General Discussion

Dan Fortier, being the rabble-rouser that he is, has opened the voting on his own awards to coincide with our Reader's Choice Awards. The MMOWTF Awards celebrate and glorify all that you, the MMOWTF readers, hated about 2007.

This is it...the week where you get to lay the smack down on the worst of the year in typical gamer style. The MMOWTF Awards are back for another year much to the chagrin of editors everywhere. I had hoped that the lineup for 2007 would have fared better than last year, but alas it seems there are quite a few games just begging for your vote this year. I've done some serious brain drizzling this week to make this year's vote even more entertaining. Without further ado: let's get this party started!

If you were fortunate enough to have missed last year's vote, let me remind everyone of the rules: This year has the same seven categories from last year, plus a new one. I am once again without all that HTML fancy-pants stuff so voting will consist of posting your vote in the forum topic. This will insure transparency in the process and make sure that all votes are properly counted unlike recent elections. Please only vote once since I have to manually count and tally each and every post. The results will be posted on next weeks MMOWTF along with my personal picks in each area.

Read the whole column here.

Hell, I'll be test-bunny..

Worst Graphics:

Pirates of the Burning Sea

Least Fun:

Star Wars Galaxies

Most Desolate:

Vanguard: SOH

Worst Use of Popular IP or License:

Star Wars Galaxies

Lamest Launch:

Fury

Most Likely to be Cancelled in 2008:

Star Trek: Online

Biggest Stinker:

Hellgate: London

Technical question:  can Gods and Heroes even qualify for Lamest Launch? ;)

Shava

I doubt it, since it was never actually launched. They should add a vaporware of the year section to this

I'm in on this:

Worst Graphics:

Fury

Least Fun:

9Dragons

Most Desolate:

Vanguard: SOH

Worst Use of Popular IP or License:

Star Wars Galaxies

Lamest Launch:

Vanguard: SOH

Most Likely to be Cancelled in 2008:

Star Trek: Online

Biggest Stinker:

Tabula Rasa

Worst Graphics:

I've never seen anything that causes my eyes to bleed except Shadowbane... But it's old, so I vote for Knight Online.

Least Fun:

World of Warcraft (Sorry pals, but after a year of playing I do not find it fun anymore... always the same lame thing... Blizzard should have added more content to its game! I'm on TR now!)

Most Desolate:

Horizons (It's old but I've never seen such a desolate game... Ok I know: what should I have expected when I reinstalled it and subscribed for one month ?)

Worst Use of Popular IP or License:

The Matrix Online

Lamest Launch:

Hellgate: London (Soooooo disappointing)

Most Likely to be Cancelled in 2008:

Worst Graphics:

WoW

Least Fun:

Star Wars Galaxies

Most Desolate:

Star Wars Galaxies

Worst Use of Popular IP or License:

Star Wars Galaxies

Lamest Launch:

VG

Most Likely to be Cancelled in 2008:

Star Trek: Online

Biggest Stinker:

Hellgate: London

I know its fun and still on the hearts of many but don't make this a SWG bash again.

SWG has made many strides to be better short of a roll back.  There are new players trickling in (along with old leaving).  It now has Raids err ... Heroic Encounters that are pretty challenging for groups and the new Collection System.

What is pretty crappy, still, is the targeting and combat as its still not nailed down.

If I could vote for Vapor Ware of the year it would be Star Trek Online.

This is a fun one...It has to be 'launched this year'?

Worst Graphics:

Fury (in low spec render; the high spec render is something only a few can run anyway)

Least Fun:

Scions of Fate (any of those Asian grinders really; I just randomly picked one)

Most Desolate:

Vanguard

Worst Use of Popular IP or License:

None this year.

Lamest Launch:

Vanguard

Most Likely to be Cancelled in 2008:

Fury

Biggest Stinker:

Fury