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Saddest cancellation?
Jrod
Member Posts: 234
In the mmo and in (gaming in general ) world there there have been many canceled mmo's that for whatever reason didn't make enough money/release. Which one dissapointed you the most?
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Earth & Beyond without doubt and without equal... RIP
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AC2. I'd love to play that game now, but too bad it's gone forever.
Ultima Online 2. UO was so good until someone decided trammel was a good idea.
What goes around.. is useually a disease
The only cancellation that's ever made me sad was Tactica Online.
All the games listed in the poll were pretty mediocre. Not that they all completely deserved to die, but some of them definitely did.
Without failure, developers will never learn what they need to avoid.
Wish
Mutable Realms announced on Sunday that their MMORPG Wish has been canceled. The project recently started phase two of its beta testing sessions and had receive quite a-bit of praise from the online community. The news comes as a surprise as the game had been downloaded over 62,000 times on FilePlanet, with a total of 68,000 players signed up, and 30,000 player accounts activated within the first three days of the beta’s launch in early January.
Here’s the official word from the Mutable Realms team:
Another good MMO died to early.
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LOL, I couldn't even type that w/a straight face...
For me, the cancellation of Shenmue Online hurt the most.
Motor City Online
SWG
Yes, SWG was canceled. NGE isn't SWG.
Seed. Bar none the only game I played in the last couple years where I could see myself making a home there. The roleplay was great. The community was swell. The developers cared. The style was unique.
Too bad it was released too soon.
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"It's like they took a gun, put it to their nugget sack and pulled the trigger over and over again, each time telling us how great it was that they were shooting themselves in the balls."
--Exar_Kun on SWG's NGE
Sorry but SWG isn't cancelled, regardless of wether you liked the nge patch or not. Title still remains. The only thing that was cancelled with SWG, is your account.
I would have to say Gods and Heroes for me. They had a semi solid product which was already in testing phases. It was just to buggy, the company to cheap, and the team lost all its focus. To bad none of it was trully apparent till after the close. Also i knew a few of the devs over the net and had talked with them after the fall out. Nothing more to say but goodbye, and good writtens. On another note, i wonder what they will do with that code now that they are no longer a company. Im sure most of you think it was crap, but it had some solid points that could have been worked on more. Probably ended up at the bottom of the trash can. So to that i say, GG!
SWG
Earth and Beyond, the game had no equal and still doesn't. Damn you EA.
World of Star Wars is on life-support. 10,000 paying customers can't be wrong, can they?
Mythica
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god i miss E&B.
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Not to be a troller, but if it is trully cancelled, show me proof. This doesnt mean show me the NGE patch notes or showing me statistics of them having only 10k paying customers. If servers are up, its still there. So therefore your wrong!
Hardest cancelation was DAOC. Best game and best bunch of players Ive fought with.
Torrential
Torrential: DAOC (Pendragon)
Awned: World of Warcraft (Lothar)
Torren: Warhammer Online (Praag)
Do you mean the "patch" that starts out as NEW GAME enhancements?
UO2 looked promising.
Do you mean the "patch" that starts out as NEW GAME enhancements?
UO2 looked promising.
Did the NEW GAME enhancement patch change the name. I dont think it did. As stated you may not like the patch, but its name is still considered SWG. Therefore SWG is not dead. Only the people who hated the patch. Trust me, i hated a few VG patches. Probably nothing like what SWG did, but the game is still called Vanguard, not Game Update #2!
Ultima Online 2 definitely.
Probably soon to be Marvel Universe Online I hear...I hope not.
Do you mean the "patch" that starts out as NEW GAME enhancements?
UO2 looked promising.
Did the NEW GAME enhancement patch change the name. I dont think it did. As stated you may not like the patch, but its name is still considered SWG. Therefore SWG is not dead. Only the people who hated the patch. Trust me, i hated a few VG patches. Probably nothing like what SWG did, but the game is still called Vanguard, not Game Update #2!
The NEW GAME enhancement is a level based, 9 cookie cutter profession, easy bake oven game where you can solo a krayt.
SWG was a skill based game with over 30 skill sets you can combine, creating a truely unique character. A game where it wasnt needed but the safest bet to have a 20 man group to rain Darthmir.
Atriarch!!
...Oh what thats not canceled...
Although I still want to play it.
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I was just pointing out a flaw in your logic Mack. The entire NGE was designed to be a new game which is why they titled it as the New Game Experience.
However, calling the NGE a patch is just being deceitful. It was a total game design overhaul that rebooted the game. Saying SWG is the same game now as it once was is like saying Tabula Rasa is the same now as when it was first designed as a game with magic, swords and elves. Both had the name Tabula Rasa.
On topic though I see a couple games I've never heard of. It sounds like this site needs a graveyard forum for us to mourn.
motor city online ,,, deathblow by Ea