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Originally posted by Stradden

Originally posted by BaronJuJu

Stradden: " Some have lost our trust or confidence entirely, while others have impressed us and gained our loyalty. "

NCSoft's President of Publishing, David Reid, 24 Sep 2008: "and we see improvement happening in Tabula Rasa. We're encouraged by it. ....It is a game that is very much in the wheelhouse of what NC West and NCsoft globally are all about"

NCSoft 21 Nov 2008: " So it is with regret that we must announce that Tabula Rasa will end live service on February 28, 2009."

Yup, that just makes me gush with loyalty. Come on now be honest, you knew if you would have put SOE in the list the SWG Vets would come in with their alts and spam the living crap out of the board, so to bypass those boils you just dropped them. For all the glowing reports you all write on EQ2, The Agency and DC Online regularly, offers more variety in generes under a unique  payment plan system like no other company, a company that incorporates Trading Card games into their MMO's or can be played seperately, how does the studio not impress you all?

Honestly, I'm really curious here.

 

We wanted to narrow it down to six nominees. We talked about SOE, but in the end, we decided to go with NCsoft instead. The cancellation of Tabula Rasa aside, they are currently running two games that our readers tend to enjoy (GW and CoH) and have a big gun on the way with Aion. They have engendered a lot of loyalty from some folks and deserved to be on the list.

I'm not saying that there aren't arguments to be made for SOE's presence here, and I'm not trashing them, but in the end we decided to go with NCsoft.

This, and the poll, should be earmarked for future reference for replys to those who say SOE is in the back pocket of MMORPG.com.  Of course the reply will be that SOE paid you to not be put in the poll because they were a guaranteed last place showing.

I voted for Funcom because I want them to have at least one vote.

Originally posted by Stradden

Originally posted by BaronJuJu

Stradden: " Some have lost our trust or confidence entirely, while others have impressed us and gained our loyalty. "

NCSoft's President of Publishing, David Reid, 24 Sep 2008: "and we see improvement happening in Tabula Rasa. We're encouraged by it. ....It is a game that is very much in the wheelhouse of what NC West and NCsoft globally are all about"

NCSoft 21 Nov 2008: " So it is with regret that we must announce that Tabula Rasa will end live service on February 28, 2009."

Yup, that just makes me gush with loyalty. Come on now be honest, you knew if you would have put SOE in the list the SWG Vets would come in with their alts and spam the living crap out of the board, so to bypass those boils you just dropped them. For all the glowing reports you all write on EQ2, The Agency and DC Online regularly, offers more variety in generes under a unique  payment plan system like no other company, a company that incorporates Trading Card games into their MMO's or can be played seperately, how does the studio not impress you all?

Honestly, I'm really curious here.

 

We wanted to narrow it down to six nominees. We talked about SOE, but in the end, we decided to go with NCsoft instead. The cancellation of Tabula Rasa aside, they are currently running two games that our readers tend to enjoy (GW and CoH) and have a big gun on the way with Aion. They have engendered a lot of loyalty from some folks and deserved to be on the list.

I'm not saying that there aren't arguments to be made for SOE's presence here, and I'm not trashing them, but in the end we decided to go with NCsoft.

Fair enough, though I may not agree with your decision I appreciate the feedback.

SOE is alrite in my book.

› Blizzard wow  nice generic and entertaining MMO more casual and tongue in cheek, love the children in the streets touch,, on my go back to list.

› CCP anti-casual player PVP only nitch game  with this kind of thinking no wonder icelands economy is in the dumper

› Mythic Entertainment

› NCsoft city of heroes  some innovation flying, superleaps, slippery ice  but still all thug bashing and no heroics

› Turbine LOTRO a solid reliable stable game with good lore and a loyal player base, with that said  not very innovative or creative still no boats!! non-interactive zones,, same old rehashed quests and mob generators and mob AIs  and an insulting fishing addition,, even with this said,, this is still my winner as for the most part they are still going in the right direction with quality and clockwork game additions still want to see interactive terrain like cliff climbing,, and slippery ice and zone content that make zones attractive after the quests are completed (zones are dead boring once quests are done.

