Well im interested in seeing the award winners...well not really because we all know EVE is gonna win every category, except for maybe best story which Ryzom should win, hey i got an idea you should rename this site to EVEfanboiMMORPG.com

It's obvious to me the voting here is primarily done by those who do not frequent this site that often and rather by those coming in from voting campaigns for EVE and WoW. WoW has the massive player base and EVE has the centralized, organized community.

I doubt more than 15% of voters have played more than their primary MMOG and perhaps one other in the last year. Maybe 10% have played others longer than a 10 hour trial.

Reader's Choice Awards are the Best Organized Playerbase Awards ;)

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Originally posted by Parsifal57

    It would be preferable the next time you do polls that have only two choices that a third 'None of The Above' be added, i notice in one of the categories you did do this. I would like to register a vote but since neither of the choices would have been my preference I ended up voting for the game i disliked the least. If many people think the same way as me you are going to end up with results that are not truly indicative of what your members think.

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The outpouring of EVE hate is amazing.  Where were all of these people during the nominations?   And how many of these will now vote 'anything but EVE'?

My games didn't make it and I voted...big deal.  Get over it.

I may actually try EVE just to see if the hate is justified.

If we'd want to give everyone a choice (not WoW or EVE), then i think we should get rid of the "finalists" option. I think that would work up to a point.

So far, the only category i found remotely interesting was "most anticipated games".

Anyway..Now i'm just looking forward to Editor's Choice Awards

I don't understand why the people that hate EVE can't see its good points. Sure it has it's weak spots just like any other game but as far as PVP and Story go you can't beat EVE. Especially on story. EVE should win that category hands down. I love Ryzom but it's story isn't half as interesting or in depth as EVE's ever evolving lore. The one thing i don't understand is how it can be in the best PVE category. EVE's PVE is barely better than Korean point and click potion spamfests. Only barely.

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Originally posted by checkthis500
I personally found it strange that EVE got voted in for best PvE.  The game is amazing, but PvE it just doesn't have.  Eh, oh well.  If they win out, I'll definitely laugh.

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I agree.  I am an avid supporter of EVE Online and I did no rate it's PvE as mentionable.  It needs a huge amount of improvement before it's on par with other games.  Dungeon & Dragons Online has awesomely narrated PvE which is probally the best I've experianced.  Too bad there wasn't pre-cu SWG servers or it would be winning some of these categories.

World of Warcraft deserves honorable mention for the best questing experiance regardless of what is awarded to it.

There's a nasty type-o on the graphics portion of the polls.  It incorrectly refers to EVE's future "directX9" when it should be "DirectX10".

One thing that confuses me is how WoW is getting mentioned for it's graphics when Guildwars and EQ2 are far superior.  Of course I think WoW is overall better even though the detail is inferior.  To me that's one sign of a good game.  (I do not like the game play in WoW while I am able to acknoledge it's overall quality, or lack thereof)

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Originally posted by Copeland

I don't understand why the people that hate EVE can't see its good points. Sure it has it's weak spots just like any other game but as far as PVP and Story go you can't beat EVE. Especially on story. EVE should win that category hands down. I love Ryzom but it's story isn't half as interesting or in depth as EVE's ever evolving lore. The one thing i don't understand is how it can be in the best PVE category. EVE's PVE is barely better than Korean point and click potion spamfests. Only barely.

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I agree. 

for the inability to identify quality you simpily have to look at some of the posts to see why this is: 

"Eve wins again, big suprise when a game dosn't require you to be there to gain skills, you can have a ton of downtime with that title so allot come on forums etc. Obviously allot of Eve players at this site. Maybe you should rename it MMORPGEVE. COM lol."

There's nothing wrong with that quoted view.  Some kids haven't had the opportunity to experiance quality.  Growing up on McDonalds cheesburgers is a crime agasint humanity.  Even then, puberty is possibly years away for some of them...

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Originally posted by sleepyguyftl
My question is if these really are the MMORPG readers choice awards. What I mean by that is was there anything to prevent someone from creating an account and voting?

Maybe next year you should limit the voting to people who have at least 20 posts. I also think you should have a none of the above category as well as only have one round of voting. None of this finalist garbage.

Also you have said that last year you had open voting. That is not true at all. You had a limited set of choices.

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If I look at the forum sections here only the following games have more posts than EVE
Dark and Light, Everquest 2, Guild Wars, Starwars Galaxies and World of Warcraft.

DnL, EVE and GW are all very close to each other in posts.

I kind of doubt Starwars Galaxies are going to get many votes, that leaves just 2 games that can be said to have a larger community on this site which might vote for it than EVE and both those are represented in the finals.
Dark and Light is the only Top 5 size community on this site that is not represented in the finals.

So many people trash the PVE in eve but really these are mostly (yeah i'm assuming) peopl,e who havn't spent much time out in 0.0 space working with gang mates, command ships, and so on trying to assault a complex or find new complexes with exploration... or salvage, build rigs, harvest gas clouds and so on. Granted these are new but they are there

Eve pvp may not come close to the politics, pvp, and infrastructure of the game but.. it sure beats  "LFG!"

edit: erk, not to mention all the empire stuff: Missions, research, invention, mining (ergh), production, trade, market/contract playing, margin-profiting, share-broking (100% player driven but it's there) COSMOS, POS reactions, moon harvesting, outpost construction (massively large-scale but doable) and so on..

I read these comments and I am amazed, why are we bashing an MMORPG that is succeeding? First the PVE argument, NO game has good PVE, in the end they are all grind. Eve however continues to expand their PVE, giving it more depth and options that any other game in my experience.

Next the complaint that they called for votes on their forum. The response should be an indicatior of how loyal and strong their player base is. Now if thier base is that strong they must have a fairly impressive game.

Eve offers an opened ended and depth of play that none of the others truly touch.  Plus CCP as a company is second to NONE in supporting their base. Add to this a player base that has gone forward and created a magazine, 2 radio stations, TV coverage, the list can go on a long time. NO game has ever had this level of player base support, the question is why? The answer is easy, Eve is the BEST MMORPG out right now.

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Originally posted by F'lar

I for one find EVE's PvE fun.

     True it does not even come close to PvP and honestly should not even be compared to it, but PvE can be interesting if played with low end ships and equipment. Not to mention with the instanced areas that abound throuout the whole game universe give even beginning players a chance to see some of the best and biggest explosions in any MMO.

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