planetside

Official Site: PlanetSide
Studio: SOE, now Daybreak Game Company
Launch Date: May 20, 2003
Genre: Sci-Fi MMOFPS Sandbox
Business Model: F2P
Platform: PC
See Also: PlanetSide 2

PlanetSide 2 boss hedges on existence of PlanetSide 3 in new interview

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It's a bit out of date, since it refers to the launch of Escalation as if it were happening today (MMO players have known...

Jack Emmert isn’t sure Daybreak will publish his next MMO, says DCUO is as big as it was four years ago

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In January, Daybreak finally announced the fruits of its "realignment" that we'd been covering since last summer: It was splitting off new substudios for...

PlanetSide 2’s Escalation update is pushed back to February 26

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It would seem that reaction to the recent PTS build of PlanetSide 2's Escalation update is forcing Rogue Planet Games to work a bit...

PlanetSide 2 brings Escalation adjustments to the test server after a brief delay

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The much ballyhooed Escalation update due to arrive to PlanetSide 2 got a few notable tweaks yesterday on the test server, which could be...

PlanetSide 2 celebrates Valentine’s Day, hypes Escalation

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Admittedly, there probably aren't many ways a game like PlanetSide 2 can mark a holiday around love like Valentine's Day other than let players...
STOP HUMMING THE IMPERIAL MARCH

PlanetSide 2 brings Escalation to the live servers on February 19

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Normally, escalation of a conflict is kind of a bad thing. In the case of PlanetSide 2, though, the upcoming Escalation update is arguably...

Global Chat: Do you binge-play MMOs?

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With TV streaming services that dump entire seasons of shows on us at once, we have become a society that is used to binging...

PlanetSide 2 provides an update on server hardware replacements for eastern US players

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This past Tuesday, nearly all of the servers for PlanetSide 2 got replaced. I say "nearly all" because the eastern US servers did not...

Daybreak formally announces the new substudios for PlanetSide, EverQuest, and DCUO

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Last year was riddled with rumors coming out of Daybreak Games, as last summer the once-glorious MMORPG company registered multiple websites and trademarks for Darkpaw Games, Rogue...
Comptrollers.

PlanetSide 2 patches in weapon changes and major shifts to continent lockdowns

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The latest patch for PlanetSide 2 does not contain some of the database migration that was originally planned for the title. That's the bad news....
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Perfect Ten: The MMOs with the most uncertain futures at the start of 2020

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This annual column always inspires a certain amount of debate, which is intentional. Outside of the office, a good chunk of that debate is...
At one point, this seemed like a big deal.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 254: New year mysteries

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Justin and Bree discuss Ashes of Creation, Camelot Unchained, Guild Wars, the Bless franchise, City of Heroes, LOTRO, SWG Legends, and The Witcher, with mailbag topics on CoH on console, PlanetSide's mismanagement, and a celebratory haiku that prompts some follow-up site discussion!

Leaderboard: What’s the most vulnerable Daybreak MMO in 2020?

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It's become a bit of an unhappy tradition here on MOP to take stock of Daybreak at the start of every year, due in...

The best Massively OP community polls of 2019

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Time for another annual tradition here on Massively OP: the counting of the polls! Yes, we run a bunch of polls in our irregular...

Choose My Adventure: All the MMOs you made us play in 2019

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When I was handed the reins of Choose My Adventure by the incomparably awesome Eliot, I had bare little idea what sort of things...

PlanetSide 2 promises ‘something exciting’ for player teams in early 2020

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To hear PlanetSide 2's lead designer Wrel say it, the devs have plans. Plans and schemes. Plans and schemes and ideas. Or at the...
I didn't say zorp.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 251: New World, Magic Legends, and Corepunk

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Bree and Justin discuss PlanetSide Arena, New World, Magic Legends, Elder Scrolls Online, Corepunk, Black Desert Mobile, EVE Echoes, WoW, FFXIV, LOTRO, City of Heroes, and SWGL.

PlanetSide 2 shows off new NSO items and the Sanctuary social hub in latest stream

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Seeing how PlanetSide Arena is shutting down, we can perhaps expect some more attention paid to PlanetSide 2 from both Daybreak Games and the...
This is my Surprised Face.

Daybreak is shutting PlanetSide Arena down in January 2020

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Fans of PlanetSide Arena will want to get their last fun in with the title over the next month, as Daybreak Executive Producer Andy...

Ask Mo: The hits and misses of MassivelyOP’s 2019 predictions

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The day has come: the day when we look back at last year's predictions for this year and see how we did. Yep, this...

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