MMORPG's Top Games Of The Year 2019 - MMORPG.com

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MMORPG's Top Games Of The Year 2019 - MMORPG.com

Every year sites around the internet hand out awards for the best games to release in that calendar year. Here at MMORPG, we approached our Game of the Year list as more of a "Games of the Year." These are the games that we, as the editorial staff, felt were the best games to release in 2019 for each of us.

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Slapshot1188

WTH?
Was this posted in error on the wrong site ?

Aeander

Thanks for giving Fire Emblem its due credit. One of the best games ever made.



I was shocked when this site gave no coverage or review to this deep SRPG, while spotlighting other, lesser single player RPGs, and I thought that was just part of the usual critical snubbing that strategy games and JRPGs get.

Halibrand

I come here for articles about MMOs.

Glad you're having fun with your Nintendo, or whatever.

Aeander

Halibrand said:

I come here for articles about MMOs.

Glad you're having fun with your Nintendo, or whatever.

Well, if all you are here for is MMOs, you're in for a dry news cycle for... well, ever.

DMKano said:

A couple of good games listed.

Still- my conclusion- the writers have terrible taste for games

Maybe you're the one with bad taste? I only see one potentially bad game here - Dauntless. Maybe you've just become too jaded to feel anything.

Amathe

I feel that the latest in volleyball and badminton went underreported. Just talking about electronic video games is so limiting.

Aeander

Rhoklaw said:

I don't think the problem with this article is the content, but rather the title. This IS an MMO site, so why would we want a list of Top Games of the Year of games that have very little to do with the main focus of this site?

Perhaps. A title like "our staff's favorite games of 2019 might be more concise."

But if this were a list of best MMOs, it would be a short and boring affair.

ShankTheTank

Halibrand said:

I come here for articles about MMOs.



Glad you're having fun with your Nintendo, or whatever.

Maybe, just maybe, we have an article incoming about our favorite MMOs of the decade? Maybe, just maybe, we play other types of games as well and want to celebrate that?

Amathe

That could have been stated "Stay tuned. We have some articles on mmos upcoming." But why miss a chance to be snotty towards a reader of your website? 

Aeander

Amathe said:

That could have been stated "Stay tuned. We have some articles on mmos upcoming." But why miss a chance to be snotty towards a reader of your website? 

Sigh. To be frank, the "that's not a MMO" line has been repeated to the point of exhaustion. This horse has been beaten to a fine pulp and now releases a sickening squelching sound every time someone hits it.

What they should do is sticky an official response to such comments. 

Amathe

Aeander said:

Amathe said:

That could have been stated "Stay tuned. We have some articles on mmos upcoming." But why miss a chance to be snotty towards a reader of your website? 

Sigh. To be frank, the "that's not a MMO" line has been repeated to the point of exhaustion. This horse has been beaten to a fine pulp.

What they should do is sticky an official response to such comments. 

That horse likely will be beaten for so long as a website that calls itself mmorpg.com continues to drift farther and farther from any discussion of mmorpgs, now to the point of having a game of the year list that doesn't mention mmorpgs. It's really gotten to where I question why they don't cover college basketball. Not that basketball is a bad thing. But still. 

3dom

Imagine if Control had multiplayer with character customization - that could become the game of the decade, easily. Hopefully, some other company will pick up this gameplay (and setting) to make an MMORPG around it since its own developers are incapable to do so.

Aeander

Amathe said:

Aeander said:

Amathe said:

That could have been stated "Stay tuned. We have some articles on mmos upcoming." But why miss a chance to be snotty towards a reader of your website? 

Sigh. To be frank, the "that's not a MMO" line has been repeated to the point of exhaustion. This horse has been beaten to a fine pulp.

What they should do is sticky an official response to such comments. 

That horse likely will be beaten for so long as a website that calls itself mmorpg.com continues to drift farther and farther from any discussion of mmorpgs, now to the point of having a game of the year list that doesn't mention mmorpgs. It's really to the point that I question why they don't cover college basketball. Not that basketball is a bad thing. But still. 

Here's the problem. The site has fuck all to cover. They still need to turn a profit and keep the website running until there is something to cover, but they can't do that off the back of the same 5 games (WoW, FFXIV, Guild Wars 2, ESO, and Black Desert). 

