Meh, EVE fanboys stuff the ballot boxes yet again. The REAL best game of 2010 judging from response is Rift, even though it's only been in closed beta. Like it or hate it, it generates a ton of traffic on the site.
Meh, EVE fanboys stuff the ballot boxes yet again. The REAL best game of 2010 judging from response is Rift, even though it's only been in closed beta. Like it or hate it, it generates a ton of traffic on the site.
1) as you said it'S a 2k11 game
2) rift is not THAT good.. sorrry, same old circle zerg theories. nothing new in here. and, actually not even next gen ^^
"I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!"
I am sure the majority that voted for EVE have never even played the game but voted for it anyway to keep another game from winning.
What we're seeing here is Detective work that is simply unparalleled.
Good job, keep it up
"Mr. Rothstein, your people never will understand... the way it works out here. You're all just our guests. But you act like you're at home. Let me tell you something, partner. You ain't home. But that's where we're gonna send you if it harelips the governor." - Pat Webb
Quit grousing about Eve, all this vote does is basically tell you absolutely nothing has changed in this industry lately. There is no one game that everyone raves about. Yep, I play Eve and voted for such. I was torn though, even though I don't play it, I thought that turbine's freemium model certainly garnered points in their favor.
With all the new games coming out this year, if all of them make it of course, we will probably have something decent to vote on.
If you note, CCP is the only developer out there that has a player group consulting on the game. It has been effective in doing so. Granted Eve is not for everyone, it has a huge learning curve. You can basically tell the people that do not take much time to learn it, they are the posters that say it is boring.
A very well deserved victory for a game that shows more and more promise every day! And after tomorrow EVE takes its very first step into a new era when the new character creation tool arrives and makes way for Incarna that will arrive later this year or next
So 82% of MMO players here felt their game was better than EVE, and somehow EVE wins Game of the Year?
Unfortunately for that 82%, their votes were split between games they liked.
Newsflash: *every* MMO on this site has more haters than fans. If you want to find the world's grumpiest forum, look no further ...
Ha ha, I laughed so hard when I saw that and it's so true. All I ever see on these forums is perpetual feuding over pointless differences of opinion. Most people who really enjoy their game; don't really come to this site; because, most games have their own forums... I use to come on here to read feedback on various titles; but, people invest too emotionally into their favorite products and the information you find tends to be heavily bias/unreliable.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo Galilei
So 82% of MMO players here felt their game was better than EVE, and somehow EVE wins Game of the Year?
Unfortunately for that 82%, their votes were split between games they liked.
Newsflash: *every* MMO on this site has more haters than fans. If you want to find the world's grumpiest forum, look no further ...
Ha ha, I laughed so hard when I saw that and it's so true. All I ever see on these forums is perpetual feuding over pointless differences of opinion. Most people who really enjoy their game; don't really come to this site; because, most games have their own forums... I use to come on here to read feedback on various titles; but, people invest too emotionally into their favorite products and the information you find tends to be heavily bias/unreliable.
Oh right, try posting anything negative on any game's forum and watch it quickly get deleted and they wave the ban stick on you. That is really good journalism isn't it? You are only allowed a one sided view. Personally I find this site far better than any game site because they let you discuss issues games have. Hey you are perfectly entitled to any opinion here as long as you do it nicely..
Hey if you only want to see positive posts, have it at on the original game forums, fat chance you will actually learn much about the game and it's issues from them.
Quit grousing about Eve, all this vote does is basically tell you absolutely nothing has changed in this industry lately. There is no one game that everyone raves about. Yep, I play Eve and voted for such. I was torn though, even though I don't play it, I thought that turbine's freemium model certainly garnered points in their favor.
With all the new games coming out this year, if all of them make it of course, we will probably have something decent to vote on.
If you note, CCP is the only developer out there that has a player group consulting on the game. It has been effective in doing so. Granted Eve is not for everyone, it has a huge learning curve. You can basically tell the people that do not take much time to learn it, they are the posters that say it is boring.
I will definitely accept CCP with its Stellar Council has shown their desire to listen to the player base.
However, I have to note that the excuse of 'New features bring new players while bug fixes don't' given to the player base last time they had the meeting was really a bad moment for them.
I know a lot of players essentially lose all interest in the process (think the voting last time was really low?) when that happened.
Hey, existing players want bug fixes while CCP wants new players, so totally get that but when ideology meets reality sometimes it'll be nice to see ideology win.
Gdemami - Informing people about your thoughts and impressions is not a review, it's a blog.
Quit grousing about Eve, all this vote does is basically tell you absolutely nothing has changed in this industry lately. There is no one game that everyone raves about. Yep, I play Eve and voted for such. I was torn though, even though I don't play it, I thought that turbine's freemium model certainly garnered points in their favor.
With all the new games coming out this year, if all of them make it of course, we will probably have something decent to vote on.
