Planetside 2 takes on competitive gaming with MLG partnership

I want dinosaurs on Indar. The threat of being eaten by a T-Rex or dive bombed by a pterodactyl would be awesome.

Taking away vehicles and fun weapons and stripping the game to its bare bones, that's what MLG did to Halo and I fear that's what it will do to PlanetSide. 

I just wasn't able to get into this game.

I am a huge Planetside fan. I've spent more time playing Planetside than any other game by far. I excited to hear about this MLG change because the game offers so much more excitement than other multiplayer games. The Planetsdie 2 community is very hardcore and tightly organized squads are common to find. My outfit on Connery, Hell From Above, constantly runs tightly formed platoons/squads that require lots of voice communication and use specific tactics to quickly turn the tide of gigantic battles. We already act as if we're training for tournaments, so this is great news as long as SOE they can figure out how to set up tournament modes in the game that separate the competition from the general pop. TR forever!

This game has a few issues still and I dont know about it being an esport but I do know its the only FPS game I ever play because nothing else comes close. If you have a good computer and like FPS I dont know why you wouldnt play this its free and actually good.

great game and free to boot

in terms of MP, PS pisses over halo and COD

MLG can suck a big fat juicy ****.
WAIT MLG. Let me set the camera to record first, you eager beaver.

For when BF3 on MLG?

Competitive gaming in a Pay to Win game ? ... I hope you guys have very deep pockets ...$$$$$$$$$

2000 people is  a  big gaming team

I really don't see how you can make this game an esport without taking away from the experience. Like what are they gonna do? Create lobbies that limit the map size/number of players/vehicles? That would basically be playing BF3; not that there's anything wrong with that per say but that's not what planetside is about.

It's a great game!  Best thing is that the battle never ends!  But for it to be in a competition?  It would be interesting to see how they will set up a controlled environment for whole lot of people to play against each other.

this game is really good, can't believe its mostly free and that microsoft can't even support their own platforms like this

:D

ps2 is pretty damn good actually. kicks the crap out of any cod mp.

Inb4 MLG and competetive gaming hate.

Looks like I'm picking up this game when I have my new PC in place. As a competitive gamer I'm excited.

good thing ive dumped over 200 hours into PS2 already

After 10 years, finally a PC FPS at MLG.. It was always weird to watch console FPS games played at a "competitive" level with controllers and auto aim assist enabled for the "pro" players, it's like watching the paralympics of video games.

I'll definitely tune in for at least the finals of this game.