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Comparing Warhammer Online Classes to Football Positions

Joe Blancato writes: "Name a position on the football field that can knock a 300-pound defensive lineman on his ass and also rack up 1,000 yards receiving with 10 TDs every season. Now, name a class that can nuke a tank into oblivion and also ruin a healer corps' day in the same breath. Much like the offensive juggernaut that is the tight end, Sorceresses make the other team hurt, no matter where they're playing. Fortunately for the other team, Sorceresses drop about as fast as most TEs; both are particularly vulnerable to the chop block/cheap shot. The sorc also has a bit of the roid rage in her: She's stronger than everyone else on the field, but also has a habit of blowing up randomly at the most inopportune time."

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10 MMOs That Died And Left Us Feeling Empty

Let nostalgia take you back to the lands you once roamed until they were cruelly taken offline and away from us. MMOGames list the top 10 MMOs that died and left us with a hole in our hearts.

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Casepbx2883d ago

I still miss City of Heroes.

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PurpHerbison2883d ago

I agree when it comes to The Sims Online. That game was really fun and nothing has even come close to it. I still crave a new Sims with online multiplayer. Blows my mind they haven't done anything like that since The Sims Online or even The Sims Bustin' Out on PS2.

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Five Ambitious MMOs That Never Took Off

Kevin from Denkiphile: "The first I’d ever heard of Titan was at the height of my World of Warcraft career, which was also the same time that several games, touted as WoW-killers, came onto the market and failed miserably. It made sense to me at the time that the only thing that could kill WoW was Blizzard themselves, but this also eventually changed with the advent of session-based, microtransaction-supported games like League of Legends. Titan was supposed to revolutionize and revitalize the MMO genre, but it certainly was not the first to crash and burn before its first flight. Here are some MMOs whose ambitions flew them too close to the sun."

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12 Dead Online Video Games That Should Never Have Ended

The closing of multiplayer services can happen for a number of reasons. Sometimes there just aren’t enough people using a product to justify keeping it running while in others it could be down to complicated legal wrangling, like expiring licensing agreements, or even a desire to bring out a new installment.

One thing is clear though – many of these discontinued games simply don’t deserve to die, to be cut down in their prime leaving players without a viable alternative and waste all that time the audience invested in them. With that in mind, this article will count down the 12 games least deserving of being shut down, the ones that players the world over wished had kept going.

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