2010 Awards: Most Anticipated MMO
The month of December has come and gone, taking 2010 with it. Some say good riddance, some look back fondly, but no matter how you slice it, that puppy’s behind us and we’re all moving forward to 2011. For the team here at MMORPG.com, we’ve just got one tiny loose thread to tie up before we officially start the new year: We have to announce the winners of the 2010 MMORPG.com Reader’s Choice Awards! Today we present the results of the Most Anticipated MMO.
Awards By Jon Wood on January 03, 2011
The month of December has come and gone, taking 2010 with it. Some say good riddance, some look back fondly, but no matter how you slice it, that puppy’s behind us and we’re all moving forward to 2011. For the team here at MMORPG.com, we’ve just got one tiny loose thread to tie up before we officially start the new year: We have to announce the winners of the 2010 MMORPG.com Reader’s Choice Awards!
This year, our categories were: Game of the Year, New Game of the Year, Most Innovative, Most Improved, Best F2P, Favorite Company, Biggest News Story, Most Anticipated, and the newest, and most dubious, addition to our prizes, Biggest Disappointment.
The rules were simple: For readers, look at the nominees and vote. One vote per person. We frown on cheating. For nominees: You may inform your community about your nomination, but may not otherwise unduly skew the voting by telling them who to vote for.
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Most Anticipated Game
In order to qualify for this category, a game must be currently announced and carry a reasonable expectation that we will see a launch some time in 2011. The MMORPG.com staff deliberated at length and returned the following nominees: DC Universe Online, Guild Wars 2, Rift, Star Wars: The Old Republic and Tera.
The voting broke down as such:
| Guild Wars 2 | 42.0% |
| Star Wars: The Old Republic | 28.4% |
| Rift | 16.2% |
| TERA | 10.0% |
| DC Universe Online | 3.3% |
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Winner: Guild Wars 2
The winner of this category shouldn’t come as a galloping shock to anyone who frequents MMORPG.com as Guild Wars 2 is currently ranked at #1 in our most anticipated charts, not only that but with a hype rating of 8.72, the game holds the highest sustained hype ever on our site.
Congratulations go out to the team at NCSoft and ArenaNet, but the Most Anticipated game award also comes with some pretty high expectations from MMO players everywhere. Hopefully, the developers of Guild Wars 2 are up for the challenge.
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well I really wasn't expecting that;)
Cheers for GW2. It looks like taking a different stance on the gameplay is paying off over hype.
Gz to Arenanet. They managed to overshadow a $150 mill budget Star Wars MMO developed by BioWare. Not exactly a simple thing to do.
Love how the Mesmer concept art was snuck in there, lol.
This is what i was expecting overhere at MMORPG.com, but then we are the harcore MMO crowd. On general gaming sites i still think SW:TOR would have won this award..
ArenaNet deserve it!
True, but that's because people on general gaming sites know a lot less about GW2 (And SWToR for that matter) then we do.
Yeah, I thought SWTOR would give GW2 a run for it's money, seems that a lot of people are paying attention to all the posts on these games.
Things could be different at this time next year, we won't know until we try all these upcoming games.
Grats to Anet
But like the article states, was that really a big surprise? Still none the less grats.
Now they just have to deliver on this hype. We will see though.
Knew it haha
Think pretty much everyone did :P
No surprise there... glad GW2 won. Now I wonder if ArenaNet have won the best MMO company award?
I think the result above shows how much out of touch this site is. What a shame but it confirms a lot.
Why do you say that?
I think I will be playing 1 + 2 + 5 but probably in reverse order
Probably thinks people don't research the game, or is mad that swtor did as well as it did on this site.
*laughs* By a hell of a margin, too. Saw that coming.
I truly think it's because of all the games listed, GW2 has shown me the most. Letting me see 2 hours of pure gameplay, sound and HD and no annoying salesmen talking during it is what made me go WOW, I need to play that. I bet if the other games gave such a great "preview" to the game it might be at least a closer race.
Still, I'll be playing all of them, except DCuniverse, now that I've played it and was bored to tears, I can mark that off my list. But the one I really want to play just to experience it is GW2 however, I see SWTOR as having a longer lasting appeal to me. Being able to go through 8 separate storylines and classes and being able to get even more separation with the advanced classes, it just, for the time being, seems to have better replay value.
Still, with GW2's no sub this could be the best MMORPG duo I've had the joy of playing in YEARS. Gah, I can't wait. Screw 2010, worst year ever.
What a surprise :)))))) i expected SW ToR to take this award with all the inovations it brings to genre.................. :)
"Help us Arena Net, you are our only hope."
I guess the modified quote would be more suited for SW:TOR but I dont think many are expecting any truly innovative, in regards to MMORPGs, to come from Biowares first MMORPG.
I forgot to vote, and would have done for SWTOR if I got around to it.
Either people were like me, or were not aware of the vote or maybe just thought it may get delayed into 2012 or maybe it is because it is expected to be another free MMO whereas SWTOR will have some form of payment model.
I have zero interest in GW2, I'm not even going to try it.
I think everyone who voted for GW2 will be in for a BIG disappointment.
The game is soulless, shallow and ultimately a very unsatisfying experience, much like every previous NCSoft game.
Hey no stealing the line i'm using in my sig.
The innovating things i can think of for ToR would be the fully voiced over dialog
The idea you can change how quests play out
The duck and cover system
The morphing system for your character.
The companion system.
Seems pretty innovating to me. but /shrug to each their own, poll is no surprise to anyone though, not even the people off site. They called this miles ahead. happy to see swtor is 2 though.
