Although it doesn't "officially" launch until later this week, EA and Mythic Entertainment on Sunday opened the doors to Warhammer Online for those customers who had pre-ordered the collector's edition of the game. On Tuesday, those who pre-ordered the regular edition will be allowed early entry, and on Thursday, the game officially hits store shelves and the servers will open to everyone who buys it then. IGN was in the first group, so they installed the game on Friday evening so that, on Sunday, they could begin playing the game for the review.
Let nostalgia take you back to the lands you once roamed until they were cruelly taken offline and away from us. MMOGames list the top 10 MMOs that died and left us with a hole in our hearts.
I agree when it comes to The Sims Online. That game was really fun and nothing has even come close to it. I still crave a new Sims with online multiplayer. Blows my mind they haven't done anything like that since The Sims Online or even The Sims Bustin' Out on PS2.
Kevin from Denkiphile: "The first I’d ever heard of Titan was at the height of my World of Warcraft career, which was also the same time that several games, touted as WoW-killers, came onto the market and failed miserably. It made sense to me at the time that the only thing that could kill WoW was Blizzard themselves, but this also eventually changed with the advent of session-based, microtransaction-supported games like League of Legends. Titan was supposed to revolutionize and revitalize the MMO genre, but it certainly was not the first to crash and burn before its first flight. Here are some MMOs whose ambitions flew them too close to the sun."
The closing of multiplayer services can happen for a number of reasons. Sometimes there just aren’t enough people using a product to justify keeping it running while in others it could be down to complicated legal wrangling, like expiring licensing agreements, or even a desire to bring out a new installment.
One thing is clear though – many of these discontinued games simply don’t deserve to die, to be cut down in their prime leaving players without a viable alternative and waste all that time the audience invested in them. With that in mind, this article will count down the 12 games least deserving of being shut down, the ones that players the world over wished had kept going.
This "preview" if you can call it that is totally devoid of any real content that isn't readily available in the hundreds of open beta spreads out there. Plus there isn't much of an impression to write about when you're one of the few groups to play the game before the head start. A MMO isn't an MMO until the masses of humanity are flooding the servers and over jamming the newbie zones.
The rule for a MMO should be as such: Unless the reviewer have played the game all the way to the high end levels then don't bother with the write ups. Lets not forget the fiasco that is the Age of Conan hype reviews. The first 30 levels is a magical experience while the rest of the game is an empty shell.