Least Fun: Star Wars Galaxies ( Korean f2p games are funner) Most Desolate: Star Wars Galaxies (the free vet trials aren't enough to pretend someone's playing it) Worst Use of Popular IP or License: Star Wars Galaxies (Jedi?) Lamest Launch: Gods and Heroes (it needs to be here) Most Likely to be Cancelled in 2008: Star Wars Galaxies Biggest Stinker: Star Wars Galaxies
Dark and Light (it is still around though SWG:NGE is close...)
Most Desolate:
Vanguard
Worst Use of Popular IP or License:
Star Wars Galaxies
Lamest Launch:
Vanguard (A Case Study of what not to do for a launch)
Most Likely to be Cancelled in 2008:
Star Trek Online
Biggest Stinker:
Vanguard (Long Live the Vision... Oh, the Vision is Dead... Long Live...mmm, what do we call it now?)
And that is why...
Conservatives' pessimism is conducive to their happiness in three ways. First, they are rarely surprised -- they are right more often than not about the course of events. Second, when they are wrong they are happy to be so. Third, because pessimistic conservatives put not their faith in princes -- government -- they accept that happiness is a function of fending for oneself. They believe that happiness is an activity -- it is inseparable from the pursuit of happiness.
Yea I have to agree there MOST of the votes are in fact invaild as IF it's ment to be '07's games and SWG and PotBS aren't '07 releases (if your gonna bash PotBS put in the the 'failed in '08' bit), this 'award' voting is troll bait, and TBH we should have a list of options and tick boxes to select (like the best award voting we did)...
But seeing as their isn't
Worst Graphics:
Good graphics are always in the eye of the beholder however gun to head I'd say..
Pirates of the Carabian Online - with the money they have with the P2P 'feature' they could have made it look so much better (even Square Enix did a better job with it in Kindom Hearts 2, all they really had to do was 'borrow' from that)
Least Fun:
Fury - It's just basic battleground/arena battles from WoW or GW which TBH have more meaning to the players (yea I said somthing positive about WoW's PVP) and both are more value for money (even if it's just gone F2P)
Most Desolate:
Vanguard: SOH - The fact it was pushed out with a broken engine killed it
Worst Use of Popular IP or License:
Pirates of the Carabian Online - It's just a gimmick money spinner, even PotBS seems better and thats just hit open beta
Lamest Launch:
Vanguard SOH - again the broken engine killed it
Most Likely to be Cancelled in 2008:
Star Trek: Online - with the current sueing and the fact the orginal dev company took this HUGE IP and dropping their own game for it even when they couldn't cope with just the one MMO for a small company, hence why the company folded, they should have stuck with their own game, G&H could have been good
Biggest Stinker:
Hellgate: London - For one this shouldn't EVER be classed as a MMO, it's just a singleplayer game with paid for mutliplayer options, it's instanced, it's FAR to liner to have any freedom as MMO do have (even DDO and GW although also heavily instanced allowed you to pick your own path not force to down the same path to 'unlock' the areas).
Secondly i'm highly disapointed with Flagship 'from the people that brought you Diablo..' shame they just brought across the basic ideas already redone in about 6/7 'Diablo like' games and just slapped a FPS combat system to it, from experience and based off those 'clones' you would have thought they would have understood the likes and dislikes about the gener.. Hell if they were gonna opt for the 'FPS' style type RPG, they should have looked at Elderscrolls or at least Halflife..
'Sprital successor to Diablo' Hellgate isn't, irronically I hear their other game Mythos is more like the 'Diablo' style, and thats going to be F2P mostly I wonder which one out of the two the 'Diablo' playerbase would enjoy when it gets released?
Why are people voting for Dungeon Runners and Sword of the New World? If we are opening this up to free-to-play games, there are far, far, FAR worse games in every category than anything mentioned so far.
Horizons (Stop voting for Hellgate just because the first person did it. I bet most of you wouldn't even think of hellgate if you were not reminded by the first poster.)
Last year, I voted SWG in all categories, and it won nearly every category, but this year I'm going to do something different. I'm only going to vote in one category:
Most likely to be canceled in 2008, and to that award, I honor Fury.
There should be a category for worst developer and worst publisher, I think the award would go to Perpetual and SOE respectively.
Comments
Worst Graphics:
Pirates of the Caribbean online
Least Fun:
Fury
Most Desolate:
Fury
Worst Use of Popular IP or License:
Star Wars Galaxies
Lamest Launch:
Fury
Most Likely to be Cancelled in 2008:
Fury
Biggest Stinker:
Fury
Did I mention Fury?
Worst Graphics: Roma Victor
Least Fun: Hellgate: London
Most Desolate: Dark age of Camelot
Worst Use of Popular IP or License: The Matrix Online
Lamest Launch: Vanguard: Saga of Heroes
Most Likely to be Cancelled in 2008: Star Trek: Online
Biggest Stinker: Hellgate: London
MMO's Played: 20 , Closed Beta: 9 , Open Beta: 3 , Currently:Warhammer Beta
Guild: Futilez
A little bit to easy huh?
