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Selinate
Amarr
Wardens of the Void
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Posted - 2010.11.04 13:39:00 -
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Edited by: Selinate on 04/11/2010 13:41:24
I know we've all had bad experiences with mmo's (or at least, many of us). So, list your worst ever experience with an mmo, or the mmo you hate the most just because you hate it.
The worst MMO I've ever played was Aion. The game itself was bland without anything different from WoW imo (except for the epically broken PvP mechanics which the game was supposedly developed around). However, this is not the reason that this is the worst MMO I've ever played. It's the worst because of the customer service.
Once there was some idiot troll making extremely disgusting comments about child sexual abuse on global chat. I reported him. What did they come back with? "We couldn't find anything in the logs that requires any disciplinary actions". I was so frustrated with this alone that I left for about a month. I came back, and later on someone was harassing me in the game. They sent me about 10 group invites in a very small period of time and was making it incredibly hard just to play the game. I reported him for harassment. What do they do? "We couldn't find anything in the logs that requires any disciplinary actions". They then recommend that I turn all group invites off completely, like that was a good solution to the problem. I bug them for a few weeks, after they denied that there were any group invites in the logs, and then they said that there were only a few group invites in the logs and that wasn't enough to warrant action (which was a lie). I left the game shortly after, and pretty much told them all to **** off. I have never played a game with worse customer service or worse GM's.
So it's your turn  .
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northwesten
Amarr
Trinity Corporate Services
Novus Ordo Mundi
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Posted - 2010.11.04 14:01:00 -
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Edited by: northwesten on 04/11/2010 14:04:01
Startrek online Worst game I ever done. The trial was enough to see everything else was just plain Bad. They didn't have ideas them self it felt like I was playing WoW.
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Tyber Zaan
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Posted - 2010.11.04 14:11:00 -
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Runescape.....and I played that thing for years.
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baltec1
Antares Shipyards
Angry Dogs
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Posted - 2010.11.04 14:16:00 -
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Star trek online. I got into the two week beta and managed to finish all of the content in that game dispite all of the bugs.
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Vogue
Skynet Nexus
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Posted - 2010.11.04 14:20:00 -
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Global Agenda. Given the legacy of Planetside it is amazing money put invested in the piece of crap that was Global Agenda.
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Cyprus Black
Caldari
Ministry of Destruction
SCUM.
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Posted - 2010.11.04 14:26:00 -
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Lineage 2
Pretty bad since upon character creation and entering the world for the first time, I was surrounded by bots. The game is so saturated with bots everywhere that they're forced to farm the starting zones.
World of Warcraft
The community is just awful. Every time I meet a WoW player IRL, they behave the same way as you'd see ingame. Constant trolling and immaturity. Plus the gameplay is all messed up. Expansions that are obsolete are required to advance. Most of the playerbase is in their 80's which means it's a LONG solo grind from level 1 to 80 in an empty world. The game suffers from horrible game design and large volumes of recycled content from older games. The largest subscriber base does not a good MMO make.
Star Trek Online
Yes I know I made a post about this game a few months ago. But I'm a big enough man to admit when I'm wrong. The community is almost non existent. There's no real reason to group up or even talk to other players. The whole game feels patched together. As if someone simply threw all the ingredients of a cake into a bowl at the same time and expected it to work. Great genre, bad implementation.
Warhammer
Not a bad game per say. The community is almost non existent. The ability to jump into a PvP situation without grouping means little communication. Plus itemization was bad. A weapon for an engineer can ONLY be used by an engineer. No mixing and matching. Other than that it would've been a good game.
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Skippermonkey
Suddenly Ninjas
Tear Extraction And Reclamation Service
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Posted - 2010.11.04 14:50:00 -
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Asherons Call 2
Ive managed to erase most of that from my mind
 Originally by: CCP Capslock
OH GOD THE TESTING
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Barakkus
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Posted - 2010.11.04 14:53:00 -
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Perfect World.
I lasted all of 1 hour and decided the mechanics were so horrible whoever designed it should never, ever get another job in the gaming industry.
Originally by: captain foivos
Who would recruit someone named Barakkus?
Wait a minute...
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Lori Carlyle
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Posted - 2010.11.04 14:54:00 -
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Star Trek On-Line.
**** game is ****.
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Blane Xero
Amarr
The Firestorm Cartel
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Posted - 2010.11.04 14:55:00 -
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Eve Online. The people there just hate everything.
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Haruhiist since December 2008
Originally by: CCP Fallout
Been there. Done that. Need antibiotics.
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ceaon
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Posted - 2010.11.04 15:03:00 -
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Originally by: Blane Xero
Eve Online. The people there just hate everything.
true fact
Originally by: CCP Adida
The male thread was locked because the discussion turned into transsexuals and man boobs.
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Meiyang Lee
Gallente
Azteca Transportation Unlimited
Gunboat Diplomacy
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Posted - 2010.11.04 15:18:00 -
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Age of Conan, the heavily storied 20 starting levels are bloody amazing but once you leave those there was nothing but grind to the level cap (at launch anyway, never looked back after the first month).
Never been that disappointed in an MMO before, although the experience got repeated pretty quickly during the Warhammer Beta. ^^
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Marko Riva
Adamant Inc.
Adamant Inc
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Posted - 2010.11.04 15:23:00 -
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Anything by Turbine, it's all just bland and uninspiring.
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ADMI is recruiting.
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Tivookz
Caldari
Long Dong Corp
United Front Alliance
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Posted - 2010.11.04 15:26:00 -
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Originally by: Marko Riva
Anything by Turbine, it's all just bland and uninspiring.
Anything by EA or SOE.
Tiv
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Dario Wall
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Posted - 2010.11.04 15:53:00 -
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Worst MMO I have played? Probably Ragnarok Online on private servers. Eventually got to the point where I worked as a GM on a few of them, and I sure wish I could just forget about that time of my life. There's so much drama over such a simple little game, you see grown adults turn in to little children because someone killed them in PVP or called them names on a forum.
