General Discussion

SoE and Turbine are the leaders in my opinion.... but somehow SoE isn't even on the list....

What amuses me the most is that SOE took so much heat for trying to do just that: Pandering to customers they don't have instead of making the game better the one the they do.

CCP continues to succeed in a time where MMOs are costantly being cancelled for being innovative and not going for the casual/ lowest common denominator/ walk-me -through-your-content crowd.

That is probably their greatest sign of sucess beyond simple sub numbers.

I vote for Sony Online Entertainment

You claim some of them have lost our trust, but then add NCSoft and Funcom and leave out SOE. Double standard much?

I voted for Funcom, because they have tried the impossible, and came out with not a completely bad product, which deserves applause, no other MMO development studio is trying anything new, hence why Funcom should be applauded, not matter how the MMO itself turned out, we need more companies to start trying to new things, instead of being conservative and saturating the MMO scene.

Blizzard have shit customer support

CCP suck cause of the having to buy ISK to be good at the game

Mythic created the lackluster WAR

ncsoft are asain or whatever and I hate their culture of dumb looking character emo models

Turbine created two failure mmorpgs which shoulda been the biggest seeing as they are Dungeons and Dragons and Lotr.......

Funcom created the failure AoC



 

So none of them :\

Best Fricking Company =     SQUARE ENIX

SoE aswell.

soe has very good costumer support regardless...

funcom, WORST WORST customer support i have seen in my LIFE. it's not even f2p type of mmo, its p2p mmos they make yet no possible way of contacting them via phone, only email with one week replys, heh. and they usually reply with some sort of BS. ==/

Originally posted by craynlon

 thanx,

they wouldnt have been my 1st choice anyway but i actually respect them keeping conan up, running and improving with probably low numbers atm while nc soft just shafts their games when things get rough.

ps.: i hope there will be a "newcomer" category so i can promote  spellborne nl a bit more ;)

Does funcom have anywhere to go with AOC but up?

Originally posted by Zarki

Hmmm no SOE on the list?  Not saying they will be a favorite but they are a major studio with several MMO's.

SOE isn't meeting any of the criteria they don't have any new products out unless you count expansions for EQ and even if they did get a nomination trust me they would get so few votes it would only serve to make it more obvious how backwards a company they are

Originally posted by almeric

Wow, what a thoughtless list of nominees.

I've played a lot of MMOs from a wide range of developers, and I'm sorry to the haters out there, but EQ2 offers the best fantasy-genre gameplay I've yet found.

And SOE is a vastly more active developer overall than Blizzard - The Agency looks awesome, and DCUO has some buzz behind it.  Free Realms for the kiddies?

SOE gets my vote, with Cryptic (omgzIwannaplayChampions) in 2nd place.

Don't forgt the S in SOE  stands for SONY which is the only reason these guys are able to work on so many products without being a true force in this industry (anyone who disagrees with me let's simply look at the performance of sony's other game division playstation and then compare it's place in the video game world to SOEs) honestly I have nothing against anyone personally favoring soe games but I can hardly see any reason to waste space or even take a chance at letting them think they couldn't do better by puting them in this list

Umm Square Enix and there Final Fantasy series is the 4th best selling series of all time and they are not in the voting list? lol.Bested by ONLY non MMORPG genres such as SIMS/mario.

Wow brags about there 10 millions subs lol and most of them are cafes/gaming pubs and RMT farmers.The Final Fantasy series only has 85+ Million copies sold.To top that off,there are MANY who have claimed it is very hard to purchase/ find a final fantasy game at times.Square does not market nor push there game to the public at all,they rely on QUALITY over marketing.

Funcom=weak,Turbine until LOTR =very weak...Blizzard =WOW success,size of there staff and money spent is an embarrasement to there final product.I see better results from the two Teenagers who made crash Banicoot.Sure WOW is a large game but each individual piece is very weak and would take nothing for a small time developer to easily top.

CCP=??? you kidding me?very weak developer,they are far behind even some small developers.

NCSOFT=RMT/RMT/botters/botters and a staff that couldn't care less to clean up there games.You can bet your ass they have staff involved in RMT or paid off by the RMT sites to turn the cheek.I have ZERO respect for NCSOFT,well there staff/managers.I guess there coders/artists/mappers deserve some credit,it's not there fault there heirarchy is so lame.

How SOE is not also in the list is too funny to mention.They have the most contraversy surrounding them in the whole world.There Everquest was the cornerstone of this whole MMORPG market.So much so that Blizzard chose to copy Everquest when designing there game,and MANY others still follow/use the exact same template.SOE also set the COST standards when charging for online services.Nobody charges more than the 15.99,witch has become standard.SOE is also the first to incoporate MANY new ideas to the MMORPG genre and the first to have there own RMT activity,keeping it safe for users and taking it out of the hands of the ILLEGAL sites that have no business making money off there hard work.