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MMORPG.com 2021 Player's Choice Awards - Vote Now! | MMORPG.com

SystemSystem Member UncommonPosts: 12,599
edited December 2021 in News & Features Discussion

imageMMORPG.com 2021 Player's Choice Awards - Vote Now! | MMORPG.com

It's that time again: the MMORPG.com Player's Choice Awards! Awards season is taking over the games industry, and this is our time to recognize the best (and biggest disappointments) of the year that was.

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  • ScotScot Member LegendaryPosts: 24,023
    Best BR: PU Battlegrounds:
    Biggest Disappointment: New World.
    Best Persistent Online Game: GTA Online
    Most Anticipated MMO/Persistent World: The one that launches well and is great. :)
    Most Improved MMO: Really tricky to gauge, can never judge this one.
    Best Indie Game of 2021: Death's Door
    Best Role Playing Game of 2021: Solasta: Crown of the Magister
    Best MMORPG of 2021 - Player's Choice: Lotro


    Not sure how a studio is on the list for Biggest Disappointment, this list is surely for game awards not woke awards. Has Valheim launched, there could be EA's in the mix?
    ConstantineMerus
  • AeanderAeander Member LegendaryPosts: 7,990
    edited December 2021
    I just don't feel especially strongly about games this year. I do feel like Tales of Arise got snubbed pretty hard and deserved a nomination, but otherwise, it's been a pretty meh year for games.

    If a mediocre game like Deathloop is the obvious GotY winner, it really shows just how slow a year it's been.

    Edit: Big morning derp moment on my part. Thought this was for TGA. Anyway, here's my picks for the MMORPG.com awards:

    Best BR - Naraka

    Best Persistent - Warframe

    Most Anticipated - LoL MMO

    Most Improved MMO - Umm... FFXIV, I guess

    Best Indie - Kena

    Best RPG - Tales of Arise

    Best MMO - GW2. I mean, I'm going to vote for the one I play, or else it's just disingenuous.
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  • AeanderAeander Member LegendaryPosts: 7,990
    Best BR: Naraka: Bladepoint (I dont really like the genre but like this game)
    Biggest Disappointment: Elyon (awful game )
    Best Persistent Online Game: Destiny 2 
    Most Anticipated MMO/Persistent World: Embers Drift
    Most Improved MMO: Albion Online
    Best Indie Game of 2021: Valheim
    Best Role Playing Game of 2021: Tales of Arise
    Best MMORPG of 2021 - Swords of Legends Online
    Mostly solid. But it really isn't fair to call D2 the best persistent/ongoing game when the game isn't expanding - it's contracting. It's losing more content than it's getting.

    That's new to this industry, and we should be shaming it before it spreads.
    [Deleted User]Scot
  • ShutaraShutara Member UncommonPosts: 146
    Best BR: Apex Legends
    Biggest Disappointment: Crowfall
    Best Persistent Online Game: Path of Exile
    Most Anticipated MMO/Persistent World: Ashes of Creation
    Most Improved MMO: Black Desert Online
    Best Indie Game of 2021: Valheim
    Best Role Playing Game of 2021: Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous
    Best MMORPG of 2021 - Player's Choice: Albion Online
    :)
  • ScorchienScorchien Member LegendaryPosts: 8,914
    Best BR still Fortnite.. 

    Best Persistent online game still Ultima Online( and I dont think you know what persistent means)

    Most Anticipated MMO ..Profane

    Biggest Dissapointment  New World by a long shot

    Most Improved MMO ..LOTRO

    Best Indie .. Wildermyth and its 98% positive Steam reviews show the community agrees, one of the highest approval of all time Steam

    Best Role Playing .. again goes to Wildermyth , and it's not even close

    Best MMO 2021 .. FF14 from that list 
    Mendel
  • ShutaraShutara Member UncommonPosts: 146
    edited December 2021

    Scorchien said:

    Best Persistent online game still Ultima Online( and I dont think you know what persistent means)



    If you're talking continued support, then Tibia (or even further, Meridian 59) beats U:O. But You know this is all subjective, right?
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  • NephethNepheth Member RarePosts: 473
    Best MMORPG of 2021 - Player's Choice

    Most Improved MMO

    The games you picked for these two categories made me go speechless...

    Which part of swtor, bdo or neverwinter improved this year over Albion which had its best update since launch, revamping the whole open world experience and improving all the fucking maps in the game?

    And nominating New Genesis which is universality accepted as a fucking disaster and shadowlands for the best mmorpg of 2021... Like really? Book of Travelers, Gw2, Albion, Mortal Online 2 and even New World are better choices compered to those two. And I say this as a person who hates New World.
    YashaX
  • ShutaraShutara Member UncommonPosts: 146

    Nepheth said:

    Best MMORPG of 2021 - Player's Choice



    Most Improved MMO



    The games you picked for these two categories made me go speechless...



    Which part of swtor, bdo or neverwinter improved this year over Albion which had its best update since launch, revamping the whole open world experience and improving all the fucking maps in the game?



    And nominating New Genesis which is universality accepted as a fucking disaster and shadowlands for the best mmorpg of 2021... Like really? Book of Travelers, Gw2, Albion, Mortal Online 2 and even New World are better choices compered to those two. And I say this as a person who hates New World.



    But You know, there's "other" for You to write, if You'd like, right? No need to go all puffing because the games you'd prefer weren't nominated, regardless if objectively they would be a better fit (they would). It's not a grammy award voting, and your cousing isn't competing i nit either, lol. Sit this one out, please.
    YashaX
  • ConfonduConfondu Member UncommonPosts: 24
    How can this even be in the running? Best MMORPG of 2021 - Player's Choice --Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker

    Endwalker just released, and half the player base can't even log in. Who knows? But to even have it it as a contender puts your selection process in question. Well that's just IMHO.
    [Deleted User]YashaX
  • KyleranKyleran Member LegendaryPosts: 43,881
    edited December 2021
    What? No best "Block chain" game category?  Get with the times MMORPG.com.....

