I voted 2010 in general. was looking forward to STO, FFXIV, and ABP. all were bust. Good thing I didn't buy any of them and instead waited to hear from the players.
My biggest dissappointment has to be that SWToR wasn't released this year. Many people had it in their big 2010 releases back in 2009 but for whatever reason it is now slated for sometime in 2011. Leading the forum and the hype machine having gone on now for 2 and a half years and slowly looking like some sick joke where you see how long you can make people wait for vapourware.
Well that statement right there brings up the question as to why play an MMO in the first place thats PvE oriented? If theres nothing for you to do at max level but grind mobs, or craft or pvp (which is not PVE oriented) and all you want to do is somehow progress further through PvE why play one?
Seriously the best MMO styled game out there was APB, it worked exactly like a FPS in the same way, just had a GTA touch to it that made it fun. Then all the awesome customization you could do that any person could literally spend hours doing. That's ingenious and probably what MMO's need to start doing more, allow players to create custom player generated content to keep the game fresh.
Other than that if the game lacks PVE content the only thing left to make it worth playing is competition in some form.
We rarely see anything from staff writers on why MMO’s are doing so poorly, why we have so few types of MMO, so little innovation, nearly all fantasy based, launched before completion etc.
Well this takes the biscuit, here we can blame it on the year! Yes it is not the companies, the revenue system, the designers or the players who are to blame it’s the year that’s to blame for all that has gone wrong!
All of these games were serious dissapointments, so I'll have to go with 2010 in general. Every major MMO release wound up being a giant-a$$ bag of FAIL. If you think titles this year sucked, wait until next year. Some games will do very well in 2011, but with the number of triple-A games set to release next year, the games that don't bring the goods will really fail hard. At least next year it should be easier to pick out the big failure, unless they all manage to fail, and that couldn't possibly happen 2 years in a row....right?
This is my biggest disappointment of all times. The sad part is that no matter how much content they try to add its always too little because its playable in a few hours. But unfortunatly the core problem is in the Game design... its way too repetitive.
I went for 2010 in general. All of the games that I checked out had at least one thing about it that was an interesting spin on an old idea. That will never be enough to float a title.
I hope that companies get back to making their game instead of this half baked mess that atempts to target everyone.
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?
Yes, I certainly can. In order for someone to be dissapointed they need to believe something better or a more favorable outcome could have been achieved. The minute I heard about STO being done by Craptic I totally expected crap, and crap is what we got.
Dissapointed? No
Sad & Pissed? Hell yes. And I even gave the game 3 different chances. 1 in beta, 1 post launch(the infamous 45 day patch, which I picked up the collectors edition for 9.99 on steam) and once on my friends account 3 weeks ago. I hope for the best, but full well expect the worst from craptic. At one point I wanted to fill my computer with fresh cowshit and mail it to CBS for allowing the most untalented group of money whores on the planet being granted the IP. I mean for christ sake, they used a superhero game engine that is 6 years old to make a "cutting edge" and "next gen" mmo of the 2nd largest space franchise in the history of entertainment. As soon as I heard that. I knew it was going to be a double-wide 18 wheeler full fail. Breaker 1-9er. We got ourselves a crapvoy!
To choose one as the greatest disappointment is so hard. FF XIV had alot of hype and I had so wanted to enjoy it but it was so dam slow paced and restricted there was no possible way too. Mortal had promised to be so unique in potential but sadly disappointed in its delivery after following it from its day one announcement I just walked away. I enjoyed STO the most of all of them but has had failed to keep my attention for the long haul. This truely has been a disappointing year.
It's true that 2010 has been an awful year for MMOs, but there are 2 games that shine in its shitness.
APB and MO can't be considered a disappointment but for a few people who hoped for something new, nice, and fun from studios with little experience in this field.
But STO WAS a disappointment to nearly all ST fans. Fortunately for it, I am not a trekkie, so my vote goes for FFXIV. I wonder how SE could botch it like it did. It even looks like if they did on purpose!
So, as bad as 2010 has been, I want this poll to reflect that FFXIV has been the king of the dumper!
It's too easy to vote for the whole year so I'm going with STO. The magnitude of that flop is still being measured. First off it was an iconic IP that people were literally begging for. Then comes Cryptic cynically selling beta spots to people for the price of a lifetime subscription to their other dud Champions Online and then teling those people who bought lifetime subscriptions, "Oh, wait. We didn't mean you'd get into STO beta". Then there was the Klingon disaster and the game just imploded from there. I'm convinced that the only reason it's still in existence today is Cryptic was so aggressive in selling long term subscriptions.
To me it reads like an epic MMO scam. Crytic robbed a lot of people from Atari on down. The other games on the list might have flopped but STO flopped and yet found a way to rob people.
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I was disappointed that APB closed down and didn't get a chance to iron everything out
STO - Well I think it's best we don't talk about STO and the amount of disappointment there lol.
FFXIV - Yeah... sucktastic.
MO - This one will be the running joke for decades to come. It replaced the former running joke Dark and Light.
