Enjoy PS, but PS:Next is a pipe dream.

Sephirius · 2011-04-19, 02:18 PM

I came back to investigate Planetside, was delighted to see that a surge in pop happened a month or 2 ago, got my hopes up for PS:Next but after seeing many past disappointments with this game and other SOE products with Smedley at the helm, I came back down to reality.

There are many hardcore fans here and I am going to call Smed out and say maybe he's promising you the world to get a few more subs out of you. Just like how he promised SWG fans and EQ2 fans. Lets face it.. hes a bureaucrat. Maybe once upon a time, he was one hell of a visionary and game designer but you need only to look at the facts and failures by his hand in the past. Maybe he turned a new leaf?? Hope so for anyone's sake, but realize he's not the genius behind Planetside. The original devs were. With that said, you have to at least ask, who's working on this dreamy game that is being promised to us??

So Smed.. Prove me wrong, I challenge you. Give us something more than recycled, college-level 3D renders because given your reputation, I am not convinced. Do a little more than send one of your minions that probably has never even touched PS to write a 1 dimensional producer letter.

How about these original Planetside guys that you brought back? Can we hear from them instead? I'd rather hear from them before I can consider PS:N a firm reality.

DataPhreak · 2011-04-19, 03:29 PM

Certainly hope you posted this on the official forums too. I agree whole heartedly. I'm not convinced, but then, that's why I resubbed. Free PS:N beta entry. I was in PS beta, and really for the time, nothing compared. Even now, the onlything that has ever come close to PS is Neocron, and PS is a hell of a lot more fun to play. Really I fail to see how the lasher not competing with other HA weapons, or BFRs being OP really discredits the game. PS 'IS' fun. I enjoy it. If something is OP, i cert it. If it's broken I don't. (Not true actually, I just kinda work around it. I snipe as VS. -_-) So while the spirit of your post I agree with, I'm going to pay my subs for a few month-years, and when PS:N goes beta, I'ma play it. I'm not going to look at imbalance as a flaw. I'm not going to judge it by it's bugs. I'm just going to play. If it's fun, win. If it's not, fail.

Edit: Just thought i'd throw this in there, last night, we had 8 people holding a back door, 2 maxes, 4 snipers, 2 med/engys. Not a single lasher among them, and it worked really well. I've actually gotten quite good at carrying a bolt driver indoors.

Raymac · 2011-04-19, 04:51 PM

Can we please move past this "PS:N is vaporware" bullshit?

Firefly · 2011-04-19, 05:11 PM

Old conspiracy theory is old. Get a new fucking topic. This one has been fucked in the ass more times than a Brazilian tranny porn star.

Lonehunter · 2011-04-19, 06:52 PM

Originally Posted by Firefly

Old conspiracy theory is old. Get a new fucking topic. This one has been fucked in the ass more times than a Brazilian tranny porn star.

I disagree, the Brazilians won gold at porno Olympics-Tranny division last year, that'd be hard to beat.

Firefly · 2011-04-19, 07:04 PM

No, this subject clearly has Brazilian trannies beat for heinous assfuckery.

Nephilimuk · 2011-04-20, 10:47 AM

CEO baiting on a public forum.... classey sure you will get a response soon(TM)

1/10 would not read again

Dizeez · 2011-05-02, 04:12 PM

This one has been fucked in the ass more times than a Brazilian tranny porn star.

Unless said tranny is a pitcher, not a catcher.