Best MMO 2016, so far. From MMOGames. Vote ESO! (mmogames.com) VOTE ESO!!!

Phelaen · June 2016

I voted eve online
been playing that game since 2003 and whenever i take a break and play something else i always feel like i a slumming it

Rex-Umbra · June 2016

Mojmir wrote: »

but its not the best.

Then why are you here?

CherryCake · June 2016

Rex-Umbra wrote: »

Mojmir wrote: »

but its not the best.

Then why are you here?

I believe people can play other games besides the ones they consider "the best" xDDDDDDD

Jaronking · June 2016

EstelioVeleth wrote: »

Rex-Umbra wrote: »

Mojmir wrote: »

but its not the best.

Then why are you here?

I believe people can play other games besides the ones they consider "the best" xDDDDDDD

Lol true if people only played the best games COD wouldn't sell so many copies.

CherryCake · June 2016

Jaronking wrote: »

EstelioVeleth wrote: »

Rex-Umbra wrote: »

Mojmir wrote: »

but its not the best.

Then why are you here?

I believe people can play other games besides the ones they consider "the best" xDDDDDDD

Lol true if people only played the best games COD wouldn't sell so many copies.

THE TRUTH HAS BEEN SPOKEN xDDDDDDDDDD

Molag_Crow · June 2016

Runescape has 12k votes? the hell.. I started that game back in like 2005

didn't think people still actually played it

Mojmir · June 2016

Rex-Umbra wrote: »

Mojmir wrote: »

but its not the best.

Then why are you here?

Cause I haven't found the best maybe? Lol

UltimaJoe777 · June 2016

Molag_Crow wrote: »

Runescape has 12k votes? the hell.. I started that game back in like 2005 didn't think people still actually played it

Someone said it's likely a bot voting multiple times via multiple IPs and that could very well be it. Far as I'm concerned Runescape ended at Runescape 2 and even that was bleh. Jagex just kept piling on the useless crap more and more... Runescape 3 is their pitiful attempt at a 3D MMO and it's no longer Runescape as a result so yeah 12k votes is definitely bogus.

Neirymn · June 2016

I voted ESO because I don't like any of the others. Coming from FFXI, I could have voted for FFXIV but as the game has very enjoyable performances, I despise a lot of the decisions they've made and quit that game. As for ESO, I am happy with the decisions they've made for the game but lags and bugs are annoying, I have faith that they'll eventually fix those.

Kendaric · June 2016

Jaronking wrote: »

Kendaric wrote: »

ESO has my vote, though it was close with SWTOR and TSW.
As a casual quester and RPer, ESO is pretty good compared to most of the competion.

I have to asked played Swtor for a very long time.as a serious player and as a casual role player what put this game over Swtor in your opinion?I personally feel Swtor quest were more entertaining then ESO.I still remember the initial quest after becoming a apprentice to Lord Zash as a Sith Inquisitor you had to defame and take over this fellow Sith lord Cult.It was amazingly written on made you feel like a true Sith.

The problem with SWTOR is the story disparity... like most of the Empire's class stories are very well written and fun to play while the Republic's stories aren't nearly as good. I actually prefer SWTOR's main (class) stories to ESO's main story, but ESO has, for example, more engaging sidequests.
From an RPers point of view SWTOR is also a lot more limited than ESO. The class design and weapon restrictions in SWTOR are big hinderance to RP.

Mojmir · June 2016

there was no option for "meh,I'm already invested"

Lysette · June 2016

Molag_Crow wrote: »

Runescape has 12k votes? the hell.. I started that game back in like 2005 didn't think people still actually played it

To me that looks more like the work of a voting bot than real votes anyway.

