PlanetSide 2: Smedley calls in lawyers to tackle cheating problems
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Sony Online Entertainment prez John Smedley has taken to /r/planetside to give a clear explanation of the current state of PlanetSide 2's policies regarding the banning and suspension of hackers and cheaters and other assorted ne'er-do-wells. No surprise: it's a depressing cat and mouse roundabout, with SOE developing anti-hacking algorithms as quickly as hackers can develop smarter aimbots. Some surprise: SOE are planning on fighting back against the cheat enablers using lawyers and gavels.
At some point beyond Monday, Planetside 2 players from parallel existences are going to be picked up by the scruff of their necks and smushed into each other. They’ll probably accidentally kiss, lock eyes, and perhaps fall in love.
SOE have signed up with ginormous eSports organisation MLG for a year of collaborative competitions and events. Over the next few months, MLG will work with Planetside 2’s dev team to create new features and settings designed for competitive play. What’s more, the two companies will produce “original programming” for Planetside 2 to be broadcast on 
According to statistics released by SOE last week, 
“Haruhi at 
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The boys and girls at Sony Online Entertainment worked a 30-hour day yesterday, according to CEO John Smedley. I’m not even sure if that’s a temporally sound concept, but just see if that stops them hammering away at the kinks in 
Planetside 2 will be free-to-play. We’ve known this since forever. But it’s one thing for SOE to say as much, quite another for them to go about phasing money-making components into a game that’s been operating for free under the beta banner for months. One point of contention has emerged around weapons - purchasable for real money in the store but with no means to test them beforehand.
Planetside 2 has scarcely been born, but like an ancient leviathan it lives by the Old Laws - an eye for an eye, a landmass for a landmass. In its latest update it consumed and digested an entire continent; when it was finished, 
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Planetside 2 has a release date. I'll tell you what it is "after the jump". Hah! Only joking, I'll tell you right now because I'm not awful: it's November 20, 
According to a 
In our continuing mission to celebrate the 19 year old Doom in the wake of the release of 
A new continent, Esamir is on its way to the PlanetSide 2 beta, while the third might be added post launch, 
We've now seen a number of subscription MMOs make the transition to free-to-play, some successfully, 
Planetside 2 is a thing, a beautiful, addictive, mind-expanding thing, which is apt as, according to SOE's CEO John Smedley, large features of its design were inspired by the universe in a box, EVE Online.
SOE have lifted the NDA on Planetside 2’s external beta today, ungagging players, letting them talk openly about their wounds. Amid the babble about buggies and base assaults, SOE head John Smedley has clambered atop the tree stump of oratory that is Twitter to set the record straight about both the state of the beta and the nature of the game itself.
