MMORPGs are some of the most a🐓mbitious titles within the video game industry, providing ജmassive worlds for players to explore with incredible visual fidelity.
Or, at least they should. Most MMO titles have been hit or miss this past decade, failing to resonate with many gamers compared to popular titles like 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:World of Warcraft and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Guild Wars. There are a few good ones, but the vast majority of titles have been dull or lacking in execution. For this list, we will be looking at the 10 worst MMORPGs that were supported this decade. That means they could have been released before 2010, but they must have had active, supported servers betwee💛n 2010 and 2019.
10 🃏 Dungeons & Dragons Onl𒁏ine - 74/6.9
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dungeons & Dragons is 𒅌one of the most popular tabletop RPGs in the world, providingꦯ a phenomenal set of rules and adventures for groups .
D&D Online isn't bad. In fact, it is the best D&D MMO of its type to ♕translate the ruleset into video game form rather well. The issue is its free to play model hurts the gam෴e more than it helps. An optional sub, multiple expansions, XP tomes, and so much more is locked behind a paywall that can add up to multiple hundreds of dollars to fully experience this game.
9 🔯 Black Desert Online - 73/6.9
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Black Desert Online provides some of the most satisfying combat in the entire industry wiཧth some of the most infuriating game d﷽esign and monetization methods you will ever see.
Players slash through hordes of enemies in a vein similar to 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Devil May Cry. Attacks are resp꧑onsive, sound incredible, and shower the screen with an array of numbers and effects. Unfortunately, the cash shop slices through your wallet just as well, containing cosmetics you can resell for in-game currency or pets that pick up loot for you. Worse yet, the grind to get good gear in this game easily takes thousands of hours of your time to achieve.
8 Allods Online - 🐎69/5.9
At first glance, Allods Online appears to be a 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:classic World of Warcraft wannabe, containing factions and quest design similꦓar to th꧅at game.
While WoW has evolved its quest, world, and general design over each expansion, Allods has instead expanded its microtransactions to appease whales. Loot boxes house some of the strongest, most essential gear in the game that all players need. Owning a ship is cool, but what is the point when the game has terrible, dated quests and is simply not fun? Fun is a subjective thing, but the quests and combat in Allods is nothing revolutionary.
7 𝓰 Vanguard: Saga of Heroes - 68/7.1 💞
Fans of Vanguard wil✤l tell you of how this promising game was sabotaged with a rushed release window and constant bug-fixing. They are right about all of it.
Created by some 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:veteran MMO game developers who worked on Everquest, Vanguard was set to recapture that magic in more modern times. After Sigil Games' deal with Microsoft went south, Sony Online Entertainment agreed to help ship the game. Problem was, they gave the team a very short period of time to finish Vanguard. The game was plagued with critical bugs and issues at launch, taking years to fix. The game was shut down in 2014. Vanguard is now known for being a soulless video game with on♊e of the worst launches of all time.
6 𝐆 💯Defiance - 64/6.6
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Borderlands made waves when it released in 20▨09, brilliantly combining the FPS and aRPG genre with randomized weapons as loot and fun cooperative play.
Defiance tried to bring this style of game to the MMO space, being one of the few console MMOs available on the seventh generation of machines and PC. The result was a complete mess. Bugs prevented quest𒁃s from finishing. Animations were wonky and made combat feel terrible. A lack of weapon feedback from sounds or animations further exasperated this problem. The story was somewhat interesting, but players would be better off watching the TV show that ran alongside this game, at least for 3 seasons before it was canceled. Having a video game influence t♏he TV show and vice versa sounded revolutionary, but the result was simply cameos of players or events and nothing more.
5 Firefall - 60/6.7 ꦺ 🏅
A single developer can have a huge influence on how a game is perceived and handled. No other video game shows this as well as Firefall, a third-person shooter MMO lead by Mark Kern, a former Blizzard employee.
Mark founded Red 5 Studios, composed of mostly developers of World of Warcraft. The game was meant to b𝓡e a third-person shooter with competitive game modes set in a large MMO universe. Due to poor overhead decisions at the studio and Mark's blinding assurance that his way was the best, the game ℱquickly died. The development team worked tirelessly in December 2015 to help maintain Firefall when all employees were informed they would not be receiving compensation for any of their recent work. Red 5 Studios would later shut down in July 2016.
4 𝕴 APB: Reloade♎d - 56/5.8
APB: Reloaded — short for All Points Bulletin — is arguably the most brilliant idea for an MMO title ever conceived. It effectively is cops vs robbers in an M🐓MO setting.
Its execution is something to be desired, however. Implied with the Reloaded in the title, APB wasn't always a free to play title. Its original version was more ambitious but even worse than the Reloaded variant. The new version made the game free to play and introduced a premium, optional subscription that was downright pay to win. When APB work🐭ed, however, it worked damn well. Whoever tries this style of game again and does it well is going to make the next MMO juggernaut in the industry.
3 💜 Final Fantasy XIV Online - 49/4.0
Before reading any further, please understand that this is talking about the original launch of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Final Fantasy XIV Online and not 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:A Realm Reborn. The MMO has never been in a better place, being one of the most updat😼ed and played MMOs of today𓆉.
The original version of FF14 was one of the worst MMOs of the decade, if not ever. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Square Enix, the developers of FF14, thought they had this game in the bag and were making a game their fans would want. Not analyzing how the industry had shifted since the releases of WoW or Guild Wars, Square released a dated and inferior product to what fans expected. Combat sucked, visuals were dated, the story was bland, and the servers were terrible. This iteration was so bad that the end of this game's lifespan consisted of an apocalyptic event, destroying nearly everything and setting the way for A Realm Reborn.
2 Defiance⛄ 2050 - 48/2.6 𓃲
You didn't misread, Defiance is on here twice. Trion Worlds announced that they were bringing Defiance to the eighth generation of consoles, those being the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
What players received was a rerelease of the same game with nearly no improvements. Not all cosmetics were transferred between both games, leaving some veteran Defiance players lacking items they bought in the last version. In terms of changes, classes were overhauled to some degree, coming💯 with new abilities. Some weapons were replaced or changed, and... that's it. No animation overhauls, few bug fixes, and lacking visual improvements. Worst of all, this game was aggressively and confusingly advertised as an entirely new video game instead of a glorified update.
1 𓆏 Infestation: Survivor Stories (formerly The WarZ) - 20/1.7
Infestation: Survivor Stories, formerly known as The WarZ, is a Magnum Opusღ in terrible design and PR. This game is the definition of false advertising, toxic deꦫvelopers, and unfun gameplay.
This 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:DayZ clone pits players against each other in a large map that is populated with zombies. The issue is plenty of the game's features, such as a large map and skills, were advertised but not in the actual product. Hammerpoint, the developers of WarZ, tried to defend their claims to no avail. They had to rename their game from The WarZ to Infestation because it too closely resembled an upcoming movie titled World War Z. This is one ཧof the worst games released in this decade, arguably ever.