Originally by: Cyprus Black
Lineage 2
Pretty bad since upon character creation and entering the world for the first time, I was surrounded by bots. The game is so saturated with bots everywhere that they're forced to farm the starting zones.
Private L2 servers are where the fun is for that game. I played retail for a little while, but it got to be too much of a grind trying to complete any quests or get experience due to the bots. Before my account expired on the game, I started just building up a mob train(points to anyone that remembers those) and would dump them on the bots. It was amusing watching their scripts auto-log them out when their HP got too low, too bad I just kept the mob train circling around where they logged out at to kill them again.
Originally by: Skippermonkey
Asherons Call 2
Ive managed to erase most of that from my mind
I played Asheron's Call back in high school, a friend gave me his spare account that had almost a full year of subscription time left on it. Sure it had quite a grind on it, but the relatively small playerbase was one thing that kept it interesting. Unlike most standard MMOs these days where you are constantly running in to people, I could go for hours in AC without having to compete with some random nobody for a leveling spot.
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Myxx
Gallente
Risen Angels
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Posted - 2010.11.04 16:10:00 -
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Starwars Galaxies.
the community there is absolutely terrible, especially on the Starsider server.
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Sazkyen
State War Academy
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Posted - 2010.11.04 16:39:00 -
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Edited by: Sazkyen on 04/11/2010 16:44:38
The most boring ones: World of Warcraft, after-CU/NGE Star Wars Galaxies, Dark age of Camelot.
Star Wars Galaxies was so full of life until the CU and especially before the NGE.
Such a great concept wasted.
"FORMING SOLO HUNTING GROUP" -> sad, yet efficient 
Ship comparison | Razer Giveaway
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baltec1
Antares Shipyards
Angry Dogs
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Posted - 2010.11.04 16:59:00 -
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Originally by: Sazkyen
Edited by: Sazkyen on 04/11/2010 16:44:38
The most boring ones: World of Warcraft, after-CU/NGE Star Wars Galaxies, Dark age of Camelot.
Star Wars Galaxies was so full of life until the CU and especially before the NGE.
Such a great concept wasted.
"FORMING SOLO HUNTING GROUP" -> sad, yet efficient
Spin group forming
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Mutant Miner
Caldari
Percussive Diplomacy
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Posted - 2010.11.04 17:03:00 -
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Originally by: Myxx
Starwars Galaxies.
the community there is absolutely terrible, especially on the Starsider server.
You must have played post-CU 
Anyway, SWG post-CU and WoW are about tied here.
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Selinate
Amarr
Wardens of the Void
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Posted - 2010.11.04 17:24:00 -
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Edited by: Selinate on 04/11/2010 17:25:41
Originally by: Myxx
Starwars Galaxies.
the community there is absolutely terrible, especially on the Starsider server.
The community in Aion was absolutely terrible also. I've played WoW (recently and a while ago about right after WotLK came out), and when I played Aion, the community was obviously MANY times worse. The troll to decent human being ratio on the forums was horrific, to the point where the forums turned into pure troll-on-troll action (they ran out of decent human beings, so they just began to troll each other CONSTANTLY).
And then the people you would group up with. Oh dear god. You get one nice item to drop while you're in a group and you KNOW someone will rage quit in the next 20 seconds after someone else gets the drop. It was terrible. I ended up practically soloing all the time just to get away from the terrible community.
Not to mention the amount of kids playing the game and ruining it for everyone else (acting like kids, you know  ).
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Devil tiger
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Posted - 2010.11.04 17:47:00 -
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Shadow bane
The story was great and so was the race/class selection but the overall game balance & performance were from the stone age of MMO's.
BTW WoW when it was launched was astonishing but sometime after the player base hit 3-6 million mark the Dev's seemed to lose interest/dropped the ball and it was downhill from there on.
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Barakkus
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Posted - 2010.11.04 17:48:00 -
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Edited by: Barakkus on 04/11/2010 17:49:59
Originally by: Selinate
Edited by: Selinate on 04/11/2010 17:25:41
Originally by: Myxx
Starwars Galaxies.
the community there is absolutely terrible, especially on the Starsider server.
The community in Aion was absolutely terrible also. I've played WoW (recently and a while ago about right after WotLK came out), and when I played Aion, the community was obviously MANY times worse. The troll to decent human being ratio on the forums was horrific, to the point where the forums turned into pure troll-on-troll action (they ran out of decent human beings, so they just began to troll each other CONSTANTLY).
And then the people you would group up with. Oh dear god. You get one nice item to drop while you're in a group and you KNOW someone will rage quit in the next 20 seconds after someone else gets the drop. It was terrible. I ended up practically soloing all the time just to get away from the terrible community.
Not to mention the amount of kids playing the game and ruining it for everyone else (acting like kids, you know ).
It's hard to imagine a community worse than WoW 
Couple friends of mine and I quit playing WoW after about a year due to the horribad community. But we played on a PvP server, which sorta attracts the worst of the worst.
Originally by: captain foivos
Who would recruit someone named Barakkus?
Wait a minute...
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Malaclypse Muscaria
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Posted - 2010.11.04 19:48:00 -
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I used to think that MMOs had reached their lowest point when I came across the MMO adaptation for "Grandmas With Gonorreah: The Pustulating Cervix", a game that felt like a kick in the gonads to all of us fans of the original book/movie franchise... but that was until I played the villany that is "Nothofagus: Soothing Apoplexy".
You get to play as a species of fungus, choosing between Foot Fungus, Blue Cheese Fungus, Mold, or Ringworm. The developer has opted for Zen minimalism and the less-is-more ethos in its approach to MMO gaming, and as such there's only one usable combat skill, across all levels and classes. The keystroke associated to this skill changes at random though - and without warning - so its up to the player to find out which key triggers this attack at any given time. The catch is that there's another key that is randomly associated to the "Delete Character Without Confirmation" function.
