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The Players' Choice Awards 2018 Winners - MMORPG.com
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The Players' Choice Awards 2018 Winners - MMORPG.com
You saw our picks for the best games of 2018 already, and this past week we turned the votes over to you. Roughly 3,000 of you voted, and the results are in today... here they are, your 2018 MMORPG.com Players' Choice Award Winners!
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"This is not a game to be tossed aside lightly.
It should be thrown with great force"
As for AC Odyssey - I'm happy it became my first AC game so I got extremely positive opinion about the series and Ubisoft as a developer + Kassandra deserves her own trilogy.
Thank you for your time!
Biggest disappointment - Lost Ark not releasing in 2018.
I had low expectations of Fallout 76, and therefore couldn't be disappointed. I'm if anything baffled at them managing to surprise me with a game far worse than anything I expected.
Best Battle Royale - N/A
Best RPG - Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna The Golden Country (Write In)
Best Persistent Game - Warframe
Most improved MMO - Guild Wars 2
Most Anticipated Online Game - Anthem
Most Antipated MMO - Torchlight Frontiers
Best Overall MMO - Guild Wars 2
Got into Warframe last year and loving it.
ESO has it's good and bad points but really excels in story telling and adventuring, imo.
Really loved The Division after they got the bugs worked out so really looking towards D2 as a furtherance of the theme.
Anthem is looking like a Warframe/Destiny2 clone at this point and would be happily surprised if Anthem has something more original in it then flying, they have been putting a lot into hyping it more then The Division 2 has, anticipation is probably high because it's so close to launch.
Still loved what has been done with GW2 and very surprised it didn't get at least an honorable mention.
"We all do the best we can based on life experience, point of view, and our ability to believe in ourselves." - Naropa "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." SR Covey
Hey, you know what they say, bad press is preferable to no press.
Avowed Fallout series fanboy here and gives FO76 far more leeway than I ever would any other game.
Definitely set the bar low enough a win in the "most improved" category should be assured... well assuming they actually try to improve it.
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. Pvbs 18:2, NIV
Don't just play games, inhabit virtual worlds™
"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
"Be water my friend" - Bruce Lee
JK.. Grats to winners.
PoE
I've never heard of it before this.
Atlas, you're the worst pirate game I've ever heard of.
But you have heard of it!
EQ1, EQ2, SWG, SWTOR, GW, GW2 CoH, CoV, FFXI, WoW, CO, War,TSW and a slew of free trials and beta tests
Says the a guy that had Maxine Waters as his avatar for non-4chan non-subreddit non-redhat non-alexjonesy reasons.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. Pvbs 18:2, NIV
Don't just play games, inhabit virtual worlds™
"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
Not only is the game deserving of this award, the dev team is one of the best in the industry. They keep surprising me, just like the Path of Exile devs did. Try it, I don't think you'll be disappointed.
Men do not stop playing because they grow old. They grow old because they stop playing. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
21 year MMO veteran
PvP Raid Leader
Lover of The Witcher & CD Projekt Red
These are interesting choices. Also, whoever said BDO deserved GOTY - LOL.
I had no idea, for example, you need 1 mil credits in order to trade, with another player, a high level mod.
I hope the MMORPG staff participated in the voting as well, individually.They play these games, too, after all.
Not going to repeat myself from the other award thread. Will just say that I think it's telling that the closest competitor to ESO for "Best Overall" was Black Desert - another MMO that favors the open-world, "play how you want" approach and seems to do it well. I've not played it much to have an informed opinion, but what I saw did seem pretty open.
It seems to be (and I hope it is) a sign that we're finally coming back to players preferring the freedom and agency rigid, linear themepark MMOs can't provide.
I haven't played Warframe a whole lot yet, but it's a hell of a lot of fun. So congrats to Digital Extremes for a great game, and for proving all those Publishers who said "it won't work" wrong in such grand fashion.
And of course, congrats to all the other winners as well.
You have to constantly rank up new weapons to progress. That isn't so bad, kind of cool really at first glance, but to keep progressing you can't ever use any of the weapons you've already ranked up. So, what's the point in ranking them up when the game has a never ending cycle that encourages you not to use fully ranked weapons?
Stupid.. so I quit playing.