New PlanetSide Planned

I'm kind of skeptical that this game will live up to the original, let alone improve in the areas needed, without the Producer/Lead Designer of the original working on it. My guess is that this will be PlanetSide in name only, play like something entirely different, and, based on SOE's recent releases, bad.

Planetside fpr the PS3 makes all kind of sense to me even though I dont own a PS3, YET, its feeling more and more like a vetter purcvhase than the Elite upgrade.

Planetside failed at balance. Failed. First thing I'd do in the sequel is drastically homogenize the weapons and vehicles. If not their models then at least all their stats. Second thing i would do is commit to more then three people on staff after launch. Remember when they added that AA jeep, and it didn't have any shaders? Never Again.

Ummm.. I'm slightly excited by this.
But I'm really really bummed its SOE doing it again...

But its about damn time someone took a look at the MMOFPS market.

Planetside and WW2Online where the ONLY mmofps ever created.
and the market for it is HUGE.

I do truly welcome an updated version of either one.

The thing that amazes me is how many people have fond memories of the game. The problem is that after a year or so, the game was the same old thing, day after day. No progression, no real motivator to keep playing.

I loved the game, played it for around 3 years solid.

Yay!

The vehicular combat in PS is still awesome. I re-sub for a month every year or so.

I think one of the major problems is lack of coordination within empires. It's almost impossible to pull the zerg away from a battle, regardless of how urgent a problem may be. I'm not sure how to fix this. The CR5s are a joke nowadays. Most of the global command chat is homoeroticism, ego stroking and other juvenile look-at-me BS. Maybe there should be a way to occasionally enforce strategic orders, and some better way of controlling who has access to global command chat.

Another problem is the temporary nature of capturing territory. Although I've largely made peace with this issue I think it turns a lot of other people off. Maybe there could be a way for CR5s to vote for an owned territory that would stay locked. Additionally, add more continents to make up for the locked territories.

There have to be ways to fix this game. It's fun at it's core, but it gets old after awhile.

I was in the beta for Planetside.

Really enjoyed it.

But not $15/month worth of enjoyment...

I dug out this little gem for those of you who never played Planetside and got what it was about.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkmv8pSKZyo

If you've never been part of a 10+ Galaxy dropship outfit with 150 players active and online, you missed out.

As an extremely avid Tribes player, I always wanted to get into Planetside but never could justify the cost. I really hope that this game works out. Since Tribes is all but dead, I'll be more willing to jump in this time.

I played Planetside for a few weeks and it was good fun. It was practically the technical aspects (it ran like shit) and the repetition that made me quit. Fix those two things to any reasonable extent and you have my money. Do it. Do it.

Finally!! Cant wait!

At it's peak there would be these massive battles on Sunday morning and lasting throughout the day into the late night. If you had a decent chain of command calling the shots the battles would be epic. They were some of the most memorable moments of gaming I've ever had.

I give Sony credit for keeping the game alive despite the very low numbers of people still playing. The game should be awesome with new visuals and physics.

The only flaw with the original was the fact that every base on every planet was an exact copy of only 3 or 4 layouts.

If they could of fixed this 1 simple oversight, everyone would still be playing right now.

there I'll help the devs :

don't expect me to pay 15$/month to play Tribes.. basically

I remember playing this one at launch and it was terrible. I guess it got better?

This was bound to happen sooner or later. It's an almost completely untapped market, and the potential is obviously enormous.

I'm surprised there aren't more MMOFPS (or more probably MMOFPSRPG, since the RPG element (or some variant thereof, some kind of stats that reward continued play) is at the core of the addictiveness they will likely want in an MMO title) out there already, or in development.

I never played the original, it is worth it? It's 5 bucks on the D2D sale.

My suggestion for the design is for each side to just shoot different colored nerf balls at each other so no one can complain about balance, and absolutely no weapon should shoot straight. Every vehicle should have giant nerf bumpers so no one can ever be run over. Then make a stealth class that everyone can see when they press a button to see stealh people, if for some reason they're not visible on the radar already.

And make the grind and reason for advancement so mundane and have no real connection to actually playing the game it makes me go to sleep so I can get up early.

No, I'm not bitter they killed my magmower.

This news is most welcome.

YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES

OMG one of my favorite games ever, please don't suck!

If they do a beta for Planetside 2, I'm signing up ASAP. I loved the beta for the first Planetside. I played the retail version for about a year afterwards, too.

this news post made the whole front page below it in italics

Might wanna close the italic tag.