Why are people voting on PotBS? This is for MMOs released in 2007. Save your hatred for it for next year.
Worst Graphics:
Dark and Light (it is still around)
Least Fun:
Dark and Light (it is still around though SWG:NGE is close...)
Most Desolate:
Vanguard
Worst Use of Popular IP or License:
Star Wars Galaxies
Lamest Launch:
Vanguard (A Case Study of what not to do for a launch)
Most Likely to be Cancelled in 2008:
Star Trek Online
Biggest Stinker:
Vanguard (Long Live the Vision... Oh, the Vision is Dead... Long Live...mmm, what do we call it now?)
And that is why...
Conservatives' pessimism is conducive to their happiness in three ways. First, they are rarely surprised -- they are right more often than not about the course of events. Second, when they are wrong they are happy to be so. Third, because pessimistic conservatives put not their faith in princes -- government -- they accept that happiness is a function of fending for oneself. They believe that happiness is an activity -- it is inseparable from the pursuit of happiness.
Well Here I go.
Worst Graphics:
Dungeon Runners
Least Fun:
Star Wars Galaxies
Most Desolate:
Star Wars Galaxies
Worst Use of Popular IP or License:
Star Wars Galaxies
Lamest Launch:
Vanguard
Most Likely to be Cancelled in 2008:
Star Trek Online(at least PE's version)
Biggest Stinker:
Star Wars Galaxies
Playing Fallen Earth.
Worst Graphics:
2Moons
Least Fun:
Metin 2
Most Desolate:
Dark and Light
Worst Use of Popular IP or License:
World of Warcraft
Lamest Launch:
Vanguard
Most Likely to be Cancelled in 2008:
Star Trek Online
Biggest Stinker:
Star Wars Galaxies
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In memory of Laura "Taera" Genender. Passed away on August 13, 2008.
Worst Graphics:
Ryzom Online
Least Fun:
Lord of the Rings Online
Most Desolate:
Vanguard: SOH
Worst Use of Popular IP or License:
Lord of the Rings Online
Lamest Launch:
Vanguard: Saga of Heroes
Most Likely to be Cancelled in 2008:
The Matrix Online
Biggest Stinker:
Hellgate: London
www.willofchaos.com
Yea I have to agree there MOST of the votes are in fact invaild as IF it's ment to be '07's games and SWG and PotBS aren't '07 releases (if your gonna bash PotBS put in the the 'failed in '08' bit), this 'award' voting is troll bait, and TBH we should have a list of options and tick boxes to select (like the best award voting we did)...
But seeing as their isn't
Worst Graphics:
Good graphics are always in the eye of the beholder however gun to head I'd say..
Pirates of the Carabian Online - with the money they have with the P2P 'feature' they could have made it look so much better (even Square Enix did a better job with it in Kindom Hearts 2, all they really had to do was 'borrow' from that)
Least Fun:
Fury - It's just basic battleground/arena battles from WoW or GW which TBH have more meaning to the players (yea I said somthing positive about WoW's PVP) and both are more value for money (even if it's just gone F2P)
Most Desolate:
Vanguard: SOH - The fact it was pushed out with a broken engine killed it
Worst Use of Popular IP or License:
Pirates of the Carabian Online - It's just a gimmick money spinner, even PotBS seems better and thats just hit open beta
Lamest Launch:
Vanguard SOH - again the broken engine killed it
Most Likely to be Cancelled in 2008:
Star Trek: Online - with the current sueing and the fact the orginal dev company took this HUGE IP and dropping their own game for it even when they couldn't cope with just the one MMO for a small company, hence why the company folded, they should have stuck with their own game, G&H could have been good
Biggest Stinker:
Hellgate: London - For one this shouldn't EVER be classed as a MMO, it's just a singleplayer game with paid for mutliplayer options, it's instanced, it's FAR to liner to have any freedom as MMO do have (even DDO and GW although also heavily instanced allowed you to pick your own path not force to down the same path to 'unlock' the areas).
Secondly i'm highly disapointed with Flagship 'from the people that brought you Diablo..' shame they just brought across the basic ideas already redone in about 6/7 'Diablo like' games and just slapped a FPS combat system to it, from experience and based off those 'clones' you would have thought they would have understood the likes and dislikes about the gener.. Hell if they were gonna opt for the 'FPS' style type RPG, they should have looked at Elderscrolls or at least Halflife..
'Sprital successor to Diablo' Hellgate isn't, irronically I hear their other game Mythos is more like the 'Diablo' style, and thats going to be F2P mostly I wonder which one out of the two the 'Diablo' playerbase would enjoy when it gets released?
Bring on the WARRRRGGHH!
