APB was a huge disappointment for me. I knew as soon as I tried the open beta that it wasn't going to work because of the wonky aiming and steep learning curve.
In all honesty, I never tried either of the other two because of the bad press they were getting from the early betas.
Even though I would like to vote FF XIV, since it was the biggest fail this year, I would have to vote for APB. A game I was actually looking forward to tired it and just when I upgraded my graphics card the company folded.
The gameplay seemed to be a reskined Pirates of the Burning Sea, but pirates was more fun. STO is sadly the only mmo I have purchased but could not even stand to play for the first free month.
I know it came out late 2009, but Fallen Earth takes the second place disappointment award.
* I read most of what Jon Wood writes * He needs more bullet points though
Im still waiting to see what they can do with FFXVI with some smoothing out, so i gotta say APB. Its always nice to see someone try something different, though it hurts us all when it fails, because the next company wil be less likely to try after. Ohh, and I hate(not really) to be a nit picker, but the statement "No one denies the potential of the game, but the “final” product leaves little to be desired." implies to me that the game is near complete/perfect and thus leaves little to be desired...where what i think is meant is that it leaves much to be desired.
Can you add LOTRO to the list it will win by far over these other games.
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Agree. LOTRO had a great potencial with that incredible fantasy world full of posibilities. But now, from all the things the devs could do, they did a poor job with no remarkables features.
From the presented options I chose APB. A great fail.
I agree that 2010 was a downer in general. Also agree that STO was the worst of the ones I tried thankfull I checked it out without spending any cash. It was pants.
Come on 2011 fingers crossed for SWTOR
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I voted for 2010 in general. I understand why some are voting STO...I believe it was pushed out too soon with not enough content at launch. I knew people whom finished the game in 48 hours or so they say they did...and had to grind the rest of the way up the ranks. BUT...it has made improvements and even in the earliest of the wee morning hours I am yet to see EDS empty unlike some games, which go hours wihout a live person in a major area.
Honestly, I had fun in STO. But then again, I basically played the game purely in PVP as a klingon and just leveled to full. Once I hit max the game lost its flavor, and I quit the game.
Its PVE was bland and terrible, but its PVP as a klingon was hilarious. I just always had to laugh at the federation who didn't know how to ball up and protect each other. But I digress.
2010 in general for me. There wasn't anything particularly good to come out. The only honorable mention is Cataclysm. And, honestly, for me, Cataclysm is not good enough to warrent it being a good MMO. It's just WoW's stupid end-game grind put off a tiny bit and the lore decimated once again in some new idiotic fashion. WoW's been old for a long while for me, being someone who has a lot of trouble letting myself get engrossed in that skinner box they call an end-game (grind grind grind grind grind...)
FFXIV was the biggest debacle of the year given how much money and dev power was behind the making of it. Mortal didn't turn out to well, but expectations are a lot lower given how small and limited resources SV had to make it.
Despite this I voted for 2010 in general. This entire year was nothing but garbage for the genre. There's some promising stuff next year, but right now this one goes down in history as falling flat.
As soon as I read the ttitle, I already had STO in mind - - until I saw a much more accurate answer that truly represented my disappointment, '2010 in General'.
MO was a disapointment..a expensive one even. But atleast they tried. APB i liked allot, played it with a friend and had a blast, not the best MMO that came out but still i loved the deep customisation and everything. Shooting could be better, balance needed a huge improvement, but still i had fun.
Final Fantasy is crap, but its only out for a month or 2, lots to fix and its meant for the playstation 3, maybe they improve it, maybe not. But there is one game worse than Final Fantasy. Star Trek Online. So many promises......its out what..almost a year now and still its the same game as it was during the beta. Hardly any content, many bugs, boring in any sense and the planets looking lamer than lame.
While 2010 has generally been a disappointing year it has also been an interesting one.
