PlanetSide
The first MMOFPS at scale. PlanetSide ran three-faction continent capture battles with hundreds of simultaneous players in 2003, on infrastructure that should not have supported it.
PlanetSide proved in 2003 that hundreds of simultaneous players could engage in coordinated FPS combat across persistent maps. The three-faction structure (Vanu Sovereignty, New Conglomerate, Terran Republic), the continent capture meta, and the combined-arms vehicle system were all firsts at this scale. The technical achievement was significant. The audience that experienced peak PlanetSide remembers the continent-spanning fights as something subsequent MMOFPS games have struggled to match. The original sunset in 2016. PlanetSide 2 carries the format forward.
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