Outside of that... well nothing 2010 has produced has been good at all. I mean one of the best new games in 2010 is probably Vindictus and it's a free to play time killer and not really a MMO either. How sad is that.
2010 is the biggest disappointment of 2010 hands down.
Had to go with 2010 in general. It's hard to be disappointed with games I already expected to suck. Out of the lot, only APB looked like it might be something worth looking at. Guess not.
The best part of the year were the demos for games that won't even be released until next year at the earliest. 2010 was pretty much a total wash. Flush the whole miserable thing and start again.
voted for 2010 in general. STO and FF definatly big disappointments but as I was not looking forward to them too much was no biggie for me. But a whole year without anything that interested me or did well enough to interest me... definatly a disappointing year from my pov
Of those on the list, I am going to have to say STO as well, afterall, at the end of the day, all Star Trek Online did okay at, yes, just okay was the custom character/ship intereface, and well, we dont pay to make characters all day long. Their ship combat for a single player ship which is all they offered in short was horrible, of course, they wanted to keep it simple, still doesnt mean they couldnt have added pitch, roll, yaw and offered joysticks as a viable controller. Ground combat, it would have been better if they implemented full planets where you could land, grab various quests and explore that planet, instead you get like 1% of that planet and are stuck in a tony sandbox. The class customization was a joke, 5 button masher. PVP was like significantly dumbed down FPS, reminds me of a super dumbed down Modern Warfare 2. STO would have probably done better if they went Console rather then MMO.
Aion was one that I also would have liked to seen on this list, but as said earlier, believe that was 09.
Lotro, although prior launched, should be on this list for its recent relaunch of F2P, as it looks like they took 30 steps backwards, and reworked it with an outdated client. There are so many new bugs that used to not be bugs which they are ironing out and they continue to implement these Tolkien demeaning Festival Ordeals, install more Store things such as Cosmetics, Consumables and Quicker Leveling Means. Plus they keep catering to their new Clientel only, and not their old playerbase who has kept true to them over these years. So honestly, no matter which road I take in the future, even if they are clones of 2 other games or what not, chances are, it will be a better experience at that point.
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why take someone elses opinion you may like them
And the sad but true thing is....we will keep saying that until Bilzzard releases the next big MMO.
i like STO yes it lacks content but they can always add to it
My biggest dissappointment has to be that SWToR wasn't released this year. Many people had it in their big 2010 releases back in 2009 but for whatever reason it is now slated for sometime in 2011. Leading the forum and the hype machine having gone on now for 2 and a half years and slowly looking like some sick joke where you see how long you can make people wait for vapourware.
Well that statement right there brings up the question as to why play an MMO in the first place thats PvE oriented? If theres nothing for you to do at max level but grind mobs, or craft or pvp (which is not PVE oriented) and all you want to do is somehow progress further through PvE why play one?
Seriously the best MMO styled game out there was APB, it worked exactly like a FPS in the same way, just had a GTA touch to it that made it fun. Then all the awesome customization you could do that any person could literally spend hours doing. That's ingenious and probably what MMO's need to start doing more, allow players to create custom player generated content to keep the game fresh.
Other than that if the game lacks PVE content the only thing left to make it worth playing is competition in some form.
FFXIV was even worse than the whole year.
Wish I could make 2 votes... Both STo and FFXIV I hoped to be good, but both suck balls big-time
I did pick FFXIV though because I had bigger expectations from that one than I had from Craptic's STo...
We rarely see anything from staff writers on why MMO’s are doing so poorly, why we have so few types of MMO, so little innovation, nearly all fantasy based, launched before completion etc.
Well this takes the biscuit, here we can blame it on the year! Yes it is not the companies, the revenue system, the designers or the players who are to blame it’s the year that’s to blame for all that has gone wrong!
Priceless.
Got to be FFIV by far, STO comes close but only later after release when the Klingon's lost any hope to be a playable race.
All of these games were serious dissapointments, so I'll have to go with 2010 in general. Every major MMO release wound up being a giant-a$$ bag of FAIL. If you think titles this year sucked, wait until next year. Some games will do very well in 2011, but with the number of triple-A games set to release next year, the games that don't bring the goods will really fail hard. At least next year it should be easier to pick out the big failure, unless they all manage to fail, and that couldn't possibly happen 2 years in a row....right?
Startrek Online !
This is my biggest disappointment of all times. The sad part is that no matter how much content they try to add its always too little because its playable in a few hours. But unfortunatly the core problem is in the Game design... its way too repetitive.
But then ..you all already know this!
I went for 2010 in general. All of the games that I checked out had at least one thing about it that was an interesting spin on an old idea. That will never be enough to float a title.
I hope that companies get back to making their game instead of this half baked mess that atempts to target everyone.
I have to vote for MO.. SOOOO much promise.. I spent money and beta'd from the beginning and saw it for the lemon it was... 100% bag of wank.
2010 in general also just such a poor poor year I couldnt comment on the standard of any of the games released as not one of them peaked my interest.
