planetside was not the first fpsmmo. world war 2 online was the first.
WW2OL is still up and going and has a player base larger than PS. It has air, ground and sea. No zoning, one server for thousands. No instances. 1/2 scale map of europe circa 1942,over 600 citys modeled (largest map in any mmo). Its pay for play also.
Ive been playing ww2ol for 5 years. Ive played planetside and ww20l from the beginning and still do and Ill be playing this with
www.xoohq.com
Planetside V.S. (xoo)( xen of onslaught)
www.xoohq.com (emerald server)
ww2ol (allied) squad- LAF (lafayette federation.)
www.lafayettefederation.com)
fpsmmo rules.
Ive always disliked instances but this game is to cool to passup.
A world with instances = chat room with avatars waiting to get in a server. Might as well be on gamespy in chat waiting to get in a server that holds 32/64 players. 32/64 players does not make an mmo. Not sure of instance player max in huxley, but I hope its hunderds. 2 or 3 hundred players is a battle, 32/64 players is moh-bf2.
Hunderds of players running around a city,meeting people and buying stuff is an mmo mall.
But as I said, this is too cool to pass up.
Kill ya later,
Doctorie