Thunderbolt writes: "MMOs have a lot to thank tabletop gaming for. Back in the dark ages before the mystical series of tubes known as the internets was carried into the sky by a fleet of big trucks, fantasy fans would have to actually sit and meet face to face to get their roleplaying fix. Online gaming juggernaut World of Warcraft owes a lot to the Warhammer series of games, sometimes resembling a pastel-colored version of the classic dark fantasy universe created by Games Workshop. In another twist of fate, though, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning now owes much to World of Warcraft. In theory, this is the theoretical meeting between The Beatles and U2: the melding of two pioneers in their respective fields. Unfortunately, the mixture isn't quite that amazing, but WAR has a good amount going for it."
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.
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.
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."
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.
