I'd have to go with Star Trek Online. When I found out during beta that it was almost a copy and paste of Champion's Online except with even less stuff to do, it allowed me to walk away wishing for something else.
Mortal Online is pretty much what I expected to see. An underfunded project done by people who didn't have much of a clue as to what they were getting into.
Final Fantasy XIV wasn't disappointing. It was pretty much what I expected it to be. An MMO with a less than stellar interface. I'm not who they made the game for.
I was just not interested in All Points Bulletin. When I heard it's payment scheme was bascally paying by the hour I lost the last bit of interest in it. It had nothing I cared about so I'm not disappointed.
"I used to think the worst thing in life was to be all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone." Robin Williams
Why do people keep saying things like LOTRO and Rift etc. It is for games released in 2010 is it not?
That LOTRO went F2P can be the biggest disappointment to some people, but I think they misunderstood the poll a bit. I thin we all can understand that not everyone likes a big change like that, particularly some of the people that bought those discount life time subs the week before the announcement.
Rift is still in beta so people voting it is just trolls and the same go for everyone voting a game that isn't out yet.
My nomination for the biggest disappointment of the year: LEGO Online! They had a lot to live up to and they fell flatter than possible - the beta was only open for like 30 days or so and if it was longer you can be sure there would be more people nominating that one. In fact I think the people that made it never even played an MMO before it was that bad!
I chose all the above. How anyone can't consider every one of those a disappointment just begs an assessment of honesty
Thats unfair, just because you and I don't like them doesn't mean everyone else share our taste.
You can't assume that everyone who has an opposite opinion then you is lying....
That's not unfair. It's honest. Honestly. Notice my smiley face at the end. . .it ended with a bit of a smile, knowing that not all tastes are alike. But in all seriousness, I firmly believe there to be a large enough degree of Development Studio laziness, incompetence and gross player-base over-sight on most if not all of those games.
But that'sjust me being honest....it isn't for everyone. /shrug
Well, its 2010 in general for me. Although I honestly was not "disappointed" by any of the games.
1. APB the devs were egocentric asshats who only started implmenting community suggested changes 2 weeks before launch. Myself and a very very large portion of the testers knew it was going to launch like piss. Unbalanced, buggy, small, unimaginative, and the most repetitive game I've ever played. Oh, and the driving was the worst thing I have ever seen in a videogame. No surprise: Crashed, burned and shut down. GOOD. They deserved it.
2. Star Trek online. As soon as I heard Cryptic was making the game I knew it was going to be crap. And WHOA! Cryptic lived up to their reputation. The first "AAA" mmo with monthly sub and a cash shop. Then they hired Bill Roper. After 1 day of beta most of the testers were in total awe of how totally lacking this game was with anything remotely having to do with star trek. They should have killed the ground combat and just called it starfleet command 4. Cryptic may very well be the worst developer on the scene today. I would'nt piss on them to put them out if they were on fire. The good news? It'll be free to play faster than you can say "craperwinter nights".
3. Final Fantasy. No american testing. Designed by A japanese company with atrocious customer relations and developes who utterly ignored the entire community until AFTER launch. I played the previous final fantasy online for a grand total of 7 hours. Worst asiatiac grinder piece of shit I've ever played. Knew this one was gonna follow suit. Amazingly from what I have heard, seen, and been told, the new one is even worse (although im not sure how thats possible). Good job SE. Stick to PS3 and RPG single player games. This aint your thing, and honestly, you suck at it.
4. Mortal Online: Looked way to korean-grinder for me to even try. Got horrid reviews and then all the "privelaged" controversy. Bah. No desire to even bother with it. Can't really comment on the quality.
Overall there was no suprise at all. When your only concern is profit and pumping out digital cash machines, you don't give 2 shits about your community, and you don't listen to your players and their feedback. Well... good riddance to all of them. I could give less of a crap if the 3 remainging companies go bankrupt and wind up on the breadlines. Less sewage clogging up the mmo community. And yeah, I am passionate about my dislike for all the above mentioned. They should be treated how they treat other. They should be treated exactly like what they are: Garbage.
