2009 Editorial Award Nominations

You seem to have left out Eve-Online.

What about EVE Online?

 Very cool stuff indeed!!

Best Game of 2009: Aion hands down, IMO

Most Improved: Well since you didn't have COH there (they have added lots of new features and great issues in 2009) I would say DDO!

Most Anticipated: 2010 is going to be SOME KIND OF YEAR for MMOs! 2009 may have been a let down but 2010! Wooooo... just having Guild Wars 2, STO and TOR (and yes I fully expect TOR to come out in 2010) taking up all our free time??? Could be one for the record books! Can't wait!!!

Most Improved AoC for sure, looking forward to GW2 / STO

Originally posted by Masoniclight

 Very cool stuff indeed!!

Best Game of 2009: Aion hands down, IMO

Most Improved: Well since you didn't have COH there (they have added lots of new features and great issues in 2009) I would say DDO!

Most Anticipated: 2010 is going to be SOME KIND OF YEAR for MMOs! 2009 may have been a let down but 2010! Wooooo... just having Guild Wars 2, STO and TOR (and yes I fully expect TOR to come out in 2010) taking up all our free time??? Could be one for the record books! Can't wait!!!

I would have put CoH in the "Most Improved" category as well. But the editors here at MMORPG.com seem to forget that game exists.

I would have voted fof CoH as most improved as well.

They have added a lot of new features, and the power customization is something the players have been asking for for years.

Hmm, it seems there are a lot of choices missing in every category. I don't play CoH, but the feature that enables players to make their own missions seems a pretty huge improvement to me.

Also, i would like to see an option with every category to deny the award. I also don't understand why you are making the distinction between F2P and P2P. Mr Aioshi has been writing for several months that F2P is up there with the P2P titles and you are just ignoring that with the extra category. Either a game is good or it's not. Regardless of payment method.

Originally posted by wadaya

You seem to have left out Eve-Online.

I've got to agree with this. EvE has really grown up and continues to attract new players while updating their game to keep it relevant.

Also, it seems the "2009 Game of the Year" could be relabeled "2009 Fantasy Game of the Year". Whether or not EvE should have made the list or not, it would have been nice to see something else from the MMORPG umbrella on the list.

Where is EVE? Wizard 101....really but no EVE? 

 Just remember to put in a "none of the above" option when the Reader's Choice article comes out!  :)

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if i'm not mistaken this is labeled "editorial award nominations"

that means "their" choices, not "yours"

Originally posted by gatheris

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if i'm not mistaken this is labeled "editorial award nominations"

that means "their" choices, not "yours"

 

 

Exactly. I think they've given up on player nominations...

OMG most improved game of 2009 Lord of the rings online.

What dope have you guys been smoking.  Quality suffered for 9 month of the year as the ran around fixing stuff from moria.

Most improved, I think not.

Originally posted by Wraithone

Originally posted by gatheris

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if i'm not mistaken this is labeled "editorial award nominations"

that means "their" choices, not "yours"

 

 

 

Exactly. I think they've given up on player nominations...

Yes they should let us have a vote I realize that this is their choice but when you looked at how they voted seams to me there is something driving their decisions, one has to wonder.

hopefully there will be a readers choice awards too

always more entertaining post award posts

'Most innovative game of 2009' this should be also added to show developers that people are really interested in looking for something fresh.

Other than that: EVE online best game, Darkfall best new game 2009 (but will most likely loose to Aion cause of too many carebears wondering around). That's my wishful thinking though :/

All points Bulletin ANYONE ?  Seriously it looks like a badass MMO but no one seems to talk about it..

Originally posted by drago_pl

'Most innovative game of 2009' this should be also added to show developers that people are really interested in looking for something fresh.

Other than that: EVE online best game, Darkfall best new game 2009 (but will most likely loose to Aion cause of too many carebears wondering around). That's my wishful thinking though :/

Darkfall "best new game"??

I'd ask if you are joking, but your remark about CareBears says it all... Aion will likely get the nod. Even though I don't care for it, its WAY out of Darkfalls league in many, many aspects.

most improved in my mind is DnD.

Best game...pretty shit year all round...i'd vote for Champions online as Aion was a let down and Darkfall is not mainstream enough (thought still a decent game).

most anticipated will most likely be Star wars.

Originally posted by Stradden

Hey all,

My mistake, but there was one left off of the Game of the Year page. I missed EVE. it was intended to be there, but I somehow missed it. The category now properly has five nominees.

Most Improved Game of 2009 also has only 4 nominees. Is it possible you left out City of Heroes by mistake?

Most Improved Game: Age of Conan without a doubt.

Age of Conan is by far the most improved game of 2009.  With the features they've added and the features that they've promised to add in future updates, it is in my opinion the best MMO out right now.

Originally posted by wadaya

You seem to have left out Eve-Online.

You seem to have not looked through all the categories very thoroughly.....

Edit: NVM, I see where Stradden said he later added it due to an oversight.

As a Darkfall player I would say it would be more fitting just to give it The Most Improved Game rather than the best new one. What they have done with things in the span of 10 months is pretty amazing.

Cheers!

Unless one plays all these games on the list, it's difficult to judge any of it. The only category that seems open to general discussion is the most anticipated game.  That has to be either STO or SW:TOR.  Personally, information on STO has led to less than appealing reactions from me.  SW:TOR on the other hand seems to have its house in order, and I am looking forward to it -- however, do we know it will be released in 2010?

