I can't believe that so many people rated AoC as a worse game than Vanguard... AoC was lightyears beyond VG at release, granted it still paled in comparison to other games out there... but cmon !!!

I should say that I feel like this is a loaded "Top 5" since really there are SO many POS F2P games out there that "top notch" stuff like Vanguard and AoC really shouldn't even really be considered for Top 5 worst. But with that in mind I'll take a stab and give you the top 5 worst MMOs... in the "Released Games" list on the left that I have played.

1. Anarchy Online

2. City of Heroes

3. Pirates of the Burning Sea

4. RFO

5. FFXI

I should also note that this list is also proportional to the amount of time it took for me to give up on the game.

AO - Barely made it past character creation. Looked awful, felt awful. Maybe if I tried it 10 years ago I would've felt differently.

CoH - Barely made it past character creation (which was about all I payed for). Once I found out there was no itemization and lack of minor upgrade really turned me off to this game.

PoTBS - Actually made it to the mid-30s. Then I realized I was lvl 32 and using a lvl 4 boat, upgraded and fights were either impossible or way too easy. I should've stuck with my dingy.

RFO - Grindfest and although PvP was exciting with such large chip wars it was always 1 amazing player with maxed PTs taking on 80 newbs. Not to mention point-and-click with 200 players on your screen is FTL.

FFXI - I always felt like FFXI hated me. It didn't want me to level. It didn't want me to KEEP my levels. It didn't want me to have fun... at all. If you started having fun it kicked you square in the groin to remind you who was boss.

1. SWG -current form (This game blows dead bears)

2. LOTRO- (Like the graphics but to many fing quests!!!!)

3. EQ2- (decent game but  it didnt "catch me")

4. Hellgate London - (was this an mmo? fun to play with friends though)

5. EVE Online- (Im still playing but its a love-hate relationship. at times its very boring)

I have a wierd list???????????? LOL some of the other ones ive seen are weird also and just plain stupid. the list is about the worst mmo's Ive played. This is my opinion not anyone elses. I could care fing less if you dont like my list. Im not putting down mmo's i havent played.  That would be dumb and uncooth. With that said.......

LOTRO had way too many quests. I like to feel a sense of accomplishment completing the quests in an area and moving on. Thats the way i am. Also some of the quests had too many chain quests attached to them. I was leveling up b4 i could complete alot of them.

Hellgate London was fun to play with a friend. I didnt really consider it an mmo. It crashed alot too.

Originally posted by Ender4

Originally posted by SignusM

Originally posted by Ender4

In no particular order.

Vanguard and City of Heroes are the only two I've played that I thought were terrible.  After that you get into games that were flawed and I didn't stick wtih long like AC, AOC, EQ2, SB, UO etc.  I don't really like putting them in the worst category though, they just weren't great.

I've had a decent eye for quality before release so haven't tried most of the more miserable titles that came out.  Only tried Vanguard when it was free and CoH when it was cheap but didn't like either of them at all.

 

If UO was flawed, then why was it the first mainstream MMO?

1. World of  Warcraft

2. Age of Conan

3. Dark and Light

4. SWG at launch, after Jedi were unlocked, and after NGE (some periods of decent quality there)

5. Rohan

 

Because I didn't find chopping trees and mining stuff over and over fun, because the PvE was so exploitable and wasn't really fun at all.  Because the PvP was just mediocre compared to the MUD's I played before UO.  Not everyone likes the same thing in a game.

Oh no, I understand not liking again, but I didn't think the game was poorly designed. I hate WoW with every fiber of my being and would never play it, but it was well made.

1)  Dark and Light

2)  9 Dragons

3)  Seed (loved the concept, but the implementation was really rough)

4)  SWG (post-NGE)

5)  WoW (I don't know what people see in this thing)

I really only have 2 that were flat-out terrible.

1- Post NGE SWG

2- Asheron's Call 2

I think this should have been limited to P2P games. Which my list will be.

1. Dark and LIght...Hands down

2. Lineage 2...close 2nd

3. AOC...this choice has little to do with the gameplay and more to do with the company/developers       allowing exploiting....makes anyones game experience terrible.

4. Pirates of the Burning Sea...no real motivation to care about your character...only 2 classes lol

5. Matrix Online....seriously I almost forgot about this one.

Now I will say that there are alot of subpar games on the market...but if you want the real bottom feeders these are it....there is no redeeming value to any of these games.

1. AO

2. GW

3. WoW

4. SWG (current version, as original was one of the best)

5. EVE

1. Vanguad

2. WoW

3. Pirates of Burning Sea

4. AoC

5. Matrix Online

1. Age of Conan (bad thing for the MMO industry in trying to sell offline techniques in an on line game)

2. EQ2 (worse than EQ1 and it let me loose time before I found Wow)

3. DAoC (PvP with complete unbalanced classes = fun ???, amateurish PVE content, badly animated)

4. Tabula Rasa (Borders with 2D forests in 2007? and "kill X boars" in a space shooter game gave a whole other meaning to "pigs in space")

5. LOTRO (Soooo dull and complete lack of good/evil factions - hopefully last of the pure liniair games - could never play it longer than 1 hour before having a skin rash).

Honorable mention:

EVE: this must be the ideal boring GY for bored MMORPG players. Yaawn. I am happy they reside there.

