The worst MMORPG I ever played was Conquer. 2D graphics and a grindfest beyond belief.

Atlantica or Sword of the new world, they really didn't work for me at all.

As a P2P game it is COX, the city looked so similar everywhere and the quests were generally copys and pasted from EQ and Wow. Decent char creator but generally bad looking graphics.

Of course is all these personal opinions and other people love the game but for me the experiences were just bad.

Faces of Mankind.

I tried I guess you could call it the Open Beta, back in 04/05, I can't remember.

It was fairly early on in the game and while it ran decent, looked decent, the premise was decent, it's beta..was well, hell I dunno. I'm not sure if they ever changed it, but the fact it was this way in the first place turned me off;

You started the game with no weapons. None. You had a few credits/in-game money to spend but not enough to buy the most basic starter gun. You could do quests to gain money but they required you to fedex around alot, leaving you wide open to PKers, completely defenseless, not a game breaker but still it lead to three HUGE problems..

#1 You start the game in your characters apartment/housing. You can leave and enter the town it's in. The problem being, when you leave you end up at a central spawn point of that apartment area, which was easily distinguisable by a big light hovering over it, so PKers would stand right there and kill lvl 1 toons with no armor, no weapons of any kind, instantly.

this lead right into problem 2

#2 You had limited lives, kind of like Eve, where you need insurance or more "clones" right? You started with I believe it was 3 clones, and more had to be purchased with credits/in-game money. Problem? They cost a lot, a lot more than even the basic starter gun you couldn't even afford to buy. So you'd log in a new toon, leave your apartment, die to the PKers camping the noob spawn point, use up a clone and repeat. After 3 clones dead, your character was completely dead, forever. This lead into the brain fart of a problem 3..

#3 One toon, per account. If you ran out of toons or clones, your account was useless. I think they changed it while still in beta to be no new toons for 24 hours BUT even so.. if you get ganked in the noob area, completely defenseless and dirt poor unable to provide yourself with a way to keep playing, that's no means to punish someone who may be a potentially paying customer, forever or even 24 hours.

Now I dunno if they ever fixed these, but considering how you couldn't even play past lvl 1 without someone PKing you at the noob spawn point and the character creation limitation per account...I uninstalled. Even for beta thats not kosher.

Interesting thread - brings back lots of bad memories.

Faces of Mankind - pfft

Horizons - yawn

Shadowbane - Ugh...

But the worst I've ever played was "The Matrix Online".  I'm sure I didn't give the game a fair try - but I so quickly lost interest I didn't care.

Zoom

The most boring MMORPG I ever played, believe it or not, is Lord of the Rings Online.

The world felt so limited, the gameplay was predictable, and the title exploits an otherwise brilliant novel.

It was a real shame to see the commercialization of LotR executed so cheaply in an MMORPG.  The beauty of LotR is its lore and its world:  diversity, size, various languages, etc.

Originally posted by Villakoira

Originally posted by Jefferson81

Originally posted by Villakoira

Gekkeiju Online. I don't think what I can describe is OK by the TOS here. Let's just say your character, regardless of gender, was "used" by an orc and wakes up right after it. Then every character swears in dialogue. Also, animu!

 

How did you find that game and whats "animu"?

My worst is a web browser MMO that I have forgotten the name of.

The graphics looked like something from over twelve years ago and after a few minutes of playing it I uninstalled it.

Oh yeah, and Runescape of course.

I cant' believe how anyone would be willing to play that game.

I mean, it looks like a game for the VIC 20 home computer from the early 80's with only eight colors on screen at one time.

So yeah, I vote Runescape for being the crappiest MMO ever made in the history of man.

Runescape would have been a good MMO 25 years ago but sadly the internet hadn't been invented then and I don't count the experiments between universities in the 70's and 80's as the internet.

Animu is a mock term for anime that SA made. And I found the game from SA. Download Gekkeiju if you want to have some quick lulz.

 

Note I do like a few anime shows, lol.

Aha, but please tell me how you found that game and whats the abbreviation "SA"?

SA stands for Something Awful, a internet communty, they do sometimes review MMORPGs, a few have been slaughtered by the hands of the reviewers (Blade Mistress for one).

 Second Life.  What a creepy f'ing community and environment.  I went and took a hot shower and reformatted my HD after trying that one.

No contest for me.  Vanguard.

Originally posted by pencilrick

Worst MMO? 

Hmm, maybe WOW, even though I play it still.   

 

This says a lot about you...and your fellow WOW players.  Not that I'm surprised. :)

Ether Saga Online. Just... horrible.

I'm going to have to say...Darkfall. Boring, grindish, lackluster graphics and sound and animation...terrible community.

I'll go with Horizons I guess. There have been so many I have not liked lol

Guild wars as well. I never got into it at launch and heard so many good things about it and then I tried it and I was like..."Is that it?"  but I guess it is not a real mmo but I dont know.

Horizons , to me, looked so good on paper and then I played it. ugh. so boring.

Wish Gods and Heroes would have been finished,,,,That and Mythos were my favs in beta that never got released.

edited for butchering the english language

warhammer close followed by aoc

and i only say things about games that i was playing i know there are maybe worser ones but that i dont was touching :>

Roma Victor

Shouldn't be called a game really. :)

 Star Wars Galaxies Post-CU(Combat Upgrade), and then again at Post-NGE(New Game Enhancement). I loved SWG when it first came out when unlocking Jedi was a badge of honor, sorta like reaching the end game content with out a single death on your main. Pre-CU the method to get a Jedi character was a grueling quest you had to unlike 5 skill trees and a random 6th. Then the CU came out and turned it into a quest that the Dev's allowed to be a sticky on the official forums. Then the NGE came out and everyone who wanted one could make one without any hassel. Now that BioWare is comming out with a Star Wars MMO you have to think why LucasArts is allowing the screw up SOE made still be on the market if I worked at LucasArts Id would not of turned total control over a Star Wars game to a company who has ruined it sence day 1, I would of yanked the license and allowed BioWares Star Wars the Old Republic to be the only Star Wars MMO out.

Worst Artistically:  Darkfall

Every single screen shot, concept art, and video I say makes me cringe.  This is 8 years of development?  there are so many talented artist out there will to practically work for free and this is the best animation they could muster?

Worst Content:  Sword of the New World

Spending a full 2 days in one zone AFK grinding mobs just so you can enter the next zoen and AFK grind more of the same mobs.  Yuck.

Worst Buggy and Untested:  Age of Conan

Everyone konws how buggy AOC is.  Plus the ocmbat engine wasn't truly tested in PvP so that resulted in strafe fest combat where no one used all the tools int he game like active blocking.

Boring: Guild Wars

I keep trying to come back and enjoy it.  I barely get 2 weeks play out of it before I'm bored.

finalfantasy11

FURCADIA <- LOL pretty much how it sounds

I don't really have a worst P2P MMORPG that I haven't liked... I subbed to all of them and enjoyed them all. Maybe the least fun one was Age of Conan.

It was the graphics for me, they were too good and they forced me to take the game too seriously. Also the UI was really clunky and not nice.

Free to play:  Anarchy online (so old and crappy)

Pay to Play:  current SWG (close 2nd is AoC but i have had a pretty good experiance with Pay to play games, it seems i stay away from the really bad ones or have good experiances)