*shocked*
GW2 more anticipated than SWTOR..? I'd never expect that, and certainly not with that big a difference!
Funny to see DCUO with 3.3% at the bottom while it goes live next week :D
Though I don't agree with your conclusion, I do mirror it's basic sentiment. There definitely seems to be something lacking in GW2, but there was something lacking in GW and it was widely popular, so lots of people are going to enjoy it.
Personally I am much more looking forward to playing a mult-person Bioware game, but to each his own, and I'll undoubtedly at least try GW2.
Except for being fully-voiced acted, adding to immersion. Except for dialogue decisions that alter storylines and can't be changed. You may not be excited about these features, but you cannot say they are not innovative or have been done before.
Before I get accused of rabid fandom, I am actually more excited for GW2, but looking forward to TOR also. I just couldn't let him dismiss TOR as being nothing new, because it is, even if it isn't new in the way some of you want.
Funny, that footage was exactly what made me decide I had no interest whatsoever in this game. I felt like I was looking at just another one of those F2P asian crap games that we're being bombarded with.
We'll have to see how it works out- anticipation has nothing to do with how the actual game will be received anyway, it's more a matter of hype than anything which is ultimately meaningless.
While initially I was far more interested in SW:TOR the more I have come to know about the game the more it just seems like KoTOR 3: the Don't Pirate Me Edition. Just screams single player online game with some extraneous grouping capabilities.
NCSoft is only the publisher, the game is made by ArenaNet
Also please please expand on why you think it's soulless, shallow and ultimately a very unsatisfying experience.
Have u played the whole game? NC Soft is just publisher game developer is ArenaNet same guys that made GW1 and your statment shows just that u dont have any idea what u are talking about . And show me one upcoming game that looks more promising than GW2?
I don't think you have any idea what you are talking about. Honestly I can't help but believe you have never seen that footage.
Lol, why are you making excuses for SWTOR's ranking?
I know the footage is not amazingly mind-blowing but.....where did you get that from? And your earlier statement about NCsoft? Jeez man, are you sure you don't just have a hate thing going on for NCsoft?
This was expected. However i wasn't expecting GW2 to beat SWTOR with such a considerable amount of margin.
What a surprise. Go back to when GW2 was just a name and TOR still had the hype train rolling strong and the results would be flipped. Now that A-Net is proclaiming GW2 as the most innovative thing since sliced bread (see, that works better than "best thing since sliced bread") and has shown us pretty polished footage, they're on top of the hype pile. TOR will pick up again as we get closer to spring and BioWare releases more videos/substantial info, which they've been steadily doing over the last few months/weeks. A-Net will likely respond with more of how their game will be the most innovative thing since sliced bread.
Let's hope GW2 doesnt end up like GW1, of the Hype will Wither N Die..
As for BioWare, they are taking a huge leap into the future of MMO's give them time to bloom and see what comes of it..
SWToR - Mass Effect MMO - there even might be a Dragon Age Online..
Yay! The sequel to my favourite MMO has won.
I'll be playing both Star Wars and Guild Wars of course.
They both deserve it methinks.
Wow dcuo inder 4%, thats a shocker considering how much love its gotten on this site lately, and how much the fan boys been protecting it.
Now gw2 being in top hmmm thats interesting as well.
Not really a surprise considering the number of GW2 fanboys and shills on this site. I'll probably play it but then get bored with it quickly just like I did with GW1.
GW2 is hyped a lot more on MMORPG.COM than SWTOR. In fact, there is very little hype about SWTOR since Bioware doesn't release work in progress videos. I think ArenaNet released about 15 videos already showing all kind of stuff from GW2. Either Bioware is keeping it quiet to itself and working on a surprise or SWTOR is simply not ready for this kind of reveal just yet.
Thing is some people who played GW2 already say that while there are some additional features in game it still feels like the GW1, just better graphics. I don't believe that GW2 will in the end be anything else than just another MMO after everyone tries it out WHENEVER it comes out. And guess whats gonna happen then - yup, people will move to SWTOR. There is no need to compete for these 2 games.
GW2 is free to play and SWTOR is 15$ a month. Can easily play both. Unless SWTOR is release like months after GW2 - I don't think I'll be even buying GW2 until I really get bored with blasters and lightsabers in SWTOR.
anyone who felt empty with GW1 has zero imagination.
the only thing that GW1 left me feeling was omg awesome with the cut scenes.
in GW1 i has by far the best guild experience ever, the closest streak of high level PvP (was a caller for HoH spike groups as well has under 200 GvG) as well as one of the greatest PvE experiences (i still remember the first asura dungeon where you just randomly saw that boulder come racing down the walkway...ugh pure excitment in listening to 7 other dudes go ohh what the fu*k)
now do I think some people are holding GW2 on such a high horse that it will fall off : yes i do
do I believe that GW2 will fail do to this :no not even close because if GW2 has any mass appeal i believe that it could become a huge game
SWTOR don't have any thing truly innovative? U must be joking or u don't know any thing about SWTOR.
I've been waiting for GW2 for years now since I first heard rumours of it. I enjoyed GW, but always felt that it could be better. GW2 will hopefully be that improved version and all the features they've added have increased my sense of anticipation. The game itself coupled with the payment model (buy original game and any expansions, but no subscription) is exactly what I'm looking for.
Having beta tested Rift, that game is now a close second for me; but the payment model (buy original game, plus monthly subscription) is not my first choice.
Top 5 WoW clones..and WoW's graphic are better than TOR or DC..