Worst Graphics:
Roma Victor
Least Fun:
Star Wars Galaxies
Most Desolate:
Star Wars Glaxies
Worst Use of Popular IP or License:
Star Wars Galaxies
Lamest Launch:
Vanguard
Most Likely to be Cancelled in 2008:
Star Wars Galaxies
Biggest Stinker:
Star Wars Galaxies
"The man who exchanges Liberty for Iconic classes is a fool deserving of neither." - Me and Ben Franklin
Worst Graphics:
Dungeon Runners
Least Fun:
Vanguard
Most Desolate:
Vanguard
Worst Use of Popular IP or License:
Lord of the Rings Online
Lamest Launch:
Vanguard
Most Likely to be Cancelled in 2008:
Tabula Rasa
Biggest Stinker:
Vanguard
Worst Graphics:
Star Wars Galaxies
Least Fun:
Star Wars Galaxies
Most Desolate:
Star Wars Galaxies
Worst Use of Popular IP or License:
Star Wars Galaxies
Lamest Launch:
Tabula Rasa
Most Likely to be Cancelled in 2008:
Tabula Rasa
Biggest Stinker:
Star Wars Galaxies
Worst Graphics:
Dungeon Runners
Least Fun:
Dungeon Runners
Most Desolate:
D&D O
Worst Use of Popular IP or License:
World of Warcraft
Lamest Launch:
Fury
Most Likely to be Cancelled in 2008:
Any game involving pirates.
Biggest Stinker:
Dungeon Runners
~~~ Currently Playing ~~~
LOTRO- Guardian Wrymstrum & Lore-master Stabler on Nimrodel.
Conan- Zoltar <Angels of Death> Guardian on Stormrage.
Worst Graphics:
Fury
Least Fun:
Archlord
Most Desolate:
Vanguard: SOH
Worst Use of Popular IP or License:
Star Wars Galaxies
Lamest Launch:
Vanguard
Most Likely to be Cancelled in 2008:
Star Trek: Online
Biggest Stinker:
dunno...
Worst Graphics:
Roma Victor
Least Fun:
Hellgate London
Most Desolate:
Dark and Light/Rubies of Eventide
Worst Use of Popular IP or License:
Lord of the Rings Online
Lamest Launch:
Vanguard/Fury
Most Likely to be Cancelled in 2008:
Fury/Ryzom
Biggest Stinker:
Dark and Light
My opinions
Worst Graphics:
Pirates of the Burning Sea
Least Fun:
Pirates of the Burning Sea
Most Desolate:
SWG closeley followed by VG
Worst Use of Popular IP or License:
SWG
Lamest Launch:
Vanguard so much promise and what a failiure delivered
Most Likely to be Cancelled in 2008:
SWG on announcment of KOTOR online
and i shall rejoice
Biggest Stinker:
Pirates of the Burning Sea
Worst Graphics:
World of Warcraft
Least Fun:
Vanguard
Most Desolate:
Vanguard
Worst Use of Popular IP or License:
Star Wars Galaxies
Lamest Launch:
Vanguard
Most Likely to be Cancelled in 2008:
Fury
Biggest Stinker:
Vanguard
Guildleader, Mithril Council, Chaos
Worst Graphics:
Fury
Least Fun:
Swg
Most Desolate:
Swg
Worst Use of Popular IP or License:
Swg
Lamest Launch:
Vanguard: SoH
Most Likely to be Cancelled in 2008:
Swg
Biggest Stinker:
Swg
Worst Graphics:
Dungeon Runners
Least Fun:
Dungeon Runners
Most Desolate:
Dark & Light ?
Worst Use of Popular IP or License:
SWG
Lamest Launch:
Vanguard
Most Likely to be Cancelled in 2008:
Dark & Light
Biggest Stinker:
Dark & Light
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"Some days you just can't get rid of a bomb." -- Batman
Why are people voting for Dungeon Runners and Sword of the New World? If we are opening this up to free-to-play games, there are far, far, FAR worse games in every category than anything mentioned so far.
Worst Graphics:
2 moon
Least Fun:
Star Wars Galaxies
Most Desolate:
Star Wars Galaxies
Worst Use of Popular IP or License:
Star Wars Galaxies
Lamest Launch:
Dark and Light
Most Likely to be Cancelled in 2008:
Star Wars Galaxies
Biggest Stinker:
Dark and Light
Worst Graphics:
9Dragons
Least Fun:
9dragons
Most Desolate:
Vendetta online
Worst Use of Popular IP or License:
SWG/Matrix tied. Can I just say SOE?
Lamest Launch:
Vanguard, again with SOE.
Most Likely to be Cancelled in 2008:
SWG. Someone please shoot this lame horse. It will live until Bioware/Lucas arts go public
Biggest Stinker:
Sony Online Entertainment
SHOHADAKU
Worst Graphics:
Neocron (but I still love it)
Least Fun:
World of Warcraft
Most Desolate:
Star Wars Galaxies
Worst Use of Popular IP or License:
Star Wars Galaxies
Lamest Launch:
Fury
Most Likely to be Cancelled in 2008:
The Saga of Ryzom
Biggest Stinker:
Horizons (Stop voting for Hellgate just because the first person did it. I bet most of you wouldn't even think of hellgate if you were not reminded by the first poster.)
Last year, I voted SWG in all categories, and it won nearly every category, but this year I'm going to do something different. I'm only going to vote in one category:
Most likely to be canceled in 2008, and to that award, I honor Fury.
There should be a category for worst developer and worst publisher, I think the award would go to Perpetual and SOE respectively.