Massivelys Best Of 2022 Awards Best PseudoMMO Of The 12 Months

Massively's end-of-the-year awards proceed at the moment with our award for the very best Pseudo-MMO of the year. This is all the time a difficult category since it forces us to define MMOs. This 12 months, we opted to make eligible any online sport that is not a pure and traditional MMORPG, games we would cowl in Not So Massively: mobile MMOs, console MMOs, OARPGs, MOBAs, MMOFPS titles, MMORTS titles, and so forth. And of course, the game will need to have launched in 2014. All of our writers had been invited to solid a vote, but not all of them chose to take action for this category. Remember to cast your individual vote within the just-for-fun reader poll at the very end.

The Massively employees pick for Greatest Pseudo-MMO of 2014 is...

@nyphur: Elite: Dangerous. Despite the fact that there is not any offline mode, the graphics and gameplay in Elite: Harmful do look wonderful, and it is spectacular what they've managed to attain on a fraction of the finances that Star Citizen has. It remains to be seen if the exploration factor of the sport will stay as much as expectations and if the online gameplay is compelling in the long run, however I am still cautiously optimistic about Elite: Harmful going ahead.

@nbrianna/blog: This year was truly slim-pickings for brand new pseudo-MMO launches; Destiny just sucked the air from the room, and the sub-genres, like MOBAs particularly, are already pretty locked up by existing games with out a whole lot of room for newcomers. I would wish to have voted for Marvel Heroes, however this yr's "2015" rebrand did not reeeeeaaaally make it a brand-new recreation. MINECRAFT SERVERS LIST am not a TCGer, but I am going to throw in for Hearthstone. It is shiny, it's tight, and it exhibits Blizzard hasn't forgotten the right way to make cash by sprucing the fundamentals.

@Eliot_Lefebvre/blog: Crud, I do not know. Dragon Age: Inquisition has multiplayer; does that depend? I am voting for it anyway.

@jefreahard: Space Engineers. We don't actually cowl it, I suppose, but I want we did. Certain, it's space Minecraft, and what may probably be better? A few of the best gaming moments of 2014 for me involved a couple of mates, a private SE server, and the limitless creativity and addictive gameplay that SE consistently fosters. Oh and some Firefly-universe roleplay.

@Sypster/weblog: Hearthstone. Drawing from both the World of Warcraft and Magic: The Gathering pools of inspiration, Hearthstone rofflestomped its way to domination. It's all the more wonderful that Blizzard did this with a comparatively small crew and didn't draw back from using a free-to-play system that allowed gamers to earn in-recreation gold with out spending money. Plus -- and this could have gone first -- it is a terrific recreation that's playable cross-platform.

@MikedotFoster/blog: Dark Souls II. I do know Darkish Souls isn't "on-line" in the way in which MMO players think of it, however From Software program found some actually superb ways to combine other gamers into what is in any other case a single-participant experience. Invasions, co-op summons, and hilarious/helpful/completely misleading notes are what make Darkish Souls really feel like a one-of-a-kind title.

@MJ_Guthrie/blog: For the enjoyable issue on top of the nostalgia, my vote goes to LEGO Minifigures Online! You get to build with LEGOs and destroy things too, so it is double the fun. And are available on, LEGO minifigs! They are simply adorable.

Let's have your vote!%Poll-90265%Our awards to this point... Massively's Better of 2014 Awards, Day 6: Finest Pseudo-MMO of the Yr - Hearthstone

Massively's Better of 2014 Awards, Day 5: Biggest Disappointment - Tie: WildStar & ArcheAge

Massively's Best of 2014 Awards, Day 4: Finest MMO Studio - Sony On-line Entertainment

Massively's Better of 2014 Awards, Day 3: Most Improved MMO - Final Fantasy XIV

Massively's Better of 2014 Awards, Day 2: Greatest Story of the Yr - ArcheAge's melodrama

Massively's Best of 2014 Awards, Day 1: Most Underrated MMO - Elite: Dangerous