[/)eathKiller]

Here's what i've seen of MMORGPS:

PSO - Had a great environment, it offered alot of nice players, and then people started cheating with their gamesharks, PKERS can also steal items because when you DIE that means you DROP your MONEY and all of your weapons! OK so Sega figures out how to stop them, but then a day later the cheaters are back and unstoppable. So Then Sega makes all of the users start PAYING to play the game and makes us all buy Cable modems for our Dreamcasts AND makes us pay for new keyboards and we have to pay extra if we want to keep our characters when transfering over to PSO version 2.

Alright... So that's done... BUT WE STILL DROP OUR WEAPONS AND ITEMS WHEN WE DIE! In order to actually get a weapon in PSO that "works" it requires the player to play for a minimum of 7 hours to obtain it, and that's for just one, after that it takes longer and longer periods of time and with 4 players in a party theres only a 25% chance of your actually getting it... OH AND IN less than a week in, cheaters are able to dominate Version 2, and it doesnt even last a few months before sega, once again, asks everyone to pay more, by now they also are making us pay more to receive less, but the addiction must be fed, and the moderators purposly cut off people who are trying to meet places outside of PSO, for example: ICQ numbers, E-mail adresses and the word MSN Messenger are banned along with all the curse words.

This means that the only way to stay in touch with your freinds is by PAYING to meet them, THEN sega cutts the servers and says "oops you all have to buy X boxes and Gamecubes now to keep playing or try our new PC version!"

ok so we go to the effors of all of this, now lets look at the "Promotional Changes" which were done for the "good of the community"

PC version - It's impossible to minimize the window, if you do the game cuts off and you lose all of your account information which you then must PAY FOR to get back! Just for minimizing the window! Oh and they still found out how to hack it...

X box version - You MUST have cable and you MUST at all times use the voice chat, there is no keyboard only 2 way communication which is choppy and barley understandable, and yet people are expected to put up with it, do you know how annnoying it is to stand in a lobby with 500 people and try to have your voice heard? It's unthinkable! the voice chat comic-book like baloons were a way better idea OH and on top of that, they hacked this version too without even needing a gameshark!

Gamecube Version - The worst by far, it had an international release but the keyboard was only sold in tokyo, THATS RIGHT, NO KEYBOARD, NO VOICE CHAT, just the game full of online players with no means of communication! Look out now! it gets even better...

To move to any of these platforms REQUIRES the loss of one's characters, items, and account information so they must pay again, they have fewer online quests and fewer things to actually do in the games (Though they add in stuff under the guise of "improvements" which actually do little else aside from making players play the game LONGER) (for example to reach level 200 in the Dreamcast version you needed 95 quadrillion XP points, the highest XP giving monster was the last boss, Dark Falis, who gave a WHOPPING 8 thousand points, THATS RIGHT now in the NEW version of the game, Dark Falis only gives 2 thousand points, it still requires 95 quadrillion to get there, and to make thing worse, the most powerfull weapons in the game aren't emphasized anymroe and are impossible to find (same went for the DC version actually but at least you could kill dark falis with an S rank crossbow, now you'd be lucky to hit him with an S rank crossbow (that's the strongest and most over-used weapon by the way, it's usually just called a spread needle) Anyway...

THEY ALSO took out many abiltiies for hunters added more for rangers (being a ranger I can't really complain) and defuncted the games system of ballance while making it nearly impossible to fight eachother communicate and level up...

NOW on to the next game:

Earth and Beyond -

Oh joy another pay to play, only problem is, it's played off as being this gigantic universe, but in reality it only takes 5 minutes to reach from one end to the other, SO the expectation is that the player will NON-STOP go to and from one station to another across the galaxy until they level up to 150, which requires as much fighting as trading and exploring, OH OK, but Exploration Isn't even EARNABLE after you've discovered everything, so how do you plan to level up 50 Explore levels? IMPOSSIBLE! and yet thats how the players are expected to play OH and on top of this, they make the players have level up 80 times EVEN AFTER reaching 150, which is NO easy task, just so that they can develop SKILLS which they should've been able to develope WHILE PLAYING, all for the sake of forcing players to play the game for a longer period of time and fork out more cash, OH and no Offline play is even acceptable it must be online , it doesnt say that ANYWHERE on the box...

ALRIGHT next game:

Ragnarok Online -

Oh my god...

It's a game... That's fun... has a huge player base... Constantly evoulving universe... lots of player interaction is emphasized, terrific magic system, GREAT battle system, and it's FREE!

HEY I THINK I...

No ... WAit... AAAH! The Koreans slapped a 15 Dollar TAX on it just to play!

Just when it looked like we were actually going to have a good game...

Next MMORPG:

"The world"

There is no description as to how perfect this game was, player customization was unlimited ranging from having just 2 arms to 197 if you felt like it, The system balanced out so even the level 100s would have problems with level 1s... its free too, and YET...

IT'S SERVERS WENT DOWN AFTER A MONTH...

This is probably because it was free..

NEXT GAME!

The Creme of the crop: The absolute WORST MMORPG of all time:

Final Fantasy 11...

There is no balance in this game's system, it has too much time-consuming eyecandy leaving open large gaps which players could EASILY get disconected from OH and yes, any player can rob any other player... Even if you don't die...

THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!

Most corrupt MMORPG of all time award goes to:

PHANTASY STAR ONLINE

Why?

IT STOLE 80,000 HOURS AWAY FROM MY LIFE, AND 3,972 DOLLARS FROM MY BANK!

The lesson here kiddies?

MMORPGS:

Just Don't Play 'Em!