Yes, I certainly can. In order for someone to be dissapointed they need to believe something better or a more favorable outcome could have been achieved. The minute I heard about STO being done by Craptic I totally expected crap, and crap is what we got.
Dissapointed? No
Sad & Pissed? Hell yes. And I even gave the game 3 different chances. 1 in beta, 1 post launch(the infamous 45 day patch, which I picked up the collectors edition for 9.99 on steam) and once on my friends account 3 weeks ago. I hope for the best, but full well expect the worst from craptic. At one point I wanted to fill my computer with fresh cowshit and mail it to CBS for allowing the most untalented group of money whores on the planet being granted the IP. I mean for christ sake, they used a superhero game engine that is 6 years old to make a "cutting edge" and "next gen" mmo of the 2nd largest space franchise in the history of entertainment. As soon as I heard that. I knew it was going to be a double-wide 18 wheeler full fail. Breaker 1-9er. We got ourselves a crapvoy!
To choose one as the greatest disappointment is so hard. FF XIV had alot of hype and I had so wanted to enjoy it but it was so dam slow paced and restricted there was no possible way too. Mortal had promised to be so unique in potential but sadly disappointed in its delivery after following it from its day one announcement I just walked away. I enjoyed STO the most of all of them but has had failed to keep my attention for the long haul. This truely has been a disappointing year.
It's true that 2010 has been an awful year for MMOs, but there are 2 games that shine in its shitness.
APB and MO can't be considered a disappointment but for a few people who hoped for something new, nice, and fun from studios with little experience in this field.
But STO WAS a disappointment to nearly all ST fans. Fortunately for it, I am not a trekkie, so my vote goes for FFXIV. I wonder how SE could botch it like it did. It even looks like if they did on purpose!
So, as bad as 2010 has been, I want this poll to reflect that FFXIV has been the king of the dumper!
lol, this year was full of fails, hard to pick one. Probably FFXIV.
I was split between MO and FFXIV.. picked MO.
It's too easy to vote for the whole year so I'm going with STO. The magnitude of that flop is still being measured. First off it was an iconic IP that people were literally begging for. Then comes Cryptic cynically selling beta spots to people for the price of a lifetime subscription to their other dud Champions Online and then teling those people who bought lifetime subscriptions, "Oh, wait. We didn't mean you'd get into STO beta". Then there was the Klingon disaster and the game just imploded from there. I'm convinced that the only reason it's still in existence today is Cryptic was so aggressive in selling long term subscriptions.
To me it reads like an epic MMO scam. Crytic robbed a lot of people from Atari on down. The other games on the list might have flopped but STO flopped and yet found a way to rob people.
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I voted for 2010 in general
I was disappointed that APB closed down and didn't get a chance to iron everything out
STO - Well I think it's best we don't talk about STO and the amount of disappointment there lol.
FFXIV - Yeah... sucktastic.
MO - This one will be the running joke for decades to come. It replaced the former running joke Dark and Light.
Outside of that... well nothing 2010 has produced has been good at all. I mean one of the best new games in 2010 is probably Vindictus and it's a free to play time killer and not really a MMO either. How sad is that.
2010 is the biggest disappointment of 2010 hands down.
Had to go with 2010 in general. It's hard to be disappointed with games I already expected to suck. Out of the lot, only APB looked like it might be something worth looking at. Guess not.
The best part of the year were the demos for games that won't even be released until next year at the earliest. 2010 was pretty much a total wash. Flush the whole miserable thing and start again.
voted for 2010 in general. STO and FF definatly big disappointments but as I was not looking forward to them too much was no biggie for me. But a whole year without anything that interested me or did well enough to interest me... definatly a disappointing year from my pov
Of those on the list, I am going to have to say STO as well, afterall, at the end of the day, all Star Trek Online did okay at, yes, just okay was the custom character/ship intereface, and well, we dont pay to make characters all day long. Their ship combat for a single player ship which is all they offered in short was horrible, of course, they wanted to keep it simple, still doesnt mean they couldnt have added pitch, roll, yaw and offered joysticks as a viable controller. Ground combat, it would have been better if they implemented full planets where you could land, grab various quests and explore that planet, instead you get like 1% of that planet and are stuck in a tony sandbox. The class customization was a joke, 5 button masher. PVP was like significantly dumbed down FPS, reminds me of a super dumbed down Modern Warfare 2. STO would have probably done better if they went Console rather then MMO.
Aion was one that I also would have liked to seen on this list, but as said earlier, believe that was 09.
Lotro, although prior launched, should be on this list for its recent relaunch of F2P, as it looks like they took 30 steps backwards, and reworked it with an outdated client. There are so many new bugs that used to not be bugs which they are ironing out and they continue to implement these Tolkien demeaning Festival Ordeals, install more Store things such as Cosmetics, Consumables and Quicker Leveling Means. Plus they keep catering to their new Clientel only, and not their old playerbase who has kept true to them over these years. So honestly, no matter which road I take in the future, even if they are clones of 2 other games or what not, chances are, it will be a better experience at that point.