› Funcom age of conan an epic level dissapointment,  was expecting a revolutionary realistic mature MMO and what we got was an absurdly heavy graphic game that was same old content  in older better games
 

as for sony  I hate them all of their games are rude to players and are nothing but uninspired money grinders for those of lesser standards who put up with sonys bad behavior   many of sony games are on my anti-game list (SWG) and i go out of my way to warn other players away from them.

still looking for a game that isnt arcade based or combat oriented, like steping into an alternate universe (idealized reality ofcourse) where there is climate and weather and food and water are important  food based economy   but the console players are convinced that this form of game cant be fun. if there not killing 500 mobs a day.  let them deal with a plague or famine in their village and see what they think.

Originally posted by salvaje

C C P.

The only MMO developer who "gets it" with respect to what a MMORPG should be, and what a player wants.

And they have been handsomley rewarded with 300K subs, which btw is more than anyone has in the EU/US for a single game outside WOW.

Worst: SOE.  They have the inverse midas touch.  Midas could turn things to gold.  SOE turns things (even games they themselves developed such as the Pre-CU SWG) into sh-t.

 

your kidding right? all sucessful games in my mind, make CCPs "300k" look PATHETIC, CCP is out of touch and is nothing more than a nitch game as long as they are nothing more than a PVP ganker only game they will never compete with real games like lotro,  its a fact that more casual players have been forced to leave eve than its current subscribers  it would not suprise me if eve was to endgame unless they change their vision.  the non-pvp mining corps are routinly torn apart by predatory harassment WARDECs that make any shop in the corperation including mining barges and haulers vulnerable to attack anywhere in the universe forcing people to sit in hangers for a week (if not longer) or leave the corperation og give up on the game all together and cancel their account (I have seen this happen several times.

CCP could be a great popular game,, they choose NOT to be.

 TURBINE: FOR:

THE LORD OF THE RINGS ONLINE.

all others are HORRIBLE compared to TURBINE. hands down. 

Blizzard got my vote. Through years this company has show the ability to deliver polished and well done games able to catch the attention and give fun to a lot of people. In my opinion this is the goal for a game company and they have been the most successful in achieve it. It doesn’t matter WoW is not my game.

NCSoft could have got my vote, they developed Lineage II and it is still my best experience in the MMORPG’s world, but it’s just one game (I can't consider GW as a NCSoft developped game it was developped by Arena.net before the merge same for TS/ Richard Garriot or CoH developped by Cryptic Studios). Then second place for NCSoft.
 

Originally posted by almeric

Wow, what a thoughtless list of nominees.

I've played a lot of MMOs from a wide range of developers, and I'm sorry to the haters out there, but EQ2 offers the best fantasy-genre gameplay I've yet found.

And SOE is a vastly more active developer overall than Blizzard - The Agency looks awesome, and DCUO has some buzz behind it.  Free Realms for the kiddies?

SOE gets my vote, with Cryptic (omgzIwannaplayChampions) in 2nd place.

I personally would have voted for SoE but apparently somebody forgot to add them.

Originally posted by brenth

Originally posted by salvaje

C C P.

The only MMO developer who "gets it" with respect to what a MMORPG should be, and what a player wants.

And they have been handsomley rewarded with 300K subs, which btw is more than anyone has in the EU/US for a single game outside WOW.

Worst: SOE.  They have the inverse midas touch.  Midas could turn things to gold.  SOE turns things (even games they themselves developed such as the Pre-CU SWG) into sh-t.

 

 

your kidding right? all sucessful games in my mind, make CCPs "300k" look PATHETIC, CCP is out of touch and is nothing more than a nitch game as long as they are nothing more than a PVP ganker only game they will never compete with real games like lotro,  its a fact that more casual players have been forced to leave eve than its current subscribers  it would not suprise me if eve was to endgame unless they change their vision.  the non-pvp mining corps are routinly torn apart by predatory harassment WARDECs that make any shop in the corperation including mining barges and haulers vulnerable to attack anywhere in the universe forcing people to sit in hangers for a week (if not longer) or leave the corperation og give up on the game all together and cancel their account (I have seen this happen several times.

