2010 was quite a shittay year for MMO's. Fans of these games aside, there is absolutely nothing remarkable about MMO's in the 1st decade of the new millennium. Here's hoping for 2011.
None of the above. There was nothing this year that deserves to be allowed to even imply acceptance or quality in their marketing copy. I mean really FFXIV was on the list of candidates? What does that tell you about this years offerings?
To the people that are positing here about being "angry" and expressing your opinion. If your mother didn't teach you, I'm going to tell you right now, no one cares. If the companies are making money, it doesn't mean a lick that you are on here complaining about why 2010 was a crap year. If the companies are not making money, they shut it down and move onto something else. It's that simple. The days of one game ruling the roost are DONE. There's enough games being thrown to the public that there is something for everyone, hence they make their money, you don't get what you want and the world moves on.
You want to make a "stellar" MMO, go learn how to code, draw, and run a business and make your own game or get a group of people to do it with. Either way, you'll see that it's not so easy to put one together, nor is is financially viable to cater to a niche market anymore. You HAVE to have enough involved to get a large general populace buying subscriptions so you can pay your bills, your shareholders, and if there's anything left over, yourselves. The dream of the Ultimate MMO Full of Teh Win and Internets is long dead. Get over it. The sooner you do, the sooner you'll be happier and move on with your life.
I'd be interested in seeing how many people actually tried playing these games before saying "what a crap list' it is. We'll never know as there is no way to prove it, but I've never seen such whining in all my life, and it's all instigated by the NOTA option. Thank you MMORPG.com for stooping to the lowest rail of the social ladder here. I've always thought highly of your site as THE place to go for MMO information, but this is downright unprofessional. If I were a game developer I'd pull any money I had with you based on this immature BS. Pick a game of the year, if you don't agree with the choices then shut up, don't vote and go cry in the corner. I could care less how angry you are.
Again, putting the NOTA option here is troll bait, something that I believe is against forum rules here and should be dealt with.
So according to your philosphy , it shows that our OPNION as customer doesn´t count .
That we are forced like marketing strategy nowadays to follow the approved path .
That people has not evolved and the concept is not getting stretched to death .
The problem is that people are evolving that marketing concept has to evolve too .
Not just hype up a product which is junk , and release it on to the audience !
So the none of the above option !!! (that shows what they want to know how many people that would other wise skipped this vote , now have a chance to vote ) shows they are up to date with marketing strategy and wishes of the consumers .
That you are angry , maybe for a personal or company reasons , doesnt mean you do not learn a lesson from this .
And a lesson learned in a cheap way , without having to do a world wide enquiry .
It shows that the current audience is fed up , with none polished products fast money grabs .
That the limit has been reached , isn´t that what makes MMORPG special ? compared to the other sites .
What is the point in a nota option? Surely just not voting would have the same impact? It stands to reason that it's going to massively outvote the others as anoyone who plays a game not on that list and hasn't even tried any of the ones on the list will all vote nota.
The point of nota, rather than just not voting, is to actively express disaffection with the choices offered, thereby
1) making it clear that the voters feel the choice of releases during that period was poor
2) as was said, preventing random_pos_1 game from being able to claim '2010 game of the year as voted by MMORPG.com readers' on their box.
Read the comments for those that bother to put reasons and by presumtion those that can't be bothered. Almost all are along the lines of "well I only played [insert one of the games - usually STO - here] it was shit and I won't be trying any of the others, so nota'.
That's a fkin retarded way of voting for game of the year. In addition it may well be interesting to see how many vote nota but it only really has any merit or interest when compared to previous years, my guess is about 50-75% of any year would get the nota vote because people who are loyal to other games will vote out of stupidity.
For point #2 one of these games will claim game of the year either way.
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This was indeed a weak year. Lots of hype, lots of non-delivered content in general. But most of the games that were nominated didn't bring anything new to the MMORPG world. Games like Vindictus or Perpetuum. Not my type of games, but I can definitely say they're not bad. Still, they are redos of past games. Why was 2010 a bad year for MMO's? Well, it didn't bring anything -new-.
So my vote goes to Mortal Online. It's still very buggy and has a lot of content missing. But it was the only game that innovated. You get an unique feeling playing MO that you don't get in any other mmo's. I have no doubt in my mind that if MO has enough funds to go through 2011, it will be breathtaking
None of the above! Alot of my money spent that went to nothing. I was lured in by hype and thoroughly dissappointed.
