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[Nelia Hawk]

i wonder how much GB planetside2 will eat of the hd... 20gb? 30gb?
i doubt it will be less than 15 as alot mmos are around 10-15gb area (ddo, sto, eq2), but on the other hand planetside is "just" 1 continent atm, so it might not be that much yet as its just textures for 1 continent and not 4-5.

also... i guess website beta registrations probably get a key after eeeeeverthing else, all the twiters and even given keys etc.
and no clue if ps2 will even work on win xp (well xp was a choice in the tech text survey... so might be "supported", but kind of think it might gets memory problems...)
so why do i even worry about harddrivespace... chances are it might not even work anyways... or i get bored after a week...

i played ps1 back when they had their "reserves event" going years ago and it was pretty fun back then. 30 people squads, galaxy taxi drops over and over from nearest base where people spawn to next enemy one (had quite alot players back then to mostly have a full galaxy each run).
ps2 kind of looks a bit too deathmatchy/hastey and not much "coordinated"... but that might just be from the videos.
well somehow i am not realy that "hyped" with ps2 atm..... but who knows... might actually be ok/fine/playable/fun in the end.

[ScriptWolf]

Currently the game with only 1 continent takes up 10gb

[Dariush]

SOE’s John Smedley took to Twitter to explain the rather conspicuous blank spot left behind by his company’s planet-sized MMOFPS:

    “Beta likely going to start Friday or Monday. Had planned for today or tomorrow, but we have some stuff we need to make sure is awesome. The team is working like crazy, but we need to polish some stuff and test it before we let in a massive [number] of people.”

Why am I not surprised?..

[Siquo]

*phew*, that means I can actually still get some stuff done this week.

[ScriptWolf]

Bah really annoying, why can't they just close beta it >,< I don't mind doing the bug reports and testing it but you know I like to have some fun at the same time >,>

[Sensei]

Sort of seems to me like they were planning to do a serious beta for finding bugs, but then decided that wouldn't be a good idea and even the closed beta should be more demo-like given the number of people going into it.

[jocan2003]

Well they say monday or next day, just to make sure i dont expect anything untill wednesday yet they managed to blow it up... ahh well what can we say?

[hemmingjay]

be happy that they are delaying the beta. I assume they are fixing the issues that they may or may not be having with lag

[Blizzlord]

As long as they have a good reason to delay the beta; like fixing bugs, then I'm fine with it. The first impression of a game usually stays with you, so they want to make sure it is good.

[Shadowlord]

I'm pretty sure that IS the closed beta.

[Microcline]

I'm pretty sure that IS the closed beta.

Beta is for balancing and fixing the ha-ha Bethesda bugs.  Right now they're trying to stop the game from CTDing due to hardware issues.  Even then there's a couple more showstoppers (UI not displaying on certain video cards, problems loading players at a distance, lag...).  Once it goes beta everyone's going to want in and having to pay bandwidth and server costs to get hundreds of thousands of people a game that isn't going to be ready to market for weeks isn't in anyone's best interest.

The fact that we must watch hundreds of people have fun without us is a side effect.

[m0nster]

This will probably be the last time I clutter this thread with a giveaway

Same as last time (but only one key!):
Send me a pm with 'Planetside 2' as subject, I'll choose the winner via random.org at Sunday 02:00 pm GMT+2.

[Microcline]

Monday, 2:00 PM (I'm assuming PST), with 2-3 weeks for everyone who has a key to get in.

[Shadowlord]

Did someone say 2-3 weeks or are you just ASSuming?

[Briggsy16]

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/xlir0/iama_john_smedley_22_year_game_industry_veteran/

[–]soapyluggage 94 points 10 hours ago
How long do you think it will take (if everything goes as planned) for everyone who has twitter/PC gamer keys to get in the beta?
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[–]j_smedley 117 points 10 hours ago
maybe as long as 2-3 weeks but it depends on how smoothly things go