That was expected. GW2 is the only reason I go on this site :P
Kinda funny seeing how some people are crying about SWTOR not being the winner, bashing on GW2, while others defend GW2.
Well let me tell you a simple secret. The most probable scenario is that both games will be succesfull, attracting different player base. Both games are being developed by great companies.
I however am mainly going for GW2, because after 5-6 years i still think GW1 is the best thing out there. Lightyears ahead of other MMOs in sooo many aspects...
Honestly GW2 has from moment one delivered what the MMO community needs, a better concept on delivering a quality product while working towards something new conceptually. Yes as gamers Star Wars always holds a special place in our hearts, but this game doesn't look ground breaking in the same way GW2 will be.
Heh, nice to see that SWToR fans are already at their posts zealously doing damage control...
uh no damage control going on here. i'm not sure what your seeing.
anyone surprised?
with SWTOR we know, what we most propably get. regarding GW2, there is still some hope.
BAWWWWW.... face it Lucas-Goons, the Empire is falling and your precious will be Pre-NGE'd before it even gets to open Beta. Now get outta here before I press the button on your Chest Console that tells your mom to come pick you up.
I can see how you feel threatened and would need to attack the fans. Oh well. can't please everyone, and some you can't please at all. Have fun with your game, whatever that is.
The results are as unsurprising as the posters trying to find excuses for why their game didn't rank first. Regardless of whether the game will be any good GW2 deserves the hype it's getting as it's the only game really trying to be different and with solid gameplay footage out there.
I'm not surprised GW2 did well, but I am a bit surprised by the margin. I think SWToR will do well and GW2 will do well. They both look to be innovating MMOs, for the most part. Only time will tell really.
Sucks to be DCU -- getting rushed out of the door next week (and months early, IMO) and being at the bottom of that list. But it's way too late to rebuild it from scratch.
this is one of the most incorect statements i have seen on here...
I agree GW2 has released more info comapred to SWTOR. Infact, there is so much more we don't know about SWTOR.
you make no sense... im not sure what it is your even trying to say.....?.... and the lucas bashing becuase they are number 2 to a free to play game?.... whatever. time will show the truth.
Makes no sense at all. Unless you thought SOE is running this game too?
SWTOR is basically KOTOR3 with integrated chatroom...i'm sure you can even turn off seeing other players for the ultimate casual experience
Guild Wars 2 at least tries to be more of a MMO than GW1 was
Uninformed bashing yet again. You haven't even looked at the game have you?
I would point you to the full feature list which proves the above wrong but it's pointless, you won't look
Note to others, read the full feature list for ToR before coming to the above conclusion.
How anyone can come to the conclusion you just came to Kishe is beyond me. After everything they have released it should have been obvious what the game is now. Just try and take a look at the game before coming to a conclusion. This one is null at the moment as it's based on almost zero info.
I'm more surprised Tera wasn't above Rift. But I guess rift was doing beta events and has a lot more known about it.
It's funny, we know next to nothing about both TOR and GW2, but people scream praise about gw2 here more then any other site I visit.
Stop trolling please or atlease read the full feature list of SWTOR. As much as i love GW2 its hype will be its un doing in the end.
Kotor will be an alright mmo, with a couple of evolutionary features from every bioware esingle player rpg. It won't excel nor even remotely dent wow's popularity ever, and will sit alongside as 'an alternative'. If it does become a hit it only replaces one set of sub shackles with another.
Guild wars 2, however, looks to break many MMO moulds, including subs. So even if it isn't a 'better' game than kotor, every mmo gamer worth their keyboard should pick it up to try it.
But, of course, they won't. They criticise it from a state of ignorance and will be too afraid to try it, lest it prove that they've been wasting money :P
Regardless, both kotor and gw2 are leaps and bounds ahead of the tripe that came out this year.
I was one of the GW2 voters, not because I think it will be more successful than others, but rather because it has features in it (that the others lack) that I'm more interested in.
I'm probably going to give 4/5 games a try (DC being the notable exception) anyways until I hit a winner.
Oh I have...All the way to how they highlight how their advanced henchman system makes it you dont ever have to look for group again!
This is funny seeing the amount of trolls baiting people and simply stupid or over-zealous fans falling for them
That's not necessarily a bad thing lol.
Then you would know about the group quests, the raids, the pvp, the crafting, the open worlds, the world arcs.
You would also know that the companions are actually only an additions to yoru character. They do not in themselves make you powerful enough to take on group content unless you really out level it.
If you knew all this you wouldn't have made that statement.
What were last year's most anticipated, and how'd that work out?
Keep waiting for the vast Disappointment that GW2 will be, but hope im wrong.
It's really nice that you worry about us and our feelings that much and we trully are gratefull to you. But i really think that you should concentrate on whatever game you're waiting for and less on us and our expectations.
That should have been "I keep waiting... " Sorry for the Typo, and sorry I offended your sensitive nature about a GAME.
Voted for SWTOR because that's what I'm anticipating the most but GW2 is definitely second on my list. KOTOR games were some of my all time favorite games on PC and I'll play TOR for at least 6 months to get more of what I loved from those games. Hopefully the fun will last until the price of GW2 comes down a bit but I'm still hyped for both games!
always expected it to go to GW2 and much deserved although its 2nd on my personal list if I wasnt a massive SW fanboi I have no doubt it would be no 1 on my list.
It only has the highest sustained ranking because its good at not making enemies the WOW fanboi's troll of the year goes to TOR so it is the game being given 1's by the WoW fanbois just like they did with Aion, DF and Aoc before those.