Mortal was god-awful IMHO. I literally played for minutes, and minutes only.
Global Agenda is a good MMO...if it were the year 2001.
Lego is Lego. Keep Legos real, not virtual.
STO is an open beta for a sci fi game that is not Star Trek.
Vindictus is not an MMO.
FFIV is pretty with no content.
Perpetuum is too much like Eve.
MMO devs do three things nowadays:
_Try to copy WoW (and either butcher it to death or copy if too much to the point that you might as well play WoW.
_Make cash cow type "Free" games that either look horrible or are boring. (Now don't get me wrong. I am a capitalist and i know that everyone should make money. But if you're charging me for something, it had better be good)
_Try so hard to NOT copy WoW that they go off a beaten path into something that is just awful.
I had to vote for Perpetuum. I like it a lot, and never could get into EvE. There is no emotional content in space, but Perpetuum is on the ground, with fun mechs, and plants, canyons, mountains, etc. The feeling of life, which EvE doesn't have, at least for me.
I would be tempted to vote for LoTRO, because they radically changed how the game works, and still kept it together. A lot of new players discovered LoTRO this year ....
Sorry but if you say you only played Mortal for minutes, then you can't make a review of it. It's obviously not the game for you, since you quit a game10 minutes after starting it.
Sorry but if you say you only played Mortal for minutes, then you can't make a review of it. It's obviously not the game for you, since you quit a game10 minutes after starting it.
so when youre offered a cake made out of dog crap youd have to eat it all to solidify your opinion? Another hopeless fanboi.
Typically, if youre handing out awards, theres no category that has a "screw em all" option. That kind of defeats the point, right? I mean its not like they have that at the Oscars. And if there truly are no real choices that are good enough, why even have the award in the first place? Why not just scrap that category for the year?
Sadly, Im not really surprised at this behavior from the mmorpg.com writing staff. Most have not proven that they are anything more than glorified forum trolls anyway.
Sorry but if you say you only played Mortal for minutes, then you can't make a review of it. It's obviously not the game for you, since you quit a game10 minutes after starting it.
so when youre offered a cake made out of dog crap youd have to eat it all to solidify your opinion? Another hopeless fanboi.
And you're doing a pointless comparison, i guess that pretty much says your level of intelligence and why you only played the game for 10 minutes.
Do you really want me to answer to that? Ok.
When you eat a cake made of crap, the entire cake is a single piece - crap. So once you've had a bit of it, you know the rest. "Once you've seen a star, you've seen em all" right? What if the cake has coconut also, and you hate coconut? Makes it awful for you, cause it's not what you like.
What if the cake had the most splendorous and orgasmich crunch inside of it, right in the middle, just a little bit, and you had to eat past the crap to get to the gold? Can you say that you've experienced the whole cake if you only ate a tiny piece of it's frosting? No, you can't.
And your experience in Mortal basically was this: You made a new character, you saw no world map, no global chat, no guides, no quests, some bugs (and I'm going to say you played it at release probably) and you stopped playing it. In this case, the coconut of the cake were the things that Mortal Online doesn't have, because it doesn't want to have. You don't like it, but you're not the kind of person who enjoys this type of games. MO was not made for you. Same with the cake.
Now, you probably saw bugs and desynch, or server instability. Sure, that's crap. No one likes it. It's the crap from every cake. Its being fixed though. And if you can't bear with it for some time, shame. Thing is, MO has a lot more than that. It has its crunch past all the crap. Thing is, you can't experience it cause you don't know how to review a game.
I admit that I've only played one of the games listed: GA. While good, I wouldn't really consider it a MMO in the traditional sense, but more of an updated and expanded UT with elements of character development. It's fun, it's free, and it can be played as a quick 20 minutes after work. So of the list, I'd have to give it the nod as it was the only one that even remotely interested me.
OK, not quite true. I've long been a Trekkie, since the original series first aired, in fact (yeah, my age shows). But as I watched its development over the last couple of years, I became less and less sanguine about its chances to make it onto my list and, after the release garnered it such poor word-of-mouth, I gave it a pass.