If you note, CCP is the only developer out there that has a player group consulting on the game. It has been effective in doing so. Granted Eve is not for everyone, it has a huge learning curve. You can basically tell the people that do not take much time to learn it, they are the posters that say it is boring.
I will definitely accept CCP with its Stellar Council has shown their desire to listen to the player base.
However, I have to note that the excuse of 'New features bring new players while bug fixes don't' given to the player base last time they had the meeting was really a bad moment for them.
I know a lot of players essentially lose all interest in the process (think the voting last time was really low?) when that happened.
Hey, existing players want bug fixes while CCP wants new players, so totally get that but when ideology meets reality sometimes it'll be nice to see ideology win.
That was indeed pretty much a welp moment for CCP, but to be fair they did get it when we yelled loud and long enough about that, and they have refocused resources into fixing stuff since then.
BTW if you thought the summer of 2010 was bad, wait until you see the drama that's gonna hit when Incarna launches.
You have to realize that most the people playing EvE are surfing the internet and have plenty of time to participate in a poll like this. I for one had no idea they even did a poll because I was so busy actually playing a different mmo.
I wonder how many of those that voted for Eve actually are playing it. Because the game looks great on paper, but actually playing is mindnumbingly boring.
PvE is boring, period. PvP is all about numbers and how can gank first and many times you go looking for PvP, for hours, and find nothing because either the target ships are too many or too few, so they warp away.
Ïf you're not in with the big groups or know some devs, you can forget about actually making any difference.
Your absolutly correct. If you are anti-social and try to do everything by yourself instead of working with a group to achieve selected goals you will make no difference what so ever
There's some insight right there into how much meaning should be attached to this award.
Actually it should be a great deal of insight for you. Let me explain. I don't play EvE either, I really can't get into the game but, it's pretty undeniable the level of quality it has. EvE is one of those games that even those that do not like to play it have to give it credit and many of them really do wish they could get into it. I myself wish I could get into EvE, but I just need something a bit more action oriented. Can't deny the quality of EvE though, it's probably one of the best MMO's out there and CCP definitely is one of the better devs.
The fact that you have the option of paying your sub fee with in game currency and the fact that all expansions are free for EvE are enough to get the game and it's devs some nice Kudos but the overall quality of the game kind of seals the deal.
I didnt really pay much attention to this poll. But after reading some of the comments I figured Id compile my own list.
Mortal Online, League of Legends, Allods Online, Darkfall, Perpetuum, Warhammer Online, Football Superstars, Guild Wars, Wizard Online and EVE Online I have never played. Either they arent really the kind of game Im interested in (Im no good at pvp so I avoid games that have gameplay based on that) or I had never heard of them.
Aion I just subscribed to the other day and havent played it for long enough to get a feel for what its about to rate it.
Age of Conan (as a woman in real life) I found highly offensive because of how they portrayed women. I found it a guys game where women will always be second to men and not equal. No thanks lol.
Dungeons and Dragons Online I found kind of boring and repetitive. But to be fair that was a long time ago that I played it so much might have changed.
World of Warcraft came in 7th for me. Its a combat only game in my opinion and Blizzard does it very well. Blizzard has done little things to make it easier for people to get into their game (such as allowing you to charge it to your phone bill instead of needing a credit card). The graphics are also on the, I want to say plain rather than cartoony, which means that it opens it up for people that might not have higher end machines. Other than that I found it boring because its only combat - nothing more to it. There should be more. Every other game on the list has an excuse because they have a far lower playerbase - therefore not as much money/resources to add perhaps all that they or their playerbase would like (that to me gives them a repreive for not having all the bells and whistles) Blizzard however has no excuse for not offering more (ie: housing is a glaring ommission for me) because everywhere I look they are saying how many players they have.
Star Trek Online I found neat when I got a chance to play it but just not enough time to do so. I liked the away/ ground missions.
I like many things in regards to Fallen Earth. The crafting system is neat and I like that you can mix and match things according to what you want to take up. The world is very nice I thought from a graphics point of view and while I dont like the targetting you do get used to it. It and Star Trek Online are the two games where I wish I had more time to play MMO's because they are two Id like to get into more.
Lord of the Rings Online I think is a beautiful little game. I dont like the idea that you have to go up in combat in order to do a crafting quest. That to me is just wrong. I have a problem with the LoTRO store. Not because I have a problem with RMT's but because I think some of the things they offer there should be craftable only. Such as the hunter class's fire oil. If it already exists as a craftable in game - and a lower end craftable at that - then it should have been omitted. To be fair though many quests offer Turbine Points so no one is blocked from being able to purchase things from there. That I think is a nice gesture. I have a love/hate relationship with housing. I think the instance within an instance idea is cool - but I dont think that they should be as strict with the rules of ownership. Things happen and you might not be able to log into a game - to lose your house (even if things do go into escrow) is an unnecessary penalty because a new housing instance CAN be created.
