Originally posted by MyPreciousss

@Vegetto agree, looks like fanbois invasion destroyed common sense. Oh well it's mmorpg.com ;)

Not hating EVE at all but tbh Rift was out in 2011 did nearly everything right and EVE released long ago and created a lot of controversy with their leaks and didn't do anything special in 2011 so RIFT should be considered the best mmo of 2011 imo.

And Rift just made it with 0.5% before SWTOR as the most innovative mmo. Seriously RIFT had many more core mmo functionalities and new cool ones like invasions and rifts invading a zone and killing npcs and fighting one another.

And I don't understand why mmorpg.com said they can't put SWTOR as best game for 2011 because it released on 20th of december but still put it in Most innovative category.

This poll is a failure.

 

 

Eve online does something no other mmo does..

SWTOR , RIFT, and just about every other mmo is WoW with (insert thing that they market here)

face it. if you like MMO's you play Eve online, or you play  a game that is probably wow or one of its many clones.

will eve be the best mmo in years to come?  not sure.. planetside 2 might be really good, but so far nothing has been spectacular in them mo world.

maybe if they remake star wars galaxies (before NGE) we will have something to write home about, but i won't hold my breath.

I voted for Eve because that is what I play. For me, voting for anything else would be like voting Mc Donalds as the best burger in town. 

GAME OF THE YEAR – EVE ONLINE

Woting on EVE was legit, not our fault that people that play other games don't thing there game deserwes the award.

Just wanted to let you know vegetto if you havent played the recent Crucible expansion that its not just ship on black backround anymore im assuming that you havent played since the intruduction of the nebulas which graphically look amazing,you should take up eve for one of there offers for returning peeps and give it another try atleast a day and see what im talking about.There is a reason that players are coming back in droves.

Originally posted by Vegetto

Tbh, if EvE wasnt looking at a ship with a black background for 90% of the time, i would sub for life.

I love complexity - I studied this game and it's systems extensively,i even wrote a program to run alongside it.

I love the minimilist and Sleak UI

I love the systems in place

I love the freedom

I even love the models and textures.

But what i cannot stand is visually, it is stupendously dull and lonely. You just look at your ship and another, briefly until it blows up, then back to darkness...loneliness. And to really get involved, you must sign a contract to make it your second job. I have spreadsheets open at work now, i don't need that at home too.

 

Originally posted by Akrasjel

GAME OF THE YEAR – EVE ONLINE

 

Woting on EVE was legit, not our fault that people that play other games don't thing there game deserwes the award.

or some people dont make 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, etc accounts just to troll post and vote their game up.  Your account seems fishy

I don't usually log on to post, but to those complaining about EVE, it's called the player's choice, and for better or worse, EVE does a lot better job of getting it's players to respond to things like this than most games. While some people may end up making additional accounts to try to tip the vote, that is possible for people who support other games to do as well, so that particular argument tends to be a wash. In the end, more EVE players show up to vote than players for others games. If you really feel another game should win, get your fellow players to show up and vote. Until you do so, EVE will continue to win.

It also helps a lot that while it is far from perfect, CCP has been able to provide a solid, reliable game that requires only the initial cost and the montly subscriptions. For everything they do wrong, they manage to do something else right, and even if people who play it aren't thrilled with every decision CCP makes, they are generally able to live them, get over them, and move on the the aspects of the game they like. This is a big factor in EVE's success, and one that drives EVE's success in votes such as this.

Originally posted by Vegetto

No game made now or in the next 10 years will win over EvE in best game.

That is because any time any site has a vote award, it is linked on the Official Forums and they come in droves to vote, usually whilst they are 'waiting' for something to happen ingame :)

Never say something like that.

If nothing else CCPs own World of darkness online have a lot of potential.

Besides, it is sad anough that a game from 2003 win that award 2011, if the same thing is true for 2021 the genre probably would be dead.

There are plenty of games in the making, and some are actually very innovative (like Class 4). One or another more or less must beat Eve.

Originally posted by Vegetto

No game made now or in the next 10 years will win over EvE in best game.

 

That is because any time any site has a vote award, it is linked on the Official Forums and they come in droves to vote, usually whilst they are 'waiting' for something to happen ingame :)

 

ArcheAge will.