If a MMORPG website's best games of the year don't include any MMOs, that is reflective of the state of the genre.

We're in such a bad state that some of us are actually pretending that Black Desert is a good game. We're in such a bad state that people bought Astellia and Bless. We are in such a bad state that survival trash and looter shooters have all but entirely replaced the MMO.

ultimateduck

So many tears. I'd be willing to bet everyone here plays multiple forms of games on multiple platforms. It's ok to like and review other things.

Slapshot1188

Aeander said:

Amathe said:

Aeander said:

Amathe said:

That could have been stated "Stay tuned. We have some articles on mmos upcoming." But why miss a chance to be snotty towards a reader of your website? 

Sigh. To be frank, the "that's not a MMO" line has been repeated to the point of exhaustion. This horse has been beaten to a fine pulp.

What they should do is sticky an official response to such comments. 

That horse likely will be beaten for so long as a website that calls itself mmorpg.com continues to drift farther and farther from any discussion of mmorpgs, now to the point of having a game of the year list that doesn't mention mmorpgs. It's really to the point that I question why they don't cover college basketball. Not that basketball is a bad thing. But still. 

Here's the problem. The site has fuck all to cover. They still need to turn a profit and keep the website running until there is something to cover, but they can't do that off the back of the same 5 games.

If a MMORPG website's best games of the year don't include any MMOs, that is reflective of the state of the genre.

We're in such a bad state that some of us are actually pretending that Black Desert is a good game. We're in such a bad state that people bought Astellia and Bless. We are in such a bad state that survival trash and looter shooters have all but entirely replaced the MMO.

Then it sounds like a perfect opportunity for the staff to have used the Best Games of 2019 to call that out and make that the focus of the article.  When I haven’t even heard of many of the games listed(let alone played them) it indicates that there is a disconnect between me and the staff. I don’t think I’m alone.   If I want to read about console games of the year there are other places where that is the focus.

Amathe

Aeander said:

 

Here's the problem. The site has fuck all to cover.

Respectfully I disagree. They have gotten lazy, overly dependent on prepackaged news sent to them by developers, and overly influenced by ad revenue. Those are the problems.

Time and again I see posters on this website share news days ahead of the news staff on this site. And sometimes that's the only real news you will find. It wasn't always so. They used to have a more diligent and professional staff.

Go look at the "Games List" page of this website. There are hundreds of games listed there. You think nothing is going on in any of them? Of course there is. But you would have to do some looking, instead of just cutting and pasting what someone sends you. You would have to read gaming websites and ferret out the news. but they're not. 

it's not that there is no mmorpg news. Of course there is. It's that there is less news they get paid for reporting. 

Sovrath

DMKano said:

Aeander said:

Halibrand said:

I come here for articles about MMOs.

Glad you're having fun with your Nintendo, or whatever.

Well, if all you are here for is MMOs, you're in for a dry news cycle for... well, ever.

DMKano said:

A couple of good games listed.

Still- my conclusion- the writers have terrible taste for games

Maybe you're the one with bad taste? I only see one potentially bad game here - Dauntless. Maybe you've just become too jaded to feel anything.

No mention of Disco Elysium - means they dont know shit.

It's not me, sorry 

Maybe they didn't play Disco Elysium. Or maybe they didn't like it.

I hear great things but I would never touch it as the setting is of no interest to me. I'm sure it's an amazing game and that a lot of role playing games might learn a thing or two from it from what I've read.

I still won't play it.

Tiller

I actually don't care if they talk about other games beyond MMOs here, the MMO industry is stagnate. I've found myself spending more time in single player games than MMOs the last few years and this is a better place to talk about games than Steam forums.

Ltldogg

I will

Amathe said:

Aeander said:

 

Here's the problem. The site has fuck all to cover.

Respectfully I disagree. They have gotten lazy, overly dependent on prepackaged news sent to them by developers, and overly influenced by ad revenue. Those are the problems.

Time and again I see posters on this website share news days ahead of the news staff on this site. And sometimes that's the only real news you will find. It wasn't always so. They used to have a more diligent and professional staff.