City of Heroes, I like the idea that everyone can have a SG base, the power sets are fun, the character creation is very indepth. The combat in a group can be cool. I like that every profession has a clearly defined role. Giving people the ability to make their own quests was a neat idea. The tutorial is better than in any other game and if you still have questions then trainers scattered throughout the world will help you with answering them. My only real complaint with it is that - once you hit 50 its repetitive. I also didnt like the Flashback system. It would not be necessary if they allowed people to work for contacts until they were done with them regardless of level or if they allowed questlines that gave badges to be repeatable. That to me would have been a far easier thing to do but then Im not a designer and they might have had good reason for doing it the way they did.
I like how Everquest 2 mixes combat and non combat together. While the game is combat orientated they still put emphasis on putting in content for crafters as well. I like the housing there - everything stays as it is regardless of how long you might be gone for. I like the world events (holiday, upcoming content related, etc) it means you have to keep tabs on what is going on there as some things are only available for a limited time. What I dont like though is the emphasis on guild/group acheivements rather than personal. Such as needing to be in a guild of a certain level in order to purchase a house if you have enough status to cover it. If I put in the time to earn the status for a certain faction they should know my avatar well enough to allow me access to housing, regardless of my characters group affiliation. To me I think it just causes high level guilds to be used for those perks rather than someone joining because they actually like the people in it (which i feel is more important).
I never voted in this poll but if I had I would have voted for Star Wars Galaxies. I think it falls into a couple categories - most improved being one of them.
As a player that has an entertainer main, I have fought for the past 5 years for many things that I have seen put into the game in the past year or two. The most important thing to me since the integration of the NGE was that I had no way to earn GCW rank as an entertainer. The invasions gave me that role. Most recently they put in the Nightsister themepark where again quests were put in for entertainers. We are able to earn rewards from those two things using the non comat skills the profession is based on and that is an awesome thing. It means the devs are waking up to realize we are NOT second class citizens in the game (as the past dev teams seem to have thought).
While we are still waiting for ent relics we have enough things now to keep us busy that them not being there is not as noticeable as it was before.
I still like the housing, the crafting, the character customization, the emote system, the chat system (and you have no idea how nice it is to have a chat system like that after attempting to use the nightmarish chat in DCUOnline!), I like how everything craftable you can use - like actually being able to just click on a chair to sit in it - no other game has that option - even if they do have housing. I like how you can use items in ways that they were not initially intended to customize your structure interiors far more. Yes, Im more into the non combat elements of games - I make no apologies for that. SWG - even if they DID for the longest time treat players like me like we were second class citizens at least still treated us like we WERE citizens - most other game have nothing to offer me because they dont seem to agree that non-combat should have a place. Yet the Sims franchise would seem to contradict that philosophy. Even with all that they could do with that game (and Im not blind to its faults - there are many) I still think it offers me alot in regards to gameplay.
And if I get bored of the noncombat stuff - I can just load up a combat character and go to it.
EVE is the last and only sandbox mmorpg left, it is still WAY ahead of its time even after all these years. While the entire industry fell over each other cloning WoW's limited rail-based style, EVE remained pure to its sandbox core while conintues to push the limit of the genre. You have to play the game for a year or two to truly appreciate how well designed the various game systems are, and how they work together in a meaningful cause/effect relation that has a constant impact to the game world.
The game is extremely well polished, it's mind boggling how they managed to do this given the complexity behind the various systems. And the fact that all players can play together on 1 server ensures the world is always active (40k+ players are usually online at any given time)
The only negative is the learning curve, it is overwhelming even with an updated tutorial, the current generation who grew up with wow's instant gratification mentality, are never prepared for eve and most don't make it past the first few hours after login on. It's unfortuante, as those with the patience to stay will find a mmorpg that can never be replaced. No longer do they have to be one of the lost souls in the mmorpg universe constantly searching for the next new world to "max" out and get bored with.
EVE is the final home for me, thers is no need to play another new mmorpg because i already know they wont even comse close to what eve already has.
There is ONE MMO that will stand the permenant tests of time and be with us in 50 years from now… The world will play it and play no other..
I Was totally addicted to Wow, the player interaction on the chats was huge for me. (other games have this too) but once I got to higher levels, and my friends weren't on to task with and enjoy their friendship, the game was completely boring. The grind alone to me well, sucks big time. My favorite game of all time is Diablo2. Best grind ever, with great mix of cool drops, levels, characters, weaps, weap customization, and more. The best Mmos are GW/Wow for gameplay. I found GW to be the same as Wow, almost exact, but about 90% as good, without the cost cause its free vs $200 a year for wow which makes it hands down better than Wow.
Wow and Eve SHOULD be far above the others, because they have massive revenue from players. They just don't give back obviously. Eve doesn't give a crap about growing, wow doesn't give a crap about giving their player base anything more, Just more profits for Wow.
