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Top 7 mmo board on mmorpg.com
PerryPanther
Member Posts: 149
Well i must do this and it proves alot of points.... Lets take a stroll down the mmorpg.com top seven mmo's ..........
1. Lotr - why well tolkien and its new
2. eq2 - why no kiddies and its a great game around
3. guild wars - why cause it free
4. dark age of camelot - very good game for its time and its still kicking butt
5. city of villians - i have no clue!
6. eve online - well great graphics but game play welll.....
7. city of heros - look at number 5
NOW notice no wow interesting for the fanbois of wow ... where is it hmmm dont see it cause it's fallinf fast...we tried to tell ya and oh eq 2 notice is number 2 lol!!!!!!! GO SOE!!!!
Comments
1. Lotr - Mainly because its new and lotr, not a bad game just nothing really new.
2. eq2 - Really immersive game.. tons of stuff to do.. good community
3. guild wars - Not a bad game at all but once you have got through it all then the PVP side of things cant hold you for long.
4. dark age of camelot - Only played for a short tiem.. but it seemed pritty good but is now a bit outdated graphics wise. Still lots of thing to do
5. city of villians - errm city of heroes with new skins... not sure why its here same as cit of heroes..
6. eve online - A very good game.. but takes tons of time to get into.. very high lurning curve.
7. city of heros - Not sure.. okish game jsut tons of grinding.. seems to be the only thing to do.. better games out there no idea why its in the top 7 other than its very easy to get into and play..
(i dont play WOW)
This proves nothing.
However, numbers of subscriptions proves everything.
True. EQ2 is seen as some sort of god over all games and WoW is the example of how no game should ever be. In the end Blizzard earns more cash than the most other games out there, no matter how high rating they got on mmorpg.com.
True. EQ2 is seen as some sort of god over all games and WoW is the example of how no game should ever be. In the end Blizzard earns more cash than the most other games out there, no matter how high rating they got on mmorpg.com.
Of course wow makes more money and have more subscriptions....... Look at the kiddies...wow is based for the kiddies to where eq2 is mature based ... that is a huge difference. Wow can keep the kiddies too gotta love those cartoonish graphics lol..
"when you want to play a real game and be in a mature community play eq2 it's worth it"
True. EQ2 is seen as some sort of god over all games and WoW is the example of how no game should ever be. In the end Blizzard earns more cash than the most other games out there, no matter how high rating they got on mmorpg.com.
Of course wow makes more money and have more subscriptions....... Look at the kiddies...wow is based for the kiddies to where eq2 is mature based ... that is a huge difference. Wow can keep the kiddies too gotta love those cartoonish graphics lol..
"when you want to play a real game and be in a mature community play eq2 it's worth it"
It's funny, but the last few survey's I've seen have shown that the average age of a WoW player was 26.7ish.
Of course maybe it's not rated as high, because they are too busy playing to bother posting?
WoW has been off that list for many months, I think over half a year now.
If we look at the press releases, we see that during those six months, WoW's subscribers numbers keep rising, while the rankings here kept dropping.
So what does that tell us kids? Thats right, the rankins on the front page of mmorpg.com means absolutely nothing. They are not related to the popularity of a game, or its quality.
Latest survey show us that the average age of WoW players is 27.
Thread ends..
This site is 100% geared towards attracting people to new games, people who frequent here are searching for new games to play. Deep down that is why we are all here, because we want to know about the next great thing or we are not entirely satisfied with our current MMO.
If by World of Warcraft "falling fast" you mean that for over two years it is still on the top ten best selling software titles each month, then yes you are right. All those millions of dollars in new sales must be killing the company as this chart so accurately depicts.
If by good job SOE with EQ2 because it is still merging servers due to slacking population, then yes you are right.
Thank you for taking the time out of your busy day to set the records straight. You can put your head back in the sand now.
You dont see it here rated as no 1 because:
1. A few milion of the player base are too casual "to visit and register" to be able to rate anything on MMO related sites.
When they got free time they just wanna play.
2. A few other milion are from Asia. they dont know/care about EU/US mmo sites.
3. A few milion are small children that just play.
4. The rest never heard of mmorpg.com or would never bother to rate games.
The hardcore gamers that are here didnt give a high score probably because they played it got bored, got over it or they just simply arent into the cartoonish kind of graphics.
But we all know...WoW is the king. maybe not the most loved game out there but the most played.
I for one got bored with it but I still got an active account and check whats new pretty often and do some casual BG PVP.
No other game kept me as a subscriber for so long
This is NOT a hardcore site. If anything the biggest reason WoW fell in the rankings was its hardcore endgame. Its casual game pre level 60 received high marks here, but a lot of people changed their minds when they reached 60
I never said that it was plummeting like a rock, just making a realistic comparison. You can theorize on how people secretly hate WoW all you want if you think that is what is happening. The truth is that the game is still in the best selling list month after month and the active subscription rate broke 8 million.
You are right though, they have not released a new milestone announcement of breaking 9 million ACTIVE subscribers. Maybe it has tapered off or is declining. Time will tell.
However, SOE was seen posting 800k total subscribers in 2005 and 600k in 2006. I feel accurate in saying that populations are slacking. You call it whatever you want. Seeing that I can't even find a single SOE game on the shelves in my home towns Best buy, compusa (now gone), Circut city or gamestop I don't expect any raise in populations.
I never said that it was plummeting like a rock, just making a realistic comparison. You can theorize on how people secretly hate WoW all you want if you think that is what is happening. The truth is that the game is still in the best selling list month after month and the active subscription rate broke 8 million.
You are right though, they have not released a new milestone announcement of breaking 9 million ACTIVE subscribers. Maybe it has tapered off or is declining. Time will tell.
However, SOE was seen posting 800k total subscribers in 2005 and 600k in 2006. I feel accurate in saying that populations are slacking. You call it whatever you want. Seeing that I can't even find a single SOE game on the shelves in my home towns Best buy, compusa (now gone), Circut city or gamestop I don't expect any raise in populations.
World of Warcraft was just easy to pick up and play. That was what the dev's were gunning for: bring new people into the genre because the game is easy to play. Thats where EQ2 and most of the others fail, you cannot just pick up and play as easily as WoW. Most of the communities, are elitists in the other games. I must admit though in Everquest 1, I met some of the nicests people I ever met in a game.
No, I do not play World of Warcraft, I did at one point but it got boring.
2: Guild Wars: Factions, because GW is amazing
3: Guild Wars: Nightfall, because GW is amazing
4: Everquest 2, because EQ2 is what a traditional mmo is all about
5: Guild Wars: Prophecies, because GW is amazing
6: City of Villians, not really sure why
7: Dark Age of Camelot, because it was great when it was new and nothing has managed to replace it yet
8: City of Heroes, maybe people like the character customization
9: EVE, it isnt in first anymore because CCP got in trouble with its playerbase
.... a bunch of okay games ...
... some crappy games....
... some really crappy games....
...and finally:
19: World of Warcraft, really popular game, but casual gamers dont visit this site, only mmorpg players do, and seeing how WoW isnt much compared to other mmos, its low on the list, especially for how much it cost to make.
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