What MMO were you incredibly hyped for, but disappointed by more than any other?

GPrestige

Is there an MMO out there that you spent months looking forward to, only to be completely and utterly disappointed in the final product?

You read up on everything, you learned the lore, you knew what the classes and races were inside and out, hell... you could probably be hired by the company you were so devoted. But in the end, it was all a waste of time, and money.

 

For me, without a doubt, it was Age of Conan. I remember hearing about the game well in advance. I had done my research and looked up absolutely everything about it. I built an entirely new computer to be able to play the game. The combat system sounded fantastic, and the setting was amazing. I still get nostalgic when I hear some of the soundtrack from the early part of the game.

Tortage was amazing. I played through it slowly to enjoy every part of it. I figured, "finally, found that perfect MMO to hold me for the next few years."

Then I left Tortage. Those of you who've played it, you know the rest.

 

 

So, what is your 'disaster' MMO?

Skooma2

I have two.   GW2 (a complete antithesis of what I was expecting.)   And, The Chronicles of Spellborn.  It shut its doors so fast I did not have a chance to use the free month I won on this site!  A true disaster.

grndzro

GW2

I immensely enjoyed the PVP in GW and when GW2 didn't live up to the excitment I found in GW1......

Close 2nd was DDO. fully instanced? WTF. No adherance to hitdice......

Yea I was seriously hyped about TCoS as well.

hyllstarter

SWTOR.

DamonVile

Originally posted by GPrestige

 

Then I left Tortage. Those of you who've played it, you know the rest.

 

Yeah talk about unfinished...

gw2 would be my biggest disappointment. When I saw this at pax 2 years before it came out it looked really good. The next year I saw a few things that made me wonder but it still looked good. Actually playing and it's many of the things I don't want in an mmo...although I didn't know it before I experienced them in gw2.

I now know that if an mmo has these features that I need to stay away from it.

Helleri

For me it was a new version of an existing game that let me down. Runescape 3...it never really became a thing.

The big part of Runescape 3 was massive graphical advancement over the previous version of the game by utilizing HTML5. Sadly the browser support just isn't there yet for them to be able to optimize it.

 

The other things is that there was no definitive turning point that said to me  "Okay, with this...Runescape 3 has arrived". They did several major updates such as the Evolution of Combat. And, the New Interface System. The 6th age Content. And, the HTML5 beta itself. But, these things came so incrementally. I still can't see that line where they said "it is now Runescape 3". They didn't release all of this together in one neat package.

 

At the very least the devs admitted that the reached beyond what they were capable of and essentially failed (at least to meet their goals within anything close to the time frame they had initially aimed at). And, they apologized for that and now have instituted the player driven development system. Where a few times a month players vote in-game in guaranteed content polls to direct the course of development for the game.

fantasyfreak112

1.Vanguard

2.Warhammer

3.GW2

GPrestige

Originally posted by Helleri

 

 And, they apologized for that and now have instituted the player driven development system. Where a few times a month players vote in-game in guaranteed content polls to direct the course of development for the game.

Wow, that's a dangerous move. 

ktanner3

Star Trek Online. Was really hyped for that game and followed its development from the time it was first announced to launch. Saw the early warning signs when Cryptic announced just before launch that only Federation would have story content. Launch was a disaster with missions that didn't work and ground combat that was clunky. Plus more bugs than you can shake a stick at. Didn't last beyond two months and was so glad I didn't get suckered into the lifetime deal. Have checked back in the game from time to time and while there has been improvments, it's still an unbearably instanced,buggy and boring game.

Serenes

GW2, I was super excited for it.

 

They lied about almost everything.

I found it in bad taste.

 

The game did have some good points though. WvWvW and Endless dungeons.

boxsnd

GW2. The MMO that turned me from a happy person to a bitter vet.

I was expecting WvW to be a modern version of DAoC RvR (the devs were promising that after all) but it turned out to be a severely unoptimized WoW Wintergrasp.

