General Discussion

Many games has been launched this year, including expansion packs, but did they live up to the expectations? What was YOUR biggest disappointment this year?

 Well didn't feel i could vote for something not out yet, and in truth never felt any urge to try TR after the reviews, so went with EvE. I know many love it but i found the missions limited / repetative and my guild was small enough I probably missed some its key point, add to it the BoB / CCP dev cheat, and well i just expected more so that was my biggest disappointment this year.

AoC for the publicity it got at first It was a total let down. I mean it is an ok mmorpg, and it was honeslty not the wrose mmorpg launch in history. But for all the stuff the developers said , and all the sweet talk that game was getting everyone simply expected more and did not get it.

After AoC I would say seeing the Tabula rasa and Hellgate london servers both shutting down this year... however seeing so many Free 2 play Korean shit fest's still up and running while decent games get shut down..that is the years biggest downer,

I hope next year all the Free 2 play Korean Grind fest crap games get shut down or go bankrupt.

I didn't purchase any "new" MMO's this year so nothing really disappointed me. It was actually a good year for me as most of the games I played had major improvements. I guess its in the eye of the beholder and where you spend your time. All the "new release chasers" will continue to get burned time after time.

I was greatly amused with the AoC fiasco though. I think the AoC folks surpassed the Vanguard folks at launch in terms of raw drama. (although many of them were the same people...blind consumerism at it's finest)

I got the chance to play WAR open beta just before launch and it was pretty much what I thought it would be. Unworthy of my Time & Money.

Trials & buddy passes are your friend. Use these two things and you will never get "burned" by an MMO...at least where it matters, your wallet.

Warhammer, great sieges, shame about absolutely everything else!

Age of Conan was a disappointment, because half of it wasn't there, but what was there was really good. Warhammer therefore rates a bigger disappointment because it was all there, just nowhere near as good as it should've been (based on DAoC's quality, the license quality and the fact they made sieges so damn good).

TCoS and the ip blocking,a damn shame.

I remember making a post this time last year how dissapointing 2007 was and how I was looking forward to 2008 man was I wrong,2009 doesnt even look that great on paper nevermind in reality...I guess maybe Aion could deliver.

AoC was my personal turkey this year. I'm glad I didn't try WAR as it looks to be pretty much DOA in EU.

Stargate Worlds is epic fail (for reasons I can't divulge).

I didn't think AoC was so bad at all, I just thought it got a little repeative after a while.

Warhammer was the most dissapoiting for me, what a letdown, everything became so boring quickly.

Warhammer was a big let down.  I was %100 ready to be fully converted to war, but the fun factor just wasn't there. 

I ordered the collector's edition the day it was announced.  I WANTED this game to succeed.