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Try a MUD today at http://www.mudconnect.com/Those are the people who will gravitate to this for a chance to pound some newbies, and draw off PS2's population.
In the end, without a decent advertising push, that I don't think Daybreak games has the budget for, they're just going to be left with two low pop games.
I think PS2 is the best MMOFPS with factions out there. If the want to make a great game and not just a money spinner how about a PS3?
they should have fixed their missing doors instead
seriously, they made a game who's whole meaning is to attack bases, take em and keep em.
they build wals around those, and .... as all human beings, leave the entrances totaly open. canadians. ^^
"I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!"
As said, and as happened with H1Z1, it will cannibalize players hastening the death of the first. If it brings some money in it will prolong the death throws - and who knows maybe they will get lucky. Not likely but hope springs eternal.
Wouldn't surprise me if DCUO is spun off into its own company going forward - possibly with the same owner or as part of a deal with WarnerBros / DC Comics.
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I doubt this will affect PS2 as much as the doom sayers predict. I have been on PS2 since tech test and I am very rarely not able to find a big fight. I play on Connery, so that may be why. Looking forward to Merc bots.
I will play arena and although I am not a big fan of BR, there are other modes of play that will become available. If things go as advertised. So, we shall see.
I played PS1 from the day it went live until the servers shut down (off and on I admit) and while I truly wish they would have just updated that to modern standards, they didn't so this is what we are stuck with. However, as it stands right now, it is a pretty good game if you are into big battles and combined arms play.
If you want a new idea, go read an old book.
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actually, this is what YOU are stuck with, i stopped playing once i noticed the new planetside (2) is nothing but a new circle zerg, and nothing i care about too much.
you CAN'T defend walls that don't have doors, if there are open holes in your fort, your fight is MEANT to be lost.
"I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!"
My bad.
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Yeah a lot of people do not understand basic tactics tend to get demoralized about that lack of doors. It
is pretty simple, you set up a horse shoe outside C4/nade range and defend like that. It happens all the time noobs fight in the door way, people that know what they are doing pull back a bit and turn the doorway into a murder hole. Obviously the flanks need to be covered.
Also with the lattice system in place, it started alleviating the 'circle zerg' and made it more straight line zerg, hopefully mercenary bots will alleviate that even more.
As it stand however, PS2 is not "on life support" nor is it hurting (at least my server) population wise. You can find good fights at all hours.
My comment of "what we are stuck with" was more directed at the people that play the game, most of us wish it had went a different direction, but this is what WE are stuck with I do not include YOU in that count. Sorry if you thought you mattered that much to me.
If you want a new idea, go read an old book.
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Beating Fortnite at its own game implies they were the first. H1Z1 was the first actually popular battle royal, but what rocketed BR into the stratosphere was PubG. Which came after. Fortnite just added BR as a result of the flavor of the moment mentality and since Fortnite was already popular as a pve game, it just helped round it out and make it more popular. Technically, SOE/Daybreak was the creator of the first popular BR, so while I don't think Planetside Arena is a good idea, They aren't trying for a piece of someone else's pie. They are trying to keep a piece of the pie that THEY THEMSELVES created in the first place.
Not saying I'm disagreeing with you on the "why would I play this over Planetside 2" point. However, I suspect the reason you'd switch would be when a large chunk of the actives playing PS2 move to PSA. It's going to be a lot less target rich environment when Daybreak reduces content/patches for 2 and moves focus to the new.
People play PS2 because they LIKE PS2, if they wanted to play BR games, they can, there are many titles. Will people try Arena? Sure, will it kill PS2 numbers? I sincerely doubt it. All the people that were loyal to the planetside IP have pretty much gone, as pointed out ad naseum, PS2 is not much like PS1 so the people that are still there, are there because they like massive combined arms battles that PS2 offers.
So many of us, and this is a topic in chat, will try arena, but remain loyal to PS2 as you can't find those huge battles anywhere else right now. I would be concerned if another decent MMOT/FPS was going to release, hell I would most likely migrate, but I do not see anything on the horizon along those lines.
Last night we had and armor convoy of close to a hundred vehicles and I could not count the infantry on the NC faction. The other factions met us and fought, it was yet another amazing battle. But the game is on life support. lol ok.
PS2 has its surges and its low points, but overall it is not hard to find a decent fight (on Connery) any time you want one.
If you want a new idea, go read an old book.
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It's like the slew of clones after WoW's success. I don't get what a developer is thinking when creating a game for the current fad that is already saturated. As a few people have pointed out, this smells of desperation .