These gameplay mechanics frequently lead to accidental re-rolling of characters of course, though this is not as bad as it may sound as first, as the developer, in their impetus of being as un-WoW as possible, came up with the fresh idea of having characters start at level 80, and progressively de-level as you play and kill things. And I say "things" and not "monsters", because it's not yet clear what it is you are fighting in that game. They do have an uncanny resemblance to 3 metre tall pus-filled zits, but the developer has yet to officially confirm whether that's really the case or not. The in-game lore just seems to ramble on and on about stuttering ventriloquists and the Scotland highlands, so that's no help either.
When it came to class design, they tried their best to break away from the prevalent holy trinity of Tank / DPS / Healer class archetypes, and instead gave each class a unique handicap: you can roll as a Misanthrope, in which case you are barred from all chat channels and forums. Or you can choose the Nihilist class, in which case you'll be barred from logging into the game altogether. There's also the Solipsist class, which confines you into a solitary room with only yourself as the source of gameplay. The fourth available class is Wanker, and if you choose it, anything you say or post that is *not* a bad word, insult, blasphemy, or deemed offensive to someone somewhere, is censored and replaced with the word "Bafflegab". The upcoming Winter expansion, dubbed "David Hasslehoff", will introduce a fifth playable class: David Hasslehoff, featuring the handicap of being David Hasslehoff.
They've also jumped into the social network bandwagon, adding Facebook integration. But this is not recommended to use until they iron out a few remaining glitches, such as the one that uploads to your Facebook account a whole bunch of midget pron.
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Baneken
Gallente
School of the Unseen
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Posted - 2010.11.04 20:26:00 -
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Originally by: Barakkus
It's hard to imagine a community worse than WoW
Couple friends of mine and I quit playing WoW after about a year due to the horribad community. But we played on a PvP server, which sorta attracts the worst of the worst.
At least you could can the other side on PvP servers, PvP servers were where the fun happened. :P
Back in the good ol'days before BG we had 24/7 Taren mill vs South Shore on PvP servers with guards and everything thrown in the fray.
Blizzard eventually implemented BG's because the fights began crashing the servers and caused hideous amount of lag, this ofc. pretty much killed "open PvP" and moved wow towards what it is now.
Any way my worst MMO so far has definitely been Warhammer online, in the beginning it was kind of wow with a promise of good pvp which soon degenerated in to a mindless zerg fest where you would just mindlessly zerg from keep to keep with nothing to gain or lose til your brains hurt from sheer stupidity of it all and don't get me started about DEV's favouring destruction since the day one and completely ignoring most of the warhammer lore.
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Barakkus
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Posted - 2010.11.04 20:31:00 -
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Originally by: Baneken
Originally by: Barakkus
It's hard to imagine a community worse than WoW
Couple friends of mine and I quit playing WoW after about a year due to the horribad community. But we played on a PvP server, which sorta attracts the worst of the worst.
At least you could can the other side on PvP servers, PvP servers were where the fun happened. :P
Back in the good ol'days before BG we had 24/7 Taren mill vs South Shore on PvP servers with guards and everything thrown in the fray.
Blizzard eventually implemented BG's because the fights began crashing the servers and caused hideous amount of lag, this ofc. pretty much killed "open PvP" and moved wow towards what it is now.
They tried it again with Wintergrasp, then they ended up having to implement zone limits for the battles, which sucked. Real pvp was arenas though, the rest was just repeatedly pwning people with lesser skills and gear imo. Arenas really is the only challenging pvp in WoW.
I loved walking into ironforge or whatever that other city was and just pwning anyone and everyone that would either be flagged or flagged themselves. A small group of 5 or 6 could take the auction house for hours lol.
Originally by: captain foivos
Who would recruit someone named Barakkus?
Wait a minute...
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Zedic
Amarr
Universalis Imperium
Tactical Narcotics Team
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Posted - 2010.11.04 20:57:00 -
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Matrix Online.
It was **** during alpha, it was still **** during beta, and it was **** when it went live. We told them this. Did they listen? Obviously not.
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Baneken
Gallente
School of the Unseen
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Posted - 2010.11.04 21:02:00 -
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Originally by: Barakkus
They tried it again with Wintergrasp, then they ended up having to implement zone limits for the battles, which sucked. Real pvp was arenas though, the rest was just repeatedly pwning people with lesser skills and gear imo. Arenas really is the only challenging pvp in WoW.
I loved walking into ironforge or whatever that other city was and just pwning anyone and everyone that would either be flagged or flagged themselves. A small group of 5 or 6 could take the auction house for hours lol.
Back in the good'ol days not even a 100 man raid(s) managed to do that but then again Ragnaros was real PvP-server, unlike the one you inhabited but we did killed the gnome king and the dwarf kings at least once though and the alliance retaliated by trying to kill sylvanas.
Then again lvl limit was 60 and the guards would spawn endlessly until server crashed or Alliance PvP-guilds got their **** together.
We also had "organised" "noob" trains that basically tried to live long enough to reach the Stormwind or IF while killing every single alliance player that was stupid enough to have a flag on while on ...
Good times.
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ShahFluffers
Gallente
Ice Fire Warriors
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Posted - 2010.11.04 21:04:00 -
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Originally by: Dario Wall
... <snip>... Before my account expired on the game, I started just building up a mob train(points to anyone that remembers those) and would dump them on the bots. It was amusing watching their scripts auto-log them out when their HP got too low, too bad I just kept the mob train circling around where they logged out at to kill them again.[:twisted:
Wait... was this back in 2004... and were you a Ranger Elf? I think you might have killed me not 10 minutes after I started the game.
Anyways... worst MMO I ever played was Knights Online.
What was bad about it? It was nothing but a solid lvl grind full of min/maxing Turkish people who essentially sabotaged any efforts you made in the game because you "weren't Turkish."
