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PlanetSide 2 (2012)

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Music: Let's All Love Lain · TOKYOPILL

Dear Wrel, thanks for ruining the game!

It’s the best thing that has ever happened to my life. Finally, I’m no longer bound to this godforsaken game. In a toxic circle of what I assume Stockholm syndrome must feel like. I was trapped in chasing temporary highs that enabled procrastination and increased blood pressure.

Eventually I saw Wrel, my favourite Planetside 2 YouTuber for a long time, joining the dev team. This marked an era of keeping this game on life support. Daybreak keeps pushing new content that seems to consistently add ways get cheesy kills as well as introducing new mechanics that are merely duct taped onto the game. With the sound engine being broken for months, the EU community discovering broken shotguns as well as other game breaking "features", I'm finally able to put this game behind me.

However, all of this begs the question why anyone would play this game for multiple years of their life?
Frist of all, there is the 10% of playtime when you get to have a fun. I’ve yet to find a game that can replicate the dopamine rush you get when winning a 1v4 or emptying all your weapons and wiping a whole squad after going on a knifing rampage. Not going to lie this is mainly due to 80% of the playerbase being absolutely oblivious to basic FPS mechanics. As well as the fact that the original dev team copied the shooting mechanics from Bad Company 2. The gun play is truly what keeps a lot of veterans grinding away, but how much can one endure before they lose their sanity?

Second is the great community of Planetside 2. I cherish a lot of great friends that I’ve made playing this game. I know some for nearly a decade now and there’s many more I’ve got to meet more recently. I'm sure they'll realise soon that the game is impeding their livelihoods too.

Thank you for freeing me from this prison Wrel, best of luck in your future endeavours.

Yours truly,
A Planetgamer

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