Sony Online Entertainment's John Smedley has confirmed that the Planetside: Next team is expanding even in the face of over 200 layoffs and the closure of three of SOE's studios in Tucson, Denver and Seattle. This astonishing revelation was given to Planetside-Universe.com editors in a call to Mr. Smedley.

PlanetSide Next is getting More resources and will be out a little later in the year but we are pulling out all the stops to make it great.

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Ok, everyone.  Syncronize watches for the next round of lay-offs from Sony Online Entertainment for later in the year.  Another 33%.  Ready?  Set?  MARK!

"...pulling out all the stops to make this one great...    ...out a little later in the year..."

So, we haven't learned the lesson yet about rushed development obviously.

SOE, business as usual. 

The old planetside is 7 years old, who said they started yesterday developing it.. You dont know WHEN they started development.

Well, lets hope it doesn't flop.  I've got...Hiiiigh hopes..I've got hiiigh hopes...I've got high apple pie in the skyyyy hopes..

Originally posted by Wardrop

The old planetside is 7 years old, who said they started yesterday developing it.. You dont know WHEN they started development.

That's certainly a possibility. Perhaps the game has been in development for a good long time already.

But, if SOE's track record (and you should ALWAYS take SOE's track record into account), and the cheesy in game model renders Smed was posting says anything about i, the game has only started development recently.

Fool me once, shame on you.

Fool me twice, shame on me.

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Wardrop, I'm not trying to pick on you, as you bring up a valid point, but this is SOE we're talking about. All bets are off with them.

Originally posted by Bob_Blawblaw

Originally posted by Wardrop

The old planetside is 7 years old, who said they started yesterday developing it.. You dont know WHEN they started development.

That's certainly a possibility. Perhaps the game has been in development for a good long time already.

But, if SOE's track record (and you should ALWAYS take SOE's track record into account), and the cheesy in game model renders Smed was posting says anything about i, the game has only started development recently.

Fool me once, shame on you.

Fool me twice, shame on me.

(mod edit)

 

Wardrop, I'm not trying to pick on you, as you bring up a valid point, but this is SOE we're talking about. All bets are off with them.

 

Agreed.

"...so it can focus development resources on delivering two new MMOs based on its renowned PlanetSide and EverQuest properties."

Damn you SoE!  You know just how to suck a quick $50+$15/Mo. from me don't you!  I feel kinda dirty that they are milkin the EQ franchise yet again...but it's a hawt sticky dirty I dont necessarily want to wash off...yet.

So he pretty much confirmed EQ3?

Well distracting us with pixel crack while they steal our wallets is their forte!

they confirmed 'eq next' quite a while ago, accompanied by some early renders and concept art.

well, when its released lets see if they let their interns fuck with the game like they did the original planetside, boy oh boy i hope to see some unbalanced shit going on again like the original planetside happened when they got their hands on it...

rant aside, please god DONT FUCK UP THIS GAME!!! or its CCP only for me when Dust514 comes out

This game is going to be so far over SOE's head to compete with what's out there now. Ditch this and go with EQ: Next, not that I have a ton of faith in you guys there either.

I wish them a lot of luck, because they're going up against a lot of stiff competition. With games like Firefall and Tribes Universe; who know what's going to happen?

I hope they all do well. More games for me.

Joe, remember that  Tribes and Firefall are both instanced based combat of at max 16 on 16 and Planetside is 150v150v150

So, this one is releasing a year early too Smed? ...My god, when will they learn.

Im really looking forward to planetside next.  I really dont get all the SOE hate.  They gave us eq1 for soo many years.  They gave us eq2, they gave us planetside.  All games I loved for various reasons and times.

Planetside 2 will be a must buy and so will eq3.  I dont care what they did to SWG, I dont care how they floundered vangaurd.

Originally posted by duelkore

Im really looking forward to planetside next.  I really dont get all the SOE hate.  They gave us eq1 for soo many years.  They gave us eq2, they gave us planetside.  All games I loved for various reasons and times.

Planetside 2 will be a must buy and so will eq3.  I dont care what they did to SWG, I dont care how they floundered vangaurd.

People are angry at SOE for releasing good products and then proceed to ruin them through mismangement who fails on a consistent basis to listen to its customers.

I heard planetside became a cheat fest....hope that does not happen in 2

Originally posted by toljar

Joe, remember that  Tribes and Firefall are both instanced based combat of at max 16 on 16 and Planetside is 150v150v150

 Tribes 2 had 32 v 32 on certain servers.

^ 64 players is still alot less then 450 players =P