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Viktor Fyretracker
Caldari
Fyretracker Heavy Industries
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Posted - 2010.11.04 21:40:00 -
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Originally by: Vogue
Edited by: Vogue on 04/11/2010 14:52:55
Global Agenda. Given the legacy of Planetside it is amazing that money was invested in the piece of crap that was Global Agenda.
Planetside was by far the best PVP MMO period during its beta and up until core combat. before that the game had epic battles. if you where on the Markov server you would remember the Drop Ship station on Cyssor well. I think at least once a day there was a huge Vanu/TR/NC three way siege breaking out there. I remember doing stuff away from the big fights though, blowing up generators at tech plants was always a riot and then hiding Boomers near the gen to blow up the guy who came to repair it.
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Iosue
Black Sky Hipsters
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Posted - 2010.11.04 22:04:00 -
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i just recently dumped Final Fantasy XIV. My bro got me to signup for the initial launch, played for a month only to realize that i could have more fun at a dental cleaning. not to mention the fact that it's basically a massivley one-player online game; everybody just does their own thing. the UI is meant for a game controller, not a keyboard, there's no decent content and their grouping systems is all skrewed up. the game has good graphics, but all the areas are just copy pasta'd over and over again. the first couple of hours are interesting, but the game goes downhill fast afterwards.
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Barakkus
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Posted - 2010.11.04 22:11:00 -
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Originally by: Baneken
Originally by: Barakkus
They tried it again with Wintergrasp, then they ended up having to implement zone limits for the battles, which sucked. Real pvp was arenas though, the rest was just repeatedly pwning people with lesser skills and gear imo. Arenas really is the only challenging pvp in WoW.
I loved walking into ironforge or whatever that other city was and just pwning anyone and everyone that would either be flagged or flagged themselves. A small group of 5 or 6 could take the auction house for hours lol.
Back in the good'ol days not even a 100 man raid(s) managed to do that but then again Ragnaros was real PvP-server, unlike the one you inhabited but we did killed the gnome king and the dwarf kings at least once though and the alliance retaliated by trying to kill sylvanas.
Then again lvl limit was 60 and the guards would spawn endlessly until server crashed or Alliance PvP-guilds got their **** together.
We also had "organised" "noob" trains that basically tried to live long enough to reach the Stormwind or IF while killing every single alliance player that was stupid enough to have a flag on while on ...
Good times.
They added some achievements to get a mount by raiding the 4 opposing faction cities and killing the main guy in each, that was pretty fun and epic battles ensued. Orgrimar was rarely completed by alliance due to the massive amount of people hanging around there on Onyxia lol. We regularly steam rolled Stormwind and Ironforge, but there was a huge discrepancy btwn horde and alliance on Onyxia.
Originally by: captain foivos
Who would recruit someone named Barakkus?
Wait a minute...
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Viktor Fyretracker
Caldari
Fyretracker Heavy Industries
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Posted - 2010.11.04 22:46:00 -
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During peak on my WoW server generally you got the NE place, the Space Goat city and Maybe IF or Stormwind. by then the alliance usually hardened defenses at the remaining city(s). IF tended to be good for them to defend because of the choke points. id love to see Ironforge used as a FPS map actually. with some alteration and some upper level catwalks it would be a great UT2K map.
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Chainsaw Plankton
IDLE GUNS
IDLE EMPIRE
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Posted - 2010.11.04 23:27:00 -
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mob trains are fun.
and I think I played KO, my guild in pt moved over there for a week or so due to lag issues (and/or server full issues, see below), seemed pretty mmo generic.
and I guess I'd have to go with wow, I did a trial way way back and it just seemed too mmo generic, that and I heard raids needed 40 people and took 4 hours, just sounded like a bad time. I was pretty into Guild wars at that time so paying a sub fee just didn't add up for me.
the mmo that should be the worst Pristontale, terribad korean grind mmo (exponential level up curve, linearish xp gains from monsters). see tk8's pt flash movies http://thekiller8.deviantart.com/gallery/
(and don't get distracted by his eve flashes!)
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Viktor Fyretracker
Caldari
Fyretracker Heavy Industries
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Posted - 2010.11.05 00:23:00 -
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Bots ruined Aion for me. and the game was open PVP. which sucked when higher levels where out ganking and the bots killed all the good exp mobs slowing your level progression.
That is why I tend to feel as far as RPGs go EVE is the best PVP game. sure someone can have millions more SP than someone, but they can still loose if the other player thinks and/or brings friends in the right ships. God bless ECM*
its only a blessed thing when you are the one giving it of course.
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JordanParey
Suddenly Ninjas
Tear Extraction And Reclamation Service
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Posted - 2010.11.05 01:30:00 -
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Dark Throne. Text-based MMO. Worst MMO I've played.. there were a lot of people cheating (and after a while, I did as well..because that was the ONLY way to gain equity with some people) and the method used to gain more power (citizens) took forever. Training all the citizens took a lot of gold, meaning that you had to mine a LOT to train them. Mining a LOT made you a target for people to attack you.. a LOT.
Once you get into the higher levels, it was made much, MUCH harder to gain experience and gold. To the point where people needed HUGE armies to kill turtle accounts (high defense and a lot of gold) but to level they needed much smaller armies...so a lot of people ended up getting screwed trying to acheive the middle.
[i]2000 B.C. - "Here, eat this root."
1000 B.C. - "That root is heathen, say this prayer."
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Myxx
Gallente
Risen Angels
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Posted - 2010.11.05 05:32:00 -
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Originally by: Mutant Miner
Originally by: Myxx
Starwars Galaxies.
the community there is absolutely terrible, especially on the Starsider server.
You must have played post-CU
Anyway, SWG post-CU and WoW are about tied here.