Sorry your game didn't win an internet poll.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owzhYNcd4OM&feature=related
Just gonna ignore you now young man, I voted for GW2 also.
I'm not surprised to see GW2 win this, they look like they are the only one of the ones listed that actually got me interested. What I am surprised about was the margin of the win over SWTOR. There has massive amount of hype around SWTOR and tons of articles about it here, and it got decimated in the voting here.
Bioware best be taking note of this.
In my opinion SWTOR will be a good game but will turn out like WAR infact i think it has alot in common with war... not in the fact of gamplay but in the fact that they both were basically using WOW mechanics and adding some new stuff to mix it up! It looks like it will be fun and thats ok
GW2 on the other hand is attempting to be 10x more innovative... no more triad system, no more waiting for healers. When you save a village from an attack of minitaurs (completley random example) the minitaurs wont just respond... but if you let the minitaurs destroy the village it will actually end up destroyed rather than you getting a second chance. These are things that the concept of MMO's many years ago were supposed to include but were never done. Im srry all you SWTOR fans but thats why GW2 wins this poll... however i must say that it wont be easy to make this happen and GW2 could end being a total fail, but if they do manage to pull of EVERYTHING they have promised so far, i can honestly see this becoming the new WOW
I'm going to respectfully disagree.
Other then removing the trinity system and making everyone be able to do everything, and the De system, there really isn't much more innovation. DE are basically repeatable public quests that may have interaction on other repeatable public quest.
Other then that it's basically like every other fantasy genre mmo to date.
I also wouldnt count ToR out yet. They have put a major empahsis on story but they also do have quite a few new features, like character morphs, multimob fighting, as well as cover systems and companions
Both games i'm sure will be great, we just gotta hope they deliever on what they promise.
I am utterly surprised...
Or not?
Grats to gw2. Cant wait to hear more info about it.
this was not suprise at all but rift didnt get that many percents as i thought it would
Just like GW1, the H/H combo in GW1 made it to where you didn't need a group to beat the content, i easily managed to clear all 3 campaigns and the expansion with no help what so ever. I expect GW2 to be the same way, to be able to solo all the content. There is people who like grouping and others who don't, so i expect them to cater to both groupers and soloers.
Definitely GW2. Buy the box, no monthly fees. It's the MMO you can play forever. The gameplay looks real sexy too.
I'm not surprised that GW2 ran away with it here.
I'm also not surprised at the weak showing for RIFT - it really is a "more of the same" game.
Read some of the replies to my message, but to be honest, I don't feel I need to justify my opinion to you. Taste differs, that's the bottom line, but to humor you, here's my own personal NCsoft track record:
I liked Lineage 2's graphics, but I didn't like Lineage 2 one bit. Total fail of a game.
Saw GW's graphics, thought it looked nice. I didn't like GW one bit. Crap game.
Again, I loved the look of Aion and I hoped I would like that game, but ended up being very very disappointed in it and quitting even before my free 30 days were up.
I only tried City of Heroes in a free trial, but it was also very disappointing.
In short, imo: NCSoft is good at publishing turds that are wrapped in really cool wrappingpaper and tied up with a beautiful silk bow. But after you unwrap it, it's still a smelly turd.
And I DID see that gameplay footage. You think it's impossible for someone to hate something, just because you like it? Go back to the start of this post and read the first 2 lines again. :)
Hey, I just wanted to know why you hated them. I didn't think Lineage was a good game either but I lurved GW and CoX and Tabula Rasa and no I didn't like Aion too much. I do believe NC has the capacity to make great games. They've made GW and CoX which are critically acclaimed games and they also made Aion which is a smashing sucess in Korea... so nah I won't say they are all bad but rather they just don't fit your bill. Don't let that stop you from giving GW2 a try though, unless you've got that hate thing down like a Sith Lord on Korriban.
EA is already losing. Although SW:TOR will certainly be the most polished game launched in 2011.
But I wonder who will win with a Korean NC Soft publishing game in the long run?
In view of their old publishing records, I doubt it will be the players.
What will it be this time? Millions of fake eastern players or sold discs counted as players ?
It has bar brawls.... no other MMo has bar brawls....
GW2 may be published by NCsoft but it is made by Arenanet who are situated in Bellavue, WA. I highly doubt there will be very much that is korean about gw2.
The players won when it came to GW1 and NC was loving the cash, why would it be different here? Especially when GW is one of their most successful franchises.
I was talking about the fake millions of GW players they advertised by putting sold discs (including expansions) on their boxes.
L1 + L2,, Aion and Tabula Rasa were equally pushed through western players stomachs with "millions" that never materialised, nor supported by any reasonable infrastructure.
I think SW:TOR is a safer bet to see something more polished, less instanced and more supported for its players.
GW2 is way, wayyy overhyped now.
Hope it delivers the goods as everyone is making it out to be.
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need i go on? :D i dread it when games fall on this list
LoL look at all the swtor fanbois crying in thier milk. never mind mommy will kiss it better and then you can go back to your cot for a nap.
Bioware chose the wrong game engine for an SWTOR. Hero engine is just bleh, ugly and not optimized at all. Hell, the damn dev's can't even make/release a MMO(Hero's Journey) out of their own engine(talking about Simutronics Corporation). So I prefer GW2. Look's very nice, optimized, more open than GW1, good gameplay from what I've seen.
So that's FF 14 - Aion - Darkfall - Warhammer - Age of Conan.
:)) Great list I must say :)
So the readers of this site are not very good at making predictions...
