2009 was a decent year for mmorpg games, but mostly for free mmorpgs. To celebrate the end of year we made this video with the nominees for Reader’s Choice for The Best MMORPG Of 2009. The results were gathered from our choose the best mmorpg of 2009 poll.
Find out from the video below who won Reader’s Choice The Best MMORPG of 2009 Award.
Since our winner for this year is not the same with people’s choice, here are the nominees and winner for The Best MMORPG of 2009 MMORPG Center’s Editor Choice:
Besides Face of Mankind and Fallen Earth we can’t say that mmorpg developers brought something interesting, different, this year, so we think it was a poor year for Pay to Play mmorpgs. Aion brought mainstream polishing, superb music and graphics, but nothing more. Face of Mankind brought sandbox again in your homes, which is great, but still needs a lot of work and Fallen Earth brought the Fallout feeling online, which is great, until Project V13, Interplay’s upcoming MMO, is released. The rest just kept the same formula which is ten years old: nothing new, same boring quests (besides WAR’s public quests), same instances, same streamlined pvp with no real rewards (besides EVE Online, Face of Mankind). It seems we are trapped at this point with an old formula that was decent to start with, but now lives only to bring ridiculous amounts of money to the developers. Because why innovate when money flows? From the economical point of view, why fix it if it isn’t broken? See Blizzard…
MMORPG Center’s Editor Choice for The Best MMORPG of 2009 is:
EVE Online
EVE Online is unfortunately the only mmorpg at this moment that evolves and gets better each year. It has his flaws, but overall, with its sandbox gameplay, exploration, player based territory control and economy, and awesome PVP (mostly in groups lately and rarely solo), it is growing and improving with each free expansion (you heard that greedy companies? FREE EXPANSIONS!). We can only hope some other title will soon join CCP’s offspring at pursuing a higher level of gameplay quality.
What game is the third part of this vieo from? Starts at 02:10 Betwen Aion and Eve Online.
Anarchy Online – Lost Eden
Hi here, i disagree very strongly with this Editor’s choice (EVE Online) award when a game has some of the worst customer service and many holds in game mechanics as this one does and they choose to call it just part of normal play it isn’t i game that should get any kind of award for failing to deliver good customer service. When you find any kind of bug that will make them give you in game property back they say need more information until you give up or just say it is part of the game mechanics, I can not recommend this game to any of the client that i see weekly and tell them to pass along the message about this game. Until this changes they should be patted on the back for anything.
Good to see EVE Online take home the title! CCP are game developers that think of the community and it’s gamers before the money. They have been slowly building this game piece by piece to the beautiful and unique game it is today. Also one of the few MMO games that is mac compatible! Good work guys!