Go look at the "Games List" page of this website. There are hundreds of games listed there. You think nothing is going on in any of them? Of course there is. But you would have to do some looking, instead of just cutting and pasting what someone sends you. You would have to read gaming websites and ferret out the news. but they're not. 

it's not that there is no mmorpg news. Of course there is. It's that there is less news they get paid for reporting. 

I'll go one step further and say that there are indeed stories to cover and uncover if the journalists on this site actually spent time in the official forums for any active MMO. If that isn't fun or interesting, then they should shut down this site and move on to something else. That's the job and that's what will bring in and back readers. I frequent many MMO forums and there are plenty of newsworthy stories to discuss and report on.

Halibrand

ShankTheTank said:

Halibrand said:

I come here for articles about MMOs.





Glad you're having fun with your Nintendo, or whatever.

Maybe, just maybe, we have an article incoming about our favorite MMOs of the decade? Maybe, just maybe, we play other types of games as well and want to celebrate that?

The website is called MMORPG. The first word of the title of this article is MMORPG.

All you had to do, to do a better job, would have been to title the article: Our Top Non-MMO Games of the Year.

Or was it intended as clickbait for the portion of us that wouldn't care?

lotrlore

For those who are wondering - I really appreciate the feedback here. It's been an interesting few months for sure.

As for our MMO lists, we're going to be doing features all next week on our MMOs of the Decade, breaking down the MMOs that were influential on each of us over the last ten years. So stay tuned for that. 

Slapshot1188

lotrlore said:

For those who are wondering - I really appreciate the feedback here. It's been an interesting few months for sure.

As for our MMO lists, we're going to be doing features all next week on our MMOs of the Decade, breaking down the MMOs that were influential on each of us over the last ten years. So stay tuned for that. 

That’s great and all... but we get those every few months.   So your actually saying MMORPG.COM is skipping an MMORPG game of the year?

Pretty sad on many levels.

silentfury007

Great list!

Amathe

I also don't believe that mmorpg.com gave what it said would be "MMORPG's Top Games Of The Year 2019 - MMORPG.com," without mentioning any mmorpgs, and not expect people to react with "hey, what the hell?" No. They knew there would be backlash. I feel trolled. Is this where we are? Trolling the readers for clicks? I dislike being used. 

lotrlore

Slapshot1188 said:

lotrlore said:

For those who are wondering - I really appreciate the feedback here. It's been an interesting few months for sure.

As for our MMO lists, we're going to be doing features all next week on our MMOs of the Decade, breaking down the MMOs that were influential on each of us over the last ten years. So stay tuned for that. 

That’s great and all... but we get those every few months.   So your actually saying MMORPG.COM is skipping an MMORPG game of the year?

Pretty sad on many levels.

Stay tuned for this too, We will have this next week!

StevenWeber

Sovrath said:

DMKano said:

Aeander said:

Halibrand said:

I come here for articles about MMOs.

Glad you're having fun with your Nintendo, or whatever.

Well, if all you are here for is MMOs, you're in for a dry news cycle for... well, ever.

DMKano said:

A couple of good games listed.

Still- my conclusion- the writers have terrible taste for games

Maybe you're the one with bad taste? I only see one potentially bad game here - Dauntless. Maybe you've just become too jaded to feel anything.

No mention of Disco Elysium - means they dont know shit.

It's not me, sorry 

Maybe they didn't play Disco Elysium. Or maybe they didn't like it.

I hear great things but I would never touch it as the setting is of no interest to me. I'm sure it's an amazing game and that a lot of role playing games might learn a thing or two from it from what I've read.

I still won't play it.

It may surprise people to know that we don't always get to play every game ever in existence. Honestly, even if Disco Elysium did cross the review board, it's not like we all get to play it. One person picks it up, the rest of us generally play whatever else comes up. 

It's hard time-wise, but not impossible, to play games that aren't assigned as reviews, previews and our regular MMO's.  For me, there has to be a specific game that I'm really interested in, with a known release window, so that I can plan some time to play it on release. There were only a handful of games this year I was able to do that with, unfortunately. 

Sometimes it's a blessing, sometimes it's a curse. Sometimes we find gems that aren't popular, but are still great games. Other times we're playing games that aren't very fun, or tedious. 

I'd like to say that I can dole out honorable mentions for games I haven't played, but that would be misleading and ineffectual.