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Golden Cog Awards Celebrate MMO Winners
Thanks to Stratics for publishing its Golden Cog Awards for 2003, honoring "the very best of 2003's Massive Multiplayer titles... chosen through the votes of literally hundreds of Stratics staffers." Interesting or unexpected choices include Codemaster's Dragon Empires as 'Best Beta' ("populated by creatures that thrive in their ecosystem by acts of migration and foraging"), eGenesis' A Tale In The Desert as 'Most Innovative' ("...a difficult game to classify because of its pioneering nature"), and overall, Final Fantasy XI as 'MMOG Of The Year' ("...attention to detail, and a great community.")
Puzzle Pirates must be the most stupid looking MMO I have seen since Sims Online.
While FF XI's gameplay is excellent, the reasons Statics stated it is the best ("...attention to detail, and a great community") are exactly the reason why I left the game after 3 months. The world is very plastic feeling (Many buildings can't be entered, no falling, or swimming) and the comminity is horrid. The pastic world I could deal with, as it's supposed to be a console MMOG but the community is only of the worst ever. High levels who know nothing about what they are supposed to do (30+ white mages who melee, ect.)and just plain out rude people.
The folks at Stratics are either smoking something or the bar for MMOGs is getting lower and lower all the time.