Massively''s Best Of 2022 Awards: Best Pseudo-MMO Of The Year Massively''s end-of-the-year awards continue as we speak with our award for one of the best Pseudo-MMO of the yr.

Massively''s Best Of 2022 Awards: Best Pseudo-MMO Of The Year

Massively''s end-of-the-year awards continue as we speak with our award for one of the best Pseudo-MMO of the yr. This is at all times a troublesome class since it forces us to define MMOs. This yr, we opted to make eligible any on-line sport that is not a pure and conventional MMORPG, video games we would cowl in Not So Massively: cellular MMOs, console MMOs, OARPGs, MOBAs, MMOFPS titles, MMORTS titles, and so on. And naturally, the sport must have launched in 2014. All of our writers had been invited to cast a vote, but not all of them selected to do so for this class. Do not forget to solid your own vote in the simply-for-fun reader poll on the very finish.

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

@nyphur: Elite: Dangerous. Despite the fact that there''s no offline mode, the graphics and gameplay in Elite: Dangerous do look amazing, and it is spectacular what they''ve managed to realize on a fraction of the budget that Star Citizen has. It stays to be seen if the exploration issue of the sport will stay up to expectations and if the web gameplay is compelling in the long run, however I am nonetheless cautiously optimistic about Elite: Dangerous going ahead.

@nbrianna/weblog: This 12 months was really slim-pickings for brand spanking new pseudo-MMO launches; Future just sucked the air from the room, and the sub-genres, like MOBAs particularly, are already fairly locked up by current video games without an entire lot of room for newcomers. I might like to have voted for Marvel Heroes, but this yr''s "2015" rebrand did not reeeeeaaaally make it a brand-new sport. I am not a TCGer, but I will throw in for Hearthstone. It is shiny, it''s tight, and it shows Blizzard hasn''t forgotten methods to make money by sprucing the basics.

@Eliot_Lefebvre/weblog: Crud, I don''t know. Dragon Age: Inquisition has multiplayer; does that depend? I am voting for it anyway.

@jefreahard: Area Engineers. Gaming don''t really cover it, I assume, however I want we did. Certain, it''s space Minecraft, and what may possibly be better? A few of the perfect gaming moments of 2014 for me involved a couple of associates, a non-public SE server, and the infinite creativity and addictive gameplay that SE constantly fosters. Oh and a few Firefly-universe roleplay.

@Sypster/blog: Hearthstone. Drawing from each the World of Warcraft and Magic: The Gathering pools of inspiration, Hearthstone rofflestomped its option to domination. It''s all of the extra wonderful that Blizzard did this with a relatively small crew and did not shrink back from utilizing a free-to-play system that allowed gamers to earn in-sport gold without spending money. Plus -- and this could have gone first -- it is a terrific recreation that''s playable cross-platform.

@MikedotFoster/weblog: Dark Souls II. I do know Dark Souls isn''t "online" in the best way MMO gamers consider it, however From Software program discovered some actually amazing ways to combine other gamers into what''s in any other case a single-participant expertise. Invasions, co-op summons, and hilarious/helpful/totally deceptive notes are what make Darkish Souls really feel like a one-of-a-kind title.

@MJ_Guthrie/weblog: For the enjoyable factor on high of the nostalgia, my vote goes to LEGO Minifigures On-line! You get to construct with LEGOs and destroy things too, so it is double the enjoyable. And are available on, LEGO minifigs! They are simply adorable.

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Our awards to this point...
Massively''s Better of 2014 Awards, Day 6: Finest Pseudo-MMO of the Year - Hearthstone

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

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

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

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

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