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Lepidus  1/02/06 4:37:31 PM
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Hot on the heels of our Reader's Choice Nominations (voting is ongoing), we have dedicated the first update of 2006 to our 2005 MMORPG.com Editorial Awards.

For the 2005 MMORPG.com Editorial Awards we have four categories:
  • Developer of the Year: Awarded to the developer (not publisher) we feel did the best job in 2005.
  • Expansion of the Year: The expansion pack released in 2005 that we feel offered the best experience.
  • Most Anticipated of 2006: The game that we feel may launch in 2006 that we are most anticipating.
  • Game of the Year: The game launched in 2005 that we felt was the best.
Each category also has one or more honorable mentions.

You can find out all the winners here.
 
taraza  1/02/06 8:20:34 PM
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How did City of Villains win game of the year? its just CoH with different avatars and pvp. It must have required almost no effort on NCsoft's part.
 
exzire  1/02/06 8:48:22 PM
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Age of Conan won most anticipated.. A sign that the mmorpg.com editors know their stuff ::::28:: Hurray for Funcom ::::02::
 
Sift  1/02/06 9:02:48 PM
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I have to admit I was happy to see Age of Conan win most anticipated I think it deserves it I was just surprised

Harelin  1/02/06 9:27:46 PM
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Originally posted by taraza
How did City of Villains win game of the year? its just CoH with different avatars and pvp. It must have required almost no effort on NCsoft's part.


There wasn't exactly tough competition for 2005. Look around and you'll see that most of the people that frequent this site are jaded MMO gamers tired of the same old crap the genre keeps dishing out year after year, hence the reason why they're here in the first place; keeping an eye on what's to come. :)

CoV was a game most people tried and enjoyed, whether they stayed with it long-term or not. It rarely fails to make a good first impression even though it has no staying power. Wasn't that long ago that Guild Wars was the latest craze on these forums when it released, and it probably would have gotten more than honorable mention if it hadn't released so long ago.

But like I said, poor year for MMO's overall imo.

Mysk  1/02/06 11:05:43 PM
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I agree with ya. I wouldn't have voted on CoV as game of the year because CoV/CoH has no staying power in my opinion as well, but I can see why it got the vote. It is nice to see something different.

Speaking of being jaded, the only game coming down the pipe that I'm half way interested in seeing is that pirates game.

Originally posted by Harelin
Originally posted by taraza
How did City of Villains win game of the year? its just CoH with different avatars and pvp. It must have required almost no effort on NCsoft's part.

There wasn't exactly tough competition for 2005. Look around and you'll see that most of the people that frequent this site are jaded MMO gamers tired of the same old crap the genre keeps dishing out year after year, hence the reason why they're here in the first place; keeping an eye on what's to come. :)

CoV was a game most people tried and enjoyed, whether they stayed with it long-term or not. It rarely fails to make a good first impression even though it has no staying power. Wasn't that long ago that Guild Wars was the latest craze on these forums when it released, and it probably would have gotten more than honorable mention if it hadn't released so long ago.

But like I said, poor year for MMO's overall imo.

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B._TOM_Kidd  1/03/06 4:34:56 AM
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2005 was poor year to gaming in all aspects, not only MMOs.
but agin, thats only coz of the major hits of 2004 (also in all of the geners, incloding MMOs).
now 2006 - 2007 looking good, with lots of realses and alot more varity (not only fantasy).
i still don get why POTBS didnt win the most anticipated, i guess its coz the game going for niche of the market.

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DoF for EQ2 was really that good ?

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shae  1/03/06 8:12:35 AM
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Wooo nifty editorial awards. Looking back on it now though, it does seem that 2005 was a slow year huh ? Anyways.

Have to agree with pretty much all of them, when a game like CoV wins best game though, I guess all you can do is hope for a better upcomming year :). Kidding... sorta.

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Rekindle  1/03/06 9:34:50 AM
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What a poor, poor year when CoV and EQ2 are the newsmakers. 

Lets hope 2006 is a better year for new games or else I might just become a master at Mario Cart double dash.
 
Manchine  1/03/06 7:16:04 PM
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Well at least the best won.  Even though its obvious some people dont like CoV winning.  CoH/V is the best MMORPG out there.  Oh well!  Can't wait till 2007 for another City of ??????.


Mysk  1/03/06 9:36:22 PM
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