Im sorry but 2008 was a horrible year for MMORPG's.... lets hope 2009 will be better with games like AION and Star Trek and Star Wars (if they come out in 2009 but unlikely) ect..

I voted for AoC because even with the failed launch the game is a thousand times better now and actually pretty damn fun.  I left after a while and have not been back until recently and holy crap did they clean a lot up and flesh out the stories for quests and the dungeons are seriously a blast to do.  Even solo dungeon quests are awesome with almost raid like game play of finding a weakness or some kind of trick to help you that requires planning and practice to get right.  It's just fun to do them now.  The PvP revamp has been great it's actually great to pvp now.  And they have adjusted the gear... still needs some tweaking but it's so much better than it used to be.  That fact alone got my vote for it.  It's actually going in the right direction compared to war which is still a long way from being fun.

The other titles I played and got bored too quickly never got passed 20 for most of them.  Anyways that's my opinion.

Originally posted by Ozmodan

Now I beg to differ, if you are going to include Atlantica, why in the world did you exclude f2p games like Perfect World?

In my opinion, Perfect World is so much better than Atlantica, there is just no comparison.  Atlantica has that ancient turn based combat, which to many of us is just plain lame and it is a huge lagfest.  I had a couple hundred people on screen the other day in Perfect World and only experienced mild lag.

Seriously if you are going to include the f2p games, then include them all.  You can't justify excluding any when you include one of them.

I think with Perfect world its still considered as unreleased.  Oddly they just put out an expansion.  Then there's the question of  which perfect world, because Its Malay PW has been out since 2007, and although they gave a beta in Sept for PW international, they never really had an actual "launch" if you will.

Originally posted by beauxaj

Originally posted by Ozmodan

Now I beg to differ, if you are going to include Atlantica, why in the world did you exclude f2p games like Perfect World?

In my opinion, Perfect World is so much better than Atlantica, there is just no comparison.  Atlantica has that ancient turn based combat, which to many of us is just plain lame and it is a huge lagfest.  I had a couple hundred people on screen the other day in Perfect World and only experienced mild lag.

Seriously if you are going to include the f2p games, then include them all.  You can't justify excluding any when you include one of them.

 

I think with Perfect world its still considered as unreleased.  Oddly they just put out an expansion.  Then there's the question of  which perfect world, because Its Malay PW has been out since 2007, and although they gave a beta in Sept for PW international, they never really had an actual "launch" if you will.

tru.dat

Personally, I think Atlantica is a way more structured game and gives you more stuff to do. I managed to play to level 51 without burning out (no time to play atm) while in PW I couldn't play past 20 or so if I remember right...

At least the strategic element in Atlantica keeps you playing a bit longer, it's not just endless skill-button mashing.

I voted for warhammer online because it is a lot of fun when I have time to play

p.s.: for the guys saying that if u didnt try play the stated games u cant comment... oh come on it's a poll , on a forum , on the internetz...here it's like in politics...even trolls can comment...and they will...

btw I played none of the stated games except WAR..AoC appealed me but I didnt buy it

Originally posted by Stradden

Every year, the lit of current MMORPGs grows. Every year, we hope to find the launch of the "next big thing" in our genre or maybe just the next big thing" for our tastes. Sometimes we're happy with the results and sometimes we're not.

This year, we decided to include a "none of the above" nomination in this category. This decision was reached after reading numerous comments on the forums that seemed to indicate that people were unhappy with the products released in 2008.

The Best New Game category was created in order to determine our readers' favourite game that has yet to celebrate its one year anniversary. In order to qualify for this category, a game had to be released in 2008. As always, the nominations were chosen by the MMORPG.com editorial staff.

• Age of Conan
• Atlantica Online
• Pirates of the Burning Sea
• Warhammer Online
• None of the Above

Vote for the Best New Game of 2008

It's been a really bad year.

Originally posted by Guillermo197

Originally posted by JonMichael

Originally posted by kb4blu

I voted none of the above simply because they are all equally bad.

MMO's have gone to hell in a handbasket.

 

 

And you played them all, I assume?

