News: gamesindustry PS2 article "Can it grab the Call of Duty audience?"

Lonehunter · 2012-05-25, 12:51 PM

Rainfur · 2012-05-25, 12:54 PM

Skimmed it, looks interesting. I'll have a delve into it later.

Thanks for posting this!

Lonehunter · 2012-05-25, 01:07 PM

Yeah there's really not many other communities he could be referring to, of the few he mentioned we certainly have the most hardcore followers and Planetside 1 players

Bags · 2012-05-25, 01:13 PM

Call of Duty audience? Please no.

Aractain · 2012-05-25, 01:16 PM

Originally Posted by Bags

Call of Duty audience? Please no.

You do realise that you can SHOOT the Call of Duty audience if they play PS2? (and ignore the ones on your team).

Bags · 2012-05-25, 01:28 PM

I don't want them asking for red face jam on the forums. D:

Figment · 2012-05-25, 01:30 PM

Originally Posted by Bags

I don't want them asking for red face jam on the forums. D:

I don't think we have to worry about that anymore since the CoD "BLOODY SCREEN, SO REAL!11!!" campaign.

VelRa · 2012-05-25, 01:33 PM

So if I understood his bit about the mission system, there will be a top-level mission system controlled by devs/AI, in addition to the player-generated mission system?

onwee · 2012-05-25, 01:46 PM

Originally Posted by Bags

Call of Duty audience? Please no.

Your mom.

No but really, part of me wants more targets to kill, and the other part of me doesn't want people screaming in my headphones and teamkilling me.

Gandhi · 2012-05-25, 01:52 PM

Originally Posted by onwee

and teamkilling me.

I think they'll smarten up after the grief system gives them a few weapon locks.

Novacane · 2012-05-25, 01:55 PM

/ignore and one can only hope, Weapons Lock!

Oh yeah, and passworded TS and Vent servers too

Figment · 2012-05-25, 02:00 PM

Those fearing the CoD kiddies:

One day most of you were like what they are now. ;P

One day they grow up a bit too. Not too much.

Rather than the CoD crowd, expect a HUGE influx from eastern Europe. Free 2 play gamers people. Free to play gamers.

@ Velra: yes.

ichebu · 2012-05-25, 02:02 PM

Originally Posted by Novacane

/ignore and one can only hope, Weapons Lock!

Oh yeah, and passworded TS and Vent servers too

^This

While I hope PS2 will have good in-game voice communication, as that can be a powerful tool, I will still probably end up using Vent for primary communications.

Kurtz · 2012-05-25, 02:13 PM

Higby-
I go on the fansites, the big PlanetSide fansites like PlanetSide Universe. There's a Reddit subreddit for PlanetSide also. So I go on there quite a bit and I read ideas. I talk back and forth. If somebody has a misconception about something I said in an interview, I will always do my best to [explain] the real situation. And sometimes, people will say, "I heard you say this. I hate that. We don't want that. Change it."

That is why Higby is the best, really. Not since cornered rat solutions has there been this much interaction with the community and they were a small dev group. This is SOE. They don't have to do this.

ringring · 2012-05-25, 02:16 PM

Originally Posted by WildVS

And in some instances, we have. I mean, in some cases we've heard feedback from people and we've said, "Okay, this is something that's just not gonna work and the people who know this game the best, they know how to play an MMOFPS." If they don't like it, then we have to take that seriously, you know. It's not just like you have a community of shooter players. Everybody plays a shooter. So their opinions are not as important. We have a group of people who are so specialized in knowing how to play a specific type of game that they're experts. We have to listen to them. We're compelled to hear what their thoughts are. And it's been really nice being able to hear them.

Beautifully said and much appreciated Matt.

Yea, and to be honest I think it's a brave thing they have done. They're putting their best out there and allowing us to (potentially) tear it to shreds.

It is much appreciated and if you see me criticising take it with a pince of salt because overall I am blown away with what you guys and gals are doing.