That's the least we can say.
look at all the GW2 fanbois trying to act all macho defending a GAME on a MMORPG WEBSITE
you people take gaming too friggen seriously.
No kidding, if thats the kind of attitude of a typical gamer for GW2 i'm already worried about the game.
Bad community kills a game faster then anything. Lets hope those attacking other players over a poll (rolls eyes) are not the typical person in GW2 or it's dead right out of the gate.
Just say no to flames guys, keep it civil please.
Once again grats to GW2. Still anticipating ToR though. Should be fun.
Lol, come on guys. Drop the ''Sour grapes, sweet lemon'' routine...
gratz to ANET and GW fans!
and i cant wait for the reveal of the 5th Prof this month F5 F5 F5!
Same could be said for any majorly anticipated game in the past decade, why pick on GW2 when TOR has the same problem when you read all the comments?
Good for GW2! I excited for both it and SWTOR, but GW2 seems a bit more exciting. I just hope that people who voted for GW2 don't have such high hopes that when some expectations weren't met with exactly as they were thinking they freak out.
GW2 really does seem to deserve the hype it's getting, but lets not get out of hand. It's gonna be good, but it's not going to be the perfect, wow killing MMO some think it will be.
The interesting thing about GW2 is that there are no empty promises. They're not releasing information about anything until it's already functional and in the game. This is a far cry from games promising the moon but delivering a hunk of limburger promising they'll get rid of the smell later. Hell, they won't even tell us the professions until they actually have them working the way they want them in the game. Very little news on crafting, PvP, underwater combat... they're not ready to makes promises until they're sure they can keep them. Easily why it got my vote.
I have to admit, I don't know much about SW:ToR, but once I heard they were sticking with the archaic tank/healer/dps trinity I lost interest fast. Too many years of WoW can do that to a guy.
I think we got it right this time. I was looking at rift and Tera for a while but GW2 promisses to be a great game. It actualy has a history and storyline to..GASP !
Yea...just what this genre needs is ANOTHER fantasy-based MMO. Not saying anything is wrong with GW2, but I'm just sick of MMOs coming from the SAME genre.
I'm sorry...but TOR is looking great and is a sci-fi MMO, which the genre is highly lacking. I can think of maybe 4-5 sci-fi MMOs to about 30-40 fantasy MMOs.
The problem with ToR is they are not putting out enough imagery and info lately. When that happens people get worried that the polish they want wont be there. The MMO players of today have reason enough to be jaded by past hype over delivery dissapointments.
The concern over GW2 many have is the old GW system where most of the world is instanced and you end up feeling like your in a single player if you dont have the social system down and its just different enough from other games to put people off. Im really interested in GW2 as well but dont know if it will go far enough into open world for it to feel like an honest MMO to me.
This is probably the first year that Im just not sure what Im going to play yet.
http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/473/view/forums/thread/287180/Everything-We-Know-about-GW2.html
GW2 is not instanced like the first game.
I have to admit GW2 getting 50% more votes than TOR leaves me speechless.
It seems GW marketing machine is working, at least for now, better than BioWare one.
Maybe that of it's because some of the designs choices made in GW2 looks like more oriented towards giving players choices versus setting them on rails as in TOR. Well, regarding the few we really know.
Although we can pretty much assume both games will sell like hot cakes.
The people gave their choice, thus the result is shown. Why are fanbois from all sides crowding this? You're honestly going to defend "your game" on the basis that PLAYERS is the one and only factor with this poll?
Sure the features from all the games have been listed, some are innovative and what not but I think this article is not named "Features of the most anticipated upcoming games - flame on!"
I see this as a win for everyone except Arenanet. This just proves Bioware and the other game makers are trying to keep from over hyping thier game. I think so far, Bioware is doing the right thing.
GW2 mgiht have some nifty innovations and some better graphics but it doesn;t mean its going to be a good game. We won;t know that until it is released. But what I do know is the more the hype is up for this game, the worse they will be off when opening day comes. Because every little bug will be blown way out of proportion.
Congratulations ArenaNet, you earned it!! :D
I will continue to always vote for you as long as you create fantastic games like this, which impress me to no end!
And on MMORPG.com today...nothing new happened.
I do not see the need to get upset and throw fanboy monikers around. What I do think is that this vote is a good example that serious MMO players are tired of the same old, same old. It seems from what we have seen, Bioware has made a better Wow in space. Personally I think that will bring in new players to the genre, but many MMO players are looking for something different and that is why GW2 is getting all the votes. Arenanet is attempting to stretch the genre a bit and serious players are looking forward to that.
It remains to be seen which game will really be the bigger hit.
That is just... mind boggling... considering what an absolute piece of garbage GW1 is, **WORST $49.99 I EVER SPENT** I am just absolutely blown away. I couldn't play that game more than a week even being free and I've tried to go back countless times to find it boring as ever.
I guess some people just love to jump on bandwagons cuz I know there is no way that GW has that many loyal followers over the other mentioned games.
anyone who has ever played The Old Republic has it as their number 1...the game is stunningly good
GW2, another fantasy game to add to the millions out there already.
Players will end up going back to WoW after a month or 2 of GW2 is my prediction and GW2 will just be another F2P game when players don't want to pay for a subscription base mmo (RoM, Allods, EQ2 Extended, DDO, Lotro etc etc)..
Well not bad , i dont care that GW2 won , it was winning on this site since mid last year .
But still having SWTOR score 28% seems the Tide is changing .
So i am pleased about the results .
