PlanetSide 2

Planet side 2 is a free-to-play massively multi-player online first person shooter published by Sony.
This is an action/adventure game which was released in 2012
PlanetSide 2 is a re-imagining of PlanetSide featuring; the same world, teams, and time period. However now it is a faster paced game and holds the ability to feature potentially thousands of players.

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.

Story

Set 300 years after the discovery of Auraxis. After the Earth has nearly been destroyed after a war the governments come together and unite under one banner, the world wide Terran republic. Some time later a wormhole is discovered it is then said that this wormhole is a sign of extra terrestrial life and launches space expeditions.Later, the expedition discovers the planet Auraxis, and as a result, Vanu, or "ancient", technology. Among this vast array of technology is "Rebirthing Chambers", capable of reviving any person from any kind of injury with even the smallest amount of genetic code. This removed the main tool of the Terran Republic on Auraxis, fear. As a result the Republic banned the use of this technology, but some scientists continued, forming the Vanu Sovereignty, as the Terran started to militarize to control this, a collection of separatists broke off, forming the New Conglomerate, who stole weapons and equipment from the militarization process. So exactly 175 years after  leaders of the Terran Republic were killed, the war between the Terran Republic and the New Conglomerate breaks out. Following this, the New Conglomerate attacks the scientists who were still working on the alien technology, the Vanu Sovereignty, and they are as a result drawn into the conflict with the Terran Republic and the New Conglomerate. This prevented any work towards finding a way to regain contact with Earth, and the war for Auraxis has been raging ever since.

Business Model

This is a free to play game with a cash shop so that players can buy in game convenience items.

The game also offers subscription which provides players with: increased experience, cert points, and extra resources, which are used to acquire things such as grenades and medic kits. These are able to buy in order to make the players more powerful than others (most that aren't subscribed)

Some gamers dislike games which users can buy additional weapons and health as they may consider it as it being unfair because buying is not a skill in the game it is an unfair advantage.

The Factions

The Terran Republic: This is a faction which has a more traditional mind set of a military soldier i.e words like: Duty, Honour, Saviour and Justice are used to define them and the target audience for them will be mainstreamers.

The Vanu Sovereignty: This faction is one that consider themselves as more intelligent than the others. Words like; Wisdom, Enlightenment and strength are used to define them

The New Conglomerates: This faction is the most different out of the three. This is because this faction is a more rebellious, anti-establishment and against oppression.

The Target audience for PlanetSide 2 is in the age range of 13-35 with 75% of the gamers being male. The gamers will be mostly working/middle class who would be possibly in education or work living in sub-urbs

The Terran republic faction is aimed at the older gamers i.e. 20-35. This is because of the traditions that are followed by them.
The Vanu Sovereignty: This faction is aimed at the middle aged gamer who may have been educated well or possibly still in higher education
The New Conglomerates: This is a faction clearly aimed at the teenagers who are considered rebellious and go against the authority and want their own way into freedom. These gamers may also like listening to Rock or Heavy metal.

Psychographic Profiling:
Terran Republic: This faction is for the mainstreamers. This is because these people are happy with the way things are and are used to following a routine. They also like thinking about others before they think about themselves.

Vanu Sovereignty: This faction is for the succeeders who seek control. This is because they assume they are superior than others and have strong goals and self coonfidence. These gamers are normally organised.

The New Conglomerates: This faction is for the reformers and want change. These gamers are quite rebellious and like to go on the path of their own ignoring other instructions or rules valuing their own independent judgement. These gamers are usually at the leading edge of society.