[Award] General: MMORPG.com's Gamescom 2014 Awards

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Now that Gamescom 2014 is behind us, it's time to hand out the awards to the games and developers that made us stand up and take notice.

Read more of Shannon Doyle's and Gareth Harmer's MMORPG.com's Gamescom 2014 Awards.

 

Dreamo84

Is everyone sleeping or am I the first one to read this?

World of Warcraft got best in show! Surely there should be a flood of hatred...

*scratches head*

Stuka1000

Originally posted by Dreamo84

Is everyone sleeping or am I the first one to read this?

World of Warcraft got best in show! Surely there should be a flood of hatred...

*scratches head*

Or just complete apathy.

DamonVile

It's a hard list to find fault with and that's all these threads are ever full of so, people probably just agreed and moved on. If mmorpg wants more posts they should have picked hello kitty online 2 as best in show or something.

Righteous_Rock

It's another episode of Oprah's big giveaways - you get a prize and you get a price and you get a prize and you get a prize ..... 

 

Long Live World Of Warcraft 

I'm Dancing on my grave
I'm Running through the fire
Forever, whenever
Never wanna die
Never wanna leave
Never say goodbye

syriinx

Originally posted by DMKano

Originally posted by DamonVile
It's a hard list to find fault with and that's all these threads are ever full of so, people probably just agreed and moved on. If mmorpg wants more posts they should have picked hello kitty online 2 as best in show or something.

I honestly won't find any fault with any opinion as long as it meets the basic criteria (like games actually being in a somewhat playable state instead of prototype ideas).

Since all the stuff listed is way past "concept" stage, its all good IMO.

 

 

Well one of the winners missed what would seem like the #1 criteria: has to be a game. 

I cant imagine you wouldn't have a problem with that one too.

 

Unless, of course, you were just being biased against a game you don't like in your other thread

saker

says alot about the state of the genre... a sad state...

Zerei

This is the worst award mmorpg.com has ever hosted...

Unknown

Glad Blizzard isn't quietly starting to neglect WoW.  They are out there fighting for more subs.  Standing still, cycling through 6 attacks and a heal, but still fighting!

Unknown

Eh, I'll hold my judgement until I actually see the expansion for WoW.  But do I believe it deserves best in show?  No.

Ariel_Arilon

With Wow's subscribers at about ~7.5 million, that's $112 million... A MONTH.

I would think that as the number of subscribers climbed, the price of subscription should go down, making it more attractable to those sitting on the sidelines due to cost.

A declining subscription cost would encourage both new players to jump in and those who left because they could no longer justify spending $180 (or more) a year for a game.

But hey, silly me, what do I know? :P

DamonVile

Originally posted by Ariel_Arilon
With Wow's subscribers at about ~7.5 million, that's $112 million... A MONTH.

I would think that as the number of subscribers climbed, the price of subscription should go down, making it more attractable to those sitting on the sidelines due to cost.

A declining subscription cost would encourage both new players to jump in and those who left because they could no longer justify spending $180 (or more) a year for a game.

But hey, silly me, what do I know? :P

Off the top of my head I'm going to say how to run a billion dollar company and what thread you're posting in.

Acidon

Originally posted by Ariel_Arilon
With Wow's subscribers at about ~7.5 million, that's $112 million... A MONTH.

Every time someone posts "~X million" subs for WoW, the X gains another half a million. 

That's impressive..

 

I know it's just me and my personal tastes, but I'm not interested in any of those games listed. 

I wish only the best of luck to them however.

handlewithcare

I am glad my taste changed from mmos to the dark souls games.{shared rpg games}

looks to me like all mmos are the same so just buy WOW and play it forever.

iFruit

'Best of show' just goes to show that the present level of game development leaves a lot to be desired..so they picked an obsolete game for it to spite today's developers

BossOfThisGym

Perhaps Blizzard should focus on the movie.

Scalpless

Looks like non-MMOs won this round. The Witcher 3 looks gorgeous, Van Helsing 3 should be good and Mordheim sounds quite interesting, while the others... meh.

Scot

They hype and then they get an award for hyping, you could not make it up.

CrazKanuk

I think the awards are pretty well spot on, especially with WoW. You can say as much as you want how WoW is out-dated or obsolete, but it's still the most relevant MMO on the market. It evolves to suit its core audience and it manages to still make people gush like little school girls. I can't say I'm a fan of some of the changes over the years and the diluting of the mechanics and gameplay, but it's still damn fun to play. The fact that it's an expansion year and they throw together a killer booth isn't all that surprising. The fact that they outclass every other booth in the building, also not surprising. The fact that their cinematics are always bad ass, not even close to be surprising. It's not like WoW hides the fact that it's old and, as much as it seems like Blizz has been trying to kill the game off for the last 5 years, unsuccessfully, they're still just doing it better than anyone else. Period.  

CrazKanuk

Originally posted by DMKano

Originally posted by CrazKanuk
I think the awards are pretty well spot on, especially with WoW. You can say as much as you want how WoW is out-dated or obsolete, but it's still the most relevant MMO on the market. It evolves to suit its core audience and it manages to still make people gush like little school girls. I can't say I'm a fan of some of the changes over the years and the diluting of the mechanics and gameplay, but it's still damn fun to play. The fact that it's an expansion year and they throw together a killer booth isn't all that surprising. The fact that they outclass every other booth in the building, also not surprising. The fact that their cinematics are always bad ass, not even close to be surprising. It's not like WoW hides the fact that it's old and, as much as it seems like Blizz has been trying to kill the game off for the last 5 years, unsuccessfully, they're still just doing it better than anyone else. Period.  

All made possible by WoWs massive profits which are in the billions of dollars.

This is the reason why Blizzard can do things like cinematics that coat 10s if millions of dollars which is simply out of budget for the vast majority of Dev studios.

 

Yup! And as they should! Now if they can simply get their heads around more frequent content releases I think it'll be a step back in the right direction. 

 

People need to remember that it's all about flash and visuals. If there was some guy at GC shooting rainbows out of his ass, he'd probably win best in show. It's all about, what are people still talking about after the show? 

Ikeda

Originally posted by Acidon

Originally posted by Ariel_Arilon
With Wow's subscribers at about ~7.5 million, that's $112 million... A MONTH.

Every time someone posts "~X million" subs for WoW, the X gains another half a million. 

That's impressive..

 

Ok, so name me a game with 3 million players then.... that would be one HALF of the current WoW subs.

I think apathy is the MMORPG award system.  Nothing stands out.  Yay WoW?  I'm not going back again.

CrazKanuk

Originally posted by Ikeda

Originally posted by Acidon

Originally posted by Ariel_Arilon
With Wow's subscribers at about ~7.5 million, that's $112 million... A MONTH.

Every time someone posts "~X million" subs for WoW, the X gains another half a million. 

That's impressive..

 

Ok, so name me a game with 3 million players then.... that would be one HALF of the current WoW subs.

I think apathy is the MMORPG award system.  Nothing stands out.  Yay WoW?  I'm not going back again.

 

Said anyone who ever played WoW. At least once. 

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Slampig

Well, kind of bummed I took time to read the comments. Can't this site just have an official "Crying About WoW Forum" and get it over with?

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Zodos

From the list, Destiny and Witcher 3 are the ones that I'm most looking foward. The rest of it...meh. I didn't go to that show, but, was "No Man's Sky" there? Because, for me, it's gonna be the best indie mmo.