STO easily. To be dissapointing you have to have had hope or greater expectation. I knew the state of MO so no dissapointment there. FF not my thing, don't care. APB was actually a surprisingly good play for me, maybe I missed all the hype?
I was blind to the bad mouthing of STO because it was Star Trek and for no other reason, I knew at the time I was setting myself up for a possible fall and to start with I enjoyed the game, it lasted about a week. Could have been so much more, so easily.
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Just when I thought nothing could compare to the absolute and utter dissapoint of Star Trek Online, Final Fantasy 14 comes along and stomps my already beaten faith in any new MMO completely to the bottom of the biggest mudhole in existence!
I think I might actually puke. I will never again get my hopes up for another new MMO.
Well, its 2010 in general for me. Although I honestly was not "disappointed" by any of the games.
2. Star Trek online. As soon as I heard Cryptic was making the game I knew it was going to be crap. And WHOA! Cryptic lived up to their reputation. The first "AAA" mmo with monthly sub and a cash shop. Then they hired Bill Roper. After 1 day of beta most of the testers were in total awe of how totally lacking this game was with anything remotely having to do with star trek. They should have killed the ground combat and just called it starfleet command 4. Cryptic may very well be the worst developer on the scene today. I would'nt piss on them to put them out if they were on fire. The good news? It'll be free to play faster than you can say "craperwinter nights".
Interesting. So you can honestly say that STO wasn't a disappointment?
2010 in general wa bad, but NOTHING was worse than Final Fantasy. STO was even bearable in comparison. APB also had its fun moments.
Yes, but you forget that Star Trek is one of the most popular IP's on the entire planet (next to Star Wars and Tolkien's Middle Earth).
That weights extra heavy on the total dissapointment the game was.
My 2c worth is that a great IP doesn't do much. In fact, judging by results, it seems to be a handicap. Trying to fit an IP into an MMO format is trying to do the impossible instead of the merely extremely hard. For example, Lotro isn't a bad game by any means, but not because of its IP... as a character in this game extremely little of the gameplay has much of anything to do with Tolkien. Place names and a few cut scenes hardly recreate the sense of a desperate small party racing against time, or of collosal battles, etc. Healing during a fight NEVER happened in the books or the movies, for that matter.
So to whatever extent Lotro succeeds its because it gives up on the IP and just uses the trappings. Another example? WoW has little to do with the RTS games Warcraft etc IN TERMS of gameplay. So you have some creatures and names that carry over. The game didn't get built by saying, "oh, Warcraft III used this, so WoW must be..."
So a couple of games are Ok despite their IPs. But almost all the rest of the big IP games have been major disappointments. Some would say Lotro was also.
If I had advice for developers it would be, just make a game. Paying big bucks for an IP that will inevitably create expectations on the part of potential game players that can't be realized because the modality is completely different is a bunch of money thrown away.
Oh, and I should say my biggest disappointment is STO, but I am contradicting myself, because I knew the game could never recreate the atmosphere, characters, and situations of the original TV series. Sorry, I speak with forked mind...LOL.
ehhhhh. people complaining about wow should do a tad more research. cata > wotlk. ok...maybe in your opinion thats comparing garbage to horse shit but theres still something to be said for the steps taken by bliz in this xpack.
I had to go with STO. APB had the best customization ever, but it actually wasn't an MMO (more along the lines of the Battlefield or CoD series of games, only with a graphical lobby); why they thought they could get by with a monthly subscription is beyond me. I never cared for the previous FF MMO, so I didn't try the new one. MO I didn't care enough about to try, so I can't jump on that one either.
STO was rushed out of the door, and it still shows after close to a year of updates. The graphics and sound were good, but Cryptic couldn't deliver on their promise of mass-producing quality MMOs in a 18 - 24 month cycle and every area of STO shows that. Sure the game is gradually improving, but when you start at rock bottom the only direction is up (or just shut down).
"Oh my, how horrible, someone is criticizing a MMO. Oh yeah, that is what a forum is about, looking at both sides. You rather have to be critical of anything in this genre as of late because the track record of these major studios has just been appalling." -Ozmodan
Oh, and I should say my biggest disappointment is STO, but I am contradicting myself, because I knew the game could never recreate the atmosphere, characters, and situations of the original TV series. Sorry, I speak with forked mind...LOL.
