Ok too long, didn't read most of peoples points.
But I would like to make one point.
I come from a background of heavy shooters, I am not an MMORPG guy at all.
Planetside 1 was not even CLOSE to perfect for me.
The main problem I had with it is there was no area based damage. If you had a shittier gun then the other guy would win obviously. The bolt driver was a sniper rifle that took 2 shots to kill someone, that is inherently stupid. Thus I feel it rewarded MMO veterans more than it did us guys who were FPS players.
But planetside was the closest experience to waging a huge war in a shooter, so I didn't really complain while I played, and tried to enjoy my self (which wasn't really hard to
).