Most anticipated game 2010 ? Final Fantasy XIV !!!!!!!!!!!!

sadly Diablo III is announced for end of 2011

Most improved: Age of Conan- it went from pretty much a disaster to a pretty good game. An impressive turn-around.

Guild wars 2 all the way!

Hmm... good to see DnD online on their twice both for F2P and Most improved.  Personally I think it shouldn't win Free 2 Play just because it didn't start that way.  Not that it's not a GREAT thing don't get me wrong, but I think it gives it more points toward "improved" than F2P.   Dragonica is my vote on F2P just because I like it. :p

I know I know not voting but we're all doing it to ourselves anyway. :) 

Best new game?  Aion.  Only because it's the only one on the list I've played.  

2010?  I want to say STO but I know I can't because honestly I'm more worried than anticipating.  Same goes for Star Wars the Old Republic.  So of what's left I'm actually interested in Guild Wars 2.  :) 

Game of the Year?  Not WoW Please!  Sure I play WoW but I don' t think it's game of the year material for what it did this year.  I will always vote for Eve online though. :) (Yeah yeah I'm biased so sue me. :p ) 

Originally posted by Stradden

It’s that time of year again, and the editorial staff here at MMORPG.com has narrowed their choices for the editorial awards down to five nominated games per category. In January, we will announce the winners.

Every time the Earth travels around the sun, MMORPG.com holds awards to look back at the year that was. This year, we're going to be giving out Editor's Choice Awards to ring in the New Year, with a robust Reader's Choice Awards to follow later in 2010.

The winners of this year's contest will be announced in the first week of January.

Our categories are fairly straightforward, and the nominees have been chosen by the editorial staff here at the site.

 The categories for the 2009 MMORPG.com Editorial Awards are:

• Most Improved Game in 2009

• Best New Game of 2009

• Best F2P Game of 2009

• Most Anticipated Game of 2010

• 2009 Game of the Year

Check out the 2009 Editorial Award Nominations.

My picks:

Most Improved Game: DDO

Best New Game:  No vote. I've only tried Runes of Magic, don't know enough about the other nominee's

Best F2P: DDO

Best Kids: Wizard101 (Though Free Realms probably deserves to win more.)

Most Anticipated: Starwars: The Old Republic

Game of the Year: Not including Warcraft, i would say Lord of the Rings Online. Mostly because of its successful updates and expansion.

  I don't/won't play the kiddie games but new and best catagories is Aion. Hands down.  Very well done indeed!.

  Most anticipated has to be Guild Wars 2.  It looks to be a winner and has a great staff working on it

Originally posted by gatheris

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if i'm not mistaken this is labeled "editorial award nominations"

that means "their" choices, not "yours" 

While it is true that these are the editors' picks and not the readers', there is a link at the bottom of each page of the article encouraging people to "join the conversation". Certainly criticism and/or personal opinions count as joining the conversation.

Also, unrelated to the quoted; yay for adding EvE.

My votes would be..

Most Improved Game in 2009 - DDO. 

Best New Game of 2009  - Runes of Magic by far

Best F2P Game of 2009 - Runes of Magic - can be enjoyed without buying stuff.

Most Anticipated Game of 2010 - Star Trek online - not that Im looking to play it - more intrested in how they will tackle it.

2009 Game of the Year - Eve online.  No doubt - another strong expansion that is still bringing new gamers into the massive universe of New Eden.
 

The most improved is IMVPO LOTRO with the skirmish system.

The competition for most anticipated 2010 is tough, but I would still say SWTOR. SW has the biggest fanbase, pluse we know very little about that FF and GW2, so whats there to anticipate other than the name? No, clearly SWTOR should be THE most anticipated game of 2010.

And runes of magic? Come on, give me a break! Never seen such a borefest!

In my humble Opinion this is how the awards should go:

Most Improved has to be LOTRO

Best New game has to be AION

Best FTP gane hast to be ATLANTICA

Most Anticipated has to be STO

and 2009 game of the year has to be EVE

There all winners just to be here i was just disappointed Chronicles of Spellborn was snubbed i thought that would get a nod in the new game area.

When is SWTOR coming and is it official???

Originally posted by Trowa_Barton

When is SWTOR coming and is it official???

No one knows.

Being playing AOC since its appearance. Have to say that it is, without the smallest doubt, the best improved game of the year!! You can see that the creative team behind, love what they are doing and are totally into it! I wish that other games had this level of dedication to the storyline, the atnosphere and serious RPGing.

 I'm pretty sure GW2 is scheduled for 2011, since NCsoft stated they had no major plans for 2010. Could just be my memory though.

Originally posted by iStyle

 I'm pretty sure GW2 is scheduled for 2011, since NCsoft stated they had no major plans for 2010. Could just be my memory though.

It will be a beta in 2010 they said and they also said that the beta was going to be near the release to GW2. Maybe it comes 2010 :)

Why is Runes of Magic nominated as Best New Game of 2009? It came out at the end of 2008, and is a port over game bought by Frogster. The game has actually been running since 2007. That game should be replaced by another game, and someone should do there homework. =)

 GW2 by FAR..... TOR if  Bioware can pull it off but TBH i know Guild wars 2 will pull off an outstanding game. if Guild Wars one can hook me for as long as it did....i can't even comprehend how the massive PvP and open world will take hold of me

Game of the Year would be a tie - because both EvE and WoW had a lot of new stuff added and things reworked.  

SW: TOR and STO most anticipated games of 2010? It's probably true, get ready for the underdog to beat both though =/.