Folks are taking this way too personally. Remember: most anticipated does not mean best. And whats best for you may not be whats best for someone else. There is no right or wrong when discussing personal preference. Debating is fine, but all i see here are a bunch of poor winners and sore losers. And that attitude really defeats the point of a site dedicated to an entire genre of diverse games.
Now, lets just hope GW2 wont be the biggest 2011 fail ;)
Not true I still voted for GW2 after being in the SW:ToR Beta, it wasn't about quality but style of play, can't say any more than that because of the NDA.
GW2 - "the game holds the highest sustained hype ever on our site."
You can say that again, I hope it is well deserved but only time, not hype will tell.
A month ago I would have disagreed and asked how anyone could ignore Rift. Then I played it.
GW2 will be the biggest because it changes MMO-things. It will be a fresh approach.
I'm not surprised. GW was a very successful game and GW2 has a big fanbase to start with + a lot of new people who properly inform themselves. Anet doesn't hype the game it's the playerbase and if you say "we're in for a big dissapointment" you have absolutely NO CLUE what you are talking about.
I said innovative, in regards to MMORPGs. All those things you listed are single player features that could might as well be in a single player game so I dont consider those innovative for MMORPGs.
But, yeah, for sure SW:TOR will bring even more cool single player features, that is what Bioware are best at. But in regards to MMORPG features I am not seeing much, if anything, new.
SW:TOR will basically be Mass Effect 2 on steroids, with an optional multiplayer feature tagged on. Optional since I am sure you can solo almost everything in the game, as seems to be the norm these days.
Hope to god star wars hits it out of the park and not many people subscribe. Like my small close knit communities. Eliminates lot of the baddies.
If you think that, do stay away from the high end machine MMO's then. Clearly you enjoy your WoW's "blocky" and outdated graphics. Whatever makes you happy.
LOL You already broke the NDA by saying you are in the beta so why bring up the lame NDA excuse? That is, if you are actually in the beta. No offense but we've all seen people who claim to be in betas when they aren't.
From the looks of it GW2 community will give WOW communtiy run for money. There is always a downside to game which are free on monthly basis. Just check out Global Agenda for couple of days. You will know what i mean.
I wouldn' t make judgement on a community based only on experiences from this website. Every game here has it's fair share of trolls/shills/whiners/elitists/haters/fanboys ...
Never said that other MMOS don't have these type of people. But i have been playing MMO for long time and i have never seen such a hostile community for a MMO which is atleast 6 months away from release. And no it is not just these forums i am talking about.
GW2 is going to be my main MMO along with SWTOR and Rift in 2011 but honestly i am not too excited about the community part.
perhaps you got me wrong. for me it is pretty obvious, what Bioware will deliver. we will get 8 single-player-games in one box. add Dragon Age 2 and Mass Effect 3 and you will get 10 Biowaregames in just 3 boxes this year. isnt that great? at least it is predictable.
regarding GW2 there is still hope, that we will get an MMO. but it is not fully clear, how they will implement some features and if they can avoid the main mistakes of the theme-parks of the last decade.
Anticipation and hype eh? I have heard it all before.
These words just sell boxes, so are good for the producers of games, not for the players. All MMO players should know by now that these words are closely associated with huge disappointments.
I just hope that we get a decent MMO this year.
GW 2 seems to be a cool MMO. The new archetypes of characters without a healer its very nice and will make a great diference in how to look for classes, imo.
Honestly, I would rather have Bioware buy the licensing rights back from Atari to make a Baldur's Gate or other Forgotten Realms MMORPG!
"Minsc will lead with blade and boot! Boo will take care of the details."
Meh, i figured they are innovating because they really haven't been done to any great extent in an MMO before, but whatever. Innovating or not, it sounds really cool and a lot of fun. I looked at GW2 and it just didn't seem all that interesting to me, at least in comparasion to ToR, but to each their own
As for the optional multiplayer. Yeah you can solo most everything, but only if you really out level the group conent, which has basically been the case for the last several years. If you do something at it's required level, you'll need a group if you outlevel it by 5 or more levels then it becomes solo. You also get less experience and loot is going to be weaker but thats what happens when you out level content. I however don't think raids will be soloable nor pvp but seeing as you said almost i'm going to figure you meant most of the quests.
Don't get me wrong Gw2 sounds cool. I'm just way more intersted in the stories (i loved the longest journey) BW is offering. Like i've stated numerous times i'm probably going to pick GW2 up at some point i'm just not a major fan of it.
Suprise suprise ^^
The NDA clearly states you can admit you are in but everything else stays quiet. I haven't broken the NDA at all and won't. I was just pointing out the fallacy that all who played SW:TOR voted for it. I'm a bigger fan of GW2 because GW had me for 5 years and I have a lot of respect for Anet, I think they deserve the award for most anticipated.
GW2 totally deserves the prize.
Well, for GW2's sake, I hope this year's Most Anticipated Game is capable of out-performing last year's Most Anticipated Game: http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/446/feature/3904
There is no MMO coming out in 2011 that i am excited for other then GW2. It is the only MMO that looks like it will be a step up from other MMO's on the market today.
Well, that can't be too hard. Also, SquareEnix hasn't got a history of making games with massive appeal, they were more of a small niche. And apparantly, the IP was already degrading.
All I have to say is facebook fans.
SWTOR has about 240K
GW2 has about 124K
DCU about 30k
None of the above is one of the most idiotic things I've ever heard of when it comes to voting!
