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Worst MMORPGs ever made
mindw0rk
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There are alot of topics trying to find which MMO is the best, here we discuss exact opposite. Please, dont include decent and popular titles which you just hate (WoW, RIFT, Lineage2). Name the worst, disgusting and unplayable online trash you've ever encountered.
Two games that top my list are:
Metin 2 - just about everything in this game sucks. Graphics makes you vomit, most of the time you do nothing but grinding, which is especially bad since combat is horrible. World feels like random generated and quests are beyond bad. Lowerest tier among all korean grinders.
Mortal Online - game made by bunch of people who had no clue how to make games. At release MO was just an engine, empty world where you could do basically nothing. Still devs claimed it is sandbox. With numerous bugs, crashes, horrible UI and no content its even worse that Metin 2.
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There's even more about this side of the subject... and we all know why they keep coming up.
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~fine, I'll bite. Maple Story.
I like 2d sidescrollers just fine, but the moment I saw how steep the leveling curve is I said "Nooooooo!!!". Then when I saw other players using hacks to yank everything on the map and level afk, I said "Hell no!". It's like a game that just doesn't care, from my experience.
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Now Playing: Skyrim, Wurm Online, Tropico 4
Waiting On: GW2, TSW, Archeage, The Rapture
Knight Online is the worst mmo.
The worst that I've played is Runescape. But I'd like to think that I'm sharp enough to avoid the truly awful games, so there are probably worse games out there. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that Stargate Worlds was the single worst MMORPG ever made. It got cancelled after people figured out that it was a Ponzi scheme, and then funding ran out and the Stargate license got yanked. But it never made it to release, so we can't know just how awful it was.
Dark and Light
"Id rather work on something with great potential than on fulfilling a promise of mediocrity."
- Raph Koster
Tried: AO,EQ,EQ2,DAoC,SWG,AA,SB,HZ,CoX,PS,GA,TR,IV,GnH,EVE, PP,DnL,WAR,MxO,SWG,FE,VG,AoC,DDO,LoTRO,Rift,TOR,Aion,Tera,TSW,GW2,DCUO,CO,STO
Favourites: AO,SWG,EVE,TR,LoTRO,TSW,EQ2, Firefall
Currently Playing: ESO
Planetside
Darkfall. The sandbox that wasn't.
Honorable mention goes to Age of Conan, a game that missed every mark according to their stated vision.
Hell hath no fury like an MMORPG player scorned.
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SWTOR
FFXIV
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Here you go:
1. Star Wars Galaxies - after 4 months of it's original release and all the nerf's
2. Just about all Asian mmorpg's
3. UO Third Dawn - was just about unplayable
4. SWTOR
5. Darkfall
The worst MMO I have every played is probably RF online, or Rising Force Online. My standards now would have kept me from playing as long as I did.
Philosophy of MMO Game Design
Alganon - took "wow-clone" far too literally, even using the same world maps & an identical UI
Star Wars Galaxies (because the amount of whining & angst coming from this game far outshadows every other that ever existed, seems more people were angry about SWG than ever played it)
TERA - created using stolen code, and still subject to lawsuits all over the place.
FFXIV
(think yours is worse...lets compaire)
Did your P2P MMO go F2P....IN THE FIRST 2 MONTHS?!
Did your MMO get trashed and redesigned in the first year?
Was your MMO so bad that the ENTIRE dev managment team got canned?
I win.
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Look up a game called "Fury" ticked me of so much i went with the exrta efforts and took a wiz on the box.
Mortal Online: Shoddy from the start. Collector's edition had a half blank art book, and a non working game CD. Patcher was fan made and barely worked. Game was clearly unfinished upon release. And then there were all the lies and scams from the developers. Aviod aviod aviod.
Maplestory: AKA Grinding, the MMO. The community is godawful, too.
Star Trek Online: Souless, unimaginative game that craps all over the IP it's based on. There's far more to star trek than just standing and shooting crap. Go see angry Joe's review, or play the game itself, since it's gone F2P, to know what I mean.
Meridian 59: I'm going to get some flack for saying this, but there is a reason this game is barely remembered. Very limited character options, bad controls (They were like daggerfall, only worse), and very little to do. No wonder UO overshadowed this game.
I'm not going to rag on SWTOR. Yes, the game is sub-par and blatantly copies from WoW, but it's far from the worst game out there. It's at least playable.
Runescape isn't terrible, especially when you consider that it's a web browser based game written in java that first came out in 2001. It's an impressive game given the circumstances, and I will give credit where credit is due.
Darkfall... yeah, not a great game, but it would not have taken much to fix it. Add a skill cap, remove the need to grind individual abilities, get rid of surging, fix the UI, and add a little polish. Do all that, and the game would have been good. Sadly, the developer sucks and never bothered to fix these things.
Dont know about worst ever made but the worst ive ever played / tried is STO.
Really? This game sucks and Im not having fun? Im going to unsub right now. Thanks for the tip.
Furcadia - no combat. . what?
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Uhh.... all of the cash grabing F2Ps made these days?
I will not play a game with a cash shop ever again. A dev job should be to make the game better not make me pay so it sucks less.
The Sims Online.
Hooooo boy
I think you mean Evony. But yeah, that game at least deserves recognition for the most awful ad campaign ever. No idea if the game is as bad as the ads were.
I think F2P and Sub based games need a seperate list here. There are so many low quality F2P titles that I can't stand playing for more than 5 minutes, where most sub based games are at least fun for a little while. The only sub game that can come close in comparison to my top 10 worst MMORPGs (F2P) is Mortal Online. Even FFXIV is better than a lot of F2P games.
As for other games I dropped quicker than a hot rock would have to be Swtor, STO and L2.
+1
I missed out on the fiasco of Dark and Light - no personal experience with that train wreck
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In order:
4) Irth: Unfinished mess. Was this ever a game?
3) Xsyon: I know some enjoy it but I call it an unfinished mess with not much to do.
2)Mortal Online: Buggy, unpolished game full of potential but empty on delivery.
and number one.....
The ponzi scheme known as Dark & Light. A craptastic POS whose dev was more carnival barker than competent game designer.
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