When RF Online came out it cost $50 and they charged your $15 a month. That right there was imo the worst p2p mmo of all time. Now thats its f2p...who knows? RF Online and in no order:

Vanguard

AoC

Dark and Light

PSU

Originally posted by xxlilDevilxx

Since there is a best 5 mmorpgs in other post, may as well pick the worst 5 mmorpgs from your past experience.

Mines are

1) Age of Conan (played for 5 days)

2) Star Wars Galaxy

3) Asheron's Call 2

4) Shadowbane

5) Hellgate: London

 

What's yours?

 

EDIT: We should only post non-free ones, the games must either has a retail box or a sub plan. This will keep the list focus. (Yes, there are a LOT of bad free money/xp grind mmo with cash shops out there)

I have to agree with you on Age of Conan and Asheron's Call 2. Both games had great graphics for their time but forgot to take out the bugs and include fun game play.

My take would be (at release):

1) Vanguard

2) AoC

3) Hellgate

4 + 5) Nothing as I didnt expected anything and was pleasantly surprised.

Originally posted by woodyfly

GW bad? LOL nob

Horrible...

Guild Wars (clone wars)

Dungeon and Dragons Online

Lineage 2 (bots bots bots)

Age of Conan

Hellgate London

(no specific order)

1) World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade ---- I loved the first installment and would actually play again if they would implement a pre-BC server

2) Age of Conan ---- Love the game's combat, but the performance issues of BSOD/Lock ups is inexcusable at this point.  I end up having to spend more time tweaking then playing and I have a high end box

3) LoTRo ---- Love the story line, been waiting for a game to capture Tolkien and they did an amazing job.  I didn't like the gameplay and the way feats worked

4) City of Hereos ---- Loved the graphics, just felt there was no flow to the game.

5) Eve ---- No attachment to the 'ship' mentality.  Very impersonable.

1...Lineage II...: What a jewel , rofl.

2.... World of Warcraft....: Cool economy system tho . The best thing on it imo

3...Age of Conan...: Death penalty there was amazing, lol

4...<Free Space>...

5...<Free Space>...

Note to all of you who voting Vanguard: It's really much better now, worth to give it a try again. 

1-Aoc (bugged and unfinished so hard it hurts )

2-Dark and light(didnt played it 2 days)

3-Hellgate London(wrealy high hopes about this one but ended so bad after release)

4-Archlord

5-Silk road( and all other korean grind fests who use same concept of  pets that last 1 week and steal yours loot)

1. Age of Conan (Abit tied with LOTRO and WAR)
2. Lord of the Rings Online (only appeals to fans of the story, music playing was fun)
3. Warhammer Online (massive cuts of content and a horrible combat system, PQs are fun but a lot of the time unrewarding)
4. Starwars Galaxies (massive amount of fun either advancing your character or making a house, until CU/NGE.)
5. Hellgate London (While beta was fun, there was a lot of stuff I considered bugs, such as the way the servers work. Also tried more to be a diablo 2 sequel then its own original game [Take lessons from Bioshock, they didn't create a system shock sequel, they made a "spiritual sequel".])

I only played 2 mmorpg really sersiousl wich are UO for almost 4 years and then WoW for almost 4 years also but i tried some game in between that never last really long .

So my list would be

1- Age of conan ( played aout 2 hour and quit after lvl 8 what a waste of money )

Thats it lol!

1. WoW

2. SWG

3. AoC

4. Vanguard

5. WoW (has to be at top and bottom of list)

Originally posted by WarpHunter

1. Mourning

2. Thrones of Chaos

3. Realms of Krel

4. Realms of Torment

5. Age of Mourning

 

Nuff said

Not to mention its last official name "Era of Shadows" and an unreleased title, "Brutal Age". 

How this game in its variant incarnations isn't on every single "worst game or company" list on this site is mind boggling.   There are far too many veteran posters here that know the story, and were part of the drama, for a mere two mentions of this game to be warranted.   This lack of any historic pedagogy is repulsive and exactly the reason they kept attempting to repackage the horrid demon spawn they labeled a game in the first, second, third, forth, fifth, and sixth place.   The ignorance regarding this title, it's various namesake companies, and the shady people behind it, has allowed all of them to move on unscathed and unpunished, even allowing some to stay in the same industry they attempted to slip a Roofie to.

There is a reason the largest single thread on MMORPG.com is about this game, and for more new posters not to have been told or given knowledge about it, not to mention the lack of older posters even mentioning it is seriously messed up.  Even in a light hearted thread such as this one, where we come to ridicule and complain, this game should take precedence over all others in reception of said ridicule. 

I will say that although it seems many older posters are failing to keep this infamous history alive, the fact that the new forum administrator chose to allow the closing of that legendary thread, knowing little if anything about the story herself, may have done more damage than anything.  As the speed at which the thread fell into the abyss of lost and forgotten articles probably took its toll on how old and, if any, new information on this subject was acquired and transmitted.

Originally posted by Briansho

Mine are:

1. Darkfall

2. Darkfall

3. Darkfall

4. Darkfall

5. Darkfall

 

Funny that you should call out possible Vaporware when you yourself attempted to become part of the ressurection of the worst Scamware to ever exist in the MMORPG market.