Solid_Metal · June 2016

ESO is great, but not the best, still vote ESO tho, since its the only MMO that i still play right now, i never played EvE and only play runescap briefly

Lysette · June 2016

Solid_Metal wrote: »

ESO is great, but not the best, still vote ESO tho, since its the only MMO that i still play right now, i never played EvE and only play runescap briefly

EVE is a totally different genre anyway - it's a space game, sandbox and not theme park, mainly player-driven content with a lot of freedom what you can do and just a rudimentary tutorial - you are free, but you have to figure out your destiny by yourself. There is no hand-holding like in ESO - you are thrown into the universe with no period of grace and you have to find your own path in it. About 50% of those trying it, give up after 2 hours, because they cannot manage to have that much freedom. Well, and for some it might just be too complex and some might be scared of it being all pvp.

martinhpb16_ESO · June 2016

i wont vote for ESO until they put some difficulty back into quests and open world.

Turelus · June 2016

Lysette wrote: »

Solid_Metal wrote: »

ESO is great, but not the best, still vote ESO tho, since its the only MMO that i still play right now, i never played EvE and only play runescap briefly

EVE is a totally different genre anyway - it's a space game, sandbox and not theme park, mainly player-driven content with a lot of freedom what you can do and just a rudimentary tutorial - you are free, but you have to figure out your destiny by yourself. There is no hand-holding like in ESO - you are thrown into the universe and have to find your own path in it. About 50% of those trying it, give up after 2 hours, because they cannot manage to have that much freedom.

Also after about six iterations the NPE is still horrible and doesn't help you grasp anything. Most of the people I have taken to the game only stuck around because I was there to explain things for their first month, without that guide (be it a friend or a good player corp) the NPE still is too awkward to grasp.

Mush55 · June 2016

I would of voted Eso, but when each update constantly breaks the game, you have bugs that have been here from day one.

When you have a public test server to help iron out bugs issues and imbalances to help the producer and then all feed back is totally ignored .

I have had fun but these days it's harder to find see above..

Lysette · June 2016

Turelus wrote: »

Lysette wrote: »

Solid_Metal wrote: »

ESO is great, but not the best, still vote ESO tho, since its the only MMO that i still play right now, i never played EvE and only play runescap briefly

EVE is a totally different genre anyway - it's a space game, sandbox and not theme park, mainly player-driven content with a lot of freedom what you can do and just a rudimentary tutorial - you are free, but you have to figure out your destiny by yourself. There is no hand-holding like in ESO - you are thrown into the universe and have to find your own path in it. About 50% of those trying it, give up after 2 hours, because they cannot manage to have that much freedom.

Also after about six iterations the NPE is still horrible and doesn't help you grasp anything. Most of the people I have taken to the game only stuck around because I was there to explain things for their first month, without that guide (be it a friend or a good player corp) the NPE still is too awkward to grasp.

Yes, in a way, but it helps to guide them to the career agents - but that is not really the problem, I think, it is more that people might have a real problem to find their destiny and some might not want to learn how to fit their ships and other might not have the patience required to play EVE. Actually the tutorial is still popping up immediately - but if they press "dismiss" it will never show again without reset.

It basically show after a brief period in the game, if someone is able to become an EVE player or not - I mean there are up to 30 days of free trial meanwhile, that is more than enough time to figure that out. And that trial can be redone as often as they wish with new characters. I had someone in chat lately, for whom it took 8 trials until he finally subscribed.

Peekachu99 · June 2016

Base game and ideas are great... Customer response, PR and programmers, not so much.

ESO is fun, but you've got serious rose-tinted shades on to vote it "best".

Lysette · June 2016

It depends really a lot on how you play ESO and on which platform. I play on PC and do mainly PvE and to me the game runs very well currently, I have no issues. For someone else who likes PvP or plays on console this might look totally different.

Elsonso · June 2016

frateanu.luiseb17_ESO wrote: »

http://www.mmogames.com/topmmos/best-mmorpg-2016-far/

VOTE ESO !!!

Not a chance in Hell the Deadlands.

1. Lack of commitment to cheating. They are all talk, and they don't even do that very well. Even if cheating does not directly impact a player, it does so indirectly. People leave games where cheating happens. ZOS just doesn't appear to take it seriously. They say they take it seriously, but I feel the players take it more seriously. Why should I take the game more seriously than they do?

