I tried out the Lotro trial and i think its alot better than before
Im like many others when it comes to LOTRO. I cant STAND the crappy animation work. Same as for D&D tbh. Some can look past it. I can't. And tbh - I will not be spending money on a sub where I dont like the animations. Its that simple.
I think GW2 will be 2011 and also wonder if we can expect SW:TOR in 2010. If SW:TOR gets released in 2010 though, my vote would go for SW:TOR in 2010 and GW2 in 2011
And for best free to play game. The Chronicles of Spellborn
Most Improved: I would vote for Conan here. Haven't tested myself, but from what I've read the game has seen huge improvement in how it's being handled by its staff
Pretty typical for a PR campaing to see a person vote for a game as most improved - even when they havn't tried it.
AOC is the same crap it was at launch in many regards. THe main diffrence now is that the 80 K ppl playing it are still there cause they liked the orginal concept of the game. They dont care if the dx10 (yes I know dx 11 has launched) is still in beta and they are fine about beeing lied to again and again and again. The fact is that million ppl left the game - the company is creating so called "expansion" while they are also firing alot of their devs and moving the bulk of the payroll to countries with cheap labor.
Improved ? ? lol - get real.
Can you go over again how someone who actually has second hand information to support his assertion that the game has improved has an opinion less valid than someone who cites things that are external to the game to claim that the game hasn't improved? If you haven't played it, how exactly do you know it hasn't improved? Obviously if a game doesn't use DX10 it cannot have improved. That makes sense.
Not very sure about some of them, but IMO; "Best Improved Game of 2009" has gotta be Age of Conan. Been playing it for a year now, and it just keeps on coming with stuff I like.
Most awaited game of 2010? not sure, but not any of those on the list for me.
Most Improved: I would vote for Conan here. Haven't tested myself, but from what I've read the game has seen huge improvement in how it's being handled by its staff
Pretty typical for a PR campaing to see a person vote for a game as most improved - even when they havn't tried it.
AOC is the same crap it was at launch in many regards. THe main diffrence now is that the 80 K ppl playing it are still there cause they liked the orginal concept of the game. They dont care if the dx10 (yes I know dx 11 has launched) is still in beta and they are fine about beeing lied to again and again and again. The fact is that million ppl left the game - the company is creating so called "expansion" while they are also firing alot of their devs and moving the bulk of the payroll to countries with cheap labor.
Improved ? ? lol - get real.
Wow, I am totally getting pwned! Help! That's called informed opinion- I've read about AoC, and I know people playing it, so I would rather trust their judgement, the way I tell them about my MMO experience with other titles. Or would you feel better if I ask my friends to register at MMORPG.com and post especially for you?
Vanguard: Saga of heroes must be the less improved game..they havent added a shit to it except Pota. Love the game but i dont like SoE..dont really know what they are doing. Hope they will fix it in a year.
though even if it was 2010 i doubhgt it would make the list, not much publicity for it
would still vote eve as the goty though...after seeing what is happening to games, all the layoffs, all the crap blizzard is doing, there is just no mach...
eve continues to evolve and gain subscribers, and they continue trying new things, instead of sticking to the same model as everyone else.
i must admit though, to be able to vote, one should have played all those games, and as i have not, i might be partial
therefore i am glad the editors are doing it, eve though i have played most games on that list, they should have more experience.
Most Improved: I would vote for Conan here. Haven't tested myself, but from what I've read the game has seen huge improvement in how it's being handled by its staff
Pretty typical for a PR campaing to see a person vote for a game as most improved - even when they havn't tried it.
AOC is the same crap it was at launch in many regards. THe main diffrence now is that the 80 K ppl playing it are still there cause they liked the orginal concept of the game. They dont care if the dx10 (yes I know dx 11 has launched) is still in beta and they are fine about beeing lied to again and again and again. The fact is that million ppl left the game - the company is creating so called "expansion" while they are also firing alot of their devs and moving the bulk of the payroll to countries with cheap labor.