I played pre-stupid and post-stupid, but dont even really mention pre-cu because its such a different and rightfully awesome game that I dont really want to get people confused as to what im talking about when i praise it.
post-CU/NGE, i mostly stayed for friends, and pretty much just dont give a flying frak about their 'community'. Starsider is so bad that about half of them actually left starsider to go to a less populated server full time, because of the **** the community was flinging at each other.
WoW is a mixed bag. its so big you cant paint it with one brush.
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MaBalls YoMouth
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Posted - 2010.11.05 06:12:00 -
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Originally by: Blane Xero
Eve Online. The people there just hate everything.
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Reiisha
Evolution
IT Alliance
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Posted - 2010.11.05 06:34:00 -
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Even though it breaks my heart to say it:
Dark & Light.
Even Algalon is great compared to that game, let alone Aion, WoW or whatever else.
The only people who can one-up me are the ones who 'enjoyed' Mourning.
"If you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all"
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Sitara
Minmatar
Solar Flare Trade and Production
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Posted - 2010.11.05 07:55:00 -
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Dead heat between Star Trek Online and Age of Conan - didn't complete the 'free month' on either...
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Lucia Warbler
Ordo Novus Mul-Zatah
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Posted - 2010.11.05 15:44:00 -
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I have only played two MMO's: WoW and Eve. I don't think either of them is the worst MMO.
Only time I had trouble with harrasment in WOW was at a PvP server, those on your own side would follow you around gooning around. So I didn't play PvP servers and I got bored after a two months and stopped playing.
Eve has superior chatbox, market, difficulty level and community, but doesn't have even a fraction of the content of WoW.
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Selinate
Amarr
Wardens of the Void
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Posted - 2010.11.05 15:46:00 -
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Edited by: Selinate on 05/11/2010 15:49:03
Originally by: MaBalls YoMouth
Originally by: Blane Xero
Eve Online. The people there just hate everything.
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You'd be surprised at how Eve has one of the relatively better communities compared to other MMO's. I mentioned Aion's community earlier, which was horrid. WoW's wasn't much better (though I honestly thought it was by a smidgen). Of course, with any MMO you play, you're going to run into... those kinds of unfortunate people we dare not name....
I'm surprised at the amount of people who hate SWG. I played that game for a short while, wasn't particularly impressed, but the community didn't seem that bad.
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Ticarus Hellbrandt
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Posted - 2010.11.05 16:19:00 -
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Edited by: Ticarus Hellbrandt on 05/11/2010 16:21:13
SW:G after the negative game experience (NGE) change
Before, the combat downgrade it was way up there with the best.
forgot to mntion that undoubtably the worst mmo ever was Dark And Light
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Pj Harvey
Amarr
Omerta Syndicate
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Posted - 2010.11.05 23:00:00 -
[43]
eve actually has the worst community of any MMO I've played, it's especially funny given how eve players think themselves the superior more sophisticated MMO community when in fact it is by far the most childish bunch of psuedo intellectuals I've ever seen in any online community.
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Tara Moss
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Posted - 2010.11.05 23:26:00 -
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Dunno why all the hate for Age of Conan...it wasn't that bad and it's gotten a lot better since it's release.
Warhammer likewise had some decent pvp but like AoC was released too early.
The worst mmo I've played is probably The Agency. Jetpacks are cool an' all, but it lacks depth and the missions feel very repetitive. Star Trek...I've played it but not enough to make a decent assessment.
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Professor Tarantula
Hedion University
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Posted - 2010.11.05 23:55:00 -
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Edited by: Professor Tarantula on 05/11/2010 23:59:41
Originally by: Tara Moss
Dunno why all the hate for Age of Conan...it wasn't that bad and it's gotten a lot better since it's release.
Even when it was freshly released it was hands down better than WoW, for what that's worth. If i was going to play a Fantasy game it would be that one.
Worst one i've ever played was Fury. Had a couple confusing and frenetic matches i managed to win somehow, couldn't figure out the equipment system, then the game promptly crashed due to some graphics glitch, never allowing me to play again.
Never thought of it again until i heard it went f2p, and then finally was shut down.
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Selinate
Amarr
Wardens of the Void
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Posted - 2010.11.06 00:05:00 -
[46]
Originally by: Pj Harvey
eve actually has the worst community of any MMO I've played, it's especially funny given how eve players think themselves the superior more sophisticated MMO community when in fact it is by far the most childish bunch of psuedo intellectuals I've ever seen in any online community.
that's why I said relatively better. My opinion is that it's relatively better, but by no means do I think it's good. 
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Helmh0ltz
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Posted - 2010.11.06 05:21:00 -
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Star Wars Galaxies. Unfortunately, I never had the experience of playing it pre-NGE/CU. I heard it had some merit back then.
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Viktor Fyretracker
Caldari
Fyretracker Heavy Industries
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Posted - 2010.11.06 07:51:00 -
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Aion sort of borders on bad since NC-Soft seems to not clamp down on Bots. Maybe Bots are simply not as frowned on in Asian games.
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Creepy CousinRoger
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Posted - 2010.11.06 14:09:00 -
[49]
My latest order from NewEgg is giving me a free copy of STO. I'll give it a shot, but I don't expect much from it. Says a lot when they have to give a game away.
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Whitehound
The Whitehound Corporation
The Chamber of Commerce
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Posted - 2010.11.06 15:25:00 -
[50]
Hellgate: London
I played it only on Elite-Hardcore and when you died you died for good. I hated every bit of it. Luckily one could shoot stuff and so it was not all that bad.
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Selinate
Amarr
Wardens of the Void
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Posted - 2010.11.06 16:43:00 -
[51]
Originally by: Viktor Fyretracker
Aion sort of borders on bad since NC-Soft seems to not clamp down on Bots. Maybe Bots are simply not as frowned on in Asian games.
Really? Only borders?
I thought one of the major downsides of the game mechanics themselves was the fact that it's now practically impossible to get into PvP unless you're max level, or have insanely good gear. Go into the abyss, and you meet a rampaging army of children with full abyss gear that are ready to roflstomp you without you even using a single ability.