It didn't have to recreate everything, as that would have been impossible, but it could have been far closer than it is.
"Oh my, how horrible, someone is criticizing a MMO. Oh yeah, that is what a forum is about, looking at both sides. You rather have to be critical of anything in this genre as of late because the track record of these major studios has just been appalling." -Ozmodan
FFXIV. Seriously... it's getting to the point where I believe Final Fantasy should have a FINAL, final fantasy and let the old dog die. It's almost like they're running out of ways to reinvent the wheel, and are tired of it. If they wanted to do a lot of fanservice, they should have made FF7 at least into a MMO, instead of reusing the same stuff and calling a Rose a Esor, all the while making it a pain in the ass to play.
"There is only one thing of which I am certain, and that's nothing is certain."
I would vote Lotro as a a big sucess, true there wasnt anything new for the level 65 and up but thats coming in 2011. I stopped playing final fail fantasy 11 cause of lotro. The game is deep, fun and relaxing. But the biggest disaspointment is FF14. I dont know what the hell they were thinking when making this game. I wouldnt of been mad if 14 had been delayed untill 11. Yet they put a crap game on the market . Like i said before Se is getting to one dimensional in there game making. 13 was a prime examlple, All graphics no gameplay. Maybe se will fix this.
Cryptic and that craptacular POS called STO got my vote as well.
The game was garbage as much as I hate to insult garbage like that. Add to that Cryptics shady business decisions that were about nothing more than gouging ST fans out of their hard earned money and you have a winner for biggest disaapointment of the year.
I wanted to vote all of 2010, but STO was such a spectacular fail it had to win. I wish wecould see the results of this poll in something other than the resulting article. I bet STO wins this one by a landslide.
Einherjar_LC says: WTB the true successor to UO or Asheron's Call pst!
I don't why all the hate for STO. I played FAR worse games IE wow and eve. At least STO was fun while you lvled unlike either of those two. The reason I did'nt play STO longer was there was nothing to do pve wise once you got to max lvl.
Top 3 MMO's PRE-CU SWG GW1 GW2
Worst 2 wow and Lotro Under standing stones it went woke
I don't why all the hate for STO. I played FAR worse games IE wow and eve. At least STO was fun while you lvled unlike either of those two. The reason I did'nt play STO longer was there was nothing to do pve wise once you got to max lvl.
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I'd have to go with Star Trek Online. When I found out during beta that it was almost a copy and paste of Champion's Online except with even less stuff to do, it allowed me to walk away wishing for something else.
Mortal Online is pretty much what I expected to see. An underfunded project done by people who didn't have much of a clue as to what they were getting into.
Final Fantasy XIV wasn't disappointing. It was pretty much what I expected it to be. An MMO with a less than stellar interface. I'm not who they made the game for.
I was just not interested in All Points Bulletin. When I heard it's payment scheme was bascally paying by the hour I lost the last bit of interest in it. It had nothing I cared about so I'm not disappointed.
Not a single game for me, so I voted the gear in general.
But next year seems a lot better.
I chose all the above. How anyone can't consider every one of those a disappointment just begs an assessment of honesty
That LOTRO went F2P can be the biggest disappointment to some people, but I think they misunderstood the poll a bit. I thin we all can understand that not everyone likes a big change like that, particularly some of the people that bought those discount life time subs the week before the announcement.
Rift is still in beta so people voting it is just trolls and the same go for everyone voting a game that isn't out yet.
Thats unfair, just because you and I don't like them doesn't mean everyone else share our taste.
You can't assume that everyone who has an opposite opinion then you is lying....
My nomination for the biggest disappointment of the year: LEGO Online! They had a lot to live up to and they fell flatter than possible - the beta was only open for like 30 days or so and if it was longer you can be sure there would be more people nominating that one. In fact I think the people that made it never even played an MMO before it was that bad!
XIV didn't live up to my expectations- the other games on that list did (they failed).