We have seen MMO's based on huge fanbases fail - STO
We have seen MMO's based on large budgets fail - FF14
We have seen indy companies continue to survive with a quality product albeit with a slow development cycle - Darkfall
We have seen a quality title go F2P and do well - Lotro
And we now see an old classic reinvent itself in WoW
With the hype surrounding 2011 I think we have further to fall should they fail.
It will continue to be interesting.
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I chose APB. I really like the basic idea, ultimately what turned me off was the whole gang-based concept. If you're going to make GTA Online, then make a true sandbox game, where players can be more than just gang-bangers... let us become the pilots, police, ambulance drivers... and the even members of gangs, but let's include construction workers, doctors, front desk clerks. Let the choices the player makes determine whether he's a good guy or a bad guy.
Suppose every player gets a "job", that whenever they are offline, they're considered to be performing that job, with a salary, so when they log on, they can go do whatever... of course, that salary wouldn't be enough; everybody wants more, to buy better equipment, to invest, to get a new car... which leads to missions.
Anybody seen a game like this yet? I'd play it in a heartbeat. Hell, I'd even support an F2P model.
FFXIV is THE BIGGEST dissapointment ever. Star Trek Online ended up being a well handled episodic game. Yeah its grind , yeah its repetitive, but end game episodes that come out now on frequent basis added much better Star Trek flavour to the game and it plays well now.
APB is not the biggest for me. I knew that game is going to die, there was no future for it.
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APB was a huge disappointment for me. I knew as soon as I tried the open beta that it wasn't going to work because of the wonky aiming and steep learning curve.
In all honesty, I never tried either of the other two because of the bad press they were getting from the early betas.
Mortal Online
Such high hopes for that one
Even though I would like to vote FF XIV, since it was the biggest fail this year, I would have to vote for APB. A game I was actually looking forward to tired it and just when I upgraded my graphics card the company folded.
STO
The gameplay seemed to be a reskined Pirates of the Burning Sea, but pirates was more fun. STO is sadly the only mmo I have purchased but could not even stand to play for the first free month.
I know it came out late 2009, but Fallen Earth takes the second place disappointment award.
* I read most of what Jon Wood writes
* He needs more bullet points though
Im still waiting to see what they can do with FFXVI with some smoothing out, so i gotta say APB. Its always nice to see someone try something different, though it hurts us all when it fails, because the next company wil be less likely to try after. Ohh, and I hate(not really) to be a nit picker, but the statement "No one denies the potential of the game, but the “final” product leaves little to be desired." implies to me that the game is near complete/perfect and thus leaves little to be desired...where what i think is meant is that it leaves much to be desired.
Agree. LOTRO had a great potencial with that incredible fantasy world full of posibilities. But now, from all the things the devs could do, they did a poor job with no remarkables features.
From the presented options I chose APB. A great fail.
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I agree that 2010 was a downer in general. Also agree that STO was the worst of the ones I tried thankfull I checked it out without spending any cash. It was pants.
Come on 2011 fingers crossed for SWTOR
I used to visit this site a lot however in recent years it has become the home of negative forum posts, illogical opinions and tantrums so I visit less often.
Played or Beta'd: UO / DAOC / Horizons / EQ2 / DDO / EVE / Archlord / PirateKingsOnline / Tabula Rasa / LOTRO / AOC / Champions / Darkfall / Mortal Online / DCUO / Rift / STO / SWTOR / TSW
I voted for 2010 in general. I understand why some are voting STO...I believe it was pushed out too soon with not enough content at launch. I knew people whom finished the game in 48 hours or so they say they did...and had to grind the rest of the way up the ranks. BUT...it has made improvements and even in the earliest of the wee morning hours I am yet to see EDS empty unlike some games, which go hours wihout a live person in a major area.
Honestly, I had fun in STO. But then again, I basically played the game purely in PVP as a klingon and just leveled to full. Once I hit max the game lost its flavor, and I quit the game.
Its PVE was bland and terrible, but its PVP as a klingon was hilarious. I just always had to laugh at the federation who didn't know how to ball up and protect each other. But I digress.