Improved ? ? lol - get real.
Can you go over again how someone who actually has second hand information to support his assertion that the game has improved has an opinion less valid than someone who cites things that are external to the game to claim that the game hasn't improved? If you haven't played it, how exactly do you know it hasn't improved? Obviously if a game doesn't use DX10 it cannot have improved. That makes sense.
Actually... there is a free 10 days comback campaign going on right now and there was another one back in last fall. SO... ppl that claim the game has not improved actually know it has not improved cause ... yes.... they have played it.
DX 10 is one of many features that were not in at launch and are still not in (beta was an exuse to leave it haning for years). Other features I could mention is for example mounted combat and ofc the famous "massive" this and "massive" that.
AOC was in 54- 57th spot on Xfire in the first week of January this year. It is now in 58 - 71 this week so pretty much nothing has changed for a whole year. Its still the same players PRing this game up. Its true that AOC is not the least improved game of the year... (WAR is taking that one hands down) but it has not improved to even reach the launch features Funcom was talking about 2 years ago.
I don't know what will be Editor final virdict, but mine are:
Best impreved Games: none of above, but a mention to Turbine for Dungeons and Dragons Online Unlimited.
Best New Game: Aion
Best F2P Game has two winners: Runes of Magic and RF Online (welcome back, Rising Force)
Most Anticipated Game of 2010: Final Fantasy XIV, with the hope that this new Square/Enix title can recreate the magic atmosphere of is big brother Final Fantasy XI
GOTY 2009: none of above. Conan and WAR are loosing players, mostly players want farming, farming and farming, EVE is no more, there are too many scattered Blizzard fans all over the world (and someone thieved my WoW account for the second time, and i don't play WoW from the first expansion. They are so stupid...). So there's no game for GOTY. And if the better game is the played one, my heart's GOTY is for DAoC on unofficial servers.
Most Improved: I would vote for Conan here. Haven't tested myself, but from what I've read the game has seen huge improvement in how it's being handled by its staff
Pretty typical for a PR campaing to see a person vote for a game as most improved - even when they havn't tried it.
AOC is the same crap it was at launch in many regards. THe main diffrence now is that the 80 K ppl playing it are still there cause they liked the orginal concept of the game. They dont care if the dx10 (yes I know dx 11 has launched) is still in beta and they are fine about beeing lied to again and again and again. The fact is that million ppl left the game - the company is creating so called "expansion" while they are also firing alot of their devs and moving the bulk of the payroll to countries with cheap labor.
Improved ? ? lol - get real.
Can you go over again how someone who actually has second hand information to support his assertion that the game has improved has an opinion less valid than someone who cites things that are external to the game to claim that the game hasn't improved? If you haven't played it, how exactly do you know it hasn't improved? Obviously if a game doesn't use DX10 it cannot have improved. That makes sense.
Actually... there is a free 10 days comback campaign going on right now and there was another one back in last fall. SO... ppl that claim the game has not improved actually know it has not improved cause ... yes.... they have played it.
DX 10 is one of many features that were not in at launch and are still not in (beta was an exuse to leave it haning for years). Other features I could mention is for example mounted combat and ofc the famous "massive" this and "massive" that.
AOC was in 54- 57th spot on Xfire in the first week of January this year. It is now in 58 - 71 this week so pretty much nothing has changed for a whole year. Its still the same players PRing this game up. Its true that AOC is not the least improved game of the year... (WAR is taking that one hands down) but it has not improved to even reach the launch features Funcom was talking about 2 years ago.
I point out the fact that you didn't use any logic making your original post, and you refute that by making a second post containing no logic. What do you think "improved" means? Your first post said that it means implementing DX10 and your second post (while repeating the ridiculous notion that a game cannot improve unless it release DX10) now says that the game hasn't improved because it hasn't climbed the XFire rankings.