 

 

 

I actually did and they all didn't deliver in my eyes.

Seeing the poor quality and scams (AoC) with this year new MMO launches then you can conclude it has been a very very bad year for MMO's.

So I think "None of the Above" is a very very valid option in this poll.

Cheers

Ive played them all as well, most of them ive played since alpha, the none of the above option is more then nessessairy.

I've played them all except AoC, and I also voted "none of the above."  It really HASN'T been the BEST year ever for new MMOs, has it?

I played AoC and WAR, but I didn't play the other two. Of the two games I did play, neither them turned out to be what I had anticipated. As for the other two, I only heard marginal positive things about Pirates and almost no vocal action towards Atlantica.

So, I voted none and to be honest, it truely was a crappy game year for MMO's.

NONE for the love of mother and child! And its fully right to add that option, given the many trash and mediocrity we have seen this year. 2007 I said it could only get better, and BOY was I wrong. Lets hope 2009 will be better. =.=

None of them could make me bother to come back to MMORPGs so none of them deserve to be the best of anything.

Played  LoTRO and EQII most of the year. Stil playiong LoTRO and it looks liek that will be my gane for awhile to come since nothing in development excites me at all

tried AoC, War and PoBS voted none of the above

AoC  turned me off with the poor CS/QA early on then it just seemed it seemed too restrictive in movement and the community just wasn't as good as EQII and LoTROs. It does have some good points and I will look at it again next year maybe.

 With Warhammer I wanted DAoC II. Bur that was not the case and after about 6 hours of play I called it quits.

Beta'ed PoBS and of all the games listed I wanted to like this one the most but ended up liking it the least. Never could "identify " with my toon for whatever reason

never did the 4th game choice but just reading up on it decided it was nothing I really wisehed to try so  none of the above was the closest thing to a real choice that I had

Well clearly None of the Above should win but to if I had to choose one of the games listed I would pick PotBS.

I voted "none of the above" because all other games were all fanta-dull. I prefer sci-fi. Fantasy is boring IMHO. I know many people disagree with me and that's fine. To each their own. Why weren't we offered some good non-fantasy games in the list?

I purchased AOC and Warhammer.  How I wish building the cities in AOC could have saved that game :-( . Regardless I picked None of the above since I'm a little upset - I'm out about 100.00 because of those two games.

"And ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner"

(fumbles with the envelope a bit, then reads)

"And the winner for best MMORG of 2008 is... None of the above!"

(CHEERS and APPLAUSE)

"What a fantastic night for None of the above.  Looks like None of the above might have a clean sweep of this years MMORPG award categories!"

Ok so I'll be the first to try to pull something else than teenager sensationalism on this poll.."OMG none of the above"...lol.

I have only tried AoC, so this makes it to an easy vote. AoC has however been the best game I have tried in years, so I choose AoC with very honest intentions.

Originally posted by pencilrick

"And ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner"

(fumbles with the envelope a bit, then reads)

"And the winner for best MMORG of 2008 is... None of the above!"

(CHEERS and APPLAUSE)

"What a fantastic night for None of the above.  Looks like None of the above might have a clean sweep of this years MMORPG award categories!"

Funny, cause I think there have been easier years ever than this year. AoC is by fare the best game. And by the way what year was the options better? Perhaps when WOW came out? Nope, did not think so...

Honestly, according to this rule here : "By voting None of the Above, you are stating that this year's crop of MMOs was not only poor, but to your mind, so completely unplayable that no redeeming factors could be found in the nominated games."

According to that rule, I would have to vote for AoC, because it was the only MMO that I got at least SOME enjoyment out of.  (The combat system was something a little new, and building the guild city was fun for a tiny bit).  But it was still a god awful MMO that I didn't play past the first month, and voting for it makes me feel like I'm telling it that it did a good job.

So fuck all of those.  None of the above.

It is not necessary to play all the games to have an opinion about 2008 new games. If a game was not compelling enough to try then it wasn't good in that person's veiw.

I played three and while sure there has to be one that is least worse - none of them warrant being put up as the best of 2008.