Indeed, 2010 was slim pickings. Fortunately, I had Fallen Earth and RoM to keep me occupied, so I don't feel I missed anything at all. And considering the big GAME OF THE YEAR stuf that would be put up on sites and boxes, I'll go with None of the Above as well.
-- Xix "I know what you're thinking: 'Why, oh WHY, didn't I take the BLUE pill?'"
Sorry but if you say you only played Mortal for minutes, then you can't make a review of it. It's obviously not the game for you, since you quit a game10 minutes after starting it.
Did I say 10 minutes? No. I said minutes. So it could have been anywhere from 2 to a large number. The game looked crappy, played crappy, and was buggy as hell. So yeah if a game has those things then you are right: it is not for me >_>
Sorry but if you say you only played Mortal for minutes, then you can't make a review of it. It's obviously not the game for you, since you quit a game10 minutes after starting it.
so when youre offered a cake made out of dog crap youd have to eat it all to solidify your opinion? Another hopeless fanboi.
And you're doing a pointless comparison, i guess that pretty much says your level of intelligence and why you only played the game for 10 minutes.
Do you really want me to answer to that? Ok.
When you eat a cake made of crap, the entire cake is a single piece - crap. So once you've had a bit of it, you know the rest. "Once you've seen a star, you've seen em all" right? What if the cake has coconut also, and you hate coconut? Makes it awful for you, cause it's not what you like.
What if the cake had the most splendorous and orgasmich crunch inside of it, right in the middle, just a little bit, and you had to eat past the crap to get to the gold? Can you say that you've experienced the whole cake if you only ate a tiny piece of it's frosting? No, you can't.
And your experience in Mortal basically was this: You made a new character, you saw no world map, no global chat, no guides, no quests, some bugs (and I'm going to say you played it at release probably) and you stopped playing it. In this case, the coconut of the cake were the things that Mortal Online doesn't have, because it doesn't want to have. You don't like it, but you're not the kind of person who enjoys this type of games. MO was not made for you. Same with the cake.
Now, you probably saw bugs and desynch, or server instability. Sure, that's crap. No one likes it. It's the crap from every cake. Its being fixed though. And if you can't bear with it for some time, shame. Thing is, MO has a lot more than that. It has its crunch past all the crap. Thing is, you can't experience it cause you don't know how to review a game.
Does that answer your question Mr. M4ko?
btw that was me and not M4ko that said minutes. So you fail. Thanks, M4ko for the backup
Had to go with Perpetuum. Starting playing with the ealry access, and its damn fun. I could never enjoy EvE, bored the hell out of me. But Perpetuum just has a more hands on / direct control approach that I like better.
Typically, if youre handing out awards, theres no category that has a "screw em all" option. That kind of defeats the point, right? I mean its not like they have that at the Oscars. And if there truly are no real choices that are good enough, why even have the award in the first place? Why not just scrap that category for the year?
Sadly, Im not really surprised at this behavior from the mmorpg.com writing staff. Most have not proven that they are anything more than glorified forum trolls anyway.
Sorry i disagree , there isn´t a screw them all option , the none of the above vote maybe is simply a none vote .
There is nothing wrong with that , but its for mmorpg staff nice to know who of there customer base .
Or regulars voted that , instead of hyping a product up on other site , and sending the none mmorpg trolls to get the reward.
So in your rights cause a whole year is full of action movies (something that hardly happens luckily worldwide)
They should win the OSCAR for most dramatic movies , OSCAR for most serious movie , BEST THRILLER .
Cause nothing fits that catogerie ?
Thats what you are saying , that doesn´t make sense to most people .
Then you go on insulting the staff , that wants to offer another option , while the customer base clearer how right how wrong made a choice .
Infact if we did this in 2009 , maybe 2010 would have been a splendid year , with products like warhammer , age of canon .
(nothing wrong aion its just too eastern like that now been slowly westernised)
And we would been happy trough our roofs , instead of buying products that dissapointed most of the consumers .
It sets that polishing and finishing a product is indeed the key to success , instead of giving us BETA products and promises of improvements .
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Wow.
2010 was quite a shittay year for MMO's. Fans of these games aside, there is absolutely nothing remarkable about MMO's in the 1st decade of the new millennium. Here's hoping for 2011.
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By the 1st decade I mean the actual 10-year mark.
Haha...
Title should be which game sucked the least, if that can even be gaged.