Does AoC crash as often as it did at the start of 2009? Are there the same number of bugs? Have the statistics been re-worked to be more clear? Has any additional content been added? Has game play balance been refined? Has existing content been changed to make it more enjoyable? All of those things can be considered improvements.
It's obvious that you'll never like anything about AoC until they add a Troll race.
Best new in 2009 = None -> its all crap and i do not make a choice regarding crap!
STO will be released in 2010 i guess - but sorry, this IP is not able to offer an good background for an MMO i believe.
Whatever you do, it will upset the hardcore fans, the casual mmo player and whoever else may be the target audience.
This will hurt such a game far to much to be successfull...
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Most Improved Game: Age of Conan without a doubt. Age of Conan is by far the most improved game of 2009. With the features they've added and the features that they've promised to add in future updates, it is in my opinion the best MMO out right now.
Definately agree with this. AoC is by far the most improved game. DDO isn't improved really it's more changed, AoC has actually been patched better.
Don't give into the weird AoC haters, which spit venom more about AoC than I have ever heard about a MMORPG!
AOC is on the rise.
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Most Improved Game: Age of Conan without a doubt. Age of Conan is by far the most improved game of 2009. With the features they've added and the features that they've promised to add in future updates, it is in my opinion the best MMO out right now.
Definately agree with this. AoC is by far the most improved game. DDO isn't improved really it's more changed, AoC has actually been patched better.
Don't give into the weird AoC haters, which spit venom more about AoC than I have ever heard about a MMORPG!
AOC is on the rise.
You must be new around here to say that AoC is the most ragged on MMORPG. Oh wait, look at that! You are new!
Why is F2P getting its own catergory? Do we really need a Crap Game of the year?
DDO is not a proper F2P, and because of that I think there is hope it will not descend into the money raking mire that all F2P games eventually do. Still a good game from what I hear.
I think over all the selections were quite fair, I look forward to us having our own vote.
Why is F2P getting its own catergory? Do we really need a Crap Game of the year?
Hahahah... I have to agree. "The least sucky F2P MMORPG" -award. They may be more fun if you pay for them but that kind of defeats the the whole idea, dontcha think? I want to play to get ahead, not pay to get ahead. (Edit: Irony detected! Look the game I'm currently playing.)
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People can only claim AoC to be the most improved because the core game at launch was so barren of any content at all.
It's easy to take a horrible game with no content and then add som content and call it a massive success and improvement. Fact is that the game still falls flat on its face at 80, the game world is still dull and incredibly instanced and the combat a frenzied mess in mass pvp.
Hopefully the expansion will fix some of this though!
Improved: Either Age of Conan, however it only improved because of issues that should not have been there before. It does win easily though.
New: Hard choice. My guess is that the best will probably be Fallen Earth but will generate so much argument.
F2P: Dungeons and Dragons, although this is a bit of a cheat since it was originally P2P.
Kids: Free Realms, if I were 20 years younger I would be playing it, the others just dont have the freedom Kids desire.
Anticipated: Star Trek, primarily because it has a large strong fan base. Guild Wars 2 would be a second option also due to fan base.
Game of the year: Warcraft, I dont like to admit it, but it is popular across multiple audiences and is still growing in options and variety. RoLK merely built on that.
Most Improved: I would vote for Conan here. Haven't tested myself, but from what I've read the game has seen huge improvement in how it's being handled by its staff
Pretty typical for a PR campaing to see a person vote for a game as most improved - even when they havn't tried it.
AOC is the same crap it was at launch in many regards. THe main diffrence now is that the 80 K ppl playing it are still there cause they liked the orginal concept of the game. They dont care if the dx10 (yes I know dx 11 has launched) is still in beta and they are fine about beeing lied to again and again and again. The fact is that million ppl left the game - the company is creating so called "expansion" while they are also firing alot of their devs and moving the bulk of the payroll to countries with cheap labor.
Improved ? ? lol - get real.
