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Massively's Better Of 2022 Awards: Greatest Pseudo-MMO Of The Year
Massively's end-of-the-yr awards proceed in the present day with our award for the most effective Pseudo-MMO of the yr. This is always a difficult class because it forces us to outline MMOs. This yr, we opted to make eligible any online game that isn't a pure and conventional MMORPG, games we'd cover in Not So Massively: cellular MMOs, console MMOs, OARPGs, MOBAs, MMOFPS titles, MMORTS titles, and so on. And naturally, the game should have launched in 2014. All of our writers had been invited to cast a vote, however not all of them selected to do so for this class. Remember to solid your own vote in the simply-for-fun reader poll at the very end.

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

@nyphur: Elite: Harmful. Regardless that there is not any offline mode, the graphics and gameplay in Elite: Dangerous do look wonderful, and it's spectacular what they've managed to attain on a fraction of the price range that Star Citizen has. It stays to be seen if the exploration issue of the sport will dwell as much as expectations and if the web gameplay is compelling in the long term, but I am still cautiously optimistic about Elite: Harmful going forward.

@nbrianna/blog: This 12 months was truly slim-pickings for brand new pseudo-MMO launches; Future simply sucked the air from the room, and the sub-genres, like MOBAs especially, are already fairly locked up by present video games without a whole lot of room for newcomers. I would prefer to have voted for Marvel Heroes, however this 12 months's "2015" rebrand didn't reeeeeaaaally make it a brand-new game. I'm not a TCGer, however I will throw in for Hearthstone. It is shiny, it's tight, and it exhibits Blizzard hasn't forgotten how one can become profitable by sprucing the basics.

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

@jefreahard: Space Engineers. We do not really cowl it, I guess, but I wish we did. Sure, it's area Minecraft, and what may probably be better? Stockalicious of the best gaming moments of 2014 for me involved a couple of pals, a non-public SE server, and the infinite creativity and addictive gameplay that SE continuously fosters. Oh and a few Firefly-universe roleplay.

@Sypster/blog: Hearthstone. Drawing from both the World of Warcraft and Magic: The Gathering swimming pools of inspiration, Hearthstone rofflestomped its technique to domination. It is all the more superb that Blizzard did this with a comparatively small group and didn't shy away from utilizing a free-to-play system that allowed gamers to earn in-game gold with out spending money. Plus -- and this could have gone first -- it's a terrific sport that's playable cross-platform.

@MikedotFoster/weblog: Darkish Souls II. I do know Darkish Souls is not "on-line" in the way MMO players think of it, but From Software program discovered some really superb methods to integrate different players into what is in any other case a single-participant expertise. Invasions, co-op summons, and hilarious/useful/completely deceptive notes are what make Dark Souls really feel like a one-of-a-kind title.

@MJ_Guthrie/weblog: For the fun factor on high 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 enjoyable. And are available on, LEGO minifigs! They're simply adorable.

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

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

Massively's Best of 2014 Awards, Day 4: Greatest MMO Studio - Sony Online Entertainment

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

Massively's Best of 2014 Awards, Day 2: Largest Story of the 12 months - ArcheAge's melodrama

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

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