Aion wasn't 'new' in 2009 so is disqualified by default (you'd think the editors of a mmo site would know there's a gaming world outside the US by now :).

SW:TOR for most anticipated, whether you're on the bandwagon or not, hands down. The rest is just opinions, like so many a-holes <EG>.

Most Improved: I would vote for Conan here. Haven't tested myself, but from what I've read the game has seen huge improvement in how it's being handled by its staff

Best New game: I will absent from voting here. I've tried most of what there is, and I can honestly say that there is no new game in 2009 that deserves an award of any kind. BTW, Aion did come out in 2008, so yeah, it cannot be in that category. Even if you put it there, the game sucks, I've wasted tons of my spare time with it, and I can testify for the lack of content and boring grind that is really not the spoon for a NA/EU gamers.

Best FTP game: Tough call. Atlantica.

Most Anticipated Game: I wish I could put GW2 here, but game will only be in BETA next year, and release will be somewhere in 2011. So most anticipated game, no offence to the thousand William Shatner fans, is Star Wars:TOR

Game of the Year: I would love to say EVE here, the game is really amasing, same goes for the community. However, until Blizzard decides to shut down all of WoW's servers, that will be the Game of the Year. It continues to have such a profound impact on the gaming market, that it is second to none. Most new titles feel happy if they manage to attract some small part of the people who experience a WoW burnout. It is so imensely popular, that we keep seeing WoW-clone mmorgps, not Ultima clones, Everquest clones, Lineage clones, or etc.

Most Anticipated BETA: Taking the liberty to add such a category especially for Guild Wars 2. If NCsoft stays out of ArenaNet's development process, we might as well see another great MMORPG coming in 2011. I myself cannot wait till next autumn, when we'll most likely see the first beta test, hopefully it will be  a real one and not just a marketing move.

hallo guys =) its my first reply but i will say that for

Most Improved Game in 2009 its World of Warcraft .because every patch it becomes better and better maybe easier but still amazing especaly in Cataclysm !

in Best New Game of 2009 i would give this to Darkfall online because it the most amazing game i have ever played over the few years

Best F2P Game of 2009 here i would say Dragonica Online or Atlantica Online i don't know

Best Kid's Game of 2009 here i only know Free Realms the other games i just don't know them :P

Most Anticipated Game of 2010 for me its Stargate Worlds that its not here but i know it can't be here :P cause we never know when it will come so i choose guild wars 2 or Kotor online and Global Agenda its look good =)

2009 Game of the Year for me its World of Warcraft but i know many people will disagre... =)

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Originally posted by Jackrider 
Most Anticipated Game of 2010 for me its Stargate Worlds that its not here but i know it can't be here :P cause we never know when it will come

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"It's worse than that, it's dead Jim, dead Jim, dead Jim"... :P

Won't see that anymore, anywhere, anyhow... you missed the news prolly... :P

BTW Eve HAS to be the GOTY 2009... it's pretty much the only one growing instead of losing subs!

And "best new game", I suppose it means "best *working* new game", not "best early alpha sold for money", so, sorry, no Darkfall... ;)

Did WoW really need to be listed in most improved? Why not EQ2 or FFXI or any other game that has also been out forever and is proceeding with a very normal process of expansion and maintainence. It hardly needs an award from this site so why bother?

This isn't an anti-wow post, I'm subbed to the game. I just don't see the reasoning.

Originally posted by HitechLolife

Did WoW really need to be listed in most improved? Why not EQ2 or FFXI or any other game that has also been out forever and is proceeding with a very normal process of expansion and maintainence. It hardly needs an award from this site so why bother?

This isn't an anti-wow post, I'm subbed to the game. I just don't see the reasoning.

I agree, Wow should share the award with several other older MMOs that have improved a lot.
 

Originally posted by Netuddki

And where do I vote?

 

I see this every year and then I see the winners a few weeks later, but I never see a vote button or a link or such.

These are the Editorial Awards not Readers choice which i think i read somewhere will happen in Jan sometime

Originally posted by balduranbg

Most Improved: I would vote for Conan here. Haven't tested myself, but from what I've read the game has seen huge improvement in how it's being handled by its staff

 

Pretty typical for a PR campaing to see a person vote for a game as most improved - even when they havn't tried it.

AOC is the same crap it was at launch in many regards.  THe main diffrence now is that the 80 K ppl playing it are still there cause they liked the orginal concept of the game.   They dont care if the dx10 (yes I know dx 11 has launched) is still in beta and they are fine about beeing lied to again and again and again.  The fact is that million ppl left the game - the company is creating so called "expansion" while they are also firing alot of their devs and moving the bulk of the payroll to countries with cheap labor.

Improved ? ?  lol - get real. 

I tried out the Lotro trial and i think its alot better than before :)

Originally posted by SweetZoid

I tried out the Lotro trial and i think its alot better than before :)

Im like many others when it comes to LOTRO.  I cant STAND the crappy animation work.  Same as for D&D tbh.  Some can look past it. I can't.  And tbh - I will not be spending money on a sub where I dont like the animations.  Its that simple.

I think GW2 will be 2011 and also wonder if we can expect SW:TOR in 2010. If SW:TOR gets released in 2010 though, my vote would go for SW:TOR in 2010 and GW2 in 2011 :)

And for best free to play game. The Chronicles of Spellborn :p

Originally posted by Frobner

Originally posted by balduranbg

Most Improved: I would vote for Conan here. Haven't tested myself, but from what I've read the game has seen huge improvement in how it's being handled by its staff

 

Pretty typical for a PR campaing to see a person vote for a game as most improved - even when they havn't tried it.

