...wow.

I'm not even going to dignify that last sentence with a response.

At the point where SOE enables continent locking, actual functioning warpgates, and player-owned bases like they've had marked as "unscheduled" on their fancy roadmap for months, I might consider reinstalling.

As for right now, I'm really not that interested in MMOBF3.

Which you suggest is only possible by turning it into a Planetside 2 mod.

Yeah, okay.

Just like I said to Sir Eros, everybody has their own opinion, which is one of the beautiful things about being human.

Obviously there's a substantial number of people who don't find EVE boring. The key is making your own fun, rather than expecting the game to hand it to you.

Like hunting down <1 year mission-runners who don't pulse their D-scanners and jumping them with frigate fleets.

Or taking a wormhole 50 jumps out into hostile territory and seeing how many of the fleet survive the trip back.

Or getting 50 drunk people together in Rifters, flying up to Jita, and spamming "We are the 1%" and "Occupy Jita" until all the high-sec carebears ***** in the help channels and GM Aldali logs in and gives us 3-day gags in all public channels.

The reason I've never gotten "burned out" on EVE is because I never stick with the same thing for too long. I'm always trying something new, and that means it's always fresh.

In any case, it's 0300. I need sleep.

PS2 is a terrible game and it's even more boring than Dust.

I don't know why anyone would want anything to do with it.

CryEngine 3 is terrible for trying to run anything more than a 16-player lobby shooter.

Before you even try and call bullshit, why do you think that after anouncing MechWarrior Online as a 24 player game, they released it to Open Beta as a 16 player game, and are only now even testing 12v12?

I've had some experience with development on the CryEngine. It's very pretty, but it's far from perfect.

The biggest problem with this would be that PS2 is a steaming pile of crap. Especially the part where you have to be in the fight where you're overwhelming the enemy with numbers to have fun. Otherwise you get to just get stomped at the front where the enemy has overwhelming numbers. DUST needs to continue building it's own niche not steal from someone else and hope their players migrate over.

Both games are ****, deal with it.

Not in the slightest ^_^
I invested in this pos, both time and mercenary packs, I better see it through til it dies.

Very little, because Dust sucks as well. PS2 is not exactly an upgrade either, it's a sidegrade and it's a bad one.

You play Dust, you get bad mechanics with the promise of even numbers and theoretically an even fight.

You play PS2, you will always have a lopsided fight by the numbers where tactics do nothing exept make the fight longer or shorter, never changing the outcome of anything. And if you do win, who cares. Whatever you took will be gone by the time you wake up.

In PS2 you will never, under any circumstances, get a "good fight". It is impossible. Not because of the aiming mechanics or similar problems like Dust has, but because the game simply works in a way where it cannot and will not happen ever. The numbers are always lopsided. It's the type of game where competitive gamers go to die because everything was already decided before the fight even began.

Will call it on 1.5, 1.4 can burn I'm not Infantry :D

Well with Dust, 16 versus 16 can actually result in a good fight if both teams rise to the occasion.

In PS2, one side will always outnumber the other, and if both sides are evenly matched in skill it will simply come down to the numbers making it a pre-determined outcome from the start.

So I'm not full of it. PS2 is flawed from the get-go.

The only way a person can find a "good fight" in PS2 is if he is not actually fighting for anything at all and is in the game as a pure soloist, looking to get himself in over his head and challenge his limits that way. That is the only way the game has any merit, and at that point its just a giant team deathmatch.

If you play the game how it was intended to be played, it is completely pointless as a competitive gamer.

Because MLG is something anyone other than the people in it care about.

Yeah, ok.

You realize that that MLG crap pushed back the continent and new bases we were all looking forward to?

Can't say that I have. I gave up on the game a while ago.

Let me ask you something though. In your time with PS2 what can you honestly claim you, as a player, have accomplished?

In Dust you could say "We took and held this region of space" or "we won this tournament". What can you say about PS2 that has any merit whatsoever, though?

"We took an outpost that changes hands five times a day! Yea!".

Not exactly inspiring.

Also the worst part of Planetside 2, you can't win.

huge waist of effort and resources

Look, if you like PS2 "open world" gameplay here is what I recommend.

Don't ask to just remake the game from scratch, because thats a bad idea. There are those of us who actually like the game types we have now, we just want them iterated upon and patched up.

Instead, ask for a persistent battle zone on each planet that links the districts together. These areas could be joined at any time, and would have their own smaller outposts. Prior to a PC battle there could be optional objectives that an alliance could attempt to take and hold, somewhat similar to PS2 style conquest of flipping territory back and fourth.

If you can hold the objectives prior to the PC battle itself, maybe you get some kind of advantage going into it. Control of half the points, sentries, additional clones, whatever. That way it gives your entire alliance the ability to participate in support of the fight itself, and it doesn't screw up the core game thats been established.

And who says it will remain that way perpetually?

They have said that they intend to develop this game beyond the lifespan of the PS3, after all.

Of course, you're just going to argue that it'll never make it that far, so I won't go to the trouble of making another long post.

So they just get a pass on everything because they throw money at you?

No wonder all these Republicans keep getting elected with all their "tax cuts".