Can you go over again how someone who actually has second hand information to support his assertion that the game has improved has an opinion less valid than someone who cites things that are external to the game to claim that the game hasn't improved? If you haven't played it, how exactly do you know it hasn't improved? Obviously if a game doesn't use DX10 it cannot have improved. That makes sense.
Actually... there is a free 10 days comback campaign going on right now and there was another one back in last fall. SO... ppl that claim the game has not improved actually know it has not improved cause ... yes.... they have played it.
DX 10 is one of many features that were not in at launch and are still not in (beta was an exuse to leave it haning for years). Other features I could mention is for example mounted combat and ofc the famous "massive" this and "massive" that.
AOC was in 54- 57th spot on Xfire in the first week of January this year. It is now in 58 - 71 this week so pretty much nothing has changed for a whole year. Its still the same players PRing this game up. Its true that AOC is not the least improved game of the year... (WAR is taking that one hands down) but it has not improved to even reach the launch features Funcom was talking about 2 years ago.
I point out the fact that you didn't use any logic making your original post, and you refute that by making a second post containing no logic. What do you think "improved" means? Your first post said that it means implementing DX10 and your second post (while repeating the ridiculous notion that a game cannot improve unless it release DX10) now says that the game hasn't improved because it hasn't climbed the XFire rankings.
Does AoC crash as often as it did at the start of 2009? Are there the same number of bugs? Have the statistics been re-worked to be more clear? Has any additional content been added? Has game play balance been refined? Has existing content been changed to make it more enjoyable? All of those things can be considered improvements.
It's obvious that you'll never like anything about AoC until they add a Troll race.
You totally fail to see the point - all MMO games out there for the last year have fixed bugs, added content, balanced clased, changed content. Hell - even WAR did that ... I do not see AOC have done any more than what other MMO games in this regards. And even if the game did- then it was based on the fact it launched so buggy - so lacking content - features and stability that it should not have been released in the first place.
Xfire stats were put in to show you that this "improvement" in the game has not been supported by increased playerbase. Thus players that already were playing the game anyway and were hyping the game up before - are mostly the ppl talking about how much the game has improved. 10 loudmouths like that can get a story going that its a new game... but its not.
Finally - if this reward was based on free content added to a game - RUnes of magic would win this hands down. It released a huge addition to the game that strengthen the playerbased - added new features - classes and stabitlity to the game. I promise you that the expansion added there for free will be bigger than what Funcom is adding to the game with their "expansion".
Read up on AO expansions. Funcom has through the years been doing extra job on hyping "expansions" that then added nothing more than what free content patches of games like WOW were sending out. In other words... You pay extra for pretty much nothing.
Most Improved: AoC - I've re-subbed to 3 of these games in 2009, AoC is decent now, it was a disaster before.
Best New: Aion - I've tried all these games. Aion isn't great but it's the best of these.
Best Free: RoM - Again nothing spectacular but beats the competition easily.
Best Kids: nfi - Stupid category in my opinion. I'm still a kid at 28.
Most Anticipated: FFXIV - Tough call with ToR here but cummon, it's FF you retards. Most of you wouldn't even be playing MMOs if you weren't hooked on the console FF games. Show some loyalty.
Game of the Year: EVE - Going with EVE here even though I've only played the trial. Mainly because I've played the others extensively and don't feel they deserve the title of the best. But EVE's fans will defend it to the grave and all I ever hear is positive stuff coming from this title so yeah. 2009 sucked overall.
Most Improved Game: Age of Conan without a doubt. Age of Conan is by far the most improved game of 2009. With the features they've added and the features that they've promised to add in future updates, it is in my opinion the best MMO out right now.
Definately agree with this. AoC is by far the most improved game. DDO isn't improved really it's more changed, AoC has actually been patched better.
Don't give into the weird AoC haters, which spit venom more about AoC than I have ever heard about a MMORPG!
AOC is on the rise.
You must be new around here to say that AoC is the most ragged on MMORPG. Oh wait, look at that! You are new!