AOC is the same crap it was at launch in many regards.  THe main diffrence now is that the 80 K ppl playing it are still there cause they liked the orginal concept of the game.   They dont care if the dx10 (yes I know dx 11 has launched) is still in beta and they are fine about beeing lied to again and again and again.  The fact is that million ppl left the game - the company is creating so called "expansion" while they are also firing alot of their devs and moving the bulk of the payroll to countries with cheap labor.

Improved ? ?  lol - get real. 

Can you go over again how someone who actually has second hand information to support his assertion that the game has improved has an opinion less valid than someone who cites things that are external to the game to claim that the game hasn't improved?  If you haven't played it, how exactly do you know it hasn't improved?  Obviously if a game doesn't use DX10 it cannot have improved.  That makes sense.

Not very sure about some of them, but IMO; "Best Improved Game of 2009" has gotta be Age of Conan. Been playing it for a year now, and it just keeps on coming with stuff I like.

Most awaited game of 2010? not sure, but not any of those on the list for me.

Originally posted by Frobner

Originally posted by balduranbg

Most Improved: I would vote for Conan here. Haven't tested myself, but from what I've read the game has seen huge improvement in how it's being handled by its staff

 

Pretty typical for a PR campaing to see a person vote for a game as most improved - even when they havn't tried it.

AOC is the same crap it was at launch in many regards.  THe main diffrence now is that the 80 K ppl playing it are still there cause they liked the orginal concept of the game.   They dont care if the dx10 (yes I know dx 11 has launched) is still in beta and they are fine about beeing lied to again and again and again.  The fact is that million ppl left the game - the company is creating so called "expansion" while they are also firing alot of their devs and moving the bulk of the payroll to countries with cheap labor.

Improved ? ?  lol - get real. 

Wow, I am totally getting pwned! Help!  That's called informed opinion- I've read about AoC, and I know people playing it, so I would rather trust their judgement, the way I tell them about my MMO experience with other titles. Or would you feel better if I ask my friends to register at MMORPG.com and post especially for you?

Vanguard: Saga of heroes must be the less improved game..they havent added a shit to it except Pota. Love the game but i dont like SoE..dont really know what they are doing. Hope they will fix it in a year.

not sure, does dust 514 come out in 2010 or 2011?

though even if it was 2010 i doubhgt it would make the list, not much publicity for it :)

would still vote eve as the goty though...after seeing what is happening to games, all the layoffs, all the crap blizzard is doing, there is just no mach...

eve continues to evolve and gain subscribers, and they continue trying new things, instead of sticking to the same model as everyone else.

i must admit though, to be able to vote, one should have played all those games, and as i have not, i might be partial :D

therefore i am glad the editors are doing it, eve though i have played most games on that list, they should have more experience.

Originally posted by grimfall

Originally posted by Frobner

Originally posted by balduranbg

Most Improved: I would vote for Conan here. Haven't tested myself, but from what I've read the game has seen huge improvement in how it's being handled by its staff

 

Pretty typical for a PR campaing to see a person vote for a game as most improved - even when they havn't tried it.

AOC is the same crap it was at launch in many regards.  THe main diffrence now is that the 80 K ppl playing it are still there cause they liked the orginal concept of the game.   They dont care if the dx10 (yes I know dx 11 has launched) is still in beta and they are fine about beeing lied to again and again and again.  The fact is that million ppl left the game - the company is creating so called "expansion" while they are also firing alot of their devs and moving the bulk of the payroll to countries with cheap labor.

Improved ? ?  lol - get real. 

 

Can you go over again how someone who actually has second hand information to support his assertion that the game has improved has an opinion less valid than someone who cites things that are external to the game to claim that the game hasn't improved?  If you haven't played it, how exactly do you know it hasn't improved?  Obviously if a game doesn't use DX10 it cannot have improved.  That makes sense.

 Actually... there is a free 10 days comback campaign going on right now and there was another one back in last fall.   SO... ppl that claim the game has not improved actually know it has not improved cause ...  yes.... they have played it. 

DX 10 is one of many features that were not in at launch and are still not in (beta was an exuse to leave it haning for years).  Other features I could mention is for example mounted combat and ofc the famous "massive" this and "massive" that. 

AOC was in 54- 57th spot on Xfire in the first week of January this year.  It is now in 58 - 71 this week so pretty much nothing has changed for a whole year.  Its still the same players PRing this game up.  Its true that AOC is not the least improved game of the year... (WAR is taking that one hands down) but it has not improved to even reach the launch features Funcom was talking about 2 years ago. 

I don't know what will be Editor final virdict, but mine are:

Best impreved Games: none of above, but a mention to Turbine for Dungeons and Dragons Online Unlimited.

Best New Game: Aion

Best F2P Game has two winners: Runes of Magic and RF Online (welcome back, Rising Force)

Most Anticipated Game of 2010: Final Fantasy XIV, with the hope that this new Square/Enix title can recreate the magic atmosphere of is big brother Final Fantasy XI

GOTY 2009: none of above. Conan and WAR are loosing players, mostly players want farming, farming and farming, EVE is no more, there are too many scattered Blizzard fans all over the world (and someone thieved my WoW account for the second time, and i don't play WoW from the first expansion. They are so stupid...). So there's no game for GOTY. And if the better game is the played one, my heart's GOTY is for DAoC on unofficial servers.

