my vote goes of course to Atlantica Online. the quallity from amercian (and european) mmorpg´s is just to bad.

i voted for atlantica online.. can you vote for more games than one?? but anyways.. havent tried the other games yet.. still having fun with atlantica..  so far this game is my favorite game..

     I thought Atlantica was the best of the games on the list.....

I looked at the first title and have played it too but it didnt meet the things it said would i was looking forward to AoC been my thing but it had alot of annoying things i personaly dont enjoy in an mmo e.g the profession the mounts the combat was good but after it wears off. i voted none of above because i really dont like them i spent alot of money too upgrade the my pc to get good game result without lags or anything that might make the game look bad or put me off it.

Hoping 2009 will be the birth year of worlds greatest MMORPG!! Darkfall dont let me down

Voted for Atlantica Online. The features of this game never got me bored, exciting as always and there are so many things to do rather than those hack and slash MMORPGs. If I am on a break on quests, I spend my time joining PvP tournaments like Free League and there are also weekly championships so preparation is needed. Somtimes I also spend my time on Arena Betting, Item Crafting and Equipment Box Gambling. There are so many things in the game that takes away the same old boring-grinding in other MMORPGs, that is why i chose to play this game.

NDoors' Atlantica Online launched on October 30th, 2008

 That game got my vote. It is a very fun and very big game to play. There is far more to do there then any other game I have played. I am an old 3 year vet of WoW. I toyed with Perfect world int and cabal. I looked over AoC and read up on WAR.   Altantica by far beats those other ones out.

 The one thing I enjoy most about the game is how many different ways there is to get the gold you need to buy your gear and such.  You can bet on arena that is a group of npc fighting their way up a ladder. You can farm the mobs like in most games or you can play the market with buying and selling items you get form boxes and opening them. There is also the pvp coin shards you get that are worth a fair bit of change as well.

They did a great job on pvp to pve balance.  They did it simple. If you cant use the same number of stats for both change how those stats work. You stats change when you go form pve battle to pvp battle.

 Also you still get exp form fighting in pvp so those that are not max level can pvp and not worry about losing out on grind time for leveling. They also made it worth your time to be in a party with others both in person and with you in different areas/ level ranges.

 I really recommend this game to any that might be willing to give turn based games a shot a try. After all it is a Free to play so all you lose out on is download time and the time you play the game for.

Originally posted by Halfmad

Disappointed by the MMORPG.com editors for having the "none of the above" option. It's fairly obvious that WoW fanboys will be hammering that option as well as people who frankly haven't played all of the games on the list.

Shocking that site admins would be so narrow minded as to put an option like that into a poll like this, makes a mockery of the entire poll.

If you have to play all the games to vote none of the above then you should have to play them all to vote for any of them.

If the game doesn't generate enough interest to be played then it obviously can't be the best for that person.

I have never played WOW and I have played only three of the games on the list.

None of them deserve to be praised as best game.

"Atlantica Online could be the best tactical online game you've never heard of..." - Matt Plourde, mmorpg.com

"Atlantica would sit in the top ten of my favorite massively-multiplayer online games..it's the best game that subscription gamers may never try because of the commone biases against free-to-play title." - Danny Gourley, TenTonHammer.com

These statements are only some of which were predicted when the game was still young and at rise. i guess, playing the game would also help you to appreciate and recognize its worth in the gaming industry. personally, i think the game deserves its nomination and even to win the best game awards for 2008. my vote is worth its cost and i hope that you guys should also cast it into the worthy game.

- rivermada

Originally posted by rivermada

"Atlantica Online could be the best tactical online game you've never heard of..." - Matt Plourde, mmorpg.com

"Atlantica would sit in the top ten of my favorite massively-multiplayer online games..it's the best game that subscription gamers may never try because of the commone biases against free-to-play title." - Danny Gourley, TenTonHammer.com

 

These statements are only some of which were predicted when the game was still young and at rise. i guess, playing the game would also help you to appreciate and recognize its worth in the gaming industry. personally, i think the game deserves its nomination and even to win the best game awards for 2008. my vote is worth its cost and i hope that you guys should also cast it into the worthy game.

- rivermada

Sorry, but quoting an inane statement from Matt Plourde is not exactly the best way to start out a post.  The only tactics available in this game is which mercenaries you bring to a fight, after that they just sit there in their rows.  Hence, only someone completely unware of what tactics are could make such a statement.
 

I am glad many of you are enjoying the game, but let's not make it out to be what it is not.  Not one of you happened to mention the lag monster that is very prevalent in this game when multiple players are on screen.   So me, I will stick to subscription games that have decently written clients.

Originally posted by Halfmad

Disappointed by the MMORPG.com editors for having the "none of the above" option. It's fairly obvious that WoW fanboys will be hammering that option as well as people who frankly haven't played all of the games on the list.

Shocking that site admins would be so narrow minded as to put an option like that into a poll like this, makes a mockery of the entire poll.

Agreed, while other big website such as IGN, Gamespy, GAMESPOT, Gamefly, X-play have not only given WAR MMO game of the year, they also rated it extremly high in rankings period, some giving it 5/5 stars. And then you flip over to MMORPG dot com and "non of the above" wins because so many people on this forum will never find a game they will be happy with and will just vent vote out of frustration.

Its not going to do anything to any of the games subsciption base, it just seems like a poll setup to satisfy the people who play MMO's for a few weeks toss them for the next big thing, rense repeat, game after game, year after year, looking for the next big thing not realizing their probably not going to get it. Its kinda sad penting hopes on Darkfall, how can it even compete with the big companies, that is even if it gets released.

Originally posted by Sinent

you know alot of folks here have stated these games were crappy but were they? i mean if you had never played a mmo in your life and came upon one of these games  how would they be judged?

i have often wondered of we old hats havent been around the block one too many times and are all a wee bit biased on what would make a mmo fun and not.

as far as buggy releases all games that are mmo have been buggy at release for someone some worse then others but i have to be honest,

When i started EQ! in june of 2k it waqs a year old and extremely buggy yet i could not put the game down,

when anarchy online came out it too was very buggy yet i couldnt put the game down , not as long as eq but it was appealing and i feel i recieved my moneys worth.

when Daoc came outy my son had his first mmo experience and to this day holds a soft spot for doac that i held for Eq.

now adays there is wow and for some reason i dont feel any other fantasy game does it as well and hold my interest nearly as well as Wow. is it a good game ? you decide but it was buggy and laggy when it hit the streets as well, yet it had that strange hook on me that eq used to have.

no game in 2008 had that feeling.

Regardless of what genre of mmo if it dont hook it will die  so hopefully in 2009 they come out with a new hook if not i have a feeling alot of us will be going outside more.

Wow someone who actually gets it. I to have been around the block way back in early 98 I started playing UO I loved it, played EQ in 99 in the beta, buggy launch like you I couldnt put it down, but I did shortly after the first expansion. etc.......

I took a big break in late 05 after a solid year of WOW and just now recently picked up my first MMORPG in nearly 3 years WAR. I also ended up resubing to WOW. Im having a better time now that I took a break. And I see people in WAR that are new to the genre that are extremly happy. Its the veterans that kind find a game to replace their first game they loved. They want to recapture that high, as I call it that we had when we first started in our first MMORPG. Its just not happening, and there taking it out on every game since.

You really hit the nail on the head

well i voted atlantica online hmm im not sure if i can vote for two game at the same time hehe i dont want to be a flying voter so i decided to vote atlantica for it is really a promising best new game of the year.

Voted WAR as well.

I think it would have been much easier to make a poll for which game was the worst in 2008.