I win!!! LOL@U
None of the above. There was nothing this year that deserves to be allowed to even imply acceptance or quality in their marketing copy. I mean really FFXIV was on the list of candidates? What does that tell you about this years offerings?
So according to your philosphy , it shows that our OPNION as customer doesn´t count .
That we are forced like marketing strategy nowadays to follow the approved path .
That people has not evolved and the concept is not getting stretched to death .
The problem is that people are evolving that marketing concept has to evolve too .
Not just hype up a product which is junk , and release it on to the audience !
So the none of the above option !!! (that shows what they want to know how many people that would other wise skipped this vote , now have a chance to vote ) shows they are up to date with marketing strategy and wishes of the consumers .
That you are angry , maybe for a personal or company reasons , doesnt mean you do not learn a lesson from this .
And a lesson learned in a cheap way , without having to do a world wide enquiry .
It shows that the current audience is fed up , with none polished products fast money grabs .
That the limit has been reached , isn´t that what makes MMORPG special ? compared to the other sites .
Read the comments for those that bother to put reasons and by presumtion those that can't be bothered. Almost all are along the lines of "well I only played [insert one of the games - usually STO - here] it was shit and I won't be trying any of the others, so nota'.
That's a fkin retarded way of voting for game of the year. In addition it may well be interesting to see how many vote nota but it only really has any merit or interest when compared to previous years, my guess is about 50-75% of any year would get the nota vote because people who are loyal to other games will vote out of stupidity.
For point #2 one of these games will claim game of the year either way.
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This was indeed a weak year. Lots of hype, lots of non-delivered content in general. But most of the games that were nominated didn't bring anything new to the MMORPG world. Games like Vindictus or Perpetuum. Not my type of games, but I can definitely say they're not bad. Still, they are redos of past games. Why was 2010 a bad year for MMO's? Well, it didn't bring anything -new-.
So my vote goes to Mortal Online. It's still very buggy and has a lot of content missing. But it was the only game that innovated. You get an unique feeling playing MO that you don't get in any other mmo's. I have no doubt in my mind that if MO has enough funds to go through 2011, it will be breathtaking
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None of the Above: I would vote for Minecraft.
drake_hound got it right.
Whoever says our opinion doesn't matter clearly is living in a fantasy world.
Nothing is immortal and people that say crap like this is EXACTLY what is wrong with the world.
It just takes a few years and true colors emerge and games will fall due to stubborn-ness and the money racketeering market.
Anyone out for money alone and not customer satisfaction will eventually dissolve into nothing-ness and be filing for backruptcy.
None of the above! Alot of my money spent that went to nothing. I was lured in by hype and thoroughly dissappointed.
Mortal was god-awful IMHO. I literally played for minutes, and minutes only.
Global Agenda is a good MMO...if it were the year 2001.
Lego is Lego. Keep Legos real, not virtual.
STO is an open beta for a sci fi game that is not Star Trek.
Vindictus is not an MMO.
FFIV is pretty with no content.
Perpetuum is too much like Eve.
MMO devs do three things nowadays:
_Try to copy WoW (and either butcher it to death or copy if too much to the point that you might as well play WoW.
_Make cash cow type "Free" games that either look horrible or are boring. (Now don't get me wrong. I am a capitalist and i know that everyone should make money. But if you're charging me for something, it had better be good)
_Try so hard to NOT copy WoW that they go off a beaten path into something that is just awful.
I had to vote for Perpetuum. I like it a lot, and never could get into EvE. There is no emotional content in space, but Perpetuum is on the ground, with fun mechs, and plants, canyons, mountains, etc. The feeling of life, which EvE doesn't have, at least for me.
I would be tempted to vote for LoTRO, because they radically changed how the game works, and still kept it together. A lot of new players discovered LoTRO this year ....
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Sorry but if you say you only played Mortal for minutes, then you can't make a review of it. It's obviously not the game for you, since you quit a game10 minutes after starting it.
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so when youre offered a cake made out of dog crap youd have to eat it all to solidify your opinion? Another hopeless fanboi.
When do we get to see results? I wanna see 2010 Game of Year: None of the Above
Wow, this was one of the worst years for MMOs ever.
Typically, if youre handing out awards, theres no category that has a "screw em all" option. That kind of defeats the point, right? I mean its not like they have that at the Oscars. And if there truly are no real choices that are good enough, why even have the award in the first place? Why not just scrap that category for the year?