The way I see it when you are voting and you don't like the candidates is 1. Don't Vote, 2. Vote for the lesser of evils/or your party lines/leaning 3. Write in your own candidate
Voters shouldn't be given a choice of none of the above. To me none of the above means "my candidate for MMO of the year that DID launch in 2010 is not listed here". But how many people that voted this option can actually give the name of an MMO that launched in 2010 that deserves the award? If anyone could, then the option should have been Other MMO and the voter should have been able to write in the name of that MMO as a candidate.
Yes, 2010 was a bad year for MMO launches, but the games that did launch in 2010 should be weighed on. There are players that do like some of these games and their voices should be heard. A president does not simply go unelected just because a majority of voters don't like the options.
Did you get this in the correct forum cheif?
I think you are posting in the wrong thread. This thread is about the MMO that is the most anticipated, not the best MMO that launched in 2010.
Oh Snaylor, you and your facebook fans. I do wonder why the facebook fans couldn't help SWTOR in the rankings.
SW: TOR is also more well known outside of the MMO crowd because it's star wars and bioware. Doesn't make it a better game, or the one that blew everyone away at the various conventions this year.
Time will tell of course, but out of the two my bets on gw2 being the better game.
I think that this may be more representative of all-gamers because TOR has two things really working for it to make it have massive appeal: 1) Star Wars IP, and 2) Bioware. I think that people that are Star Wars and/or Bioware fans will easily be pulled into this game and for some it could be his or her first MMO (much like WoW was for many). This site is more about people that are already players in MMOs and based on experiences in other games GW2 looks like something that is different from what we are used to playing.
Considering how anti SW:TOR MMORPG.com is, im not suprised by this result. I couldnt play GW past the fall or whatever it was, and im sure I will dislike GW2 just as much.
ROFL good point Chocobo!! thats pricless.
Yet on Massively, last year Most anticipated was Star Trek Online, and this year it's SWToR...
Awesome. Not surprised, but still awesome.
I think the game more then deserves it. GW2 is going to be a huge deal for MMOs, plain and simple.
I am surprised Rift managed to beat out TERA and DC Universe Online though. But then again, not many have played Rift yet either. Suppose I am one of the "lucky" few.
I wouldn't count on that.
My personal experience with the GW1 community has been great and I'm not alone in that thought. Best MMO community of the decade by a long shot went to GW http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/01/03/massivelys-2010-players-choice-awards-results/#continued
While I can't speak for GW2 (No one can since it isn't out) it stands to reason that GW1 community is a good basis for comparison and the B2P model doesn't appear to have an adverse effect on the community as a whole. I've had some good and bad community interactions in P2P games depending on the game so I don't believe the price of entry is doing anything to improve or ruin the community.
That might have more to do with the requirement for hitting a certain amount of facebook fans to release information about the game. Nope, not at all.
Not at all surprised by this. Still, I don't think this is necessarily representative of feelings outside of this site. I would wager that TOR probably has the lead outside of this particular community...
That said, I am very excited for both games. I just hope that either of them can live up to the hype.
I was really, really excited by SWTOR when it was first announced, as I'm a huge Bioware and Star Wars fan, but then Arenanet started fleshing out more and more of the details about what they were doing with Guild Wars 2, and I honestly forgot about The Old Republic. The Old Republic looks like an amazing traditional MMO, that brings enough cool ideas along with the stellar Star Wars setting and Bioware's pedigree that it could actually compete with WoW. Guild Wars 2, while not nearly as well known to the general gaming public, has the "potential" (key word there) to outdo them both. From all of the previews and demo playthroughs, it sounds like Arenanet have really managed to take all of the best ideas from GW1, added all of the best parts of a persistent seamless world like WoW, and then removed almost all of the headaches and boring bits of traditional MMOs.
I'm eager to play SWTOR, while I'm madly chomping at the bit to play GW2. Of the other three, Rift could be interesting, I know nothing about TERA, and DCUniverse barely interests me.
I trust the general opinion of massivelys user base about as much as I trust the opinions of most MMORPG.com uses, lets just put it that way lol. I dont know which game will be "best of 2011", but to be honest that "award" means nothing, the best mmo of 2011 for me will my choice and mine alone.
there's absolutely no way to know until you actually play the game. Even then, if you feel it has failed miserably there will be people who enjoy it for years.
I think it needs to be stated and clarified....Guild Wars 2 is NOT a Korean game. It is being made in Bellavue, Washington. The developer studio is called ArenaNet...They have nothing to do with Aion, Linenage, or City of Heroes. They are merely published by NCsoft which happens to be Korean.
Again, there's NOTHING Korean with GW1 or GW2.
best of luck for GW2!!
first game in a while willing to think out of the box. What a breath of fresh air!
This is pretty much the same as how I feel (or felt) when it comes to both games.
When I went to Gamescom, I was really looking forward to playing SW:TOR. I was indifferent to GW2, considering I wasn't a massive fan of the first game (not my kind of genre, but a well made game nonetheless). But then when I managed to play both games, my opinions on both games switched. I was absolutely blown away by GW2. One of the best demos I have ever played. I enjoyed TOR too, but it felt rather underwhelming in comparison to GW2 (it was pretty much what I expected it to be though, ironically, it just didn't wow me like GW2 did).
I'm looking forward to both games. GW2 is just higher on my priority, so far. No reason why it shouldn't be from my point of view. : )
Yeah. Theres a huge collection of TOR haters on this site, even though we still don't know much about the game. Conversly, theres a large number of GW2 fanboys that have been hyping this game for ages now. Theres no comparison between the level of hype for each game. I suspect I will get bored with GW2 as fast as I did with GW1 while TOR seems much more promising for me.