And the PvE was... very grindy...
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Viktor Fyretracker
Caldari
Fyretracker Heavy Industries
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Posted - 2010.11.06 18:51:00 -
[52]
Originally by: Selinate
Originally by: Viktor Fyretracker
Aion sort of borders on bad since NC-Soft seems to not clamp down on Bots. Maybe Bots are simply not as frowned on in Asian games.
Really? Only borders?
I thought one of the major downsides of the game mechanics themselves was the fact that it's now practically impossible to get into PvP unless you're max level, or have insanely good gear. Go into the abyss, and you meet a rampaging army of children with full abyss gear that are ready to roflstomp you without you even using a single ability.
And the PvE was... very grindy...
Yea I wonder what is with the love of grinding in Asian MMOs. its like they openly enjoy grinding for the sake of it. Sure Everquest was a grind but it went somewhere. some grinds I have come across in asian MMOs do not have a final destination for said grind.
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CCP Adida
C C P
C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2010.11.06 20:36:00 -
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I'm going to have to say Lineage2 was one of the worst I ever played. Not because of the graphics or bugs because I din't find too many during launch. It was a grind fest. I don't mind grinding you get to know your group members and make new friends. But it took me a month to get to level 25 playing casually. I played in the same zone killing the same group of mobs for way too long.
Adida
Community Rep
CCP Hf, EVE Online
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Alpheias
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Posted - 2010.11.06 22:12:00 -
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Too many sickeningly bad MMOs out there to list.
Originally by: CCP Adida
I'm going to have to say Lineage2 was one of the worst I ever played. Not because of the graphics or bugs because I din't find too many during launch. It was a grind fest. I don't mind grinding you get to know your group members and make new friends. But it took me a month to get to level 25 playing casually. I played in the same zone killing the same group of mobs for way too long.
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Baneken
Gallente
School of the Unseen
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Posted - 2010.11.07 00:21:00 -
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Originally by: Viktor Fyretracker
Yea I wonder what is with the love of grinding in Asian MMOs. its like they openly enjoy grinding for the sake of it. Sure Everquest was a grind but it went somewhere. some grinds I have come across in asian MMOs do not have a final destination for said grind.
It's because everything about asia and it's people are about competition ...
Since most of them don't care for PvP only way to put "a feeling of achievement" for a game like MMO without raising difficulty to scare people away is putting players to grind for stuff ...
It's also very easy for the developers in terms of development; quest -> grind 10 rats -> grind 20 rats -> grind 30 -> now you have killed a 10 000... -> next one is squirrels go kill me 20 ...
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Louis deGuerre
Gallente
Amicus Morte
Dead Muppets
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Posted - 2010.11.07 01:23:00 -
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Well, I only ever could be bothered to play this one, but with the in-game editor broken FOR OVER A MONTH I really start to wonder why I still bother playing.
 FFS FIX IT ALREADY !!!
Sol: A microwarp drive? In a battleship? Are you insane? They arenĘt built for this!
Clear Skies - The Movie
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Selinate
Amarr
Wardens of the Void
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Posted - 2010.11.07 14:06:00 -
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Come now, let's not bring whining about eve into this, please? 
What about Evony? Anyone ever played that one? I was allured by the sexy women after years of seeing advertisements, finally decided to give it a go, and was epically disappointed to see no sexy women at all.
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Blane Xero
Amarr
The Firestorm Cartel
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Posted - 2010.11.07 14:51:00 -
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Edited by: Blane Xero on 07/11/2010 14:54:21
Originally by: Selinate
Edited by: Selinate on 05/11/2010 15:49:03
Originally by: MaBalls YoMouth
Originally by: Blane Xero
Eve Online. The people there just hate everything.
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You'd be surprised at how Eve has one of the relatively better communities compared to other MMO's. I mentioned Aion's community earlier, which was horrid. WoW's wasn't much better (though I honestly thought it was by a smidgen). Of course, with any MMO you play, you're going to run into... those kinds of unfortunate people we dare not name....
I'm surprised at the amount of people who hate SWG. I played that game for a short while, wasn't particularly impressed, but the community didn't seem that bad.
The WoW-Europe community wasn't all that bad. Not sure if it changed post-WOTLK, but during TBC the forums were a rank above the eve forums on their average day. Sure, WoW has more people playing it and a larger percentage of teenagers, which accounts to most of the really bad trolls/threads, however those didn't often last long.
All the major threadnaughts were for game crippling bugs, future changes that were stupid, etc. And hell, Blizzard listened! (Pre Actiblizzard anyway). Average ticket time was about half an hour for primary response, and then a day or two to fix intense problems (Including reimbursements) Usually it was always sorted same day in my experience.
Like I said. The average Eve player hates everything that isn't eve. Scratch that, most of us hate eve at times too.
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Originally by: CCP Fallout
Been there. Done that. Need antibiotics.
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Shawna Gray
Gallente
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Posted - 2010.11.07 16:28:00 -
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Edited by: Shawna Gray on 07/11/2010 16:30:47
RF - Online - Fun idea, but terrible execution.
Wow - Endless amounts of the same boring stuff. Reskin and rename and release as "new content". Terrible pvp.
Age of Conan - Sadly they tried to copy wow, and it was just as boring at launch. I didnt even finish my first month.
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Krotfric McEnchroe
Gallente
Medical Mechanical
Nabaal Syndicate
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Posted - 2010.11.07 18:05:00 -
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Originally by: Shawna Gray
Edited by: Shawna Gray on 07/11/2010 16:30:47
RF - Online - Fun idea, but terrible execution.
Wow - Endless amounts of the same boring stuff. Reskin and rename and release as "new content". Terrible pvp.
Age of Conan - Sadly they tried to copy wow, and it was just as boring at launch. I didnt even finish my first month.
