1. Best Graphic Best Marketing
Love Aion
Even if only the pay-to- The year 2009 has just NCSoft hit hard with
play Alpha has been ended. Even though we are the marketing
published, this game campaign and the
still in our infancy, we at OMG
affirms itself as one of hype for this game. As
the most revolutionary have decided to hand out a expected, it has met
visual experiences across the videogaming number of Awards to honour with much success in Italy and elsewhere.
panorama. the most worthy titles of the
Best Kid-Oriented MMO
Best COAG year. We have taken a broad
Free Realms
Mini Fighter approach in order to truly A devastating success
From Korea, this
reward all aspects and all for Free Realms this
beat’em up has year: millions of
proven already in the
excellence of the MMORPG
children and adults
Closed Beta to be a world. Although the past year have shared some fun
game with a solid has not been very positive for in a safe and colourful context, perfect in every
gameplay derived from years of enhancements
and updates on the Korean version, which has
MMORPGs, surely it could aspect for the younger ones.
been open for several years. Its launch has have been worse. Contrasting Best Massive suicide
confirmed the wide variety that makes it an the failure of Warhammer, Warhammer Online
excellent title for both the casual and the
Aion, Champions Online and They had it all: a
hardcore player.
fanbase, a huge
Darkfall with critics and public
licence, the largest
Best Business Model are the excellent results of budget for the
League of Legends Free Realms and Runes of development of an
Riot Games had the MMO in the West, advertising everywhere, an
difficult task of having
Magic, besides the great
expert team. The launch was not exceptional,
to compete with a F2P promise of Love. but it was the launch of the free expansion
product against a free which gave the game the coup de grace. A
game (DotA), while game that could have blown everyone away,
remaining more affordable than a B2P (Heroes Best Indie MMO
now struggles to move forward.
of Newerth, soon to be released). It did so with Haven and Hearth
a very original, balanced and competitive item Seatribe is only Best Social MMO
shop. composed of two Hello Kitty Online
guys, java A phenomenal
Best Improvement programmers, graphic licence, a good
Runes of Magic artists, audio implementation and a
Since it was released, technicians, community managers and great care for detail
thistitle has had an engineers. Their Haven and Hearth is an make this the best
impressive volume of example of how a ‘dream’, combined to a lot social MMO of the year, although it will
updates. New of passion and dedication can be enough to probably give its best in the near future.
dungeons, 2 new create something fun and playable by
classes, the tower defence game and many everyone. Best MMORPG
new equip in a relatively short time span make
Best MMO Developer Free Realms
up for structuraldefects with quantity.
Success with critics,
Eskil Steenberg
Best MMO Journalist success with public,
Love, his One-Man
success with media
Richard Aioshi MMO is in Alpha and
(at least in America),
His column on the genius of this
perfect marketing and
Mmorpg. com each bizarre character has
a definitely sustained
week draws tens of revealed itself. Raph
pace of improvement make this one of the
thousands of readers Koster was not awarded the prize for
thanks to opinions
very few AAA games released this year that
abandoning the MetaPlace project, which
and analysis primarily on the world of the F2P. had been promising but not profitable. can confidently say they are doing well.