Hands-On with PlanetSide 2 at gamescom 2012

From 2004 on could be labeled gaming's "me centered" era. Leaderboards and achievements grew to worldwide prominence, the loot chase took on all-consuming significance, and attention spans shrank as the appetite for raw entertainment, divorced of compromise or consequence, grew. It might have started with FPSs, with WoW, or some obscure influencer people love to talk about on forum threads, but one thing's for sure: it wasn't always this way. And for at least one game series, it was never this way.