Soe and in a very very VERY CLOSE 2nd Failcom.

I gotta with SOE or Turbine.

Why SOE?

EQ2

EQ2 was crap at the beginning and is crap now. They've done 2 major changes to the game, since live. One was an excellent change the other was labled a "combat revamp", which pretty much nerfed the hell out of everything.

SWG
Sorry, this game was never fun for most people. The few people that it was fun for SOE alienated them, and took a nice big smelly poo on their customers. The game is worse now than when it launched. I know, that would seem impossible.

EQ

EQ used to be a game that was 90% grouping focused. Now, it is 99% raiding focused. It opened the door to WoW's lame gameplay. Blame WoW all you want for the MMO genre going lame. I blame SOE, and how it made raids insanely boring, and insanely rewarding.

Free Realms

LOL?

Why Turbine?

DDO

The only D&D MMO is super lame, boring, and has no open world elements. Its doing so poor its F2P.

AC2

How can you screw up an AC sequel? Make it nothing like the original. Doesn't sound like a good plan, and it wasn't.

LOTRO

This is the game responsible for the term WoW clone for a reason. Look it up. The phrase WoW clone was invented to describe this game.

NCSFOT is also a good candidate for this. Luckily, none of their retarded sounding games(I think you have to be under the age of 14 to like one) have ever appealed to me.

I can agree with SOE.  Why?

 "Vanguard: Saga of heros."  Never have I seen a non-alpha game play so badly.  Most top of the line computers could not even reach 30FPS when it came out. 

"Star Wars Galaxies"  I don't need to say anything more about that one.

I would like to add NCSoft.  Why?

Tabala Rosa; lets kill it before they can fix the game play issues, which were never anywhere near as bad as Vanguards.  If they had been able to get out that last update I would have actually forked over the 15 bucks a month for it.  So close to being a game I would pay to play.  We would also need to question the moral fiber of NCSoft and thier treatment of Garrett, we know just enough to wonder what was really going on.

Car Wars; Steve Jackson would have been disappointed by the graphics and game play.  Very small and loyal player base.

Dungeon Runners;  I don't even want to address this one.  Everything is a joke, an old moldy tired joke.

 Just to be clear, my daily WoW hate is not because of popularity it's because they treat me, you and every other player like we are idiots, which some of us are don't get me wrong. The day they took the stealth away from the night elf spies in the blood elf starting area because it was too hard for some players to find them was the day the hate began to build and continues but will I go back for Cat. absolutely, am I going to be overly excited the day Blizz finally tells us what the new IP they're working on is, absolutely.

SOE on the other hand, after years with EQ and every other MMO they threw at us fear and loathing comes easy.

From this thread it seems that all of the MMO Companies are hated so I suggest you all go read a book and stop playing MMO's... don't go outside though, there's people outside... they need to be avoided at all costs.

Originally posted by mbd1968

From this thread it seems that all of the MMO Companies are hated so I suggest you all go read a book and stop playing MMO's... don't go outside though, there's people outside... they need to be avoided at all costs.

LOL- We hate the damn book publishers/authors just as much. =P

Now what?

(NOTE: In all honesty I think the only truly despised MMO company is SOE- And they really deserve it)  Blizz is despised for "dumbing down" games and making them "casual" and "accessable" BUT I dont think anyone is hating on Blizz for their Customer Service (its unparraleled IMO) or their "quality" and "polish".

Originally posted by mbd1968

From this thread it seems that all of the MMO Companies are hated so I suggest you all go read a book and stop playing MMO's... don't go outside though, there's people outside... they need to be avoided at all costs.

Nah just SOE... and Blizz... and Funcom... oh and NCSoft.. maybe Mythic, oh Turbine. Well it's getting cold outside anyway and there are them peoples I've heard tell of.

Every company has done their mistakes, even if the mistake is horrible, you should always give them a 2nd chance imo. You never know what they could turn up with :)

OMG... zombie StormTroopers  SOE in unbelieveable

Originally posted by mmo4life

Blizzard !

 

They  took a hip, counter culture, trendy,  big city, sexy  game genre.... and turned it into an overweight,  suburbs,  soccermom, minivan, daycare , babysitter got knocked up again ..... rerun on TV.

 

 

I want to know how, in your heart of hearts, you can insult overweight, suburban soccer moms who drive minivans, by comparing them to Blizzard and WoW?  Seriously.

What exactly have soccer moms done to you, Young Padawan? ;)

Please, really....give these poor women a break. Isn't it really dragging their collective names through the mud to evoke the name of Blizzard in the same sentence with a description of their harried lifestyles?

NOTE:

(For the second try here....this above comment is meant to be FUNNY....not mean-spirited. While I'm not too sure whether YOUR comment was meant to be funny, but since I'm ASSUMING it is....I'm responding again with humor. Perhaps this time my comment will be understood and not ninja-jacked from the thread.) lol

What a useless thread.

I play games based on how fun it is, not who puts it out. If a company does something to make it no longer fun, I stop playing it. I don't take it personally and raaaage on a forum years later like video games are somehow important and worth that emotional investment.

I found WoW boring but Blizzard make awesome games otherwise. SoE Botched up SWG but EQ and EQ2 gave me tonnes of hours of entertainment. NCSoft closed down TR yet have kept CoH going strong and did a great job on their Aion port.

 If it says Sony duck  and cover your balls rhip them off,   then promptly put your hands together and shove them up the hole you just created.  Then Clap.

Or Gpotatoe

And I to must say that Mythic should just quit and go home warhammer was a epic fail  and they let us down.

I would definitely have to say SOE.  Especially after the catastrophe they call Star Wars Galaxies.  Though they are involved in DC Universe Online.  I am skeptical about the game, but I might just have to give it a chance.

Originally posted by Astralglide

Originally posted by uttaus

All the WOW hating is starting to get boring. Find some thing new to hate. I know a lot of you haters are hating on WOW because it is trendy to hate on WOW.

Popularity is a garaunty that some people will hate.  I will not dispute that  WOW has made changes to their good and not so original game, that allows for less skilled players to enter and participate in the MMO community.

If you hate them for that fine. Why don't you state it as such. I'm tired of all the Blizzard sucks crap. Explain yourself don't just be a nuisance. 

I put my vote in for SOE due to the bait and switch they pulled with the NGE. I don't hate SOE I  just dont trust them.

laters haters

 

 

A-men! I know that many of you will dismiss me as a fanboy because of my 1100 hours of wow over the past 5 years (off and on), but Blizzard has done something for the MMO community that everybody needs to appreciate it. They took a genre that was populated by basement dwelling D&D goons and made it not only socially acceptable to play MMO's, but profitable as well. Without profit as a motivatior there's little or no reason for these other companies to try new and innovative things.

I keep hearing this argument, but the fact is to me mmorpg's died when they went mainstream. You are incorrect about money being the driving-force of innovation in the mmo-business, it's the indie-developers that are innovative. Huge companies are too much of whimps to attempt new ideas, they will stick to the same old system that caters the mainstream.