John Smedley (yes, that guy) president of Sony Online Entertainment has made the following comments regarding Planetside 2:
It’s ready when it’s ready and we are proud of it.
In other not-totally-unexpected news, PlanetSide 2 will be a free-to-play title. The specifics aren’t finalized yet, although Smedley did drop a hint:
we like League of Legends a lot.
The team also mentioned that there are aims for craftable weapons in the future, but the current client and proposed launch client will not have this functionality right away. According to Smedley, PlanetSide 2 will start large-scale test in US at the end of 2011 and the beginning of 2012.
This information was translated from a Chinese inverview, full details here
This was the announcement trailer released about 2 months ago.
