Planetside 2 and MLG: an e-sports Future? the mittani

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Some more details for you guys to answer a few of the questions popping up in the thread. We'll have a more complete release of all this plan, and of course we'll be changing and iterating it based on feedback from all of you throughout the development - but just to put a few things to rest.

- The people working on the systems to support eSports are NOT the same guys who are working on fixing performance issues. We have dedicated staff for it and the skill sets don't really overlap, so we're not "giving up" performance fixes/optimization bandwidth to get this stuff. If game development were a car dealership, it'd be like being upset about the finance guys working on figuring out loans while the mechanics shop has a queue - totally different specialties and you really wouldn't want them "helping" each other out.
- We're currently planning on doing 5 people live at the events, 4 squad leaders and 1 platoon leader, as the article speculated.
- It will support inter-faction fights, so you will be able to test your badass TR outfit against another badass TR outfit.
- We have discussed doing 3-way fights. It's something we're really interested in, but it has a lot of what-ifs to work out, it might be something we do for a later phase.