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PlanetSide 2: Release Date Announced at SOE Live Keynote
MikeB
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Moments ago, SOE president John Smedley announced the release date for PlanetSide 2 during the keynote address of the SOE fan gathering, SOELive.
PlanetSide 2 will launch on November 20, 2012.
Additional PS2 highlights from the keynote address:
PlanetSide 2 will debut its own internal live-streaming feature (Twitch.tv based) on November 1.
SOE Player Studio support.
Partnership with Wikia to develop official wikis for SOE games, including PlanetSide2.
Name reservations for Alpha Squad members. Players will be notified by e-mail when reservations begin.
Alpha Squad will only be available until November 15.
Amerish continent announced. Lot of forested area for infantry to hide.
Game will ship with all three continents.
Searhus, Oshur, Hossin continents announced for post-launch.
Additional vehicles, including buggies, snowmobile, coming soon.
Outfits 2.0: Uniforms, decals, specialization, recruitment, and browsing.
Player-owned bases (non-instanced): Coming post launch, players can attack/defend.
Comments
Definitely too soon.
The game has some serious issues at the moment. Issues that I highly doubt will be corrected by the 20th of next month. Bad move imho.
made a thread about this...
me being a fan of the game, im leaning towards too soon. if they stay on this release date, well......i dont think it will be ugly, but it wont be pretty either.
still optimisitic overall
Same day Darkfall:Unholy Wars releases.
Maybe they know something we don't.
I too agree that the PS2 launch will be too soon.
Don't get me wrong, the beta feels quite polished and is extremely fun to play 90% of the time (When patches like the last one don't break everything =P), but they've still got a LOT of work to do before it could even be considered ready for launch anytime this year.
*shrugs* I'll just cross my fingers and pray to the MMO gods that pushing EQ:N back will give them more resources to focus on producing the quality game that they promise by that time.
ill paraphrase from what i said earlier:
weighing the pros and cons, its a no win situation unless they push the release date back to at least 5 more months or more.
HOWEVER..
1. competition is lukewarm when going against planetside 2, what else is there?
ww2online ? - showing its age
planetside1? - old vets like me can bark all day about nostalgia, but they are going to put that old dog to sleep once ps2 hits
firefall? - openworld pve with instance pvp?
dust514? - ps3, consoles
tribes? - solid game but the numbers arent there
Tribes Universe? - when was the last time this game blipped on the radar?
Global Agenda? - game is showing its age and doesnt have the numbers/scale against said competition
APB? - ..........APB??
Defiance? -- game probably will be fun, but its getting the red head step child treatment by the press (see planetside 1)
Line of Defense? -- too much butt hurt, old scars, lack of budget and drama.
2. Marketing is much bigger compare to the first planetside
Even if the launch some how..in some miracle fashion that it Bombs bigger than SWTOR and DarkFall combined..Smedley will milk PS2 just so he can get the Forgelight data , and get it ready for his baby Everquest Next, im certain he'll do just enough hyping and funding just for that.
3. Content , playerstudio content and game content
Content for planetside 2 will help move the game and mitigate some of the bad launch taste.
new continents, player owned bases -- ya, the self explaintory "it should of been there at launch" will be screamed at the highest mountain but cant have everything.
Overall, im already getting my canned goods and shotgun shells for the coming bad launch armageddon that will hit Ps2, but me personally from what i have played in beta i will enjoy every bit of it, and if the lack of competition and continued SOE support pushes the game forward, then in the long run planetside 2 will be around for a while.
I am pretty excited about this game. Been playing beta for a while. Not as enthused about some of the more recent changes (base capture mechanics particularly) but I can get by on that. While I think the game is "close" to being ready I am concerned it is not fully balanced as of today. Perhaps things will change in the coming weeks that changes that thought. Regardless, I will be there.
Let's party like it is 1863!
The world will be ending a month after, so they're trying to make as much money as possible before that happens.
True story ^
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PS2 vs Darkfall UW
I am gonna choose DF:UW, definetly
PS: By the way, it is the first time that 2 MMOs launch on the same day?
I thought PS2 would be pushed back to Jan or Feb next year with recent big changes said to be coming, and hint of Cont Locks. That's a lot of work for them to crunch in the new big changes test them, then launch. Ah well, Nov 20th it is then, I've had good performance with the game since playing in the beta for the last 3 months. I'm all good to Alpha squad all the lagging 4 year old Pc users on launch day and get some nice cert points.
What happens when you log off your characters????.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFQhfhnjYMk
Dark Age of Camelot
I think they have set themselves up with an unrealistic date. This is going to be a rough launch, and folks are going to remember that and use it as talking points for the next few years.
Hey it is SOE, and they are know for making questionable choices.
without doubt, huge epic fail, planetside 2 isnt as good as planetside, it has fewer features, its less open ended, it has far too many limits on players ability to develop their toons compared to planetside1 .. so why would you play planetside 2 instead of 1 ? i really can't see f2p being that much of a draw tbh, especially as the game is extremely heavy on the microtransaction side. But have to say, ding.. SOE just got better at failing 99
I am used to bugs now and if i can survive through ORR in GW2 without losing my sanity i am sure PS2 will be fine. lol
1st november here i come.
They have 1/3+ more of the game to test and almost no time to exterminate every bug. It's gunna be close!
Steam: Neph
Way too soon!!! Not even released the 3rd continent yet and so much work left to be done....
This is a stupid move by SOE. The engine needs major work. You get into any kind of a firefight with more than a few people the game slows way down, even with a good graphics card. The game is just NOT ready for release.
Nothing worse than a FPS that runs like a snail in big battles.
I remember when SOE released EQ2 a week before WoW with an unoptimized engine, took them a year to get it working right. Typical Smedly move, he does not care one iota that the game is not ready, he wants it out during the xmas season.
Well, it sure is depends on what u mean by saying "even with a good graphics card"
My system is around 1yo, and i never had a problem with FPS in PS2. so just coz u think your system is up for it, does not mean it is a "good" system :P
But yes, WAAAAAY to soon to PUSH this thing out. the cerst been reworked 3 times last month... resusrses too. Alot of gliches and bugs with certs. Outfit/squad/platoon game play have not been working last 3 month. overall they fixed ALOT of bugs last 3 month.... but there is alot of work to be done yet.