Originally posted by Frobner

Originally posted by grimfall

Originally posted by Frobner

Originally posted by balduranbg

Most Improved: I would vote for Conan here. Haven't tested myself, but from what I've read the game has seen huge improvement in how it's being handled by its staff

 

Pretty typical for a PR campaing to see a person vote for a game as most improved - even when they havn't tried it.

AOC is the same crap it was at launch in many regards.  THe main diffrence now is that the 80 K ppl playing it are still there cause they liked the orginal concept of the game.   They dont care if the dx10 (yes I know dx 11 has launched) is still in beta and they are fine about beeing lied to again and again and again.  The fact is that million ppl left the game - the company is creating so called "expansion" while they are also firing alot of their devs and moving the bulk of the payroll to countries with cheap labor.

Improved ? ?  lol - get real. 

 

Can you go over again how someone who actually has second hand information to support his assertion that the game has improved has an opinion less valid than someone who cites things that are external to the game to claim that the game hasn't improved?  If you haven't played it, how exactly do you know it hasn't improved?  Obviously if a game doesn't use DX10 it cannot have improved.  That makes sense.

 Actually... there is a free 10 days comback campaign going on right now and there was another one back in last fall.   SO... ppl that claim the game has not improved actually know it has not improved cause ...  yes.... they have played it. 

DX 10 is one of many features that were not in at launch and are still not in (beta was an exuse to leave it haning for years).  Other features I could mention is for example mounted combat and ofc the famous "massive" this and "massive" that. 

AOC was in 54- 57th spot on Xfire in the first week of January this year.  It is now in 58 - 71 this week so pretty much nothing has changed for a whole year.  Its still the same players PRing this game up.  Its true that AOC is not the least improved game of the year... (WAR is taking that one hands down) but it has not improved to even reach the launch features Funcom was talking about 2 years ago. 

I point out the fact that you didn't use any logic making your original post, and you refute that by making a second post containing no logic.  What do you think "improved" means?  Your first post said that it means implementing DX10 and your second post (while repeating the ridiculous notion that a game cannot improve unless it release DX10) now says that the game hasn't improved because it hasn't climbed the XFire rankings.

Does AoC crash as often as it did at the start of 2009?  Are there the same number of bugs?  Have the statistics been re-worked to be more clear?  Has any additional content been added?  Has game play balance been refined?  Has existing content been changed to make it more enjoyable?  All of those things can be considered improvements.

It's obvious that you'll never like anything about AoC until they add a Troll race.

Well for me

The Most anticipated Game: Final Fantasy XIV

Best f2p game: Atlantica Online

Weeeeeeeee....
 

My opinion:

Most improved = AoC

Most anticipated in 2010 = SWTOR

Best new in 2009 = None -> its all crap and i do not make a choice regarding crap!

STO will be released in 2010 i guess -  but sorry, this IP is not able to offer an good background for an MMO i believe.

Whatever you do, it will upset the hardcore fans, the casual mmo player and whoever else may be the target audience.

This will hurt such a game far to much to be successfull...

 My 5 cents:

Most Improved Game: Not sure. Some of those games went downhill
Best New Game: Fallen Earth
Best F2P: DDO
Best Kids: Free Realms
Most Anticipated: tough choice. But I'd say Star Wars: The Old Republic
Game of the Year: EVE Online

Most Improved: World of Warcraft

Best New Game: Darkfall

Best F2P: Dungeon and Dragon Online

Best Kids Game: Free Realms

Most Anticipated: FFXIV

Game of the Year: I do not think any games played in 2009 deserve that title.

Originally posted by chrisrobhay2

Most Improved Game: Age of Conan without a doubt.

Age of Conan is by far the most improved game of 2009.  With the features they've added and the features that they've promised to add in future updates, it is in my opinion the best MMO out right now.

Definately agree with this.  AoC is by far the most improved game.  DDO isn't improved really it's more changed, AoC has actually been patched better.

Don't give into the weird AoC haters, which spit venom more about AoC than I have ever heard about a MMORPG!

AOC is on the rise.

Originally posted by bluefunk

Originally posted by chrisrobhay2

Most Improved Game: Age of Conan without a doubt.

Age of Conan is by far the most improved game of 2009.  With the features they've added and the features that they've promised to add in future updates, it is in my opinion the best MMO out right now.

 

Definately agree with this.  AoC is by far the most improved game.  DDO isn't improved really it's more changed, AoC has actually been patched better.

Don't give into the weird AoC haters, which spit venom more about AoC than I have ever heard about a MMORPG!

AOC is on the rise.

You must be new around here to say that AoC is the most ragged on MMORPG.  Oh wait, look at that!  You are new!

/shocked

Why is F2P getting its own catergory? Do we really need a Crap Game of the year?

DDO is not a proper F2P, and because of that I think there is hope it will not descend into the money raking mire that all F2P games eventually do. Still a good game from what I hear.

I think over all the selections were quite fair, I look forward to us having our own vote.

Originally posted by Scot

Why is F2P getting its own catergory? Do we really need a Crap Game of the year?

Hahahah... I have to agree. "The least sucky F2P MMORPG" -award. They may be more fun if you pay for them but that kind of defeats the the whole idea, dontcha think? I want to play to get ahead, not pay to get ahead. (Edit: Irony detected! Look the game I'm currently playing.)

"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king."

