "MLG" craze kill Halo 3 and majorly divide its player base and never wanted to touch it again. If a game is meant to be an Esport, the Esport community will choose your game on their own regardless of whether you want it to be an Esport or not. This happened with Halo 2 and Starcraft. Neither game was created to be an MLG game, but that's what they turned into.

SoE shouldn't go out of their way to make PS2 a MLG game, if MLG wants to play Planetside2 and add it to their games, they'll do it on their own. From what i have seen, trying to sell a game as an Esport brings in the wrong kind of crowed for a game that's meant to be fun. Elitist Jerks that will play dirty to win as efficiently as possible, at all costs that take the game too seriously to actually have fun with it.

An E-sport/MLG environment does not fit in with how planetside should be played. I don't mind occasional events, like Outfit Wars once or twice a year. But there shouldn't be a constant, instanced off area whose sole use is for these players to try and "be the best" because then they will bring this out into the regular community and slowly degrade the game.

I have watched too many games I've loved follow this fate and i would hate to see it happen to Planetside.

[HELLFISH88]

Originally Posted by Talek Krell

You mean like continuing news coverage? There may be some merit in that idea, although I could also see it working poorly.

Announcer: And now the latest from the frontlines
Field Reporter: I'm here at Leza...again...still...

Yeah essentially. I know many people here play EVE and I think one of the coolest part's of Incarna was the big Ass Screen they put in captains quarter's:

The Screen's feed you relevant information and new's about market price's, territory change's and even bounty's or invasions. It's really quite interesting and useful. Not to mention some player's have managed to mod it like this:


Perhaps something similar to that concept but fit for Planetside. You could even host custom content. Something like this could be streamed in game somewhere and perhaps even just online in general.

[Hamma]

Long drawn out discussion on this tonight on Twitter.. was rather interesting

I wish I knew how to link the entire conversation but here is the start of it.

http://twitter.com/#!/CDLHamma/statu...75611680284672

[SKYeXile]

Originally Posted by Hamma

Long drawn out discussion on this tonight on Twitter.. was rather interesting

I wish I knew how to link the entire conversation but here is the start of it.

http://twitter.com/#!/CDLHamma/statu...75611680284672

man i have no idea how to follow that convo, twitter sucks ballz.

[Hamma]

Yea.. I couldn't figure out a way to show the whole chain. Where is Gryphon when you need him

[Elude]

No thanks

It's not easy to develop a game for both non competitive play and competitive play. You'll end up with nerfs or buffs specifically made around one or the other which could cripple one side of the audience, unless they split the community (HELL NO TO THAT!).

Let's also not forget to mention that Planetside 2 would be horrible competitive content even if made around it, no offense. You're talking about a game with incredible customization in a world filled with random conditions and designed to be persistent.

I don't think esport players would flock to it, they don't care how big the battles are or how cool the game looks, they would rather play something that ends within 20 minutes or less, and is extremely balanced. Everything that Planetside 2 stands for would be a turn off to most esport players.

[Tigersmith]

As much as I love E-Sports this game is totally different. Please no.

[Mastachief]

I'm against it.

I'm just not a fan of progaymers and the children it attracts. They have already ruined LAN parties is nothing sacred.

[Verruna]

I don't think anyone can argue e-sports/pro scene in a game can make that game vastly more successful. But i agree with others, PS1 and especially with what we've seen of 2, isn't e-sports material. Outfit wars is something i fully support though, as long it isn't a 24/7 whenever you want sort of thing.

[MyMeatStick]

Don't worry guys, PlanetsideTV is working on events that will be enjoyable to watch in PS2 with streaming several different viewpoints on one stream

[raidyr]

I'm okay with Planetside being the one FPS on the market that doesn't appeal to the MLG ego-driven socially-inept 1337 proscopers crowd.

There are plenty of other games like that if you are interested OP.

[bpostal]

If there's going to be pro gaming it should come from the game organically. SC:BW wasn't designed for the Korean pro gaming market, it was designed to be a great game.
PS2 (from the looks of it) is designed to be an amazing f'ing game and if pro gaming gets into it then, welcome to the PlanetSide 2 club (You're not quite so special here).

[ThermalReaper]

I don't get the reasoning behind E-Sports. What's the point of playing a game IF YOU TAKE IT MOST OF THE DAMN TIME SERIOUSLY? It makes no sense.