10 Post-2009 MMOs hopeful of dethroning the tyrant

hay - 160 days 23 hours ago

Good list of MMOs to be aware of. I don't think that one of them will dethrone the tyrant but each one of them will take a bite of the community that's for sure.
I think also Aion will take a juicy bite. The game looks fantastic without need of hardware hog. And plays pretty nice too.

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Gun_Senshi - 160 days 22 hours ago

Core mmo players don't need wow to be dethroned. WoW is played by people who never played mmos and kids. Mainstream bullcrap like Hannah Monatana. This applies to everything, from music to movies to games. As a gamer i care less about (ZOMG 11mil subs!!!) if the game is bad, and you have to wait 20 min to enter your server (Lol with all that money Blizz cannot get good servers, Square-Enix have servers that are cross platform with PS2 X360 and PC, and has NO LAG on dail up, Yes i played FFXI on Dial up) I only care that the MMO i play is good and has a healthy community enough for me to be enjoyable.

As someone who played MMOs since UO. WoW is just a rip off from everquest which was then dumped down in difficult and everything to make it casual and mainstream. Putting very lame itemization to add addiction to game so idiots keep playing.

You left the best MMORPG Developer game from list. Automatic Fai. The Developer is NCSoft and the game is Soul and Blade

I just pre ordered Aion Collector's Edition ^^. I hope its good not a waste of money like AoC and WoW. Atm Preparing for GvGing in Guild Wars (GvG Guild Leader D:)

About FFXIV

"However, many thought from the trailer that it would simply be your average single-player FF" -WRONG. Many idiots that don't know a about final fantasy and square enix or mmos thought it was offline. The trailer starts with GALKA, race from FFXI, followed by HUME, another race from FFXI and then Elvaan which is too another race of ffxi. The atmosphere and music are FFXIish too

People who followed Square -Enix knew an MMO from SE was coming. The team behind Final Fantasy XI *GASP!! ONLINE FINAL FANTASY!!!* has been working on new MMO for 4 years. When asked about if Final Fantasy theme they always said "We cannot answer that yet"

People over look final fantasy xi due to its old nowdays, but comunity is still going strong and growing, also comunity is very mature. The grow from FFXI came from making it more accessable to people with Wings Of The Goddess. It was really hard to start playing it. Treasures of Aht Urgat fixed it and SE even introduced level syncing and quests to easy leveling and playing.

The stories in FFXI is worthy of Final Fantasy Title, espically CoP Story. The story in FFXI is better then some other offline final fantasy(s) story and definitly way better story compared to now days RPGs and 100% BEST story in an MMO. The characters are unique and have character. Shanotto, which is a character in FFXI, which she keeps bossing you around until you rise in ranks (Windurst Missions) says Hello as a very good character, unlike games nowdays who have horrible generic characters. The content of FFXI is too much you can say its endless, from Sky Gods to Dynamis to Sea and Besieged. Its varied and fun. Community is probably the best I saw on an MMO, granted you will meet arseholes and kids but the ratio is small. Example I find WoW community horrible and even Guild Wars community (probably due to no monthly fee). The Job system is great and able to swtich jobs on same character, nothing can be that. Parties are fun and since they introduced level sync, finding a group takes like 5 min only.

Alot of people are saying that SE has no expierence with MMOs when they have more then Blizzard and that no final fantasy title should be mmo when ffxi excists already. ffxi best MMO when it was launched. Sure FFXI had some flaws, which they will probably fix in FFXIV.

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Teabag_Titan - 160 days 20 hours ago

Looks like a great list, DCUO is top priority for me also. FFIX won't be bad either by the looks of things, however I think next year will all be about F2P MMOs.

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