After the GW2 disaster I am unable to get hyped for any new MMO.

Blazer6992

After all the betas, it's TESO.

 

GODGANONDORF

Guild Wars 2, i loved so much the first one i tought anet would respect the story in someway or at least keep the intrincate story and focus the game on that a narrative of the tyria world but no nstead they began searching for ussles story every 15 days to grind and then dissapear that story so newcomers will never experience it, and if the player misses it its missed forever, just because they want to "hype" the grinding and players to pack all togheter constantly, i played since beta closed, but i abadoned it totally till they return every patch they added and et players play at their own rhytm and stop the "you werent there" achievemt nonsense

SirPKsAlot

Mortal Online

I was so stoked for a Morrowind + Ultima Online hybrid, looked at screenshot after screenshot and being amazed by the melee-based PvP, created a char...got PvP ganked within my first hour. Multiple times.

djazzy

world of warcraft

hfztt

World of Warcraft. And. no. that is not a troll. I really had hoped that they would do something that blew my mind like StarCraft, WArCraft II or Diablo II. Instead I got a game that was more miss that hit in most of its mechanics from my point of view.

Had I not stated playing EVE in 2003 I might have looked differently on WoW, but having experienced a true sandbox (before that was really something you talked about) WoW just felt flat and empty.

Tibernicuspa

Middle Earth Online,

 

which started as sandbox game with the tag line "Live in Middle Earth", with probably the best community in the history of MMOs behind it...as well as veteran sandbox developers.

 

Then 9 months before release, Turbine scrambled the whole project, renamed it Lord of the Rings Online, split up the community, fired the veteran devs and brought in entry levels and interns, and turned it into the soulless WoW clone it is today. Any redeeming value it has was leftover from MEO.

syltmacka

Conan for me.

nariusseldon

UO

Lots of hype from LB before release ... a new online world .. blah blah blah ...

turn out to be very bad game, griefing is rampant and players have to click on a rock forever to level up mining .. not my kind of fun.

 

geel

GW2 and Darkfall. 

Darkfall promised exactly what I wanted but was in my eyes poorly executed.

oubers

TSW, it was next gen gaming and difficult they sayd........it was a theme ride just like the rest and the animations where crap too.

This game was so on rails they should have called it secret train world.

 

Adders

I agree, TSW was a huge let-down, they actually went backwards!

SWTOR was also very, very disappointing.

Tabmowe

So far TESO is one of the biggest dissapointments.unless theres a massive redo i won touch that pos.

TSW was so heartbreakingly bad from what they promised.

 

Mavolence

I was incredibly hyped for Age of Conan. As soon as i got into beta i was like WTF is this and what have the 5000k posts on the forum been about because its not this.

Next was of course Dark and Light was pretty hyped for it and was robbed.

Also was immensley hyped for Warhammer Online. Again played it for a miniscule amount of time and uninstalled it.

 

 

faxnadu

all of them, after world of warcraft there is only one that have keep me playing more than 100 hours is Rift and ye i know its fairly similiar with wow. but believe i get easily hyped up with new games and i have played many many many and tested and what not.

 

now ? i still get excited about upcoming titles but not so much anymore. too many let downs.

Daemonweaver

Originally posted by boxsnd

GW2. The MMO that turned me from a happy person to a bitter vet.

I was expecting WvW to be a modern version of DAoC RvR (the devs were promising that after all) but it turned out to be a severely unoptimized WoW Wintergrasp.

After the GW2 disaster I am unable to get hyped for any new MMO.

Same here totally agree with you. I waited for GWs2 from when it was first announced (I was a GWs1 addict playing upward of 10hrs a day 7 days a week).

Though I played many other MMOs while I waited for GWs2 I could not really treat any of them as a permanent home, I was always waiting for GWs2.

I played all the closed betas, did the pre order the full works and enjoyed the first 2 or 3 weeks but then it got old very very quickly.

Now I am just looking for a home and feel unable to get hyped or excited for anything.