As a side note, I find all the nasty comments coming from GW2 fans to be consistent with what I've seen with the GW1 in game community. Its regularily worse than the worst of WoW trade chat. I hope all those people choose to play GW2 exclusively and stay away from the games I will be playing.
Were you watching said footage on a 1995 computer? GW2 looks amazing, if you are running a computer built this decade. Comparing it to an asian F2P pretty much reduces your belivability rating to zero, at best.
Methinks you have no clue.
why wasnt "none of the above" in that list?
I hope both GW2 and SW:ToR remain in competition for years to come as the top games!
I agree. WOWs graphics are not that good and both TOR, DC, AND GW2 haven't even come out yet. Now I think WOW is a good game but TOR and GW2 are going to be great and DC is going to be pretty good to. Now I think TOR is the better game then GW2 because I love BioWare and their KOTOR games. Also I'm a big star wars fan too. However I do respect that GW2 is going to be a very good game. It might have even been "THE" WOW killer if TOR wasn't coming out first. GO TOR!!!!!
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Not surprised in the least.
TOR looks like it simply will not deliver. Better luck next time Bioware.
Fixed it for you, wouldn't want you stating your opinion as fact now.
Give me your cristal ball mr wizard.
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Hey i was just trying to help you, no reason to get emotional abou it, i don't care what anyone says. Be my guess, won't hurt ToR chances one bit.
I'm so bad for laughing at this.
Certainly wasn't expecting SWTOR to lose this bout and with such big difference. I also fail to see the charm in GW 2, just another boring fantasy game in the midst of hundreds upon hundreds of others just like it (the gameplay videos have yet to show anything special)
Please tell me, what makes the SW:ToR gameplay videos special?
My most anticipated MMORPG of 2011 ISNT ON THIS LIST
a console-FPS that is linked to a CURRENT non-fps MMOrpg. This game is called DUST 514, and has been 4.1 years in development. It is linked to EvE online.
Basic concept: The console care bears fight using clones on the planets of eve in a bid for control over sections of the planet per battle. Much isnt known, much is known if you look hard enough, its set to release in 2011 i believe.
::: slap :::
GW has some seriously dedicated fans. Even those that finished the quests/expansions in GW1 and stopped playing the game loved it and will flock to GW2 to play the next storyline. Some never stopped playing GW1, no matter how old the content is by now. There are way too many people on these forums who underestimated the dedication of GW fans. SW:TOR has a seriously dedicated following as well but I don't hold them in the same light as the GW fanatics. This is simply not a surprise to me at all.
Sadly I'm more excited about Rift, but that's probably just because it's launching soon. I hope all of these games do well and deliver on both the promises they've made and the ones we're made to ourselves for them.
It would be funny if we find that ~28.4% of the posts in this thread are excuses why GW2 shouldn't have won.
Two games bringing nothing new are the top two games. Cool.
People know next to nothing about GW2, and maybe a tiny bit more about TOR, praise is sung solely about GW2. Cool!
I will play both games and like both games. I know that's something most people can't handle.
And even though people here know so little about GW2, they defend it about as much and as hard as people here bash on WoW. So pretty much no surprise GW2 got the honors. As was posted before, they are in an elite company of past winners... Warhammer, AoC, FF, Darkfall. All games that were worthy of all of us to be playing now.
Know so little about GW2? That shows how much you know... >.> Obviosuly, you haven't even bothered to check up on GW2, becuase if you did, you would know their is lots of info.
While I thought just through the sheer strength of numbers TOR would pull this one out it doesn't surprise me that GW2 won it, hopefully now it doesn't end up winning biggest dissapointment of 2011.
GW2s will deliver.. I expect it to be one of the most polished MMO's released but i don't think we'll see it until late 2012, when SWTOR and Rift have already released way before it.. Still, i'am anticipateing it a lot i jus' voted for SWTOR because i don't think it'll see the light of day in 2011.
WoW, GW2 didn't see that comin. lol ArenaNet you invented pownage.
Long live Guild Wars.
What is your story?
Looks like ArenaNet actually does care that they won this award, as well as many other.
I don't really believe GW 2 will be that anticipated overall over Star Wars. I'd wait till both games are launched to see if this poll holds true. GW 2 probably has more hardcore gamers interested but I'd bet SWTOR might still get more people cause of the IP and name recoginition that GW simply wont have. I'm not talking just gamers I'm talking person on the street types who dont know all that much about video games or MMOs who'd go "huh" if you asked them about guild wars but would recognize the name Star Wars.
I'm sick of Midevil Fantasy. my vote was SW:ToR.
My Games is not here then iam going to cry my favorite game i missing my game
GW2 has more dedicated fans than SWTOR
Most people who will play SWTOR don't scorge these forums. SWTOR players will be mainstream gamers.
I guartentee GW2 will win every poll on mmorpg, but overall, SWTOR will have, or at least launch, with with MAGNITUDES more players
Want more proof that these polls don't mean anything?
Look at Massively's most anticipated MMO
SWTOR beat GW2 on that website. And as someone mentioned earlier, SWTOR has twice as many followers on facebook, and GW2 is WAAYYY more overhyped than SWTOR because Bioware hasn't made their big hype push yet.
In addition, the SWTOR trailer has SIX TIMES more views than the GW2 trailer
wow 42% by guild wars 2.
It's funny when WoW was very popular I was literally the only one out of a good amount of people who played guild wars. The PvP in that game kept me going. So much fun, so much skill and timing is involved and I just love those style graphics. Im very excited for GW2, definitely a promising title, and we can jump! (i think?)
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Yay! GW2 FTW!!