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2013-06-06, 09:21 AM | [Ignore Me] #166 | |||
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Everyone knows SOE breaks stuff with patch releases, then quick-fixes them in the following days. Now issues like hardware performance may get caught by the Sony certification system, but balancing between vehicles, classes, weapons, bases, maps, etc... will NOT. If something gets balance broken in a patch, it'll probably stay in the game until the next big patch. I don't really care if Planetside 2 is released on the PS4. I don't think it will cannibalize the PC playerbase all that much. And it is quite likely that the exposure to the console crowd may increase the PC playerbase some. At the very least, it will guarantee a good income for SOE so they can continue to develop the game in the long term. The only caveat to all this is how patches get managed as the game becomes multi-platform. Learn from DICE's mistakes with BF3. Use the PC platform to test the balancing... IE: keep patching it frequently. Then take that content and push it to console once it's proven. Don't do it all at the same time with promotions for certain platforms. That has already been proven to be an unefficient process. |
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2013-06-06, 09:27 AM | [Ignore Me] #167 | |||
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Does anyone know how SOE handles DCUO? It's on both computer and PS3. Do they only push patches to both at the same time? What happens if one patch breaks a system more than the other? Oops. Didn't see the mistake till Chip qouted it. Last edited by Dragonskin; 2013-06-06 at 09:42 AM. |
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2013-06-06, 09:37 AM | [Ignore Me] #168 | ||
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We will just have to wait and see what the PS4 version of PS2 is like. It wouldn't surprise me if they instance out the hex regions for example. No idea but maybe E3 will have more info.
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2013-06-06, 09:38 AM | [Ignore Me] #169 | |||
I would like to know this as well.
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2013-06-06, 10:14 AM | [Ignore Me] #170 | ||
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I am hoping and praying that soe will somehow find a way to make this a cross platformer. In my thinking this is a perfect opportunity to sell ps4 peripherals like mouse, keyboard or maybe even specialised gamepads that take advantages of all of the features of the pc version of planetside.
As far as development goes I think this would simplify things as well. Why split your team in half when you can keep things unified. |
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2013-06-06, 01:14 PM | [Ignore Me] #172 | |||
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My concern is that the mass-console market will have a much larger user base, and be therefore much more profitable (which, again, is fine). They will necessarily claim the lion's share of development time; I've worked in IT support for 16+ years and I know whereof I speak. A good number of PC people will want to transition to the console world so they can share in the massive fights and get that first-rate service. Many won't be able to afford to. And at that point, our community -- a community of FPS fan-geeks that have been carrying the torch since 2003 -- will begin to fragment. I'd prefer to keep it intact and grow it. I'd prefer to get gobs of newbie reinforcements we can welcome with open arms. Many of them are high-schoolers, but they're fantastically well-trained next to what we were back in the day. I'd like to meet them. I'd like to tell them about old traditions and old battles, and watch as they create new ones. I don't want to languish in a PC-only Planetside 2.0, while the console-only Planetside 2.5 thrives over there where I can't see (or shoot at) it. I think there's room to hope that PS2 *can* be made cross-platform compatible. I think that's by far the better option for PSU, for Sony, for the development team, for the IP, and for Planetside veterans past and future. And I'd like to see a concerted, polite, persistent push for it. That's all.
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2013-06-06, 01:22 PM | [Ignore Me] #173 | |||
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2013-06-06, 01:35 PM | [Ignore Me] #174 | |||
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2013-06-07, 10:23 AM | [Ignore Me] #178 | ||
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Next week is E3 so Sony has the potential to steal the console war from Microsoft. Microsoft has already released a lot of information that is anti-consumer friendly. If Sony releases information that is more consumer friendly and has quality triple A titles with strong indie dev games then I think Sony will be the clear winner this time around. I've already decided that the Xbox One is not for me. Now I just want to know if I should bother with the PS4. So far all the signs point to yes, but that can change quickly next week.
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