PlanetSide 2

Thousand-player persistent territory war showed massive-scale FPS was technically achievable.

Released 2012 Developer Sony Online Entertainment Platform PC Genre First-person shooter Era Digital storefronts & indie Website planetside2.com ↗

Mechanics it built on

Ideas PlanetSide 2 inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Character Classes ~~1981~~Persistent Shared World ~~1997~~Player Guilds and Clans ~~1997~~High-Fidelity Vehicle Physics ~~1997~~Free-to-Play Service Model ~~2003~~

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