The MMO shooter Planetside 2 (PC, PS3, PS4) is expected to have a bright future. This is promised by studio president John Smedley in a letter to the players.
The Free2Play MMO Planetside 2 has the same problem as The Elder Scrolls Online currently. It seems that the company is mainly focused on the shiny, lucrative port to a new console. PC players feel neglected.
To counter this impression, Smedley states in a letter to fans on reddit: “The PC is our core business and will remain so.” And Planetside is one of the “core franchises” of the company. It will still be here in 10 years, and if the right decisions are made, Planetside will be 10 times bigger in 10 years than it is now.
We are ready to invest more. New or former employees for PS2 will be hired soon.
The roadmap for Planetside 2 until September
Additionally, we want to get to work, tackle the important issues, and bring new features. For this year, Smedley announces the following ideas and changes:
- Already this week, a new mode will be introduced, a kind of “battlefield” with a win condition and thus a set end. The mode is designed so that players can spend about an hour here and then jump back into the main game. Initially, the mode will be released in a preliminary beta version.
- By September, the players will get an answer to the question “Why are we fighting, anyway?” The inability to provide a satisfactory answer to this question until now, is seen as the main problem of Planetside 2 – and this has been the case from the very beginning.
- Primarily, the developers at DGC want to thoroughly fix the “meta-game” in a Patch 2.0. This is expected to come in September. DGC aims to change Planetside 2 so that players can farm resources in a fun way. They also want to bring outfits bases to new continents and simplify and improve the capture system.
More details about all these things will be announced in due time.
