The Future of Planetside 2

[Cmelt]

This is directly taken from the blog of John Smedley, President of SOE, when asked about the future of PS2:

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First off, we have a 3 year plan. That's really big. We plan on putting that out to the users at some point in the near future. This isn't some "vision" we plan on imparting on our players. It's our thoughts on what we think would be cool. We will listen to our users feedback and make changes based on that feedback. We think we have some killer ideas but our players have pretty good ones too! I want to be super clear here - these are just some of the ideas. The team has a ton.

Here are just a few cornerstone ideas we are considering. I want to be crystal clear and say that these are NOT promises these are ideas.. some of which may be canned. That thinking can change. It can even change fast. I just want you to understand we are looking to support this game for a very long time and add a lot of features to it.

1) Player Owned bases - we plan on releasing continents that are empty or partially empty where players can build their own bases. These are open world bases so others will be able to attack them. We're also planning on having these continents heavily resource based with new resource types that will be very rare..and lots of cool new stuff that can be built out of these new resources.

2) Harvestable resources - imagine SC II style resource harvesting with physical vehicles doing the mining or the harvesting.

3) Water between continents - seamlessly - this is really hard tech, but our goal is to make the whole planet seamless and allow water based vehicles.

4) Lots more vehicles and weapons - just what it sounds like. Many of these will take very rare resources to make.

5) NPC enemies - I don't want to call this PVE. That's not exactly what we have in mind. More like a global invasion that goes after everybody. This isn't a bunch of quest givers saying "go kill 10 rats" - this is bad ass aliens that want to gut you.

6) NPC armies - imagine as the commander of a base sending an NPC army towards another base MOBA style except it's in the middle of the Planetside 2. This isn't another game mode. It's all part of the same game.

7) Esports support - we plan on doing this pretty soon after launch. We plan on making this a big big thing and putting a lot of our resources behind it.

8) Weather

9) Mac version (soon after launch).

Like I said - some of these are just ideas.. some are already planned for the near term. Expect us to lay this out clearly and expect this soon.

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Here is a direct link to the full blog post: http://john-smedley.livejournal.com/2412.html



I am so extremely pumped for the future of PS2 and I am really excited to be able to share that excitement with you guys.

[Taenn]

WTB capital ships!

[Cmelt]

Concept art of a possible vehicle being made for the game. This is legit, no trolling.

[gluefoot]

Cmelt wrote:

Concept art of a possible vehicle being made for the game. This is legit, no trolling.

How is this not in SWTOR yet?

EDIT: This looks like a capital ship, so I'm going along with what Taenn said.

[Taenn]

Get back in the game Glue! I need someone to rez for certs

[gluefoot]

Taenn wrote:

Get back in the game Glue! I need someone to rez for certs

Very funny. I'm brainstorming man, I can't think of anything. I was about to type a Jay-Z reference but couldn't make it funny enough.

I need to set up some sort of type-chat (voice I can't do) where we can get some people who can help me think of ideas to help me end my LOA.