It's pretty sad to see the summation of the MMO genre in black and white like this

God I had such hopes for the MMO genre

People can only claim AoC to be the most improved because the core game at launch was so barren of any content at all.

It's easy to take a horrible game with no content and then add som content and call it a massive success and improvement. Fact is that the game still falls flat on its face at 80, the game world is still dull and incredibly instanced and the combat a frenzied mess in mass pvp.

Hopefully the expansion will fix some of this though!

I reckon (with explanations) 

Improved: Either Age of Conan, however it only improved because of issues that should not have been there before. It does win easily though.

New: Hard choice. My guess is that the best will probably be Fallen Earth but will generate so much argument.

F2P: Dungeons and Dragons, although this is a bit of a cheat since it was originally P2P.

Kids: Free Realms, if I were 20 years younger I would be playing it, the others just dont have the freedom Kids desire.

Anticipated: Star Trek, primarily because it has a large strong fan base. Guild Wars 2 would be a second option also due to fan base.

Game of the year: Warcraft, I dont like to admit it, but it is popular across multiple audiences and is still growing in options and variety. RoLK merely built on that.

Originally posted by grimfall

Originally posted by Frobner

Originally posted by grimfall

Originally posted by Frobner

Originally posted by balduranbg

Most Improved: I would vote for Conan here. Haven't tested myself, but from what I've read the game has seen huge improvement in how it's being handled by its staff

 

Pretty typical for a PR campaing to see a person vote for a game as most improved - even when they havn't tried it.

AOC is the same crap it was at launch in many regards.  THe main diffrence now is that the 80 K ppl playing it are still there cause they liked the orginal concept of the game.   They dont care if the dx10 (yes I know dx 11 has launched) is still in beta and they are fine about beeing lied to again and again and again.  The fact is that million ppl left the game - the company is creating so called "expansion" while they are also firing alot of their devs and moving the bulk of the payroll to countries with cheap labor.

Improved ? ?  lol - get real. 

 

Can you go over again how someone who actually has second hand information to support his assertion that the game has improved has an opinion less valid than someone who cites things that are external to the game to claim that the game hasn't improved?  If you haven't played it, how exactly do you know it hasn't improved?  Obviously if a game doesn't use DX10 it cannot have improved.  That makes sense.

 Actually... there is a free 10 days comback campaign going on right now and there was another one back in last fall.   SO... ppl that claim the game has not improved actually know it has not improved cause ...  yes.... they have played it. 

DX 10 is one of many features that were not in at launch and are still not in (beta was an exuse to leave it haning for years).  Other features I could mention is for example mounted combat and ofc the famous "massive" this and "massive" that. 

AOC was in 54- 57th spot on Xfire in the first week of January this year.  It is now in 58 - 71 this week so pretty much nothing has changed for a whole year.  Its still the same players PRing this game up.  Its true that AOC is not the least improved game of the year... (WAR is taking that one hands down) but it has not improved to even reach the launch features Funcom was talking about 2 years ago. 

 

I point out the fact that you didn't use any logic making your original post, and you refute that by making a second post containing no logic.  What do you think "improved" means?  Your first post said that it means implementing DX10 and your second post (while repeating the ridiculous notion that a game cannot improve unless it release DX10) now says that the game hasn't improved because it hasn't climbed the XFire rankings.

Does AoC crash as often as it did at the start of 2009?  Are there the same number of bugs?  Have the statistics been re-worked to be more clear?  Has any additional content been added?  Has game play balance been refined?  Has existing content been changed to make it more enjoyable?  All of those things can be considered improvements.

It's obvious that you'll never like anything about AoC until they add a Troll race.

 

You totally fail to see the point - all MMO games out there for the last year have fixed bugs, added content, balanced clased, changed content.  Hell - even WAR did that ...  I do not see AOC have done any more than what other MMO games in this regards.  And even if the game did- then it was based on the fact it launched so buggy - so lacking content - features and stability that it should not have been released in the first place.

Xfire stats were put in to show you that this "improvement" in the game has not been supported by increased playerbase.  Thus players that already were playing the game anyway and were hyping the game up before - are mostly the ppl talking about how much the game has improved.  10 loudmouths like that can get a story going that its a new game... but its not.

Finally - if this reward was based on free content added to a game - RUnes of magic would win this hands down.  It released a huge addition to the game that strengthen the playerbased - added new features - classes and stabitlity to the game.  I promise you that the expansion added there for free will be bigger than what Funcom is adding to the game with their "expansion". 

Read up on AO expansions.  Funcom has through the years been doing extra job on hyping "expansions" that then added nothing more than what free  content patches of games like WOW were sending out.  In other words...  You pay extra for pretty much nothing.

Most Improved: AoC - I've re-subbed to 3 of these games in 2009, AoC is decent now, it was a disaster before.

Best New: Aion - I've tried all these games. Aion isn't great but it's the best of these.

Best Free: RoM - Again nothing spectacular but beats the competition easily.

Best Kids: nfi - Stupid category in my opinion. I'm still a kid at 28.

Most Anticipated: FFXIV - Tough call with ToR here but cummon, it's FF you retards. Most of you wouldn't even be playing MMOs if you weren't hooked on the console FF games. Show some loyalty.

Game of the Year: EVE - Going with EVE here even though I've only played the trial. Mainly because I've played the others extensively and don't feel they deserve the title of the best. But EVE's fans will defend it to the grave and all I ever hear is positive stuff coming from this title so yeah. 2009 sucked overall.

