General Discussion

Roll up! Roll up! Place your bets - which MMO is going to be the biggest launch disappointment of 2008? Will it be AoC, with a lot of hype behind it (i.e. boobs and blood) but a pedigree that includes Anarchy Online, or will it be WAR, with a pedigree that includes DAoC, but also graphics and gameplay that seem lifted out of DAoC too? Or is there some other contender launching in 2008 that will set forums ablaze with nerd rage at it's incompleteness and ineptitude?

I pre-ordered both War and AoC. Hopefully nothing will fail but if anything I put my money on AoC. Still going to play it

I cant vote because i dont think either game on that list will Flop. But just to be a smart ass I voted Wrath of the Lich King.

Why do we have to assume any of them would be a dissapointment. things do not have to be mutually exclusive. It could be that every one succeeds

The 3 games on that list haven't launched. Granted AoC is only 2 weeks from launching it's not fair to call it a disappointment or failure. WAR and WoW's expansion are 6-8 months away so WTF?

I think that I am going love to WAR but many will be disappointed before really even giving it a try.  I think this game is going to shine at higher levels with big teams working together.  And before people experience that, they will call it out as being to boring.

I have not played the beta yet, so I'm just guessing.

Personally, I'm going with WAR, seems to me like its gonna have an easier feel to the gameplay. It has a massive budget and experienced developers of the game, which is probably gonna be the deciding point in it.

There will always be critics and people ready to marginalize any level of success as well as expound on any area of weakness. Any launch with a few hitches probably won't be as big of a disappointment as Vanguard, so if you take that into consideration these games would have to really bomb out.

Personally I think this just shows the attitude of the MMo gamer today,we used to have polls saying which would be the best but now we have which will be the worst,I start to wonder do gamer's these days want a game to flop more so they can get there post count up and feel important more than they would enjoy a game to do well?

Yep you might think this is a stupid question but is it anymore stupid than having a poll for 3 AAA+ titles which will flop the hardest?

I wont vote unless you add"I hope all do well" to your very scepict poll.

The system specs required for AoC are going to put it out of reach for a lot of people. While Warhammer's graphics are not as flashy, the game will be acessible to far more people.

AoC is an ultra-linear borefest and WAR is just a medicore WoW clone (sorry, but it is) that sounds great on paper but really isn't very much fun.  My money is on WAR flopping pretty hard, AoC at least has some class underneath it's myriad of technical problems.

This is just my opinion, don't hate me for it.  I don't have a crystal ball or anything.  Maybe one of these games will take the MMORPG scene by storm.  Who cares!  I've got some pedestrians to run over and bitches to have warm coffee with.  You lot in the meantime, have the following waiting for you:

Achievement Unlocked:  Disillusioned fan-boy - Waited 2 years for an MMORPG only to be disappointed.

Muahaha :P  I'm only being half-serious here.