/shocked
F me you can count, well done. I said "a" MMORPG not "on" MMORPG, learn to read. Also I was giving my opinion new or not like any poster (unfortunately this includes you). If you don't like it, SHOVE IT!
You're an idiot!
/shocked
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I tried out the Lotro trial and i think its alot better than before
Im like many others when it comes to LOTRO. I cant STAND the crappy animation work. Same as for D&D tbh. Some can look past it. I can't. And tbh - I will not be spending money on a sub where I dont like the animations. Its that simple.
I think GW2 will be 2011 and also wonder if we can expect SW:TOR in 2010. If SW:TOR gets released in 2010 though, my vote would go for SW:TOR in 2010 and GW2 in 2011
And for best free to play game. The Chronicles of Spellborn
Pretty typical for a PR campaing to see a person vote for a game as most improved - even when they havn't tried it.
AOC is the same crap it was at launch in many regards. THe main diffrence now is that the 80 K ppl playing it are still there cause they liked the orginal concept of the game. They dont care if the dx10 (yes I know dx 11 has launched) is still in beta and they are fine about beeing lied to again and again and again. The fact is that million ppl left the game - the company is creating so called "expansion" while they are also firing alot of their devs and moving the bulk of the payroll to countries with cheap labor.
Improved ? ? lol - get real.
Can you go over again how someone who actually has second hand information to support his assertion that the game has improved has an opinion less valid than someone who cites things that are external to the game to claim that the game hasn't improved? If you haven't played it, how exactly do you know it hasn't improved? Obviously if a game doesn't use DX10 it cannot have improved. That makes sense.
Not very sure about some of them, but IMO; "Best Improved Game of 2009" has gotta be Age of Conan. Been playing it for a year now, and it just keeps on coming with stuff I like.
Most awaited game of 2010? not sure, but not any of those on the list for me.
Pretty typical for a PR campaing to see a person vote for a game as most improved - even when they havn't tried it.
AOC is the same crap it was at launch in many regards. THe main diffrence now is that the 80 K ppl playing it are still there cause they liked the orginal concept of the game. They dont care if the dx10 (yes I know dx 11 has launched) is still in beta and they are fine about beeing lied to again and again and again. The fact is that million ppl left the game - the company is creating so called "expansion" while they are also firing alot of their devs and moving the bulk of the payroll to countries with cheap labor.
Improved ? ? lol - get real.
Wow, I am totally getting pwned! Help! That's called informed opinion- I've read about AoC, and I know people playing it, so I would rather trust their judgement, the way I tell them about my MMO experience with other titles. Or would you feel better if I ask my friends to register at MMORPG.com and post especially for you?
Vanguard: Saga of heroes must be the less improved game..they havent added a shit to it except Pota. Love the game but i dont like SoE..dont really know what they are doing. Hope they will fix it in a year.
not sure, does dust 514 come out in 2010 or 2011?
though even if it was 2010 i doubhgt it would make the list, not much publicity for it
would still vote eve as the goty though...after seeing what is happening to games, all the layoffs, all the crap blizzard is doing, there is just no mach...
eve continues to evolve and gain subscribers, and they continue trying new things, instead of sticking to the same model as everyone else.
i must admit though, to be able to vote, one should have played all those games, and as i have not, i might be partial
therefore i am glad the editors are doing it, eve though i have played most games on that list, they should have more experience.
Pretty typical for a PR campaing to see a person vote for a game as most improved - even when they havn't tried it.
AOC is the same crap it was at launch in many regards. THe main diffrence now is that the 80 K ppl playing it are still there cause they liked the orginal concept of the game. They dont care if the dx10 (yes I know dx 11 has launched) is still in beta and they are fine about beeing lied to again and again and again. The fact is that million ppl left the game - the company is creating so called "expansion" while they are also firing alot of their devs and moving the bulk of the payroll to countries with cheap labor.
Improved ? ? lol - get real.
