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What MMO broke your heart?
dannydeuce
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Simply put, what game did you invest so much in mentally that it was exhausting...and in the end turned out to completely let you down?
For me personally it was, with no suprise here, Aion. I watched it for it felt like years on this site in anticipation. Finally got into closed beta and it lived up to my expectations. Joined a guild, played some more closed betas and finally open beta. I simply was at the point where this game felt like the game I could play for years, similar to my first mmo Tibia and vanilla WoW.
Without any needless bashing, I played till late game and after about 60 days realized all was for nothing. Aion failed me and broke my dorky MMO heart. My wife was happy in the end, so I guess it worked out for her.
So has this happened to you? So much personal hype built into a game and you get a hopes and dreams crushed by the realization of the games crapiness.
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Warhammer was disappointing, and probably only hurt most since it was the first MMO I went to after Warcraft (I think). Aion was disappointing, but I just remember seeing all the classes for Warhammer and being absolutely stoked.
The only MMO that ever 'broke my heart' would be Vangaurd.
I just remember the game being announced and you would have swore it was the second coming of christ, everyone thought it was THE next big game, and then WHAM, sold out to SoE and it was a steep decline from there.
That game should have been so much more.
The first game I followed closely that really let me down was Horizons. I was so psyched for this game, I can't tell you! I read all the lore, salivated over the proposed gameplay mechanics.... Dragons! I mean, how could you lose?
But it just turned out to be a shallow, clunky piece of junk. Man was my heart broken.
Since then this cycle has continued to repeat itself more often than not. *cry cry* Currently I'm a bit emotionally invested in Final Fantasy XIV, so let's hope that doesn't turn out to be another clunker.
Star Wars Galaxies
"I have only two out of my company and 20 out of some other company. We need support, but it is almost suicide to try to get it here as we are swept by machine gun fire and a constant barrage is on us. I have no one on my left and only a few on my right. I will hold." (First Lieutenant Clifton B. Cates, US Marine Corps, Soissons, 19 July 1918)
First it was Horizons...then Vanguard.....what could have been.
SWG
A third for SWG. I actually managed to quit pre all the NGE drama...after grinding all the requirements to become an apprentice bounty hunter and realizing it would take me a minimum of 4-6months of combat experience just to unlock it.
Honorable mention to WoW, but its a solid business model that kept me held for several years...so can't complain too much
And FFXIV I pray doesn't...but I guess I have SW:TOR? if those fail me...D3 will have to do then surely...at least there is always a fall back option...
Vanguard
AoC was the biggest disappointment to me by far.
Second would probably be Darkfall.
Hell hath no fury like an MMORPG player scorned.
It's one thing for a game to never be good.
It is another to have a game be interesting and complex, only to be ruined in the fool's quest for bigger money.
SWG
SWG...duh
Easily SWG.
After following the MO forums for years, even though I didn't buy the game I played in the Open Beta and it killed everything for me. I thought it was the next EVE but it turned out it was the same garbage as the rest.
Other than that I followed Aion and WAR for a while but I tend to notice the game I'm playing is crappy long before going to max level. Both of these were not balanced, boring, "PvP emphasis"games that simply had bad PvP systems....WAR = battleground grind ftw and Aion = The Abyss was meant to be ganked in.
There are no good games. The only two that will really break my heart are two that are getting released next year, Guild Wars 2 and TERA. More GW 2 though, cause Guild Wars was one of my fav all time and GW2 is a game I first read about in a magazine back in 2007. Been trying to follow it ever since, thought it was dead, then got rejuvenated again.
Warhammer when I realised it was more boring than Dr Boring Boringson of Boring Town. Also Star Trek Online maybe hurt the most. A combination of inept and shady buisnes practices and gameplay akin to hitting yourself in the face with a shovel. When I think about what that game could have been it makes me nerd rage like a bad boy.
I was disappointed by WAR and Aion.
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First I fell in love with SWG and then it changed. Then it was Tabula Rasa, who loved me and left. It's like a bad country song, really.
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After playing Vanguard for a while after launch up until I realised that SOE really give a duck about it and they would never make it what it was ment to be made me feel really sad so that I sold all my characters.
I'd have to say EnB broke mine.
Was a sad day when EA shut down the servers
SWG. I poured a lot into the game. Started a clan, built a city, waged war, rp'd three different toons. It felt like a virtual world. NGE wiped it all away though.
What bothers me the most is it's the one mmo in my mind I keep wanting to go back too, but it doesn't exist anymore. So even if I am seeing SWG through rose tinted glasses, I'll never be able to reconcile my memory with current gameplay. My memories will always be of hanging out in the cantina with my guildies, hunting parties gathering resources, mining, crafting, decorating, my pets, etc. There was nothing to do...and there were always a million things to do, lol.
Ditto.
Aion, same as OP. Followed it, played beta, played it live. I'm dissapointed with the game, the publisher, and the community.
"I am the harbinger of hope. I am the sword of the righteous. And to all who hear my words, I say this: What you give to this Empire, I shall give back unto you."
-Empress Jamyl Sarum I
Mortal Online, had very high hopes for it.
Well said and agree with all of it, though I did return in 2007 for 8 months and did really enjoy it again but due to very limited playtime in that year I stopped playing. I still can't figure out how people could get bored with SWG in the first years, but then again in a way I can understand it as many people need their hands hold.
In a way World of Warcraft also broke my heart as it's now seen as the blue print of MMO's
which does NOT mean it's a bad game, it just means that I was hoping MMORPG's would evolve into more virtual worlds instead of becoming just online combat games. But a great deal isn't really the games fault but more the people who came with the years into this genre which is obvious that gamecompany's want to serve the majority of people playing their games.
SWG(NGE)