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Blizzard Entertainment created World of Warcraft not Activision Blizzard. They are not the same. Activision Blizzard does not control anything Blizzard Entertainment does.

Originally posted by Stradden

Originally posted by BaronJuJu

Stradden: " Some have lost our trust or confidence entirely, while others have impressed us and gained our loyalty. "

NCSoft's President of Publishing, David Reid, 24 Sep 2008: "and we see improvement happening in Tabula Rasa. We're encouraged by it. ....It is a game that is very much in the wheelhouse of what NC West and NCsoft globally are all about"

NCSoft 21 Nov 2008: " So it is with regret that we must announce that Tabula Rasa will end live service on February 28, 2009."

Yup, that just makes me gush with loyalty. Come on now be honest, you knew if you would have put SOE in the list the SWG Vets would come in with their alts and spam the living crap out of the board, so to bypass those boils you just dropped them. For all the glowing reports you all write on EQ2, The Agency and DC Online regularly, offers more variety in generes under a unique  payment plan system like no other company, a company that incorporates Trading Card games into their MMO's or can be played seperately, how does the studio not impress you all?

Honestly, I'm really curious here.

 

We wanted to narrow it down to six nominees. We talked about SOE, but in the end, we decided to go with NCsoft instead. The cancellation of Tabula Rasa aside, they are currently running two games that our readers tend to enjoy (GW and CoH) and have a big gun on the way with Aion. They have engendered a lot of loyalty from some folks and deserved to be on the list.

I'm not saying that there aren't arguments to be made for SOE's presence here, and I'm not trashing them, but in the end we decided to go with NCsoft.

This, and the poll, should be earmarked for future reference for replys to those who say SOE is in the back pocket of MMORPG.com.  Of course the reply will be that SOE paid you to not be put in the poll because they were a guaranteed last place showing.

I voted for Funcom because I want them to have at least one vote.

Originally posted by Stradden

Originally posted by BaronJuJu

Stradden: " Some have lost our trust or confidence entirely, while others have impressed us and gained our loyalty. "

NCSoft's President of Publishing, David Reid, 24 Sep 2008: "and we see improvement happening in Tabula Rasa. We're encouraged by it. ....It is a game that is very much in the wheelhouse of what NC West and NCsoft globally are all about"

NCSoft 21 Nov 2008: " So it is with regret that we must announce that Tabula Rasa will end live service on February 28, 2009."

Yup, that just makes me gush with loyalty. Come on now be honest, you knew if you would have put SOE in the list the SWG Vets would come in with their alts and spam the living crap out of the board, so to bypass those boils you just dropped them. For all the glowing reports you all write on EQ2, The Agency and DC Online regularly, offers more variety in generes under a unique  payment plan system like no other company, a company that incorporates Trading Card games into their MMO's or can be played seperately, how does the studio not impress you all?

Honestly, I'm really curious here.

 

We wanted to narrow it down to six nominees. We talked about SOE, but in the end, we decided to go with NCsoft instead. The cancellation of Tabula Rasa aside, they are currently running two games that our readers tend to enjoy (GW and CoH) and have a big gun on the way with Aion. They have engendered a lot of loyalty from some folks and deserved to be on the list.

I'm not saying that there aren't arguments to be made for SOE's presence here, and I'm not trashing them, but in the end we decided to go with NCsoft.

Fair enough, though I may not agree with your decision I appreciate the feedback.

SOE is alrite in my book.

› Blizzard wow  nice generic and entertaining MMO more casual and tongue in cheek, love the children in the streets touch,, on my go back to list.

› CCP anti-casual player PVP only nitch game  with this kind of thinking no wonder icelands economy is in the dumper

› Mythic Entertainment

› NCsoft city of heroes  some innovation flying, superleaps, slippery ice  but still all thug bashing and no heroics

› Turbine LOTRO a solid reliable stable game with good lore and a loyal player base, with that said  not very innovative or creative still no boats!! non-interactive zones,, same old rehashed quests and mob generators and mob AIs  and an insulting fishing addition,, even with this said,, this is still my winner as for the most part they are still going in the right direction with quality and clockwork game additions still want to see interactive terrain like cliff climbing,, and slippery ice and zone content that make zones attractive after the quests are completed (zones are dead boring once quests are done.

› Funcom age of conan an epic level dissapointment,  was expecting a revolutionary realistic mature MMO and what we got was an absurdly heavy graphic game that was same old content  in older better games
 

as for sony  I hate them all of their games are rude to players and are nothing but uninspired money grinders for those of lesser standards who put up with sonys bad behavior   many of sony games are on my anti-game list (SWG) and i go out of my way to warn other players away from them.

still looking for a game that isnt arcade based or combat oriented, like steping into an alternate universe (idealized reality ofcourse) where there is climate and weather and food and water are important  food based economy   but the console players are convinced that this form of game cant be fun. if there not killing 500 mobs a day.  let them deal with a plague or famine in their village and see what they think.

Originally posted by salvaje

C C P.

The only MMO developer who "gets it" with respect to what a MMORPG should be, and what a player wants.

And they have been handsomley rewarded with 300K subs, which btw is more than anyone has in the EU/US for a single game outside WOW.

Worst: SOE.  They have the inverse midas touch.  Midas could turn things to gold.  SOE turns things (even games they themselves developed such as the Pre-CU SWG) into sh-t.

 

your kidding right? all sucessful games in my mind, make CCPs "300k" look PATHETIC, CCP is out of touch and is nothing more than a nitch game as long as they are nothing more than a PVP ganker only game they will never compete with real games like lotro,  its a fact that more casual players have been forced to leave eve than its current subscribers  it would not suprise me if eve was to endgame unless they change their vision.  the non-pvp mining corps are routinly torn apart by predatory harassment WARDECs that make any shop in the corperation including mining barges and haulers vulnerable to attack anywhere in the universe forcing people to sit in hangers for a week (if not longer) or leave the corperation og give up on the game all together and cancel their account (I have seen this happen several times.

CCP could be a great popular game,, they choose NOT to be.

 TURBINE: FOR:

THE LORD OF THE RINGS ONLINE.

all others are HORRIBLE compared to TURBINE. hands down. 

Blizzard got my vote. Through years this company has show the ability to deliver polished and well done games able to catch the attention and give fun to a lot of people. In my opinion this is the goal for a game company and they have been the most successful in achieve it. It doesn’t matter WoW is not my game.

NCSoft could have got my vote, they developed Lineage II and it is still my best experience in the MMORPG’s world, but it’s just one game (I can't consider GW as a NCSoft developped game it was developped by Arena.net before the merge same for TS/ Richard Garriot or CoH developped by Cryptic Studios). Then second place for NCSoft.