Why Planetside 2 Failed?

Eternaloptimist · Feb 27, 2017

When did it fail? No one told me .
I'm still having a blast (and more than ever in the last two years) .
I hope I don't have to stop now .

stalkish · Feb 27, 2017

*** it...

AllRoundGoodGuy · Feb 27, 2017

Deal with it

Sathiran · Feb 27, 2017

OneShadowWarrior said: ↑

“Hi Daybreak (Formerly SOE),

Most know me as Oneshadowwarrior, I have been a gamer with Planetside from the beginning. I got to know many of the players personally. We even hauled our computers for events together. It was a great time, knowing everyone during the reign of Planetside 1.

What happened?

The Antivehicular weapons performed like they should, backpacks were fun to loot, air craft was simple to fly, vehicles served as support, nothing was nerfed, we all looked forward to new content. A great example was the Decimator, your could kill a infantry in one well placed shot and take out tanks in 2 shots. The developers spent to much time listening to complaints and the nerds rolled through, each update made the game worse. Rather than embracing the heroics of the universal soldier, which in my opinion is the true essence of the game. The game panned over to vehicleside and the final demise was the Battleframe Robotics, it was the Coupe De Grace that ended Planetside 1.

I had high hopes for Planetside 2 and is failed dismally. It was nothing of the image of the first one and in many cases worst. I lived in denial that the Developers could have messed up the game this bad, but they did. We wanted better graphics, not a complete game change and although the camos and some of the weapons have some mere reflections of the original, it does not where feel like the original version. The game once again is heading the same path of stepping away from the universal soldier and becoming vehicleside and campside once again.

In closing I have moved on to Heroes & Generals, where they seem to get this, SOE or Daybreak seems to have not. I occasionally login and don't care for the updates, no new maps, no decent infantry content and each update steps further away from making the battles fun.

Sincerely,

Oneshadowarrior”

Really nice post! I've reached out to you in private message, please check it out.

OpolE · Feb 27, 2017

Kubor · Feb 28, 2017

I don't think Planetside 2 failed completely. But it's every bit the niche game that many people accused the original of being. So to my mind, 'Planetside Next' would have been every bit as 'successful' as Battlefield Auraxis Planetside 2 has been. All that's happened is that the game has largely alienated the original Planetside players and replaced it with a similarly sized (relatively speaking, given the era in which PS1 was launched) niche crowd.

Planetside 2 has not been the commercial success that it was originally hoped to be when SOE first set out to make it. I don't think that can be argued if you've been playing since the technical test days and were privy to the original vision that Smed sold to us.

But it is what it is. I think we have to accept that there will never be a true Planetside 2 now that SOE is no more.

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