Yet I find myself thinking "they could have done worse, they could have made XI-2", so I picked 2010 in general.
That's not unfair. It's honest. Honestly. Notice my smiley face at the end. . .it ended with a bit of a smile, knowing that not all tastes are alike. But in all seriousness, I firmly believe there to be a large enough degree of Development Studio laziness, incompetence and gross player-base over-sight on most if not all of those games.
But that'sjust me being honest....it isn't for everyone. /shrug
FFXIV was awful. Overhyped and underdelivered. I'm not sure I'd say it was worse than XI, but I stuck around for XI a lot longer than I did XIV.
Well, its 2010 in general for me. Although I honestly was not "disappointed" by any of the games.
1. APB the devs were egocentric asshats who only started implmenting community suggested changes 2 weeks before launch. Myself and a very very large portion of the testers knew it was going to launch like piss. Unbalanced, buggy, small, unimaginative, and the most repetitive game I've ever played. Oh, and the driving was the worst thing I have ever seen in a videogame. No surprise: Crashed, burned and shut down. GOOD. They deserved it.
2. Star Trek online. As soon as I heard Cryptic was making the game I knew it was going to be crap. And WHOA! Cryptic lived up to their reputation. The first "AAA" mmo with monthly sub and a cash shop. Then they hired Bill Roper. After 1 day of beta most of the testers were in total awe of how totally lacking this game was with anything remotely having to do with star trek. They should have killed the ground combat and just called it starfleet command 4. Cryptic may very well be the worst developer on the scene today. I would'nt piss on them to put them out if they were on fire. The good news? It'll be free to play faster than you can say "craperwinter nights".
3. Final Fantasy. No american testing. Designed by A japanese company with atrocious customer relations and developes who utterly ignored the entire community until AFTER launch. I played the previous final fantasy online for a grand total of 7 hours. Worst asiatiac grinder piece of shit I've ever played. Knew this one was gonna follow suit. Amazingly from what I have heard, seen, and been told, the new one is even worse (although im not sure how thats possible). Good job SE. Stick to PS3 and RPG single player games. This aint your thing, and honestly, you suck at it.
4. Mortal Online: Looked way to korean-grinder for me to even try. Got horrid reviews and then all the "privelaged" controversy. Bah. No desire to even bother with it. Can't really comment on the quality.
Overall there was no suprise at all. When your only concern is profit and pumping out digital cash machines, you don't give 2 shits about your community, and you don't listen to your players and their feedback. Well... good riddance to all of them. I could give less of a crap if the 3 remainging companies go bankrupt and wind up on the breadlines. Less sewage clogging up the mmo community. And yeah, I am passionate about my dislike for all the above mentioned. They should be treated how they treat other. They should be treated exactly like what they are: Garbage.
STO easily. To be dissapointing you have to have had hope or greater expectation. I knew the state of MO so no dissapointment there. FF not my thing, don't care. APB was actually a surprisingly good play for me, maybe I missed all the hype?
I was blind to the bad mouthing of STO because it was Star Trek and for no other reason, I knew at the time I was setting myself up for a possible fall and to start with I enjoyed the game, it lasted about a week. Could have been so much more, so easily.
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The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.
They all fail in my opinion, 2010 was a flop. Despite how I wish some of them would have been awesome... oh well.
Just when I thought nothing could compare to the absolute and utter dissapoint of Star Trek Online, Final Fantasy 14 comes along and stomps my already beaten faith in any new MMO completely to the bottom of the biggest mudhole in existence!
I think I might actually puke. I will never again get my hopes up for another new MMO.
Interesting. So you can honestly say that STO wasn't a disappointment?
My 2c worth is that a great IP doesn't do much. In fact, judging by results, it seems to be a handicap. Trying to fit an IP into an MMO format is trying to do the impossible instead of the merely extremely hard. For example, Lotro isn't a bad game by any means, but not because of its IP... as a character in this game extremely little of the gameplay has much of anything to do with Tolkien. Place names and a few cut scenes hardly recreate the sense of a desperate small party racing against time, or of collosal battles, etc. Healing during a fight NEVER happened in the books or the movies, for that matter.