Wow lacks complex resource farming, lacks armies, lacks building, lacks housing, lacks sieging, lacks legacy building, its just hack and slash and fill your disgustingly limited inventory bag. Incredibly limited in scope.
Eve seems only PVP. Half of players like Pvp, half hate it and quit the first time they incur a major loss to their building. Half or more of players want strong PVE, which no game offers. they want AOE style PVE. Housing, SAVING, play and save SAFELY build your empire, combined with people interaction, missions and quests, all the markets and gear economies, where you can build an empire that lasts forever and youll still have it even if you don’t log in for 12 months. No PVP can destroy it. Have PVP instances, or PVP elections for buildings or while online, but definitely none of this kill me while im sleeping garbage in the genre now. (Evony etc, Eve)
People want an MMO that runs AROUND their life, not that becomes it. SAVE function and HOUSING, and LASTING LEGACY.
There is ONE MMO that will stand the permenant tests of time and be with us in 50 years from now… The world will play it and play no other..
- It has Glorious PVE (Diablo2, WOW, Eve combination) and massive PVE (AOE style unlimited in size with new enemies created so you can keep going forever beyond the 8)
- It has Unparrallelled PVE economy like Virtonomics which has buildings you and guilds can build to make resources, (AOE/Guild 2 pirates/Virtonomics - Style businesses you can work in, micromanage, or automate. (Thousands of Wow players and Eve players and Sims players are just traders, crafters, service offerers)
- Serious resource farming including planting, reliable mining and creation, farms of all kinds, and many markets. This will include Tree planting, harvesting, chopping, Employees hiring, same for all resources. (Mobile Pocket Kingdoms)
- It will have opt/in out PVP that will allow FULL PVP destruction but allow you to fully turn it off if its not for you too (usually isnt for most people once they realize their entire 3 months of work just went up in flames from an unknown attacker or betrayer while they were asleep)
- You will be able to claim territory that is your own, and this will SAVE, forever, if even only your own instance location. You can build your own country here, have friends come help, allow visitiors to it any time public, private or tolled.
- The game will include BOTH public and private SALEABLE real estate. Combining some of the essence of those monopoly players, and second lifers. Eminent domain can apply, especially for inactives with housing being able to be fully re-planted into new location when back online in the future.
- Once this MMO is created, ALL will play, and abandon WOW, SIMS and EVE. It clearly has to have 2 genres as well… 1. Space/tech/Eve style. And then 2. Hack and slash Midieval/Magic.
- Its basically a combination of all the best of the MMO's.
A lot of copying has gone on, but no COMBINATIONS of the best have happened in any way. I hope an indy does it, because blizzard doesn’t deserve it in its ripoff of the gamer in pricing/bad loyalty, and it seems neither does EVE. The Guild wars crowd gets my Kudos for making a 90% as good as wow for TRUE-Free. ($50 for game pack)
Im too bored of wow to pay to go back. It offers too little strangely…when it has so much. Id go to GW instead for free…but I need something new that it doesn’t have. I need PVE-Economics, legacy building...as I'm all gassed out of MMO PVP destruction-idiocy mindless pointlessness. Creation is what I desire, and so many millions of others.
Im gonna try Eve though I cringe at the sickeningly high cost. 15Euros a month omg wtf?? They should have reinvented this game 50x over for that price in 7 years. So should have WOW, and thats why everyone is pissed off, the devs dont care about the consumer.
Things I like about EVE, (havent played yet) Space ships and space = cool. Economics = cool, PVE = cool but sounds like PVP victimizing is likely and will make me quit as it has so many other MMOs, and countless millions of others.
Things im not looking forward to are…slow starts, waiting for movement (Wow even has that in travel, WAYYYY too much time spent in travel even with mounts, just stupid ftw)
Come on devs….build us a Wow/+AOE/+Virtonomics, Guild2 pirates style businesses, politics, with the same massive Wow world size engine on a non-shard server with SAVE feature, FULL PVE, and HOUSING. then ill pay you $50 a month forever and jump up and down like a ten year old, hell even $80 a month.
THIS is the future of the MMO we all want, and whoever is the first to build it, have player loyalty, and fix the god damn bugs, will earn every last award, player, subscription and a $50-80 a month price tag everyone will gladly play. It will be around for 50+ years as well. A free-play version for the evony/haypi kingdom/kingory players will be needed as well. Count em 40 million players + wanting PVE and AOE style MMO. Everyone quits and recycles cause they dont want to die PVP losing their investment.
Now what the F are you waiting for stupid greedy bastard game companies, make the product we have been asking for for 20+ years already, and become richer than you ever imagined and own it all.
Count em, Evony style 40million Sims 20 million wow 15 million, others 20 million, = 100 million subscribers at $50 a month = 5 billion a month revenue. Damn right youd get it too.