Putting any of these up as best of 2008 would imply that it was a good thing and there was nothing good in 2008 from new games.

Worst of all one took an incredibly rich valuable brand and completely ruined it.

Originally posted by JK-Kanosi

Originally posted by Guillermo197

Originally posted by JonMichael

Originally posted by kb4blu

I voted none of the above simply because they are all equally bad.

MMO's have gone to hell in a handbasket.

 

 

And you played them all, I assume?

 

 

 

I actually did and they all didn't deliver in my eyes.

Seeing the poor quality and scams (AoC) with this year new MMO launches then you can conclude it has been a very very bad year for MMO's.

So I think "None of the Above" is a very very valid option in this poll.

Cheers

 

I don't doubt that you played all of the MMO's released this year. It's not hard to believe that people buy and play every new release these days, unlike how it was before WoW came out. However, I seriously doubt you found nothing good in any of this years releases. Are you telling me you didn't like the graphics of AoC, Tortelage, the combat system, the voice overs; what about the public quests in WAR, or being able to que up for scenarios from anywhere and after the scenario putting you back where you were? Or what about being able to earn points to buy RvR gear at all levels of the game and it being relatively accessible to all people?

I find a person who didn't like even one of those things to be a rather pessimistic person. Keep in mind that the "none of the above" option was for people that didn't like not even one feature in any of this years releases. I voted for WAR, because I did like a few of their features, but I play WoTLK. This is because I didn't like any of the games overall this year. I follow and respect the rules though, so I didn't vote "none of the above," since I liked at least 1 feature in one of those games.

It's not about what was in good in wich game.

Ofcourse Age of Conan had some good stuff in it.

And I am still subbed to Warhammer Online, but that's only because I am guild leader and have great people in my guild I dont want to let down or I would have canceled already.

MMORPG's are suppose to be games you enjoy for the long run. And none of this year's MMO releases have given me that satisfaction.

All of them turned me off within a month.

Be it the lag issues, not working skills / attrtibutes and continues crashes to desktop of Funcom's marvelous patching and utter lack of mid to endlevel content in Age of Conan.

Or be it extreme lag issues, constant Disconnects, extreme lagspikes (since last WAR patch), very wrong and baffling design decisions (everyone hiding in scenarios, no incentive for oRvR, PVE a joke) within Warhammer Online.

And so on....

I enjoyed Star Wars Galaxies for a year (till NGE hit), I enjoyed World of Warcraft for over 1 and half year, I enjoyed EverQuest 2 and still do (but now canceled as I cant be subbed and able to play everything), I enjoyed LOTRO and still do (MoM just being the best expension ever).

Just face it! None of this years launced MMO's delivered and all of them felt rushed out of the door, lacking, broken and above all left you with a sour taste full of dissapointment.

Every MMO launches with bugs and has issues around launch (be it unforseen server problems, too many players, etc). But this year we talk about MMO's being launched with missing (while advertised) features, broken game systems, extreme poor performance and not well thought out design decisions wich doesn't seem to work in the live server environment (wich is the case in WAR).

Cheers

I voted for Age of Conan as I'm still playing the game and I think it's a great game now after a very rocky start.

The words "engrossing crafting system" as a description for a feature that's a part of AoC is a complete joke however. It was firstly the most bugged crafting system in an mmo, and then when most of it worked it became the most boring, then the most overpowered with gem stacking and after that it became the most useless when they nerfed all the gems.

It is only now that crafting is becoming a useful part of the game with the addition of new recipes and systems, up until this point it was anything but engrossing .. laughable is closer. Also we are still awaiting the addition of gem balancing due to come in january to bring crafting to the level it should be at.

I voted none of the above because to me if you are voting for best new game it means that the game has had success. I don't think any new game has had that much success if any to warrant any reward given.

Age of Conan because it's most unique. WAR was fun for a bit, but I don't see it offering much innovation.

I can't wait for Darkfall to come out! 

Everyone already knows that this years crop of MMO's didn't pan out the greatest at launch..

Wouldn't a "Which of these new MMO's has the greatest potential" (with the same options) been a better poll this year?