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Land of the dead and forgoton MMOs *Graveyard MMOs*
eycel
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Simple and to point. List of a few dead and forgoton mmos that were ready to make an impact on people but missed the spot. What did you or didn't you like about it and why?
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Earthrise had a great concept and good hype prior to the release of the game, but the game that released wasn't anything like what the developer described. Most of the features weren't there and it was (and still is) plagued with bugs and performance issues.
Didn't really play any of the others, so I suppose it's possible that one of those other games was as functionally defective, but I'd doubt it.
I can not remember winning or losing a single debate on the internet.
FFXIV and Earthrise are not dead, they may not be successful, but they aren't dead like the rest.
RIP Tabula Rasa
I miss that game.
Fury I never heard of.
Both Matrix and Tabula Rasa are on my "I'm sorry I missed it" list. I have video of TR in beta and it looks so sweet. There's no reason for Matrix to have died. That IP was a perfect fit to make an MMO out of.
I think you forgot a few
Asherons Call 2
Auto Assault
Earth and Beyond
Shadowbane
and Im sure there are a few others Im missing
Tried: EQ2 - AC - EU - HZ - TR - MxO - TTO - WURM - SL - VG:SoH - PotBS - PS - AoC - WAR - DDO - SWTOR
Played: UO - EQ1 - AO - DAoC - NC - CoH/CoV - SWG - WoW - EVE - AA - LotRO - DFO - STO - FE - MO - RIFT
Playing: Skyrim
Following: The Repopulation
I want a Virtual World, not just a Game.
ITS TOO HARD! - Matt Firor (ZeniMax)
ya i was goin to add a few of those but I really didnt get into them as much as the others.
Technically All Points Bulletin should not be listed, Its still the same broken game it was before Gamersfirst turn it into a lame ass Pay to Win noobfest.
Everything about it aside from the $50-$60 dollar permant guns is still the same. Criminals are gimped vs LTL weapons still. Dumptruck noobs still destroy unsuspecting players.Mission balance is non-existant. Still get grouped as a R8 new player with only the mobile supply upgrade(forget its name you get as a rewards from one of the first contacts) against players R180+ full maxed out weapon/character upgrades.
APB.....Still not fixed and just a Pay to win piece of s*@t game now but alive :X
I miss Tabula Rasa I wish that game would have gone Freemium instead of being shutdown.
Well just to age myself, how about Meridian 59 and the orginal NeverwinterNights on AOL (not sure massive applied to that one
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Let the nightmare awaken!
Dark & Light.
FFXIV Despite all the fanboys who will white knight it for no real reason...
However, I guess it's not fair to call it a "dead" mmo since Square is still trying to fix it.
So I guess you can say it's on life-support rather than already dead.
Still, unless they do a super-mega-ultra overhaul, it's as good as 6-feet-under.
Change thread to favorite dead MMOS.
I think I like all the ones that died (that I played).
Earth & Beyond.
It had such potential, but unfortunately, EA succeeded in finally strangling the life out of Westwood studios and that was that. Just another broken corpse in the tyrant's wake.
Dead and no longer running MMO: Asheron's Call 2. Nothing like the original and an overall bad game.
Not quite dead MMO: Horizons. Anyone who has followed MMOs since the early days remembers when Horizons was first announced, a massively ambitious project that sounded like it was going to be absolutely amazing. Then it changed developers, the main guy behind the game left, and what eventually came out was a giant turd that was nothing like what the game was originally described as. Since then I think it's changed developers 3 or 4 times, one of which was basically using it as a giant scam and double charging subscriptions and making it impossible to cancel, and the name of the game has changed. Probably the biggest fail MMO ever.
Lol i didnt even wana go there
yah horizons came out around swg didnt it? I almost decided on it instead of SWG, that would have been even worse the the NGE.
Dark and Light
Horizons
Both games had huge ambitious design goals that really could have made an impact on game design had they come anywhere close to delivering any of it. To bad they both came out the way they finally did.
Ahhhhhhhhhh!!!!
Please do not mention that name again!
DnL, truly the biggest fail MMO ever.
A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true...
The only game I played was Chronicles of Spellborn. It was a good game, but there were almost no players and I do not know why the publisher simply could not get it together. The game had an original concept for skill use and was a lot of fun in the first zone. I started a second zone and then the game went dark. This game is the definition of "wasted potential."
Hedonismbot: Your latest performance was as delectable as dipping my bottom over and over into a bath of the silkiest oils and creams.
You will laugh so hard when you see my review of it, here. Thats been a good while ago, I loved that game although I didnt play it for very long and it was more powerfull then my older alienware I ran it on. I remember always watching this trailer though before the game came out and it would always get me all excited.
Horizons is still going IIRC, now as Istaria and with about 50 players.
My Tabula Rasa is still factory sealed
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Asheron's Call 2 R.I.P ... had SOOO much potential but Turbine had NO IDEA how to make it successful
For some reason, this honestly makes me sad. I didn't even care for TR, but the thought of the box sitting unopened and gathering dust somewhere, never once to be played, kind of puts a fine point on the untimely death of some of these games. Lots of hopes and aspirations, players and developers alike, flushed down the toilet.
It's odd that this is one of the few things I can feel sentimental about.
Wow I forgot about Fury. That was like 2008. I heard great thing about the game, how the devs going to do it. I plan to play it one day when I get a better graphic card. But when it come to that, it already shut down. I am trying to find out why it shut down but all MMO news keep saying that it shutting down without any reason. Why did they shut down?
TR do have a great thing going but really drop the ball. Richard Garriott sued NCSoft for ruining the game. I wonder what the court decision on the lawsuit
The problems with devs and publishers is they are taking on "good enough" attitude that they felt that what they did is good enough. It is the huge example of what MMOs we are seeing. and another one is they are taking on too much work. NCSoft is one of the problem, they are creating too much mmo and some of them already failed. they should work on one mmo and get it to launch without any hiccup as possible. That will make it successful. The publishers should stop pushing devs around (looking at you, EA) and trying to release the game too soon. TR, WAR, STO and others is plagued with this problem and look where they are now? nonexistent or barely functioning. One thing I hope for devs to take on the MMO is to work together with the community or work with another devs and get the MMO right as they should be. Only one can dream!