2010 in general for me. There wasn't anything particularly good to come out. The only honorable mention is Cataclysm. And, honestly, for me, Cataclysm is not good enough to warrent it being a good MMO. It's just WoW's stupid end-game grind put off a tiny bit and the lore decimated once again in some new idiotic fashion. WoW's been old for a long while for me, being someone who has a lot of trouble letting myself get engrossed in that skinner box they call an end-game (grind grind grind grind grind...)
I've tested all the above except for STO, since I didn't like the IP to begin with.
Sadly, APB didn't make it alive. For some odd reason, all the others did make it until present days.
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FFXIV was the biggest debacle of the year given how much money and dev power was behind the making of it. Mortal didn't turn out to well, but expectations are a lot lower given how small and limited resources SV had to make it.
Despite this I voted for 2010 in general. This entire year was nothing but garbage for the genre. There's some promising stuff next year, but right now this one goes down in history as falling flat.
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All of 2010 really. Every game listed has a solid case of being a major disappointment.
FF XIV.
Rift should genuinely be on that list :
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STO was the worst release, but who actually had any expectations anyway?
2010 walks it IMO.
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As soon as I read the ttitle, I already had STO in mind - - until I saw a much more accurate answer that truly represented my disappointment, '2010 in General'.
MO was a disapointment..a expensive one even. But atleast they tried. APB i liked allot, played it with a friend and had a blast, not the best MMO that came out but still i loved the deep customisation and everything. Shooting could be better, balance needed a huge improvement, but still i had fun.
Final Fantasy is crap, but its only out for a month or 2, lots to fix and its meant for the playstation 3, maybe they improve it, maybe not. But there is one game worse than Final Fantasy. Star Trek Online. So many promises......its out what..almost a year now and still its the same game as it was during the beta. Hardly any content, many bugs, boring in any sense and the planets looking lamer than lame.
While 2010 has generally been a disappointing year it has also been an interesting one.
We have seen MMO's based on huge fanbases fail - STO
We have seen MMO's based on large budgets fail - FF14
We have seen indy companies continue to survive with a quality product albeit with a slow development cycle - Darkfall
We have seen a quality title go F2P and do well - Lotro
And we now see an old classic reinvent itself in WoW
With the hype surrounding 2011 I think we have further to fall should they fail.
It will continue to be interesting.
Playing: Darkfall New Dawn (and planning to play Fallout 76)
Favourite games have included: UO, Lineage2, Darkfall, Lotro, Baldur's Gate, SSX, FF7 and yes the original Wizardry on an Apple IIe
STO by a mile....For a franchise that has so much depth, the game is as shallow as it gets.
I chose APB. I really like the basic idea, ultimately what turned me off was the whole gang-based concept. If you're going to make GTA Online, then make a true sandbox game, where players can be more than just gang-bangers... let us become the pilots, police, ambulance drivers... and the even members of gangs, but let's include construction workers, doctors, front desk clerks. Let the choices the player makes determine whether he's a good guy or a bad guy.
Suppose every player gets a "job", that whenever they are offline, they're considered to be performing that job, with a salary, so when they log on, they can go do whatever... of course, that salary wouldn't be enough; everybody wants more, to buy better equipment, to invest, to get a new car... which leads to missions.
Anybody seen a game like this yet? I'd play it in a heartbeat. Hell, I'd even support an F2P model.
2011 looks promising, but so did 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007...
Something makes me suspect we will be here in another year saying "we at least 2012 looks promising"
Hardest to choose from out of all the "awards" so far.
FFXIV is THE BIGGEST dissapointment ever. Star Trek Online ended up being a well handled episodic game. Yeah its grind , yeah its repetitive, but end game episodes that come out now on frequent basis added much better Star Trek flavour to the game and it plays well now.
APB is not the biggest for me. I knew that game is going to die, there was no future for it.