Sadly, Im not really surprised at this behavior from the mmorpg.com writing staff. Most have not proven that they are anything more than glorified forum trolls anyway.
And you're doing a pointless comparison, i guess that pretty much says your level of intelligence and why you only played the game for 10 minutes.
Do you really want me to answer to that? Ok.
When you eat a cake made of crap, the entire cake is a single piece - crap. So once you've had a bit of it, you know the rest. "Once you've seen a star, you've seen em all" right? What if the cake has coconut also, and you hate coconut? Makes it awful for you, cause it's not what you like.
What if the cake had the most splendorous and orgasmich crunch inside of it, right in the middle, just a little bit, and you had to eat past the crap to get to the gold? Can you say that you've experienced the whole cake if you only ate a tiny piece of it's frosting? No, you can't.
And your experience in Mortal basically was this: You made a new character, you saw no world map, no global chat, no guides, no quests, some bugs (and I'm going to say you played it at release probably) and you stopped playing it. In this case, the coconut of the cake were the things that Mortal Online doesn't have, because it doesn't want to have. You don't like it, but you're not the kind of person who enjoys this type of games. MO was not made for you. Same with the cake.
Now, you probably saw bugs and desynch, or server instability. Sure, that's crap. No one likes it. It's the crap from every cake. Its being fixed though. And if you can't bear with it for some time, shame. Thing is, MO has a lot more than that. It has its crunch past all the crap. Thing is, you can't experience it cause you don't know how to review a game.
Does that answer your question Mr. M4ko?
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I admit that I've only played one of the games listed: GA. While good, I wouldn't really consider it a MMO in the traditional sense, but more of an updated and expanded UT with elements of character development. It's fun, it's free, and it can be played as a quick 20 minutes after work. So of the list, I'd have to give it the nod as it was the only one that even remotely interested me.
OK, not quite true. I've long been a Trekkie, since the original series first aired, in fact (yeah, my age shows). But as I watched its development over the last couple of years, I became less and less sanguine about its chances to make it onto my list and, after the release garnered it such poor word-of-mouth, I gave it a pass.
Indeed, 2010 was slim pickings. Fortunately, I had Fallen Earth and RoM to keep me occupied, so I don't feel I missed anything at all. And considering the big GAME OF THE YEAR stuf that would be put up on sites and boxes, I'll go with None of the Above as well.
-- Xix
"I know what you're thinking: 'Why, oh WHY, didn't I take the BLUE pill?'"
This one is simple: Perpentuum
Even though GA and STO are favorites of mine.
I will take the sandbox over the theme park in this case.
Did I say 10 minutes? No. I said minutes. So it could have been anywhere from 2 to a large number. The game looked crappy, played crappy, and was buggy as hell. So yeah if a game has those things then you are right: it is not for me >_>
btw that was me and not M4ko that said minutes. So you fail. Thanks, M4ko for the backup
Had to go with Perpetuum. Starting playing with the ealry access, and its damn fun. I could never enjoy EvE, bored the hell out of me. But Perpetuum just has a more hands on / direct control approach that I like better.
Sorry i disagree , there isn´t a screw them all option , the none of the above vote maybe is simply a none vote .
There is nothing wrong with that , but its for mmorpg staff nice to know who of there customer base .
Or regulars voted that , instead of hyping a product up on other site , and sending the none mmorpg trolls to get the reward.
So in your rights cause a whole year is full of action movies (something that hardly happens luckily worldwide)
They should win the OSCAR for most dramatic movies , OSCAR for most serious movie , BEST THRILLER .
Cause nothing fits that catogerie ?
Thats what you are saying , that doesn´t make sense to most people .
Then you go on insulting the staff , that wants to offer another option , while the customer base clearer how right how wrong made a choice .
Infact if we did this in 2009 , maybe 2010 would have been a splendid year , with products like warhammer , age of canon .
(nothing wrong aion its just too eastern like that now been slowly westernised)
And we would been happy trough our roofs , instead of buying products that dissapointed most of the consumers .
It sets that polishing and finishing a product is indeed the key to success , instead of giving us BETA products and promises of improvements .
Vindictus is the best game on the list but yea like the other guys said its isn't exactly your typical MMO.
Sad that a F2P game has more polish than many of those retail releases this year.