Can you go over again how someone who actually has second hand information to support his assertion that the game has improved has an opinion less valid than someone who cites things that are external to the game to claim that the game hasn't improved? If you haven't played it, how exactly do you know it hasn't improved? Obviously if a game doesn't use DX10 it cannot have improved. That makes sense.
Actually... there is a free 10 days comback campaign going on right now and there was another one back in last fall. SO... ppl that claim the game has not improved actually know it has not improved cause ... yes.... they have played it.
DX 10 is one of many features that were not in at launch and are still not in (beta was an exuse to leave it haning for years). Other features I could mention is for example mounted combat and ofc the famous "massive" this and "massive" that.
AOC was in 54- 57th spot on Xfire in the first week of January this year. It is now in 58 - 71 this week so pretty much nothing has changed for a whole year. Its still the same players PRing this game up. Its true that AOC is not the least improved game of the year... (WAR is taking that one hands down) but it has not improved to even reach the launch features Funcom was talking about 2 years ago.
I don't know what will be Editor final virdict, but mine are:
Best impreved Games: none of above, but a mention to Turbine for Dungeons and Dragons Online Unlimited.
Best New Game: Aion
Best F2P Game has two winners: Runes of Magic and RF Online (welcome back, Rising Force)
Most Anticipated Game of 2010: Final Fantasy XIV, with the hope that this new Square/Enix title can recreate the magic atmosphere of is big brother Final Fantasy XI
GOTY 2009: none of above. Conan and WAR are loosing players, mostly players want farming, farming and farming, EVE is no more, there are too many scattered Blizzard fans all over the world (and someone thieved my WoW account for the second time, and i don't play WoW from the first expansion. They are so stupid...). So there's no game for GOTY. And if the better game is the played one, my heart's GOTY is for DAoC on unofficial servers.
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Pretty typical for a PR campaing to see a person vote for a game as most improved - even when they havn't tried it.
AOC is the same crap it was at launch in many regards. THe main diffrence now is that the 80 K ppl playing it are still there cause they liked the orginal concept of the game. They dont care if the dx10 (yes I know dx 11 has launched) is still in beta and they are fine about beeing lied to again and again and again. The fact is that million ppl left the game - the company is creating so called "expansion" while they are also firing alot of their devs and moving the bulk of the payroll to countries with cheap labor.
Improved ? ? lol - get real.
Can you go over again how someone who actually has second hand information to support his assertion that the game has improved has an opinion less valid than someone who cites things that are external to the game to claim that the game hasn't improved? If you haven't played it, how exactly do you know it hasn't improved? Obviously if a game doesn't use DX10 it cannot have improved. That makes sense.
Actually... there is a free 10 days comback campaign going on right now and there was another one back in last fall. SO... ppl that claim the game has not improved actually know it has not improved cause ... yes.... they have played it.
DX 10 is one of many features that were not in at launch and are still not in (beta was an exuse to leave it haning for years). Other features I could mention is for example mounted combat and ofc the famous "massive" this and "massive" that.
AOC was in 54- 57th spot on Xfire in the first week of January this year. It is now in 58 - 71 this week so pretty much nothing has changed for a whole year. Its still the same players PRing this game up. Its true that AOC is not the least improved game of the year... (WAR is taking that one hands down) but it has not improved to even reach the launch features Funcom was talking about 2 years ago.
I point out the fact that you didn't use any logic making your original post, and you refute that by making a second post containing no logic. What do you think "improved" means? Your first post said that it means implementing DX10 and your second post (while repeating the ridiculous notion that a game cannot improve unless it release DX10) now says that the game hasn't improved because it hasn't climbed the XFire rankings.
Does AoC crash as often as it did at the start of 2009? Are there the same number of bugs? Have the statistics been re-worked to be more clear? Has any additional content been added? Has game play balance been refined? Has existing content been changed to make it more enjoyable? All of those things can be considered improvements.
It's obvious that you'll never like anything about AoC until they add a Troll race.