2. PVE Latency. Skills that don't fire. Half second delays when opening things, interacting with mail, etc. Mobs that are dead but my client does let me know about it for 2-3 seconds. Mobs that are stunned but don't fall to the ground until my third hit, then they pop back up immediately. Combat is interesting when you don't get to see what happened until after your next attack. This stuff happens daily, to some degree, even when there is no lag or signs of latency in their "latency meter".

3. Bugs. I think they introduce almost as many new ones as they fix, and they only fix a fraction of the bugs that are out there. Exploits are out there for months and never get fixed. Broken skills that never get fixed. They seem so casual about the quality of their game. Again, why should I take the game more seriously than they do?

4. I am an Elder Scrolls player going back to Morrowind, and involved with online multiplayer RPG games from long before that. I should feel right at home with ESO, and I did, but (again) I am starting to feel like I am an outsider. When I play an RPG game, I play for character progression and interesting things to do. ZOS is scaling back on both of those and deliberately making a game that is really only good for a couple months of play, then there is nothing left to do until some DLC comes out. I am not, and never will be, a person that just logs in for "raids" with friends. I am also not a vacation player. When I leave a game, I tend to be gone for a good long time.* Years. I don't have much time in my life for old games that I have lost interest in. There are too many games I have yet to play, and new games come out every year.

5. I am tired of them making the game so we cannot fail. Hand holding is annoying. I am not a child. They seem intent to make sure that no matter where we are, or what we do, everything is weaker than us. I like the idea of One Tamriel, and I am even OK with some battle leveling, but there will be no place in One Tamriel where you need to fear for your life once this rolls out. Forever lost will be the feeling of challenge by going into places where you might die, and the subsequent feeling of accomplishment when you don't. We will be "Neo" fighting the "Agents" at the end of the Matrix. Fighting with one hand while yawning with the other.

6. I believe that they have the wrong person in charge of combat mechanics. Not going to say anything more.

7. ZOS has Crown fever, and it is not clear whether this is because they are on their last leg and need cash NOW, or whether they are just raking in cash now against a bleak future when the game is less popular. Remember what I said about "interesting things to do"? Well, Crown Store does not even come close, yet it seems to be what ZOS thinks everyone is doing. In any given update, I now expect that most of it will be Crown Store, DLC and base game. ESO Plus is struggling to hold against that, even with the Bag of Holding, since many of these Crown Store features are things that should really be included (or cheaper) with ESO Plus. I feel like I am a subscriber that is being nickeled and dimed with "extra charges and fees". The 1500 Crowns per month really does not cut it anymore.

I really can't vote for ESO. It does not matter. RuneScape seems to be stealing the vote. Probably does not matter what anyone else votes for since it is now rigged.

* I have said that I will be here, in the game, on the very last day that the PC/Mac NA server is up.

Molag_Crow · June 2016

UltimaJoe777 wrote: »

Molag_Crow wrote: »

Runescape has 12k votes? the hell.. I started that game back in like 2005 didn't think people still actually played it

Someone said it's likely a bot voting multiple times via multiple IPs and that could very well be it. Far as I'm concerned Runescape ended at Runescape 2 and even that was bleh. Jagex just kept piling on the useless crap more and more... Runescape 3 is their pitiful attempt at a 3D MMO and it's no longer Runescape as a result so yeah 12k votes is definitely bogus.

Indeed

I think Runescape "died" around 2007 and I know there's a classic server, but you have to be a member to play it lmao anyway, I'm not disrespecting the game though... it was amazing back in the day, spent years on it :P

Derra · June 2016

Sharee wrote: »

Grao wrote: »

Sharee wrote: »

Grao wrote: »

frateanu.luiseb17_ESO wrote: »

http://www.mmogames.com/topmmos/best-mmorpg-2016-far/

VOTE ESO !!!

Copying my response from the same thread on Reddit.

