Darfall without doubt 100 % worst ever ever ever and doubt there will ever be a worse one ( except Darkfall 2 ? lol )

Darkfall without a doubt in my mind.

Any company that underestimates their initial sale potential by upwards of 300,000 customers is absolutely insane and deserves this award.

It looks like Darkfall is winning this debate. Sorry for not adding Dark and Light. I forgot about the game because I have never heard of one person playing it.

Darkfall without a doubt. Botched up billing, staged release, server queues, constant server disconnects and maintenance, stamina hacks, speed hacks, teleport hacks, macroing, etc.

My second and third choice would've been Anarchy Online and Age of Conan.

never played it but i read the horror story launch that was Mourning

i went with tabula Rasa only because right out of a great beta the game when to Sh*t....and the game had potential.

I chose this over Darkfall only because i chose not to get caught up in the hype so i wasn't really let down

Why wasn't MXO on the list? It had a rough launch, one of the worst I've seen...

Originally posted by Mystik86

Why wasn't MXO on the list? It had a rough launch, one of the worst I've seen...

I don't think that many people realize that MXO is still around. Is it still around?

I played it for a few days a couple of years ago and it was fun enough. The combat was interesting but I couldn't get the hang of jumping--it just felt artificial and unintuitive to me. That and the fact that the PC I had at that time had trouble running the game made me forget about it.

Originally posted by zaxxon23

No Dark and Light, huh?  Time to do more research, bud...

Quoting for emphasis. Dark and Light had the worst launch ever. The most drama, litigation, scam billing, and an unfunctional game to boot.

I answered this question months ago on my blog here at MMORPG.com/

Wish to know which was the worst launch...just read it here.   <<<<  clicky

Dark and Light for RPG's.

World War II Online for MMO's in general.

I had to go with SWG considering the login servers crashed multiple times on launch day and if you weren't one of the 1st few thousand players in or you logged out, you couldn't get play the game for most of the day on launch day.  The rest of the "how not to run a MMO story" is history repeating itself with every update.

 I voted for Vanguard out of this list, but to be honest, WW2 Online was definitely the worst launch I have ever seen. It was so bad, they immediately put it back into beta and let everybody that had bought it play for free for the next six months.

No Horizons or Ashons Call 2?

Oh how soon we forget.

Maybe I am wrong, but it seems people are saying Darkfall because they just don't like the game. Right from the NDA drop, people were posting videos on YouTube and pics on the internet, so that means the game is better than Anarchy Online, which was unplayable for the first month. And when I say unplayable, I mean the likes of which we have not seen since. I mean, no one could play. Servers containing large portions of required content were down with constant reassurance that "they will be up soon". Many player's game keys would not register, and showed that they were "unknown". Many players who were "lucky" enough to have a working key were billed 2 or 3 times upon entering their key to begin their free trial. Some players found that they could not chat with their friends, or that the game would not even acknowledge they were logged in. It was a total, unmitigated cluster F. Reading any self-respecting book about MMORPG design and implementation, you will see AO as the poster child for what not to do on an MMORPG launch, and it is the the golden example of "as bad as it can get".

The only thing in AO's favor is that somehow, they pulled everything together rapidly. For that amazing feat, I give them kudos. Vanguard is only now really recovering from many of the bugs it had since day one, and we are over 2 years since its release. Why the huge difference? AO's problems were huge, but they were primarily in the billing systems and server architecture, which are fairly simple compared to having actual code bugs. Vanguard has been plagued with a multitude of code bugs, and those bugs caused more bugs, and those bugs caused more bugs, etc etc. Debugging all of that is much harder than getting some servers up and changing the logic in your billing system.

I voted AO, but it was a hard decision.

Originally posted by jackeccs

dark and light is the worst and it's not even on this list. the guy who has a new account just to post that about darkfall doesn't even have any idea.

Agree with Dark and Light, I played al the games on the list at launch and didn't have any problems playing them at launch. Which DOES NOT MEAN those games in the list didn't have issue's, as they sure had, thing is I just didn't encounter as many issue's as I read people are having most of the times at almost any launch of a MMORPG.

I voted Darkfall-

To bad the game is so damn good. Otherwise i wouldnt play it.

Technically speaking : Anarchy  Online

Subscriber speaking:  Vanguard

But look at em now.  Not too bad, its just AO is too old for me and VG is not my bup of tee, but theyre both WAY better than launch.  These are mmos though, everyone experiences launch problems including the invincible WoW (remember Kalimdor crashing and anyone on that continent could log on for the whole day?)

I don't know if somebody already said it, I'm not sifting through every response.  So if they did, consider this an agreement.

And it wasn't really an entire game launch, but EQ:  Shadows of Luclin was an unplayable bug fest when it went live.

Worst launch ever...

Of the list you have there, DFO wins hands down.  Saying that, you forgot some real contenders in your poll like Dark & Light and a few others.  I believe D&L would give DFO a run for it's money for the title of worst MMORPG launch ever.