Who the Heck wouldn't play??? This is the MMO we have ALLLLLLL been painstakingly waiting for, for two generations now, as the devs ignore our pleas. It will be THE FINAL MMO, eclipsing all others. It is the viable NUCLEAR FUSION of Gaming, once its created, all other forms will be obsolete, and everyone will switch. The huge funding will allow it to be perfected beyond perfection.
This is funding equivalent to an NFL TV contract. For even ten percent of that revenue, you could easily pull this off and 100 times more. All the pieces are already there, you just have to combine em,
NOW DO YOUR FREAKIN JOB! and...stop ripping us off. Take care of your customer, give them what they want, and EVERYONE will keep playing, paying, and recruiting more.
P.S. Total Fail to the MMO Genre this year. The winner of the award should be Made case in point and be...... NO ONE. Winner of 2011 MMORPG class should be NO ONE if they dont make this game, or Wow or Eve doesn't adjust theirs to be this.
We all want it, its what we demand and have been demanding for years and years and years. Its about time the consumer stood up and demanded a NO WINNER VOTE due to companies ignoring the consumers game build requests for far too many years.
Next year, there better be a "NO WINNER as NO NEW DEMANDED PRODUCT MADE" option on the ballet, or this online mag, is a freakin joke.
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love this post....hehe....no dont play eve(yet).
never say never huh
Unfortunately for that 82%, their votes were split between games they liked.
This is not a game.
Meh, EVE fanboys stuff the ballot boxes yet again. The REAL best game of 2010 judging from response is Rift, even though it's only been in closed beta. Like it or hate it, it generates a ton of traffic on the site.
1) as you said it'S a 2k11 game
2) rift is not THAT good.. sorrry, same old circle zerg theories. nothing new in here. and, actually not even next gen ^^
"I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!"
I am sure the majority that voted for EVE have never even played the game but voted for it anyway to keep another game from winning.
What we're seeing here is Detective work that is simply unparalleled.
Good job, keep it up
"Mr. Rothstein, your people never will understand... the way it works out here. You're all just our guests. But you act like you're at home. Let me tell you something, partner. You ain't home. But that's where we're gonna send you if it harelips the governor." - Pat Webb
Eve started in 2003 wins the game of year even now 7 years later?!
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My Guild Wars titles
Quit grousing about Eve, all this vote does is basically tell you absolutely nothing has changed in this industry lately. There is no one game that everyone raves about. Yep, I play Eve and voted for such. I was torn though, even though I don't play it, I thought that turbine's freemium model certainly garnered points in their favor.
With all the new games coming out this year, if all of them make it of course, we will probably have something decent to vote on.
If you note, CCP is the only developer out there that has a player group consulting on the game. It has been effective in doing so. Granted Eve is not for everyone, it has a huge learning curve. You can basically tell the people that do not take much time to learn it, they are the posters that say it is boring.
A very well deserved victory for a game that shows more and more promise every day! And after tomorrow EVE takes its very first step into a new era when the new character creation tool arrives and makes way for Incarna that will arrive later this year or next
EVE is most awesome!!!!
Newsflash: *every* MMO on this site has more haters than fans. If you want to find the world's grumpiest forum, look no further ...
Ha ha, I laughed so hard when I saw that and it's so true. All I ever see on these forums is perpetual feuding over pointless differences of opinion. Most people who really enjoy their game; don't really come to this site; because, most games have their own forums... I use to come on here to read feedback on various titles; but, people invest too emotionally into their favorite products and the information you find tends to be heavily bias/unreliable.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo Galilei
Yeah, if you like spreadsheet writer's wet dreams.
Oh right, try posting anything negative on any game's forum and watch it quickly get deleted and they wave the ban stick on you. That is really good journalism isn't it? You are only allowed a one sided view. Personally I find this site far better than any game site because they let you discuss issues games have. Hey you are perfectly entitled to any opinion here as long as you do it nicely..
Hey if you only want to see positive posts, have it at on the original game forums, fat chance you will actually learn much about the game and it's issues from them.
I will definitely accept CCP with its Stellar Council has shown their desire to listen to the player base.
However, I have to note that the excuse of 'New features bring new players while bug fixes don't' given to the player base last time they had the meeting was really a bad moment for them.
I know a lot of players essentially lose all interest in the process (think the voting last time was really low?) when that happened.
Hey, existing players want bug fixes while CCP wants new players, so totally get that but when ideology meets reality sometimes it'll be nice to see ideology win.
Gdemami -
Informing people about your thoughts and impressions is not a review, it's a blog.
That was indeed pretty much a welp moment for CCP, but to be fair they did get it when we yelled loud and long enough about that, and they have refocused resources into fixing stuff since then.
BTW if you thought the summer of 2010 was bad, wait until you see the drama that's gonna hit when Incarna launches.
