Planetside 2's Creative Director Departs After SOE Goes Independent

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Did they sold starwars galaxies too :P

OK now bring back INFANTRY

Not surprising. Planetside 2 has been a sluggish mess. After years of being live with numerous updates there's still very little actual game there, and sparse direction.

I doubt any product of value will ever see the light of day from this studio again. I wonder how much Sony sold it to those suckers for.

Now they just need to get rid of Smedley, but that's never gonna happen. He secured his position in this mess after all.

They probably bought them off only to get their hands on their existing assets like Landmark, H1Z1 and PlanetSide 2.

Firing the directors who now don't do much of anything except making big bucks.

The talk about them "having even more resources now" is mere damage control, the new owners clearly have no interest in investing in the company past keeping the necessary staff to run their existing games.

I doubt we will ever see Everquest Next finished, or any new game from "Daybreak" for that matter.

What's this mean for free realms?

SOE won't survive for long if they can't become profitable. They were bleeding money for Sony for more than 10 years, but Sony kept them alive. By being independent they won't have this protection.

I never really got the impression that Higby was well liked by the players. Plus, the game has had problems far before all of this mess. Hopefully Daybreak knows what its doing, and this is just the rats abandoning a sinking ship.

good ridance , higby you have to destroyed planetside , planetside 2 is not planetside in my eyes , the original planetside was and still is a millions time better than this crap

so let me guess the game isn't coming to ps4 anymore?

SOE / Daybreak is NOT independent. They are still owned by a parent company. They do not own themselves. Thats like saying Bethesda is independent.

I remember when I thought I'd play Planetside 2 on my PS4 at console launch. Man, those were the days...

Wow. Something stinks at SOE. It's becoming clear why Sony cut them off. Good for Sony.

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Game Over.

And 5 more crowd funded indie companies will appear in the next 2 weeks... Devs hold all the cards here whether big companies or publishers want to admit it. And now it is easier with more incentive than ever to start your own company, there is still a lot of work to be out sourced and crowd funding can generate a ton of capital in a very short time. I am not saying whether or not it is a good thing frankly I hate the idea of early access games but it is what it is.

On top of all this, the company got hit today by a DDoS attack from Lizzardsquad: << LINK REMOVED >> and << LINK REMOVED >>

Wow, talk about all hands abandoning ship. Should have called themselves Titanic. I know that companies like to get rid of dead weight but these guys are going to be light enough on talent to float away.

Sony was the harbour that told the SOE ship it was not welcome, crew are now jumping over board...ships carry disease and pests ya see?

Still I like PS2, looking forward to it on PS4 but it is looking increasingly unlikely :(

Surely this bodes well, right guys? :D

I'm expecting the worst, but praying for the best.

I think they're getting rid of the dead weight tbh, SOE were failing for so many years, one failure after another. Planetside 2 was a big failure, Smedley announced it only started turning a profit a few months ago, most of the population quit in the first month after they realized it wasn't Planetside 2 at all.

I'm hoping this will greatly impact EverQuest Next (and change it's name) because judging on Landmark it'll be shite as well.

i wonder why alot of them are jumping ship its not like they got bought buy acti