Well for me
The Most anticipated Game: Final Fantasy XIV
Best f2p game: Atlantica Online
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My opinion:
Most improved = AoC
Most anticipated in 2010 = SWTOR
Best new in 2009 = None -> its all crap and i do not make a choice regarding crap!
STO will be released in 2010 i guess - but sorry, this IP is not able to offer an good background for an MMO i believe.
Whatever you do, it will upset the hardcore fans, the casual mmo player and whoever else may be the target audience.
This will hurt such a game far to much to be successfull...
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My 5 cents:
Most Improved Game: Not sure. Some of those games went downhill
Best New Game: Fallen Earth
Best F2P: DDO
Best Kids: Free Realms
Most Anticipated: tough choice. But I'd say Star Wars: The Old Republic
Game of the Year: EVE Online
Most Improved: World of Warcraft
Best New Game: Darkfall
Best F2P: Dungeon and Dragon Online
Best Kids Game: Free Realms
Most Anticipated: FFXIV
Game of the Year: I do not think any games played in 2009 deserve that title.
Definately agree with this. AoC is by far the most improved game. DDO isn't improved really it's more changed, AoC has actually been patched better.
Don't give into the weird AoC haters, which spit venom more about AoC than I have ever heard about a MMORPG!
AOC is on the rise.
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Definately agree with this. AoC is by far the most improved game. DDO isn't improved really it's more changed, AoC has actually been patched better.
Don't give into the weird AoC haters, which spit venom more about AoC than I have ever heard about a MMORPG!
AOC is on the rise.
You must be new around here to say that AoC is the most ragged on MMORPG. Oh wait, look at that! You are new!
/shocked
Why is F2P getting its own catergory? Do we really need a Crap Game of the year?
DDO is not a proper F2P, and because of that I think there is hope it will not descend into the money raking mire that all F2P games eventually do. Still a good game from what I hear.
I think over all the selections were quite fair, I look forward to us having our own vote.
Hahahah... I have to agree. "The least sucky F2P MMORPG" -award. They may be more fun if you pay for them but that kind of defeats the the whole idea, dontcha think? I want to play to get ahead, not pay to get ahead. (Edit: Irony detected! Look the game I'm currently playing.)
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It's pretty sad to see the summation of the MMO genre in black and white like this
God I had such hopes for the MMO genre
People can only claim AoC to be the most improved because the core game at launch was so barren of any content at all.
It's easy to take a horrible game with no content and then add som content and call it a massive success and improvement. Fact is that the game still falls flat on its face at 80, the game world is still dull and incredibly instanced and the combat a frenzied mess in mass pvp.
Hopefully the expansion will fix some of this though!
I reckon (with explanations)
Improved: Either Age of Conan, however it only improved because of issues that should not have been there before. It does win easily though.
New: Hard choice. My guess is that the best will probably be Fallen Earth but will generate so much argument.
F2P: Dungeons and Dragons, although this is a bit of a cheat since it was originally P2P.
Kids: Free Realms, if I were 20 years younger I would be playing it, the others just dont have the freedom Kids desire.
Anticipated: Star Trek, primarily because it has a large strong fan base. Guild Wars 2 would be a second option also due to fan base.
Game of the year: Warcraft, I dont like to admit it, but it is popular across multiple audiences and is still growing in options and variety. RoLK merely built on that.
Pretty typical for a PR campaing to see a person vote for a game as most improved - even when they havn't tried it.
AOC is the same crap it was at launch in many regards. THe main diffrence now is that the 80 K ppl playing it are still there cause they liked the orginal concept of the game. They dont care if the dx10 (yes I know dx 11 has launched) is still in beta and they are fine about beeing lied to again and again and again. The fact is that million ppl left the game - the company is creating so called "expansion" while they are also firing alot of their devs and moving the bulk of the payroll to countries with cheap labor.
Improved ? ? lol - get real.