Agree with RF. I played since launch up to about a month till it ended. The concept of the chip war was fun, nice and hectic when it all came together. Though it needed a lot of work under the hood to make it decent. Plus the fact that CCR, the producer of RF, didn't give a crap about any versions outside their native Korean one. Think we were at least 6 months behind them for updates. Also the game shouldn't have gone f2p either.
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Shawna Gray
Gallente
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Posted - 2010.11.07 18:11:00 -
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Originally by: Krotfric McEnchroe
The concept of the chip war was fun, nice and hectic when it all came together.
Yes too bad the rest of the game was utter ****e. Endless and extremely boring grinding and a lot of bots.
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Selinate
Amarr
Wardens of the Void
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Posted - 2010.11.07 18:12:00 -
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Originally by: Viktor Fyretracker
Yea I wonder what is with the love of grinding in Asian MMOs. its like they openly enjoy grinding for the sake of it. Sure Everquest was a grind but it went somewhere. some grinds I have come across in asian MMOs do not have a final destination for said grind.
Yeah. Grinding in any game at all usually tells me that the game is poorly thought-out and designed. Also, grind is boring, no matter what form it's in.
Though my main reason for leaving Aion was the ones I gave before. It sounds like you've played Aion. Did you have any experiences with the gm's or customer service that was as horrid as mine? I'd sooner recommend someone play hello kitty adventures after dealing with the lot of morons that makes up ncsoft's team...
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Mistress Motion
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Posted - 2010.11.07 19:22:00 -
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One good example of "asian grindfest" was Knight Online, at least at the time when malaysian servers were still online (and lagging). Hell, I played it for ages, and never got to max level. And when you died, you lost some damn exp... If you wanted to get faster exp, you needed to buy items from item shop.
Leveling was so much grinding, that it felt like EVERYONE is using bots, and grinding death knights and some skeletons at the same damn field. So then everyone made alts to be "lurers", naked rogues running with only a bow and bringing big trolls near the group and going stealth, usually killing the whole group. Oh well, mages (like me) were probably only ones who were AOE grinding harpys manually, though it really wasn't fun.
In PVP, you earned "national points" when you killed someone. When you ran out of points, you started losing exp. So when you were hanging at 0 points, only thing you could do was camp in your own safezone, and try to ninja kills near that, and run to safety instantly when someone came after you. And yeah, if you forgot to leave your money to bank before you went to PVP zone, you lost half your money when you got killed.
Rogues all used a bug where they could cancel the cooldown on some skills and hit like a crazed woodpecker on meth. Max level mages just spammed 2 AOE spells, because there where no instant spells, and every tiny hit cancelled your spellcasting.
HP buff scrolls actually about doubled your health, so you HAD to use them all the time. Other option was a priest buff which ofcourse vanished when you died, so the priest needed to buff everyone all the time (must've been really annoying). But you could only get HP scrolls from item shop, or really expensive from players who used RL money to sell them ingame.
The community... Oh dear god. Though there were some really great people, that I still keep in touch with after so many years, 90-95% of people only spoke turkish. And all they did was beg, beg, beg, and everyone wrote with CAPS LOCK. Aargh. Seemed like there was almost no players over 10y old.
So, I guess that would be my choice. Don't really know how it goes in US Knight Online nowadays, I think it's still online and going today?
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Talanayaa
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Posted - 2010.11.07 21:24:00 -
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Compared to other mmos eve community is golden. Make no mistake about that.
The worst mmo I ever played was second life. I played it only for a few days but it still makes me wanna puke.
The second place goes to warhammer online, an epic failure on so many levels. It's like a really bad version of wow with a warhammer title slapped over it.
And the third one is wow. A lot of bad points I dont want to argue anymore, plus community consists of bunch of adolescents and 8 year olds.
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Reiisha
Evolution
IT Alliance
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Posted - 2010.11.08 02:39:00 -
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Kind of strange how everyone in this thread only lists MMO's they don't like, rather than actually bad ones.
So far i've only seen 3 actually bad MMO's mentioned.
"If you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all"
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razor haze
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Posted - 2010.11.08 02:49:00 -
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Originally by: Baneken
Originally by: Barakkus
They tried it again with Wintergrasp, then they ended up having to implement zone limits for the battles, which sucked. Real pvp was arenas though, the rest was just repeatedly pwning people with lesser skills and gear imo. Arenas really is the only challenging pvp in WoW.
I loved walking into ironforge or whatever that other city was and just pwning anyone and everyone that would either be flagged or flagged themselves. A small group of 5 or 6 could take the auction house for hours lol.
Back in the good'ol days not even a 100 man raid(s) managed to do that but then again Ragnaros was real PvP-server, unlike the one you inhabited but we did killed the gnome king and the dwarf kings at least once though and the alliance retaliated by trying to kill sylvanas.
Then again lvl limit was 60 and the guards would spawn endlessly until server crashed or Alliance PvP-guilds got their **** together.
We also had "organised" "noob" trains that basically tried to live long enough to reach the Stormwind or IF while killing every single alliance player that was stupid enough to have a flag on while on ...
Good times.
That does sound fun right there!
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Selinate
Amarr
Wardens of the Void
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Posted - 2010.11.08 04:37:00 -
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Originally by: Reiisha
Kind of strange how everyone in this thread only lists MMO's they don't like, rather than actually bad ones.
So far i've only seen 3 actually bad MMO's mentioned.
I would think this is because it's a person's opinion when he or she dubs an mmo "bad", which is the same as them not liking the mmo.
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Zantris
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Posted - 2010.11.08 10:13:00 -
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AoC is actually one of the best MMOs out right now.
Mortal Online was the absolute worst one I've ever tried.
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Antihrist Pripravnik
4S Corporation
Morsus Mihi
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Posted - 2010.11.08 11:38:00 -
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The worst MMO that I have ever played is EVE Online.
The best MMO that I have ever played is EVE Online.