CCP could be a great popular game,, they choose NOT to be.

300k is hardly a niche game. Just because you do not enjoy it does not mean others cannot.
 

Likewise, size of the userbase for a single game does not make the company owning the game a shining star in terms of customer interaction or support. CCP is doing very well with EVE and investing a lot of time and effort into responding to their playerbase.

I can only applaud CCP for sitcking to the gameplay that their players enjoy instead of trying to water it down into generic bs in an attempt to aquire a larger market share.

  Hmmm what happened to SOE? It has EQ2, VG, EQ, SWG among others and it's not even an option? This years people's choice awards sucks by default.

CCP for me, all the way!!

Some people here need to learn to read. SOE is NOT on the list because they knew they would come in last, so they asked to be removed!

At least that's all I read LMFAO!

Would have to agree with what others have said: Tie between Turbine and CCP. My vote went to CCP though because Turbine has veered away from growing their own IPs and fell in line with the themepark bandwagon. AC, which made the company in my opinion, was not a themepark and I believe they should go back to making games in that mold. With their reputation for polish they don't need to follow the WoW formula for a successful game.

 Turbine.

Voted Turbine.

I started MMO's with AC1 though I dont play anymore, not any other game has kept me entertained as long as that title.

 My favourite 2 aren't really in the list. :) My first favourite one, is pretty known, AreaNet. They made Guild Wars, in case you never heard of them before. I started respecting that company after seeing the making of Nightfall dvd. It looked like they had a pretty relaxed working environment. big open rooms, instead of boxes etc. A nice garden (why don't I have one of those?!). And most importantly, some frigin' good developers! Their graphics are amazing, and run on about system. Their server system is encredible, not even the "holy" Blizzard has a server system like that! 

And second of all, barely known to anyone, Silverlode. Don't really know a lot about them, except that they're a small company, making a revolutionary MMORTS. They only charge $20 for the actual game, and give away free copies! A lot of them really, I think you can get one at filefront at the moment. Besides that, it must be one of the only games where the developers actually help the players themselves! I got stuck at a quest, and one of the devs was kind of enough to help me out. :) 

Was hard choice between Turbine and CCP, choosed Turbine as I have no experience with CCP.

Clearly Turbine.

I voted for Turbine as well.

SOE should be on the list.  I am not a fan by any means but they helped created the genre and have like 5 or 6 active games running. 

Sony Online Entertainment

Voted NCSoft myself.  Even after 4 years I still enjoy City of Heroes immensely, they support it well with the free content patches (Issues).  Dungeon Runners is an enjoyable Diablo-ish free to play game.  Of course then there is Guild Wars with the no-sub MMO philosophy.

I'd say Turbine would be my #2 choice.

If I had to pick my least favorite I'd say EA.  They screwed up Motor City Online and didn't support Earth & Beyond.  When they bought Mythic, DAoC has since stagnated and Imperator cancelled.  WAR was released to mixed reviews, mostly due to population imbalances having not been addressed.

Turbine for me as well they just do things right IMO. Sure companys make mistakes but its how they handle them that matter to me and wheather I feel they are using their development resources properly.

If I pay for a game with a subscription I want to see that money come back to me in the game.

I dont commend a game for always releasing polished games as that is just them doing their job but when a company adds new content as much as Turbine does for free I will commend them for that.

Yes Blizzard might have had my vote but their new Xpac is lacking in my opinion and is not even half of what Turbine just released in MOM. Since Turbine can release twice the amount of content with a fraction of the resources Blizzard has Turbine will keep my vote.

Funcom- Only company ever to make me personally question wheather I try a new game or not and my friends feel this way as well. I have never seen a company do what they did to its customers and its a shame as I have 3 friends who actually quit the entire genre after this game.

Even game forums in general seem to have turned for the worse due to so many upset gamers over Funcom.

CCP- from the few months I have played EVE the game seems very well managed and the scope of the game has stayed the same regardless of how many subs it has had.

Turbine FTW