Planetside 2

Planetside 2

1. Planetside 2 is a free-to-play massively multiplayer online first person shooter published by Sony Online           Entertainment and released on November 20 2012

2. It is a FPS game which means the players have the ability to see out of the computer soldiers eyes. 

3. The developer and publisher are Sony Online Entertainment in the United States and Canada.
4. Planetside 2 was launched on November 20 2012
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The game is played with a gamer controlling a soldier from one specific team.There are three different teams that one can fight for. There are 2000 players per continent on foot or land/air vehicles.  The territory system differs greatly from that of the original, being more free-form and based on a hexagonal territory control system. SOE has been taking into account balance issues from the first game. As stated by creative director Matthew Higby, they reward combatants on lower population empires through mechanics such as proportionally increased advancement rates and resources to aid the balance of overall empire saturation on each server as much as possible without force-restricting players from being able to play with their friends.

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The six different player classes are:

• The Infiltrator is a sniper class with special abilities of cloaking and hacking, and can use sniper rifles, scout rifles and submachine guns to deliver a devastating effect.
• The Light Assault class is a scout who uses carbines, submachine guns and shotguns. The Light Assault's special ability is Jump Jets, which allow them to fly through the air for a short period of time.
• The Combat Medic is a healing class. Their weapons include assault rifles, shotguns and submachine guns. The Combat Medic's special abilities allows them to heal and resurrect other players.
• The Engineer class has the special ability of repairing vehicles, turrets, and MAX Units. The engineer also has the ability to build anti-infantry and anti-vehicle turrets. The Engineer's weapons include carbines, shotguns submachine guns and battle rifles.
• The Heavy Assault class has light machine guns, submachine guns, shotguns, batte rifles, and also Rocket Launchers, which are effective at destroying enemy vehicles. They also have the special ability of shields to help them endure heavy fire.
• The MAX class has a mobile armored suit that allows them to take significant damage before dying. However, due to the suit they are also the slowest class. They have access to anti-infantry, anti-vehicle, and anti-air weapons. Max units cost resources to use.

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Planetside 2 is a science fiction massively multiplayer set approximately 300 years after the discovery of Auraxis, although the chronology of the game universe starts a few years before. After the Earth has nearly come to ruin following a devastating war, the world's governments came to a consensus and united under one banner: the world-wide Terran Republic (TR). Some time later a wormhole, one which scientists fail to explain, appears and then disappears without a trace. There are three factions (teams) that fight for different purposes. 

Business model

1. Planetside 2 is free to play and includes a cash shop for players to purchase in-game convenience items         and cosmetic changes using real money. This is how they will attempt to make a profit.

2. Having a subscription provides players with increased experience, cert points and extra resources which       are used to acquire things like grenades and medical kits. 

3. There were only secondary weapons available only for aircrafts for the Beta.
4. Some gamers hate other gamers who buy additional items for themselves because they feel that they have     cheated and had to buy themselves to the top. Mainly gamers who are not good at a particular game and       are rich can buy themselves to division 1.

The three factions you are able to join:

• The Terran Republic- they fight for honour, justice, duty, saviour,tradition. The audience Psychographic is mainstream.
• The vanu Sovereignty- they fight for truth, enlightenment, wisdom, strength and intelligence. The audience Psychographic are succeeder or reformer or explores 
• The New Conglomerates- they fight for freedom.

Planetside 2 target audience 

Terran Republic:
Age 16-30
Male 75% Female 25%
Student 60%
Working 58%
Social class C2

Vanu Sovereignty 
Age 18-35
85% Male Female 15%
Student 30%
Full time 40%
Part time 20%
Social Class C1

New Conglomerates
Age 16-25
Male 90% Female 10%
Student 70%
Job 30%
Social class C2