In fact, the only MMO that I have ever played is EVE Online 
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Dav Varan
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Posted - 2010.11.08 15:12:00 -
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Originally by: Antihrist Pripravnik
The worst MMO that I have ever played is EVE Online.
The best MMO that I have ever played is EVE Online.
In fact, the only MMO that I have ever played is EVE Online
This
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Brujo Loco
Amarr
Brujeria Teologica
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Posted - 2010.11.09 00:28:00 -
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For me the Worst MMO, as in total loss of time, effort, money was DDO ... I couldn't stand it, I still can't, same with Warhammer Online, so much time dedicated to my goblin healer, ui mods, healing output efficiency , ugh. Same with Vanguard ... or my stupid year long sub to Tabula Rasa 
so
Dungeons and Dragons Online
Warhammer Online
Vanguard
Tabula Rasa
Even tho Tabula Rasa is dead, the other games I mentioned, have for me, the same feeling of utter senselessness as Tabula Rasa when I began to realize during my mid 20's that the next 20 or more levels would be exactly the same ... ugh
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Archipelago Theory
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Viktor Fyretracker
Caldari
Fyretracker Heavy Industries
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Posted - 2010.11.09 01:52:00 -
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Edited by: Viktor Fyretracker on 09/11/2010 01:54:48
Originally by: Reiisha
Kind of strange how everyone in this thread only lists MMO's they don't like, rather than actually bad ones.
So far i've only seen 3 actually bad MMO's mentioned.
not liking it is usually why people list WoW, as the game itself is very well made.
However some games on these lists where in fact just plain bad.
Vanguard for example had lots of potential but when it came out it was riddled with bugs and bad performance, people on all computer types saw massive memory leaks which lead to the game grinding to a hault and/or crashing unless you camped something like every 2hrs of play. When vanguard came out it was far from ready and they knew this, but it is my opinion that they wanted to beat Burning Crusade expansion to WoW to market.
In fact This is the big flaw I see with many new MMORPGs, they rush them to market to meet special release points rather than giving it another few months in testing. or they are rushed out to beat some other AAA title or expansion to a certain popular MMO
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Cyprus Black
Caldari
Ministry of Destruction
SCUM.
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Posted - 2010.11.09 02:19:00 -
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Originally by: Reiisha
Kind of strange how everyone in this thread only lists MMO's they don't like, rather than actually bad ones.
So far i've only seen 3 actually bad MMO's mentioned.
The title of the thread is Worst MMOs You've Played.
It implies that the OP wants an opinion of our experiences with MMOs.
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Nuts Nougat
Perkone
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Posted - 2010.11.09 10:06:00 -
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Edited by: Nuts Nougat on 09/11/2010 10:07:21
Originally by: CCP Adida
I'm going to have to say Lineage2 was one of the worst I ever played. Not because of the graphics or bugs because I din't find too many during launch. It was a grind fest. I don't mind grinding you get to know your group members and make new friends. But it took me a month to get to level 25 playing casually. I played in the same zone killing the same group of mobs for way too long.
I also remember this. However, l2.ru is free to play now so I went there and tried it to see if it's changed. Got to level 30 in maybe 6-8 hours of gameplay. Apparently at higher levels it's still a gigantic grindfest though...
Edit for on-topicness: The worst I've played? Definitely that game called eve online. Incidentally it is also the best I've played.
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Sral TBear
Macaroni family
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Posted - 2010.11.09 10:28:00 -
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nut been around to many but the worst one for me was and is pirates of the burning sea...
Close in "even with the 1.32 etc" is Battle ground europe, but that is just because of infantry lag, got fed up by being shot by ghosts...they fix that and im back with the mp-40....
So i just play eve abit.....and fly my ww2 combat sim....
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Thuul'Khalat
Gallente
Veto Corp
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Posted - 2010.11.09 10:54:00 -
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This thread makes it abundantly clear why it is unlikely any sophisticated MMO will ever succeed again. People are just expecting too much from a newly launched game.
If WoW or (even worse) EVE was launched today in the state they were in the beginning they would both be dead and buried within a couple months.
People have just gotten too high expectations based on long running franchises that have had years to polish, expand and stabilize, something new arrivals will never be able to have without turning into vapourware.
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Zeredek
Gallente
Vanguard Venture
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Posted - 2010.11.09 12:52:00 -
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EVE Online.
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Selinate
Amarr
Wardens of the Void
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Posted - 2010.11.09 13:53:00 -
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Originally by: Thuul'Khalat
This thread makes it abundantly clear why it is unlikely any sophisticated MMO will ever succeed again. People are just expecting too much from a newly launched game.
If WoW or (even worse) EVE was launched today in the state they were in the beginning they would both be dead and buried within a couple months.
People have just gotten too high expectations based on long running franchises that have had years to polish, expand and stabilize, something new arrivals will never be able to have without turning into vapourware.
Hmmm. I think it has more to do with the fact that not a single mmo have come out within the last 10 years or so with any creative, new, or interesting gameplay. 99.99% of them are kill x, bring y, get experience/money/etc.
In other words, every fantasy mmo is a copy of WoW. WoW is a copy of EQ. EQ is a copy of... well, I dunno, EQ was the first I played. People get tired of playing the same thing over and over.
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Shawna Gray
Gallente
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Posted - 2010.11.09 15:50:00 -
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Originally by: Selinate
Hmmm. I think it has more to do with the fact that not a single mmo have come out within the last 10 years or so with any creative, new, or interesting gameplay. 99.99% of them are kill x, bring y, get experience/money/etc.
In other words, every fantasy mmo is a copy of WoW. WoW is a copy of EQ. EQ is a copy of... well, I dunno, EQ was the first I played. People get tired of playing the same thing over and over.
Indeed. I wonder why so many spend their days endlessly killing green trolls so that they one day can do exactly the same while killing endless amounts of red trolls. Its so exciting when you later fight the brown trolls that do exactly the same as the green and red trolls.
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