Originally posted by yutty

or some people dont make 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, etc accounts just to troll post and vote their game up.  Your account seems fishy

I don´t think so. Eve is different from the rest of the games while most of them more or less are the same game reskinned. That means that votes on Eve are focused while someone likeing a regular themepark can vote on a whole bunch of similar games.

Now, if there were more games that felt unique the vote might have gone differently. Eve is not my favorite game but I still think it deserved it for being different from the rest of them. Being innovative and thinking outside the box should be awarded.

People are crying because EVE has won on multiple occassions... So I am assuming that people want some kind of rule in place that prevents a game winning just because it has won before?

Instead of crying "FIX!!!!!", perhaps people should look at the piss poor WoW clones that have come out over the last few years have a bit of a think as to why it is easy for EVE to dominate the best mmorpg poll year on year.

Perhaps part of the reason RIFT didn't win the best game is because a great deal of it's players are more likely to be looking at jumping ship to the next "big thing" (SWTOR/GW2/whatever) then voting for it in a poll. Which tells you a great deal.

To be brutally honest I'd be far more likely to cry foul if EVE didn't win it year on year given the steaming pile of crap that most recent mmorpgs have been.

Originally posted by yutty

Originally posted by Akrasjel

GAME OF THE YEAR – EVE ONLINE

 

Woting on EVE was legit, not our fault that people that play other games don't thing there game deserwes the award.

or some people dont make 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, etc accounts just to troll post and vote their game up.  Your account seems fishy

 

Just beacause "your game" didn't win you acuse us for not playing "fair".

I am looking at getting back into another MMO and have made a shortlist. Eve and Fallen Earth, both of which i've already played alot 1 year+ ago.

If i can get over the visuals, then it would always be EvE, but the game makes you feel so isolated and lonely, how many times do you actually have a battle? Or see another ship? Not near as often as people make out, most of the time is travelling or sat in a station. It then becomes a job, which is a common complaint.

I think EvE is the most refined and professional MMO ever developed and i want a game so complex, that i need to do a masters course to play it. But the key word here is 'play' not 'work' and the line between these two words is very blurred in EvE and you can't exactly have a look around in the meantime.

So that's my gripe, if we all lived in space and all we saw was space, we would go completely mental soon enough. Need visual stimulus, especially in a game. So annoying, as i love everything else and as a designer, the UI is something i would strive to replicate, exactly.

Originally posted by MyPreciousss

@Vegetto agree, looks like fanbois invasion destroyed common sense. Oh well it's mmorpg.com ;)

Not hating EVE at all but tbh Rift was out in 2011 did nearly everything right and EVE released long ago and created a lot of controversy with their leaks and didn't do anything special in 2011 so RIFT should be considered the best mmo of 2011 imo.

And Rift just made it with 0.5% before SWTOR as the most innovative mmo. Seriously RIFT had many more core mmo functionalities and new cool ones like invasions and rifts invading a zone and killing npcs and fighting one another.

And I don't understand why mmorpg.com said they can't put SWTOR as best game for 2011 because it released on 20th of december but still put it in Most innovative category.

This poll is a failure.

 

I felt a bit angry when I read this post.

The poll isn't a failure - why on earth would I want to vote for a WoW clone with a limited future?

Eve is a thoroughly unique game. It's good - the devs and the players care passonately about it. It will also transform dramatically with the integration of DUST.

Also, Eve has so much more untapped potential. In contrast, how can you develop Rift further? I can't see a brighter future for this game.

Eve's strength is the player made material: the huge PvP - it dosen't rely on theme-park rides that get old quick.

At the end of the day, real people rock our world - not AI - it's not good enough yet.

EVE Online for me is game of the year if there was more sites with eve online on the Best Game of year list i would vote for it fullstop

the reason eve wins on this site is simple, eve told its player base that it was on the poll on this site, and its playerbase swarmed here to support it. i play eve, but im not gonna browse the internet looking for different polls to support it. eve is great and only gets better with time. and the expansion from 2011 deserves recognition, it was huge and glorious.

 Heh , this goes to show that ships will always own sprites.

Go EVE~!

EVE wins even with a fraction of players that play other mmos

WOW added raid finder!! WOW!!

Originally posted by idioticdebun

EVE wins even with a fraction of players that play other mmos

..and yes EVE is that awesome

EVE is the most popular p2p game after WoW you clown

I think the issue is that most of the time in EvE, you alt-tab forums whilst playing it, it's part of the game :).