I have played Planetside 2 since it released. (I am a planetside 1 vet).
Great game simply because it is unique. Open world war/battle with as many people as you can gather. You can play for free and it IS NOT play to win. I pay for it but I only get credit towards cosmetics.
An old friend of mine was one of the designers on that game, and I used to do QA at the SOE offices.
I always wanted to like Planetside 2, but the vehicle mechanics always felt too rock paper scissory and kills never really seemed to mean anything and the overall meta of the game just never felt like it came together.
It did have solid FPS mechanics though and one of the coolest games ever for sheer scale of warfare.
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