Dec 13
I Hate 2007
This has been a crappy, crappy year.
- Blizzard releases an expansion that’s great – and I’ve barely played it.
- Vanguard flops
- Cryptic sells CoH, and now is completely silent.
- WAR and Conan are delayed until 2008.
- Ryzom goes under, again.
- Perpetual explodes, sending shards of two unreleased games flying.
- My EQII experience has gotten kind of crappy.
- Auto Assault closes.
- LOTRO releases to relatively positive reviews – and I’ve barely played it.
Most distressing for me, personally, is that in the last two weeks I’ve killed both of my gaming PCs. I now have no way of playing even World of Warcraft, let alone something like AoC or Pirates. You wouldn’t believe how much you want to play a MMOG when you can’t.
About the only thing I have fully appreciated this year is Eye of the North, which I’m now really enjoying on my wife’s PC. I’m almost done with the Norn quest line … more about that later.
The thing that prompted this post was Fury’s demise. I said publicly in a few different places that I thought it had potential, and that I was hopeful for the little Aussie game studio. Just embarrassing. Maybe I thought that they’d take a little more time to get it right before releasing?
Whatever. Burning Crusade is obviously an unqualified success for Blizzard and the Massive industry as a whole. In fact, this year could be considered the year that Massive games went mainstream. Truck commercials, South Park appearances, Mr. T and Shatner … the only problem is that one game in the genre has gone mainstream. As a whole, new ventures this year have floundered or been delayed, while several existing titles have sunk beneath the waves. For better or worse, most of my MMOGnostication predictions have come true. That makes me bloody sad.
So: screw you 2007. Hopefully ‘08 will offer bigger, better things.
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You could always come play EVE Online with us. ;D
Eric, I believe he wanted to make the end of the year go better, not worse.
ZING!
“Hopefully ‘08 will offer bigger, better things”
Don’t get your hopes up…I remember us all saying the same thing about ‘07 back in ‘06.
[...] I Hate 2007Â - sorry man, hopefully 2008 will be better! [...]
fury will be back up friday, age of the chosen. love the game. I’m keeping fingers crossed the changes made attract enough to keep it going … so not all doom and gloom
@Heartless. snicker
@Darrenl. and in 05. and 04, well warcraft came out. and in 03. and 02, and 01. and 00.
haha.
I think 2007 was a GREAT YEAR for gamers overall, but a bit down and out for the MMO gamer. For MMO news junkies, it was a great year, albeit most news junkies are players themselves, so it cancels out.
Anyways, back to the great gaming year we’ve had.
New consoles catching fire with great games: Super Mario Galaxy, Metroid Prime 3, Halo 3, Mass Effect, and on and on and on and on and on and on and on. I haven’t touched any console games this year.
PC games doing very well: The Orange Box, Call of Duty 4, The Burning Crusade, BioShock, and on and on and on and on and on.
Honestly, if you as a gamer had a bad year, it was probably because you focus too much on MMORPGs. Not saying that is wrong, but there are off years for every genre. Playing across the spectrum of games ensures there is almost always something wroth playing.
Go play the good games and cheer yourself up, man. It’s not all gloom and doom! :D
…just mostly.
No mention of Tabula Rasa…? Not playing…?
I was playing TR until my PCs died. :P
Sorry, forgot to mention.
The saddest one IMO was Vanguard flopping. Probably because I just resubbed my old account to it. But if you are into PvP and got to play on the FFA PvP server a bit in beta/near release, and you didn’t crash or bug the fuck out, you know you had a good time. The game was fun, it just wasn’t finished or polished.
As for Warhammer and Conan being delayed, I have to disagree. I mean yeah, them not releasing this year sucks, we could be playing right now you know. But if they released on time, the game we’d be playing now would probably be a bit depressing. When the delays came most people groaned, I smiled. I’m tired of seeing unfinished games release, as are a lot of players, and I’m glad some devs finally acknowledged this as being a problem.
Oh, by the way: Hi my name is bonedead!