Category Archives: Sony Online Entertainment

When he’s not relishing the ban of “scumbag” cheaters in PlanetSide 2, SOE CEO John Smedley is teasing new weapons for the recently launched MMOFPS. According to tweets from the man himself, “new sniper and carbines” will be introduced in the game “tomorrow,” December 6. The following week, players can expect “new anti-vehicle weapon,” including “anti-air you rocket pod haters.” Smedley promised the everything will be “balanced” for those who tend to worry about such things.

Lost of PlanetSide 2 news today, what with SOE head John Smedley teasing Fleet Carriers, predicting the game could run well into 2025, and the news that Station Cash unlocks will be soon be shared across characters. Well, it’s a lot to take in.

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Planetside 2 is not at home to the mod community. You have been warned.

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EverQuest’s 19th expansion, Rain of Fear, is now live, SOE has announced.

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DC Universe Online is being patched with Game Update 21, which includes new Legends PvP and the Inner Sanctum Map for Arena PvP for owners of the Hand of Fate DLC and Legendary subscribers. Other additions included in the update include auto loot, a combat rating requirement for Boss Loot, and tweaks to various Alerts. You can read the patch notes here.

Planetside 2′s locally-hosted Australian server, Briggs, went through some marked teething troubles, but Sony Online Entertainment is confident any server-wide issues have now been resolved.

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Planetside 2 is very likely the only shooter of its class, in terms of scale, ambition, and technical prowess. Sony Online Entertainment doesn’t mind reminding you of this, either; the following trailer asks whether your favourite FPS can match it.

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Planetside 2 launched today, and SOE has released some lovely landscape screenshots to accompany the trailer we posted earlier. Have a look below.

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Planetside 2 launches today, and SOE has released a trailer hailing its release. You can watch it below. The F2P shooter MMO is the sequel to PlanetSide which released in 2003, and depicts the struggles of three factions fighting for territorial control of the planet Auraxi.

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Planetside 2′s cert gain rates and costs for unlocks have been adjusted, and the time investment for weapons has been reduced by 30% on top end weapon unlock, according to SOE. The adjustments will allow players to earn points two times as fast as the current build, but cert prices on abilities and attachments will be doubled in order to even out the changes. Weapon certs will remain as is, it will take players less time to unlock new items with some weapons even being cut by half. When the game launches on November 20, players will notice the various costs schematic, which will come in five different categories. That should make things easier to discern. Head over to RPS and the Planetside 2 forums for a more thorough explanation.

Planetside 2′s beta servers went offline briefly earlier today while Sony Online Entertainment corrected an issue which crept in with the last patch: missing certs (the MMO’s currency). SoE boss John Smedley said that users should not be seeing any more cert issues, and that only a very small number of players were affected. A hotfix to address crash problems was issued bare hours later. Planetside 2 is in closed beta and is expected to launch on November 20.

Thanks, Polygon.

Another Planetside 2 video showing real players battling it out, has been released by SOE. Earlier this week, the spotlight was on the Black Widow Company; today, it’s Azure Twilight. The MMO is currently in beta and expected to launch this year.

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Rather than the usual slew of contrived development snippets, Sony Online Entertainment has launched a campaign to market Planetside 2 by showing real players doing their thing. The result is quite effective; check out the now-famous Black Widow Company fighting the good fight, and round up your guildies to submit your own video.

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It’s a good day to be an antipodean MMOFPS fan; the long promised Australian Planetside 2 servers are live. Sony Online Entertainment boss John Smedley announced the opening on Twitter, and games.on.net reports local players have already reported a noticeable decrease in lag. No more blowing up the tanks in front of you by driving over them then – well, not and being able to blame anything but your lack of skill.

Ex-38 Studios staffer Steve Danuser has rejoined Sony Online Entertainment. Danuser was part of the Everquest fold before jumping ship to become lead developer on Project Copernicus, the ill-fated MMO based on the Kingdoms of Amalur IP. Happily, SOE seems pleased to have Danuser back following 38 Studios’ closure, as he’s now taken on the role of creative director of Vanguard; read a little about his philosophy and approach to MMOs in a developer profile on Vanguard’s site.

Thanks, Massively.

The latest EverQuest and EverQuest 2 expansions have been dated by SOE. EverQuest’s Rain of Fear, the 19th expansion to the MMO, will launch on November 28. EverQuest II’s 9th expansion, Chains of Eternity, will launch on November 13. You can find out more information on each expansion through the links. Thanks, TenTonHammer.

Dragon’s Prophet, the free-to-play fantasy MMORPG in development at Runes of Magic studio Runewaker Entertainment, has been announced by SOE as its next publishing title.

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Wizardry Online’s beta will begin at the end of the month, SOE has announced. Registration opened in September, and while testing was initially supposed to being on October 7, the beta will now go live on October 29. If you have yet to sign up for it, you can do so through the official website.

DC Universe Online is getting another dose of content with Home Turf, which allows heroes and villains alike to bask in customizable housing goodness.

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A PlanetSide 2 videos showing the lush continent of Amerish has been released by SOE, alongside some rather interesting beta statistics.

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