Give me liberty or give me lasers
so true lol
Completely accurate
I love EVE online, but I dispise their open pvp ethics.
Your absolutly correct. If you are anti-social and try to do everything by yourself instead of working with a group to achieve selected goals you will make no difference what so ever
Actually it should be a great deal of insight for you. Let me explain. I don't play EvE either, I really can't get into the game but, it's pretty undeniable the level of quality it has. EvE is one of those games that even those that do not like to play it have to give it credit and many of them really do wish they could get into it. I myself wish I could get into EvE, but I just need something a bit more action oriented. Can't deny the quality of EvE though, it's probably one of the best MMO's out there and CCP definitely is one of the better devs.
The fact that you have the option of paying your sub fee with in game currency and the fact that all expansions are free for EvE are enough to get the game and it's devs some nice Kudos but the overall quality of the game kind of seals the deal.
EVE online, Easily the best MMORPG ever made, hopefully when Dust 514 comes out the bullets start flying see ya in space
SORRY FOR LENGTH
I didnt really pay much attention to this poll. But after reading some of the comments I figured Id compile my own list.
Mortal Online, League of Legends, Allods Online, Darkfall, Perpetuum, Warhammer Online, Football Superstars, Guild Wars, Wizard Online and EVE Online I have never played. Either they arent really the kind of game Im interested in (Im no good at pvp so I avoid games that have gameplay based on that) or I had never heard of them.
Aion I just subscribed to the other day and havent played it for long enough to get a feel for what its about to rate it.
Age of Conan (as a woman in real life) I found highly offensive because of how they portrayed women. I found it a guys game where women will always be second to men and not equal. No thanks lol.
Dungeons and Dragons Online I found kind of boring and repetitive. But to be fair that was a long time ago that I played it so much might have changed.
World of Warcraft came in 7th for me. Its a combat only game in my opinion and Blizzard does it very well. Blizzard has done little things to make it easier for people to get into their game (such as allowing you to charge it to your phone bill instead of needing a credit card). The graphics are also on the, I want to say plain rather than cartoony, which means that it opens it up for people that might not have higher end machines. Other than that I found it boring because its only combat - nothing more to it. There should be more. Every other game on the list has an excuse because they have a far lower playerbase - therefore not as much money/resources to add perhaps all that they or their playerbase would like (that to me gives them a repreive for not having all the bells and whistles) Blizzard however has no excuse for not offering more (ie: housing is a glaring ommission for me) because everywhere I look they are saying how many players they have.
Star Trek Online I found neat when I got a chance to play it but just not enough time to do so. I liked the away/ ground missions.
I like many things in regards to Fallen Earth. The crafting system is neat and I like that you can mix and match things according to what you want to take up. The world is very nice I thought from a graphics point of view and while I dont like the targetting you do get used to it. It and Star Trek Online are the two games where I wish I had more time to play MMO's because they are two Id like to get into more.
Lord of the Rings Online I think is a beautiful little game. I dont like the idea that you have to go up in combat in order to do a crafting quest. That to me is just wrong. I have a problem with the LoTRO store. Not because I have a problem with RMT's but because I think some of the things they offer there should be craftable only. Such as the hunter class's fire oil. If it already exists as a craftable in game - and a lower end craftable at that - then it should have been omitted. To be fair though many quests offer Turbine Points so no one is blocked from being able to purchase things from there. That I think is a nice gesture. I have a love/hate relationship with housing. I think the instance within an instance idea is cool - but I dont think that they should be as strict with the rules of ownership. Things happen and you might not be able to log into a game - to lose your house (even if things do go into escrow) is an unnecessary penalty because a new housing instance CAN be created.
City of Heroes, I like the idea that everyone can have a SG base, the power sets are fun, the character creation is very indepth. The combat in a group can be cool. I like that every profession has a clearly defined role. Giving people the ability to make their own quests was a neat idea. The tutorial is better than in any other game and if you still have questions then trainers scattered throughout the world will help you with answering them. My only real complaint with it is that - once you hit 50 its repetitive. I also didnt like the Flashback system. It would not be necessary if they allowed people to work for contacts until they were done with them regardless of level or if they allowed questlines that gave badges to be repeatable. That to me would have been a far easier thing to do but then Im not a designer and they might have had good reason for doing it the way they did.
I like how Everquest 2 mixes combat and non combat together. While the game is combat orientated they still put emphasis on putting in content for crafters as well. I like the housing there - everything stays as it is regardless of how long you might be gone for. I like the world events (holiday, upcoming content related, etc) it means you have to keep tabs on what is going on there as some things are only available for a limited time. What I dont like though is the emphasis on guild/group acheivements rather than personal. Such as needing to be in a guild of a certain level in order to purchase a house if you have enough status to cover it. If I put in the time to earn the status for a certain faction they should know my avatar well enough to allow me access to housing, regardless of my characters group affiliation. To me I think it just causes high level guilds to be used for those perks rather than someone joining because they actually like the people in it (which i feel is more important).