Considering Zenimax is part of the package with ESO, the game doesn't deserve to win.

It's called best MMO poll, not best company poll.

Yes, because the company developing the game doesn't affect at all the player's experience. Sigh...

Then judge the experience. Not the company.

"i do not like this game because the experience is bad" is okay
"i do not like this game because it was made by company X" is not okay

If the experience is bad because of development choices it´s entirely okay to state that.

ZOS does a horrible job at maintaining the game and the reason why many people are discontent with the game is because of the choices the studio is making.
The game experience is bad bc someone at the studio running the game is doing a terrible job.

Sausage · June 2016

Wheres Conan Exiles!

Clerics1985 · June 2016

RebornV3x wrote: »

I'm surprised FF14 doesn't have more votes than TESO thats the real question here FF14 is amazing probably the best fantasy MMO next to WOW

imo that is Fail FF lost it's luster after 7

idk · June 2016

While I like the game overall the Devs planning is still poor at 2 years +. They continue to demonstrate they are out of touch with the game, most notably the recent comment that ESO does not have hard core gamers. The Devs seem to think they only have uber casuals that play a week or two per quarter.

Faulgor · June 2016

UltimaJoe777 wrote: »

mistermutiny89 wrote: »

UltimaJoe777 wrote: »

mistermutiny89 wrote: »

UltimaJoe777 wrote: »

mistermutiny89 wrote: »

UltimaJoe777 wrote: »

mistermutiny89 wrote: »

Please don't give ZoS anymore awards for this game until they fix all the performance issues. They don't deserve any of them.

They're not. It's an award for the game, not the devs.

You don't give a painting an award when it wins, you give the award to the artist...

(Where was that guy's head just now?) haha.

Wrong. At best the painting itself is the artist's award when the painting gets the award. You don't see people admiring the artist when the painting is prized, you see them admiring the painting.

Name one of Van Gough or Picasso's paintings..without using Google.

I win. You admire the painting but award the artist. Same with game awards.

If you wish to proclaim victory on that statement so quickly how about YOU name one? And when you do who is to say you didn't use Google?

I win.

Haha I can't name one either because it's the artist that is remembered. Which proves my debate. You aren't the brightest are you?! Hahahaha. Wow.

Anyway, enough semantics... No more awards for ZoS until they fix performance. End of.

No, it does not. Quite the opposite actually. We play ESO and know about ESO. We do not come here to discuss art as art fans. It is expected neither of us can name one because neither of us cares enough to know such things. Seems you're the one that's not so bright huh? Don't play the analogy out if you can't see it through.

Oh, come on. If you know who these people are, you should also at least know Picasso's Guernica or Van Gogh's Starry Night!

And if you don't, "self portrait" is always a reasonable guess, lol.

Clerics1985 · June 2016

Lysette wrote: »

Me too, EVE Online, with no doubt.

have you any info into on the state of affairs in my home "huola"? *amarrian at the time, besides the Friendly "ish" huolagans* I haven't been on in about 6 months due to the ESO grind lol

Derra · June 2016

Giles.floydub17_ESO wrote: »

While I like the game overall the Devs planning is still poor at 2 years +. They continue to demonstrate they are out of touch with the game, most notably the recent comment that ESO does not have hard core gamers. The Devs seem to think they only have uber casuals that play a week or two per quarter.

There was a statement eso does not have hardcore gamers?

Well if you´re as bad as zenimax is in providing a stable endgame environment in pve (content - hello 1 new trial after 12+ months is a joke) and pvp (lag, balance, lag, lag again, crashes, lag, bugs, broken skills, exploiting, cheat engine) - i guess it´s no wonder almost every hardcore player has left the game.
Oh the irony.

Balamoor · June 2016

ESO got my vote but it was close because SWTOR has done some awesome things too .

But that poll will not be very accurate as you can easily stack votes. At least MMORPG.com and Massivlyop makes it somewhat harder with requiring a log in.

so neat poll but at the end of the day it means jack.