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[Siquo]

Weird thing is, there's two sony station account screens (one black, one white). I only noticed the free time on the white one, it's not visible on the black one.

If that makes sense at all.

See you guys in PS1 this weekend.

[forsaken1111]

See you guys in PS1 this weekend.

We gonna organize a PS1 party?

[Siquo]

http://www.planetside2.com/news/planetside-day-2012

[Rakonas]

What are everyone's names in PS1? I'm.. Rakonas. On TR side. The only person whose name I recognized was Nilocy.

[Microcline]

GameSpy just released an article on PS2.  However, I'll just skip to the important part.

Spy Guy says: Is there such a thing as a game with too many players? I mean, as long as the map is big enough to fit them all comfortably -- I wouldn't want to cram 2,000 players onto de_dust. PS: PlanetSide 2 beta should be starting up sometime in the next couple of months, so keep an eye out!

PS: PlanetSide 2 beta should be starting up sometime in the next couple of months

couple of months

And that's before we take idiomatic word usage into account!

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I doubt this is anything other than wild speculation on GameSpy's part.  They don't seem to have been following PS2, and from the announcements and gearing up at SOE I'd suspect closed beta to start in early July.  They might also be referring to the start of open beta, but if they'd been following PS2's development they'd understand that putting "couple of months" with the word "beta" would be liable provoke a shitstorm.

[jocan2003]

Or PS2 Manager realised that they were no where close enough to be ready for closed beta o.O i dont know, but damn, thats a nerd-boner-killer news...

[Microcline]

Or PS2 Manager realised that they were no where close enough to be ready for closed beta o.O i dont know, but damn, thats a nerd-boner-killer news...

Keep in mind that this is GameSpy, who tend to be liberal in mixing speculation with cite-able fact.  Game articles without any new information tend to be published days to weeks after the interview takes place to avoid having a glut of articles in different publications which all state the same thing.  This article was published only three days after the big beta summary where SOE announced that they were already in internal closed beta and outlined the next few stages of testing and began gathering system specs.  I'd think that SOE would have made a much more conservative announcement if it seemed that there was an order of magnitude in the uncertainty.

Why would this be announced in the postscript of an article from GameSpy?  They haven't been given exclusive access to PS2 before and the article contains no other exclusive information.  I'd also expect that if they got a direct quote of "a couple months" they'd have plastered it all over the article.

I'm sure a counter-argument could be made that it's an elaborate ploy by SOE to fly this under the radar, but I can't see them gaining much benefit from doing that.  I'd say it's much more likely that GameSpy pulled an estimate out of their ass than SOE did a 180 in the past three days.

[jocan2003]

Oh sorry i tought it was a new interview, not a repost of an old one, if thats not that well im utterly confused and going back to sleep XD

[Blizzlord]

So we are still waiting for a vague estimation? Why can't the devs even give us a tentative date?

[sluissa]

because they'll get yelled at if they miss it. Just be patient.

[Rakonas]

Get in here, freeplayers!

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[Blizzlord]

It is only free to previous subscribers of the game. So no matter how much I want to get in, I can't.

[Siquo]

I'll be kicking TR ass tonight (which is in about 4 hours form now).

[Nilocy]

If you're playing PS tonight, on TR, and you see me globaling or w/e, ./t me and I'll give shoutouts to the b12 community : D

[Shadowlord]

It is only free to previous subscribers of the game. So no matter how much I want to get in, I can't.

Same. (Planetside 1 doesn't even show up in my list of possible subscriptions for SoE, although perhaps they have multiple lists since I seem to recall seeing it somewhere else? There's no way I'd subscribe to a game that's about to be obsoleted by a f2p game, however. Or, well, subscribe to a game ever, because I just don't do that.)