Can we please get our planetside 3?

[bigd]

Ever since they announced it back then, they went silence. The current state of PS2 is a farming simulator. No real tactic, just shooting into a large group seeing if you will get kill creds, just charging in and trying to take out as many in suicide explosion, and flat out boring. It all boils down to which side can out number the other side.

[Kai]

Originally posted by bigd:

Ever since they announced it back then, they went silence.

PlanetSide 3 was never announced.

[bigd]

Originally posted by Kai:

Originally posted by bigd:

Ever since they announced it back then, they went silence.

PlanetSide 3 was never announced.

They actually did talk about PS3 in future plans.

[Kai]

Originally posted by bigd:

They actually did talk about PS3 in future plans.

No they didn't. There was a single clickbait PC Gamer article titled 'Planetside 3 confirmed, will be bigger than Planetside 2, Daybreak says' which fooled a lot of you because you never read further than a headline. If you had actually bothered to read the development blog post which the PC Gamer article referenced, you would know that Andy Sites only mentioned PlanetSide 3 in passing to hype the franchise in preparation for PlanetSide Arena:

Originally posted by Andy Sites:

We're coming up on the 7th anniversary for PlanetSide 2. In early 2020, the PlanetSide franchise will celebrate its 17th since the original release back in 2003. Over those 16+ years, we have amassed millions of passionate fans. So when we think about what the PlanetSide 3 experience needs to be, we know that there are incredibly high expectations from all of you. PlanetSide Arena is intended to be the stepping stone to PlanetSide 3, which we envision expanding from the current battlefields of Auraxis, to full-fledged galactic war with empires exploring, colonizing and conquering one another within an expansive galaxy. We envision PlanetSide Arena as a way to allow us to link present day PlanetSide 2 and PlanetSide 3 story lines, as well as providing an opportunity to try out new features, styles of play, etc.

The bits I have bolded are literally the only mentions of PlanetSide 3 in that blog post. Nowhere does it say they are working on it. Nowhere does it say they've even begun planning for it. The game never existed, it was just name-dropped to help create hype around the franchise in preparation for the release of PlanetSide Arena. I can't believe you guys are still falling for this in 2025, please wake up and come back to reality.

[Xenobunny]

I still believe for every year Blizzard doesn't make Starcraft into a Planetside like they are loosing millions. That said, For Planetside 3 I think their present formula in gameplay is very effective, an FPS strategy game. It certainly needs a new game for an engine update, graphics, iron out whatever the **** is wrong with explosion detection, and more concurrent players just via the dint of being new. I think the deeper gameplay involving the resource economy and the construction of super weapons (big tank and big carrier) is an excellent boon to the maintaining of player engagement. Guild activity is life. It will be interesting to see design that promotes those features further and to have the daily objectives streamlined in a manner that rewards individually and towards the macro/guild efforts. The game presently is fairly clear with how it all adds up but it would be interesting to see the next iteration.