    Oh, that's right, there isn't any...


    [Deleted User]maskedweaselScotAeanderScorchienYashaXTheocritus

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    "I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant

    Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm

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  • maskedweaselmaskedweasel Member LegendaryPosts: 12,193
    Kyleran said:
    What? No best "Block chain" game category?  Get with the times MMORPG.com.....

    Oh, that's right, there isn't any...


    I would have tossed ember sword in the most anticipated category, just for representation.. but I get why it's not there.  Maybe next year since alpha won't release till first quarter 2022.  
    Kyleran



  • jondifooljondifool Member UncommonPosts: 1,143
    In New world most of the controversial changes lately makes a lot more sense if they had been applied before the game was released.


    You could then argue that New World could win the most improved mmo, even with only the few month of updates so far. But its a cheap shot as it is a game with such a low start threshold, that it should stil be in beta. As such it is the clear winner of most disappointing.

  • cameltosiscameltosis Member LegendaryPosts: 3,802
    Man, these awards are depressing as hell. A site dedicated to massively multiplayer games, yet half the awards are for non-mmos, and the other half include a bunch of games that aren't mmos.



    Best BR: N/A - I don't enjoy any of them

    Biggest Disappointment: Crowfall

    Best Persistent Online Game: Elite: Dangerous (i didn't like how many of the games in this category were not persistent....)

    Most Anticipated MMO/Persistent World: Camelot Unchained

    Most Improved MMO: N/A - imo they all get worse with age

    Best Indie Game of 2021: N/A - only played valheim and i didn't enjoy it

    Best Role Playing Game of 2021: N/A I didn't play a single new RPG this year as I didn't see any that looked worth playing

    Best MMORPG of 2021 - Player's Choice: I voted FFXIV, but thats purely based on heresay. No mmo on the market is currently worth my time and money

  • SamhaelSamhael Member RarePosts: 1,530
    It's sad but my vote for biggest disappointment is the same as the best MMO. None of the listed candidates appealed so even though I'm bitching about New World's dev-caused issues (and repeated bugs), it's still the only one I'm regularly playing. For now, at least. Maybe when one of those "most anticipated" games releases, things will change.
  • MaxBaconMaxBacon Member LegendaryPosts: 7,801
    Terrible options wut
    Kyleran
  • TheocritusTheocritus Member LegendaryPosts: 9,926
    Axie Infinity didnt sweep every category? I thought it was the greatest game ever?
    maskedweasel
  • VidahrVidahr Member UncommonPosts: 123
    Putting FFXIV in the top slot, lmao. Biased af.
  • KyleranKyleran Member LegendaryPosts: 43,881
    Vidahr said:
    Putting FFXIV in the top slot, lmao. Biased af.
    Well you can't deny the bar is set pretty low these days...


    "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






  • lahnmirlahnmir Member LegendaryPosts: 5,043
    Best BR: Naraka: Bladepoint (I dont really like the genre but like this game)
    Biggest Disappointment: Elyon (awful game )
    Best Persistent Online Game: Destiny 2 
    Most Anticipated MMO/Persistent World: Embers Drift
    Most Improved MMO: Albion Online
    Best Indie Game of 2021: Valheim
    Best Role Playing Game of 2021: Tales of Arise
    Best MMORPG of 2021 - Swords of Legends Online
    Just did the Tales of Arise demo and damn, it looks, plays and feels really solid, I kind of gave up on the series after Vesperia but I’ll probably buy this one next week. The series X runs it quite beautifully at 4k too.

    /Cheers,
    Lahnmir
    'the only way he could nail it any better is if he used a cross.'

    Kyleran on yours sincerely 


    'But there are many. You can play them entirely solo, and even offline. Also, you are wrong by default.'

    Ikcin in response to yours sincerely debating whether or not single-player offline MMOs exist...



    'This does not apply just to ED but SC or any other game. What they will get is Rebirth/X4, likely prettier but equally underwhelming and pointless. 

    It is incredibly difficult to design some meaningfull leg content that would fit a space ship game - simply because it is not a leg game.

    It is just huge resource waste....'

    Gdemami absolutely not being an armchair developer

  • YashaXYashaX Member EpicPosts: 3,098
    Everything about this survey is so ... wrong. 

    Why isn't New World a choice for best mmo in 2021? It's not like a AAA mmo gets released every year. Also, why not lead with the question "Best mmo of 2021", instead of hiding it right down at the bottom of the list? Why the seemingly random choices for "most improved mmo? Why did you choose to put BR at the top of the list? Why rpgs are not included in best indie game?
    Iselin[Deleted User]The_KorriganNilden
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  • ScotScot Member LegendaryPosts: 24,023
    YashaX said:
    Everything about this survey is so ... wrong. 

    Why isn't New World a choice for best mmo in 2021? It's not like a AAA mmo gets released every year. Also, why not lead with the question "Best mmo of 2021", instead of hiding it right down at the bottom of the list? Why the seemingly random choices for "most improved mmo? Why did you choose to put BR at the top of the list? Why rpgs are not included in best indie game?
    I can't see how New World could be in with a shot for best MMO, NW could get that and most improved next year mind you. The order of the list is not that good I agree, but most improved is an important category. I think RPGs should be separate from Indie, do you mean also have a Indie RPG category, not quite sure what the problem is there?
    klash2def
  • GrogooGrogoo Newbie CommonPosts: 2
    I did not have a vote for all categories because I frankly don't have enough experience with some of the titles.

    Voted most disappointing as New World.
    Voted most anticipated as Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen.
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