I never voted in this poll but if I had I would have voted for Star Wars Galaxies. I think it falls into a couple categories - most improved being one of them.
As a player that has an entertainer main, I have fought for the past 5 years for many things that I have seen put into the game in the past year or two. The most important thing to me since the integration of the NGE was that I had no way to earn GCW rank as an entertainer. The invasions gave me that role. Most recently they put in the Nightsister themepark where again quests were put in for entertainers. We are able to earn rewards from those two things using the non comat skills the profession is based on and that is an awesome thing. It means the devs are waking up to realize we are NOT second class citizens in the game (as the past dev teams seem to have thought).
While we are still waiting for ent relics we have enough things now to keep us busy that them not being there is not as noticeable as it was before.
I still like the housing, the crafting, the character customization, the emote system, the chat system (and you have no idea how nice it is to have a chat system like that after attempting to use the nightmarish chat in DCUOnline!), I like how everything craftable you can use - like actually being able to just click on a chair to sit in it - no other game has that option - even if they do have housing. I like how you can use items in ways that they were not initially intended to customize your structure interiors far more. Yes, Im more into the non combat elements of games - I make no apologies for that. SWG - even if they DID for the longest time treat players like me like we were second class citizens at least still treated us like we WERE citizens - most other game have nothing to offer me because they dont seem to agree that non-combat should have a place. Yet the Sims franchise would seem to contradict that philosophy. Even with all that they could do with that game (and Im not blind to its faults - there are many) I still think it offers me alot in regards to gameplay.
And if I get bored of the noncombat stuff - I can just load up a combat character and go to it.
EVE is the last and only sandbox mmorpg left, it is still WAY ahead of its time even after all these years. While the entire industry fell over each other cloning WoW's limited rail-based style, EVE remained pure to its sandbox core while conintues to push the limit of the genre. You have to play the game for a year or two to truly appreciate how well designed the various game systems are, and how they work together in a meaningful cause/effect relation that has a constant impact to the game world.
The game is extremely well polished, it's mind boggling how they managed to do this given the complexity behind the various systems. And the fact that all players can play together on 1 server ensures the world is always active (40k+ players are usually online at any given time)
The only negative is the learning curve, it is overwhelming even with an updated tutorial, the current generation who grew up with wow's instant gratification mentality, are never prepared for eve and most don't make it past the first few hours after login on. It's unfortuante, as those with the patience to stay will find a mmorpg that can never be replaced. No longer do they have to be one of the lost souls in the mmorpg universe constantly searching for the next new world to "max" out and get bored with.
EVE is the final home for me, thers is no need to play another new mmorpg because i already know they wont even comse close to what eve already has.
There is ONE MMO that will stand the permenant tests of time and be with us in 50 years from now… The world will play it and play no other..
I Was totally addicted to Wow, the player interaction on the chats was huge for me. (other games have this too) but once I got to higher levels, and my friends weren't on to task with and enjoy their friendship, the game was completely boring. The grind alone to me well, sucks big time. My favorite game of all time is Diablo2. Best grind ever, with great mix of cool drops, levels, characters, weaps, weap customization, and more. The best Mmos are GW/Wow for gameplay. I found GW to be the same as Wow, almost exact, but about 90% as good, without the cost cause its free vs $200 a year for wow which makes it hands down better than Wow.
Wow and Eve SHOULD be far above the others, because they have massive revenue from players. They just don't give back obviously. Eve doesn't give a crap about growing, wow doesn't give a crap about giving their player base anything more, Just more profits for Wow.
Wow lacks complex resource farming, lacks armies, lacks building, lacks housing, lacks sieging, lacks legacy building, its just hack and slash and fill your disgustingly limited inventory bag. Incredibly limited in scope.
Eve seems only PVP. Half of players like Pvp, half hate it and quit the first time they incur a major loss to their building. Half or more of players want strong PVE, which no game offers. they want AOE style PVE. Housing, SAVING, play and save SAFELY build your empire, combined with people interaction, missions and quests, all the markets and gear economies, where you can build an empire that lasts forever and youll still have it even if you don’t log in for 12 months. No PVP can destroy it. Have PVP instances, or PVP elections for buildings or while online, but definitely none of this kill me while im sleeping garbage in the genre now. (Evony etc, Eve)
People want an MMO that runs AROUND their life, not that becomes it. SAVE function and HOUSING, and LASTING LEGACY.
There is ONE MMO that will stand the permenant tests of time and be with us in 50 years from now… The world will play it and play no other..
