Very few video game executives are as visible and accessible as SOE President John Smedley. He threw down proof of that again last night with a quick post to the official PlanetSide 2 forums on the state of the recently launched free-to-play MMOFPS.

The Internet works in mysterious ways sometimes. Most of the time, news travels so quickly around the net that players have picked sides in the battle long before the subject of the news is even aware it's happening. And then there are times like this.