Originally posted by Angorim

Originally posted by bluefunk

Originally posted by chrisrobhay2

Most Improved Game: Age of Conan without a doubt.

Age of Conan is by far the most improved game of 2009.  With the features they've added and the features that they've promised to add in future updates, it is in my opinion the best MMO out right now.

 

Definately agree with this.  AoC is by far the most improved game.  DDO isn't improved really it's more changed, AoC has actually been patched better.

Don't give into the weird AoC haters, which spit venom more about AoC than I have ever heard about a MMORPG!

AOC is on the rise.

 

You must be new around here to say that AoC is the most ragged on MMORPG.  Oh wait, look at that!  You are new!

/shocked

F me you can count, well done.  I said "a" MMORPG not "on" MMORPG, learn to read.  Also I was giving my opinion new or not like any poster (unfortunately this includes you).  If you don't like it, SHOVE IT!

You're an idiot!

/shocked
 

Aye, AION in deed.   Gets my vote for new game of the year.

That's right....this is an award for "Best NEW Game" .    EVe has been out for some time now. 

Originally posted by Frobner

Originally posted by grimfall

Originally posted by Frobner

Originally posted by grimfall

Originally posted by Frobner

Originally posted by balduranbg

Most Improved: I would vote for Conan here. Haven't tested myself, but from what I've read the game has seen huge improvement in how it's being handled by its staff

 

Pretty typical for a PR campaing to see a person vote for a game as most improved - even when they havn't tried it.

AOC is the same crap it was at launch in many regards.  THe main diffrence now is that the 80 K ppl playing it are still there cause they liked the orginal concept of the game.   They dont care if the dx10 (yes I know dx 11 has launched) is still in beta and they are fine about beeing lied to again and again and again.  The fact is that million ppl left the game - the company is creating so called "expansion" while they are also firing alot of their devs and moving the bulk of the payroll to countries with cheap labor.

Improved ? ?  lol - get real. 

 

Can you go over again how someone who actually has second hand information to support his assertion that the game has improved has an opinion less valid than someone who cites things that are external to the game to claim that the game hasn't improved?  If you haven't played it, how exactly do you know it hasn't improved?  Obviously if a game doesn't use DX10 it cannot have improved.  That makes sense.

 Actually... there is a free 10 days comback campaign going on right now and there was another one back in last fall.   SO... ppl that claim the game has not improved actually know it has not improved cause ...  yes.... they have played it. 

DX 10 is one of many features that were not in at launch and are still not in (beta was an exuse to leave it haning for years).  Other features I could mention is for example mounted combat and ofc the famous "massive" this and "massive" that. 

AOC was in 54- 57th spot on Xfire in the first week of January this year.  It is now in 58 - 71 this week so pretty much nothing has changed for a whole year.  Its still the same players PRing this game up.  Its true that AOC is not the least improved game of the year... (WAR is taking that one hands down) but it has not improved to even reach the launch features Funcom was talking about 2 years ago. 

 

I point out the fact that you didn't use any logic making your original post, and you refute that by making a second post containing no logic.  What do you think "improved" means?  Your first post said that it means implementing DX10 and your second post (while repeating the ridiculous notion that a game cannot improve unless it release DX10) now says that the game hasn't improved because it hasn't climbed the XFire rankings.

Does AoC crash as often as it did at the start of 2009?  Are there the same number of bugs?  Have the statistics been re-worked to be more clear?  Has any additional content been added?  Has game play balance been refined?  Has existing content been changed to make it more enjoyable?  All of those things can be considered improvements.

It's obvious that you'll never like anything about AoC until they add a Troll race.

 

 

You totally fail to see the point - all MMO games out there for the last year have fixed bugs, added content, balanced clased, changed content.  Hell - even WAR did that ...  I do not see AOC have done any more than what other MMO games in this regards.  Well, being that you haven't actually played it, why do people not find it surprising that you haven't seen the improvements? And even if the game did- then it was based on the fact it launched so buggy - so lacking content - features and stability that it should not have been released in the first place. Well, that is something nearly everyone is in agreement on.  However, being released in a bad state doesn't disqualify it from improving.  It may lower the bar a bit. Say two companies both make a new car.  Company A's car comes out and it is functioning fine.  Company B's car comes out and they forgot to put on the fourth wheel.  Both companies do a recall for their automobiles, and Company A adds an AM dial to their car.  Company B adds a fourth wheel.  Which car is more improved?

Xfire stats were put in to show you that this "improvement" in the game has not been supported by increased playerbase.  Thus players that already were playing the game anyway and were hyping the game up before - are mostly the ppl talking about how much the game has improved.  Heaven forbid we listen to people who are actually playing the game, when we have people who don't and are complaining about things from 18 months ago to rely upon. 10 loudmouths like that can get a story going that its a new game... but its not.  There's definetly anecdotal evidence here about how the game was not improved based on one self confessed ignorant loud mouth.

Finally - if this reward was based on free content added to a game - RUnes of magic would win this hands down.  It's not a 'reward', it's a nomination for an award - according to the editors it was one of the top five games that improved the most over the course of 2009. It released a huge addition to the game that strengthen the playerbased - added new features - classes and stabitlity to the game.  I promise you that the expansion added there for free will be bigger than what Funcom is adding to the game with their "expansion".  I suspect that games released in 2009 weren't eligible for "most improved" which, even if your ascertions were true, and I and any reasonable person would doubt that based on the validity of your knowledge about AOC, still doesn't preclude AoC from being a Most Improved nomination, as you would have to prove that five games were more improved, not just one.