- It has Glorious PVE (Diablo2, WOW, Eve combination) and massive PVE (AOE style unlimited in size with new enemies created so you can keep going forever beyond the 8)
- It has Unparrallelled PVE economy like Virtonomics which has buildings you and guilds can build to make resources, (AOE/Guild 2 pirates/Virtonomics - Style businesses you can work in, micromanage, or automate. (Thousands of Wow players and Eve players and Sims players are just traders, crafters, service offerers)
- Serious resource farming including planting, reliable mining and creation, farms of all kinds, and many markets. This will include Tree planting, harvesting, chopping, Employees hiring, same for all resources. (Mobile Pocket Kingdoms)
- It will have opt/in out PVP that will allow FULL PVP destruction but allow you to fully turn it off if its not for you too (usually isnt for most people once they realize their entire 3 months of work just went up in flames from an unknown attacker or betrayer while they were asleep)
- You will be able to claim territory that is your own, and this will SAVE, forever, if even only your own instance location. You can build your own country here, have friends come help, allow visitiors to it any time public, private or tolled.
- The game will include BOTH public and private SALEABLE real estate. Combining some of the essence of those monopoly players, and second lifers. Eminent domain can apply, especially for inactives with housing being able to be fully re-planted into new location when back online in the future.
- Once this MMO is created, ALL will play, and abandon WOW, SIMS and EVE. It clearly has to have 2 genres as well… 1. Space/tech/Eve style. And then 2. Hack and slash Midieval/Magic.
- Its basically a combination of all the best of the MMO's.
A lot of copying has gone on, but no COMBINATIONS of the best have happened in any way. I hope an indy does it, because blizzard doesn’t deserve it in its ripoff of the gamer in pricing/bad loyalty, and it seems neither does EVE. The Guild wars crowd gets my Kudos for making a 90% as good as wow for TRUE-Free. ($50 for game pack)
Im too bored of wow to pay to go back. It offers too little strangely…when it has so much. Id go to GW instead for free…but I need something new that it doesn’t have. I need PVE-Economics, legacy building...as I'm all gassed out of MMO PVP destruction-idiocy mindless pointlessness. Creation is what I desire, and so many millions of others.
Im gonna try Eve though I cringe at the sickeningly high cost. 15Euros a month omg wtf?? They should have reinvented this game 50x over for that price in 7 years. So should have WOW, and thats why everyone is pissed off, the devs dont care about the consumer.
Things I like about EVE, (havent played yet) Space ships and space = cool. Economics = cool, PVE = cool but sounds like PVP victimizing is likely and will make me quit as it has so many other MMOs, and countless millions of others.
Things im not looking forward to are…slow starts, waiting for movement (Wow even has that in travel, WAYYYY too much time spent in travel even with mounts, just stupid ftw)
Come on devs….build us a Wow/+AOE/+Virtonomics, Guild2 pirates style businesses, politics, with the same massive Wow world size engine on a non-shard server with SAVE feature, FULL PVE, and HOUSING. then ill pay you $50 a month forever and jump up and down like a ten year old, hell even $80 a month.
THIS is the future of the MMO we all want, and whoever is the first to build it, have player loyalty, and fix the god damn bugs, will earn every last award, player, subscription and a $50-80 a month price tag everyone will gladly play. It will be around for 50+ years as well. A free-play version for the evony/haypi kingdom/kingory players will be needed as well. Count em 40 million players + wanting PVE and AOE style MMO. Everyone quits and recycles cause they dont want to die PVP losing their investment.
Now what the F are you waiting for stupid greedy bastard game companies, make the product we have been asking for for 20+ years already, and become richer than you ever imagined and own it all.
Count em, Evony style 40million Sims 20 million wow 15 million, others 20 million, = 100 million subscribers at $50 a month = 5 billion a month revenue. Damn right youd get it too.
Who the Heck wouldn't play??? This is the MMO we have ALLLLLLL been painstakingly waiting for, for two generations now, as the devs ignore our pleas. It will be THE FINAL MMO, eclipsing all others. It is the viable NUCLEAR FUSION of Gaming, once its created, all other forms will be obsolete, and everyone will switch. The huge funding will allow it to be perfected beyond perfection.
This is funding equivalent to an NFL TV contract. For even ten percent of that revenue, you could easily pull this off and 100 times more. All the pieces are already there, you just have to combine em,
NOW DO YOUR FREAKIN JOB! and...stop ripping us off. Take care of your customer, give them what they want, and EVERYONE will keep playing, paying, and recruiting more.
P.S. Total Fail to the MMO Genre this year. The winner of the award should be Made case in point and be...... NO ONE. Winner of 2011 MMORPG class should be NO ONE if they dont make this game, or Wow or Eve doesn't adjust theirs to be this.
We all want it, its what we demand and have been demanding for years and years and years. Its about time the consumer stood up and demanded a NO WINNER VOTE due to companies ignoring the consumers game build requests for far too many years.
Next year, there better be a "NO WINNER as NO NEW DEMANDED PRODUCT MADE" option on the ballet, or this online mag, is a freakin joke.