It's that time of year when the staff of MMORPG.com gets together and looks back over the long list of 2011's MMOs in order to hand out our coveted "Best Of..." awards. See what we think were the movers and shakers of 2011. Have different thoughts? Let us know in the comments!

It’s that time of year: the time of gift giving, receiving, eating, sleeping, drinking… and oh yeah, there will be games too. Amid all the craziness that was 2011, there really were a lot of things going down in the MMO world. For our own staff’s take on 2011, we’ll likely remember it as the year that MMOs began to really bust out of their shell, and as the precursor to a stellar 2012. Now, as we all prepare to light our Yule logs and drink copious amounts of eggnog, let’s sit back and recount MMORPG.com’s Games of 2011.

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Good for you Rift. Totally deserves it.

I agree, Rift is a fine game. And I am also onboard with The Secret World.

Rift is the obvious choice.

As for SWTOR, the Star Wars title is the MAIN reason for its beginning success. If you take away "Star Wars", the game would be just another flop.

Solid list of winners.

Grats Trion and all the winners.  Solid list.

List is solid. Only two things, well.. questions. Final Fantasy nominee for most innovative, why? TERA nominee for most anticipated, again, why?

Excellent list, and I'm especially glad to see DC Universe in Most Innovative.

Go. RIFT!!! Awesome list.

Rift, game of the year? lol you gotta be kidding me :)

Originally posted by causs

List is solid. Only two things, well.. questions. Final Fantasy nominee for most innovative, why? TERA nominee for most anticipated, again, why?

TERA is trying some new things with the MMO genre, thus has at least myself anticipating it. I would have put it above SWTOR personally...

Wait 10 days

Replace entire list with SWTOR.

Originally posted by precious328

Rift is the obvious choice.

 

As for SWTOR, the Star Wars title is the MAIN reason for its beginning success. If you take away "Star Wars", the game would be just another flop.

 

 You mean like Rift is a flop? =)

Would be quite strange to make it game of the year, when its launched 12.20.2011 ..

Originally posted by precious328





Rift is the obvious choice.



As for SWTOR, the Star Wars title is the MAIN reason for its beginning success. If you take away "Star Wars", the game would be just another flop.

 

You could turn my Assassin into a tree elf and all of the holo-terminals into stone slabs, and sw:tor would still be less redundant than RIFT in the grind, and game-play department.

Well...Rift technically didn't flop, and it's nice to see something other than EVE win the honors. Although, since it lists game of the year, and not technically mmo of the year, I would have much preferred to see the honors go to LoL, it's had much better success than anything else on the list (so far).

SWTOR and GW2 being tied as most anticipated was the right choice. As the article mentioned, 11 days of release doesn't qualify SWTOR for a game of the year nomination, but it should at least be a consideration for next year. I would almost place Wildstar above TERA as the runner-up though.

DCUO getting most innovative is a bit touchy. It did bring to the table a new way of delivering combat into a mmo, but honestly not much else. Although, nothing else really attempted to innovate mmos, so kudos to DCUO. FFXIV being a runner-up is laughable though. The game systems were a huge step in the wrong direction, coupled with the utter lack of real content.

Rising Star to TSW, sure why not. Wildstar might have been a more appropriate choice, or even Firefall. Again though, TSW looks like it's doing many things right (especially in terms of setting), so kudos.

Agree with the best Hybrid MMO. LoL has proven to be extremely successful, and is the biggest thing to happen to MOBA since DOTA was created.

GREAT list of awards!!

RIFT trully deserves the "Game of the year" award. Kudos to Trion!

Funny seeing Guild Wars 2 win the "Most Anticipated" title 2 years in a row. XD

Originally posted by denshing

Wait 10 days

Replace entire list with SWTOR.

I lol'd:)

Good list. I agree with almost all rewards.

Agree with everything on the list, except most innovative should be Rift...I mean they come out with new content every month...that's innovation :)

DCUO has cross-platform...been done (and you can even play with others on different platform, FFXI)  Cinematics...been done (FFXI again)...more i think about it, DCUO copied alot from different games...not very innovative...

Well have to say I agree with the list, but what a sad sad sad state this genre is in when rift gets the game of the year.  I hope for the day when an MMO can win multiple game of the years. But they are not made for that anymore.