Read up on AO expansions.  When they get nominated for this award, I suspect I may. Funcom has through the years been doing extra job on hyping "expansions" that then added nothing more than what free  content patches of games like WOW were sending out.  In other words...  You pay extra for pretty much nothing. Of course, this has nothing to do with the nomination for 2009, but isn't AoC adding a new player race?  WoW has been out for 6 years and has added 1 player race over two paid for expansions, so are you lying or just stupid?

Just a highlight of interesting quotes:

Players playing the game... are the people talking about how much the game has improved.

Originally posted by Beltenebros

Being playing AOC since its appearance. Have to say that it is, without the smallest doubt, the best improved game of the year!! You can see that the creative team behind, love what they are doing and are totally into it! I wish that other games had this level of dedication to the storyline, the atnosphere and serious RPGing.

I agree with you 100%!  Age of Conan is by far the most improved game of the year, and anyone who says otherwise hasn't played it since launch.  It doesn't even look like the same game!  For example:

• the bugs have been fixed
• the game engine has been optimized
• DirectX 10 has been added
• more content has been added
• more quests have been given voice overs
• the gear system has been revamped
• when the expansion and patch 1.6 hit, it will add new areas to explore and more depth to guilds and PVP

The amazing thing is that this list is only scratching the surface of the new features brought to Age of Conan!  The employees at Funcom are extremely dedicated and stuck by Age of Conan during its worst months, and now their hard work is clearly seen in the TREMENDOUS improvements in the game.  The improvements range from huge areas of added content to the fixing of the smallest, most unseen bugs.  Age of Coan is, without question, the most improved game of 2009.

Best new game of 2009...

Do we really have to choose from a list of 2009 releases? Because it really and truly has been an awful year for new MMO's.

best new game - champions online

F2P - Atlantica online

kids game - Wizard 101

most anticipated - The Old republic

best Game - Wizard 101 

Most Improved: AoC

Best New Game: Aion

Best F2P: DDO

Best Kids Game: Club Penguin

Most Anticipated: FFXIV

Game of the Year: LoTRO

Most improved game: Age of Conan   AoC has come a long way from the failures at launch. Adding lots of quests, instances, and areas to explore has helped tremendously. The game is alot more fun to play now. Funcom still has a way to go but they have created a fun, casual MMO.

Best Free to play: DDO   DDO successful relaunch has added alot of new fans. Turbine has shown that it is possible to be free to play and still be a solid, fun game.  I know quite a few people trying out DDO as their first MMO.

Most Anticipated game: Star Wars The Old Republic.  This one has the capability to be a monster hit. Bioware strengths in story telling will be tested to see if they can make the transition from great single player games (Mass effect, Kotor, Dragon Age) to a story driven MMO.

Game of the Year: World of Warcraft  Blizzard continues to show mastery of providing for hard core gamers (arena / hard modes) to very casual gamers ( LFG system, Argent Tournament, Crafting recipes boe).

Most Improved: Can't really say.

Best New Game: Aion - Better than many people say.

Best F2P: ROM - Good game for what you have to pay.

Best Kids Game: Didn't play any

Most Anticipated: FFXIV as perhaps the only group based game on the horizon, everything else looks to be geared for the single player.

Game of the Year: EVE - Sticking with the home team.
 

Darkfall isn't up for game of the year?

Lol... no wonder why people don't take reviews on this site seriously.

I think Most Improved should also take into account profits. Sure AoC fixed bugs but its subs are still small compared to its launch. DDO on the other hand seems to have gone from a small game no one talked about to a very profitable game with it's F2P change over and all the additions that came with it. So DDO for sure.

The Most Anticipated section made me literally go "Wow 2010 is going to be a sad year for new MMOs", seems 2010 will be the year of existing MMOs.

Originally posted by ryuga81

 

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Originally posted by Jackrider 
Most Anticipated Game of 2010 for me its Stargate Worlds that its not here but i know it can't be here :P cause we never know when it will come

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"It's worse than that, it's dead Jim, dead Jim, dead Jim"... :P

Won't see that anymore, anywhere, anyhow... you missed the news prolly... :P

BTW Eve HAS to be the GOTY 2009... it's pretty much the only one growing instead of losing subs!

And "best new game", I suppose it means "best *working* new game", not "best early alpha sold for money", so, sorry, no Darkfall... ;)

I know that Stargate world will not come anytime soon but ill still wait for it no matter what.

hahaha indeed Darkfall seems a bit.... beta.. and its a bit annoing for my taste but its something fresh and new =)

Originally posted by Xondar123

Originally posted by Masoniclight

 Very cool stuff indeed!!

Best Game of 2009: Aion hands down, IMO

Most Improved: Well since you didn't have COH there (they have added lots of new features and great issues in 2009) I would say DDO!

Most Anticipated: 2010 is going to be SOME KIND OF YEAR for MMOs! 2009 may have been a let down but 2010! Wooooo... just having Guild Wars 2, STO and TOR (and yes I fully expect TOR to come out in 2010) taking up all our free time??? Could be one for the record books! Can't wait!!!

 

I would have put CoH in the "Most Improved" category as well. But the editors here at MMORPG.com seem to forget that game exists.

I agree with this guy.  Anyone who would not include CoH/CoV as Most Improved is not firing on all cilenders.  Is a few exp short of a level.  It just ain't right, sonny-boys, it just ain't right. 

what's the criterion for win ? and whos voted ?