Can you go over again how someone who actually has second hand information to support his assertion that the game has improved has an opinion less valid than someone who cites things that are external to the game to claim that the game hasn't improved? If you haven't played it, how exactly do you know it hasn't improved? Obviously if a game doesn't use DX10 it cannot have improved. That makes sense.
Actually... there is a free 10 days comback campaign going on right now and there was another one back in last fall. SO... ppl that claim the game has not improved actually know it has not improved cause ... yes.... they have played it.
DX 10 is one of many features that were not in at launch and are still not in (beta was an exuse to leave it haning for years). Other features I could mention is for example mounted combat and ofc the famous "massive" this and "massive" that.
AOC was in 54- 57th spot on Xfire in the first week of January this year. It is now in 58 - 71 this week so pretty much nothing has changed for a whole year. Its still the same players PRing this game up. Its true that AOC is not the least improved game of the year... (WAR is taking that one hands down) but it has not improved to even reach the launch features Funcom was talking about 2 years ago.
I point out the fact that you didn't use any logic making your original post, and you refute that by making a second post containing no logic. What do you think "improved" means? Your first post said that it means implementing DX10 and your second post (while repeating the ridiculous notion that a game cannot improve unless it release DX10) now says that the game hasn't improved because it hasn't climbed the XFire rankings.
Does AoC crash as often as it did at the start of 2009? Are there the same number of bugs? Have the statistics been re-worked to be more clear? Has any additional content been added? Has game play balance been refined? Has existing content been changed to make it more enjoyable? All of those things can be considered improvements.
It's obvious that you'll never like anything about AoC until they add a Troll race.
You totally fail to see the point - all MMO games out there for the last year have fixed bugs, added content, balanced clased, changed content. Hell - even WAR did that ... I do not see AOC have done any more than what other MMO games in this regards. And even if the game did- then it was based on the fact it launched so buggy - so lacking content - features and stability that it should not have been released in the first place.
Xfire stats were put in to show you that this "improvement" in the game has not been supported by increased playerbase. Thus players that already were playing the game anyway and were hyping the game up before - are mostly the ppl talking about how much the game has improved. 10 loudmouths like that can get a story going that its a new game... but its not.
Finally - if this reward was based on free content added to a game - RUnes of magic would win this hands down. It released a huge addition to the game that strengthen the playerbased - added new features - classes and stabitlity to the game. I promise you that the expansion added there for free will be bigger than what Funcom is adding to the game with their "expansion".
Read up on AO expansions. Funcom has through the years been doing extra job on hyping "expansions" that then added nothing more than what free content patches of games like WOW were sending out. In other words... You pay extra for pretty much nothing.
Most Improved: AoC - I've re-subbed to 3 of these games in 2009, AoC is decent now, it was a disaster before.
Best New: Aion - I've tried all these games. Aion isn't great but it's the best of these.
Best Free: RoM - Again nothing spectacular but beats the competition easily.
Best Kids: nfi - Stupid category in my opinion. I'm still a kid at 28.
Most Anticipated: FFXIV - Tough call with ToR here but cummon, it's FF you retards. Most of you wouldn't even be playing MMOs if you weren't hooked on the console FF games. Show some loyalty.
Game of the Year: EVE - Going with EVE here even though I've only played the trial. Mainly because I've played the others extensively and don't feel they deserve the title of the best. But EVE's fans will defend it to the grave and all I ever hear is positive stuff coming from this title so yeah. 2009 sucked overall.
Definately agree with this. AoC is by far the most improved game. DDO isn't improved really it's more changed, AoC has actually been patched better.
Don't give into the weird AoC haters, which spit venom more about AoC than I have ever heard about a MMORPG!
AOC is on the rise.
You must be new around here to say that AoC is the most ragged on MMORPG. Oh wait, look at that! You are new!
/shocked
F me you can count, well done. I said "a" MMORPG not "on" MMORPG, learn to read. Also I was giving my opinion new or not like any poster (unfortunately this includes you). If you don't like it, SHOVE IT!
You're an idiot!
/shocked
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