Official Site:Â PlanetSide
Studio:Â SOE, now Daybreak Game Company
Launch Date:Â May 20, 2003
Genre:Â Sci-Fi MMOFPS Sandbox
Business Model:Â F2P
Platform: PC
See Also: PlanetSide 2
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The MOP Up: Star Trek Online engages Battle at the Binary Stars
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In a game like PlanetSide 2, it can be a major challenge to maintain faction balance and ensure that no one faction is overwhelmingly...
Happy sixth birthday, PlanetSide 2 – Here’s what Daybreak’s got planned for the players
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MassivelyOP’s guide to MMO Halloween 2018
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PlanetSide 2 Producer Nick Silva addresses Halloween event connection issues
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You can travel to another world, but even in PlanetSide 2 the dead of Halloween will chase you. Yes, it's time to celebrate the...
Perfect Ten: Failed MMOs that could have succeeded with more love
Hindsight is 20/20. Unless you're blind in one eye from nostalgia, in which case hindsight is 0/20. In any case, you understand that it's...
The MOP Up: Star Trek Online’s starbase defense
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Daybreak announces new investment, new H1Z1 and EverQuest mobile titles, and a new esports arena
Today does seem to be the day for big financial bombshells, doesn't it? Turns out Daybreak had a card up its sleeve too. The...
There’s a brand-new continent coming to PlanetSide 2
For those concerned that PlanetSide 2's development had slowed to a standstill, here's some encouragement: Daybreak has a brand-new continent in the works for...
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PlanetSide 2 disables anomalies while Daybreak figures out what their deal is
Let's check back in with the war efforts over at PlanetSide 2 today. Daybreak's pushed out a hotfix this week that disabled anomalies while...
EverQuesting: The history of the EverQuest franchise
Back in 2013, I took a walk through the annals of the EverQuest franchise's history. What started as one title not only blossomed into...
Rend’s Jeremy Wood on how Frostkeep borrows from Blizzard, Dark Age of Camelot, and PlanetSide
GameDaily has an interview with Rend's Jeremy Wood this week that covers a bunch of meta topics of interest to MMO players and watchers...
The MOP Up: PlanetSide 2 throws a summer rager (August 5, 2018)
The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...
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The next patch for PlanetSide 2 is up for testing now, and it doesn't have a huge list of changes... but you may want...
Perfect Ten: The best MMO debuts by year, 1997-2006
By now, many of you probably know that I'm the curator of the MMO Timeline on my personal blog. On this page, I've attempted...
Daybreak mourns the death of H1Z1’s lead animator
This week, Daybreak is grieving over the loss of one of its key developers, David "Sarge" Carter. Carter worked as an animator on a couple...
PlanetSide 2’s Construction Reconstructed patch is live on PC
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PlanetSide 2 celebrates the anniversary of classic PlanetSide
Even though the original PlanetSide has been dead and in the ground for going on two years now, Daybreak isn't going to pass up...