So to whatever extent Lotro succeeds its because it gives up on the IP and just uses the trappings. Another example? WoW has little to do with the RTS games Warcraft etc IN TERMS of gameplay. So you have some creatures and names that carry over. The game didn't get built by saying, "oh, Warcraft III used this, so WoW must be..."
So a couple of games are Ok despite their IPs. But almost all the rest of the big IP games have been major disappointments. Some would say Lotro was also.
If I had advice for developers it would be, just make a game. Paying big bucks for an IP that will inevitably create expectations on the part of potential game players that can't be realized because the modality is completely different is a bunch of money thrown away.
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Rose-lipped maidens,
Light-foot lads...
Oh, and I should say my biggest disappointment is STO, but I am contradicting myself, because I knew the game could never recreate the atmosphere, characters, and situations of the original TV series. Sorry, I speak with forked mind...LOL.
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Rose-lipped maidens,
Light-foot lads...
ehhhhh. people complaining about wow should do a tad more research. cata > wotlk. ok...maybe in your opinion thats comparing garbage to horse shit but theres still something to be said for the steps taken by bliz in this xpack.
I had to go with STO. APB had the best customization ever, but it actually wasn't an MMO (more along the lines of the Battlefield or CoD series of games, only with a graphical lobby); why they thought they could get by with a monthly subscription is beyond me. I never cared for the previous FF MMO, so I didn't try the new one. MO I didn't care enough about to try, so I can't jump on that one either.
STO was rushed out of the door, and it still shows after close to a year of updates. The graphics and sound were good, but Cryptic couldn't deliver on their promise of mass-producing quality MMOs in a 18 - 24 month cycle and every area of STO shows that. Sure the game is gradually improving, but when you start at rock bottom the only direction is up (or just shut down).
"Oh my, how horrible, someone is criticizing a MMO. Oh yeah, that is what a forum is about, looking at both sides. You rather have to be critical of anything in this genre as of late because the track record of these major studios has just been appalling." -Ozmodan
It didn't have to recreate everything, as that would have been impossible, but it could have been far closer than it is.
"Oh my, how horrible, someone is criticizing a MMO. Oh yeah, that is what a forum is about, looking at both sides. You rather have to be critical of anything in this genre as of late because the track record of these major studios has just been appalling." -Ozmodan
FFXIV. Seriously... it's getting to the point where I believe Final Fantasy should have a FINAL, final fantasy and let the old dog die. It's almost like they're running out of ways to reinvent the wheel, and are tired of it. If they wanted to do a lot of fanservice, they should have made FF7 at least into a MMO, instead of reusing the same stuff and calling a Rose a Esor, all the while making it a pain in the ass to play.
"There is only one thing of which I am certain, and that's nothing is certain."
I would vote Lotro as a a big sucess, true there wasnt anything new for the level 65 and up but thats coming in 2011. I stopped playing final fail fantasy 11 cause of lotro. The game is deep, fun and relaxing. But the biggest disaspointment is FF14. I dont know what the hell they were thinking when making this game. I wouldnt of been mad if 14 had been delayed untill 11. Yet they put a crap game on the market . Like i said before Se is getting to one dimensional in there game making. 13 was a prime examlple, All graphics no gameplay. Maybe se will fix this.
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Cryptic and that craptacular POS called STO got my vote as well.
The game was garbage as much as I hate to insult garbage like that. Add to that Cryptics shady business decisions that were about nothing more than gouging ST fans out of their hard earned money and you have a winner for biggest disaapointment of the year.
I wanted to vote all of 2010, but STO was such a spectacular fail it had to win. I wish wecould see the results of this poll in something other than the resulting article. I bet STO wins this one by a landslide.
Einherjar_LC says: WTB the true successor to UO or Asheron's Call pst!
I don't why all the hate for STO. I played FAR worse games IE wow and eve. At least STO was fun while you lvled unlike either of those two. The reason I did'nt play STO longer was there was nothing to do pve wise once you got to max lvl.
Top 3 MMO's PRE-CU SWG GW1 GW2
Worst 2 wow and Lotro Under standing stones it went woke
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