The Daily Grind: What MMOs are you looking forward to in 2009?

Well I was too back when I knew a lot less about it I thought a game with no levels and no classes would be great just skills that as you use them slowly get more and more powerful.
I was imagining a system where every 10 points of experience in a skill, for example Battleaxes, gave you slightly more damage and accuracy with axes or somthing along those lines with a very high cap.Then you could truely get a little bit better everyday.

Then I learned that every skill is capped at 100 points which is basically just a leveling system without calling it a leveling system! Its either going to be INSANELY easy to max skill levels or its going to be a grind between points. I don't want EITHER personally I would rather not hit the max in one day and I REALLY wanted the "Every bit of experience counts" system.

Then I learned that the game actually DOSE have classes and the DO give extra combat ability you just don't HAVE to pick one.

At that point I realised Darkfall is a SHAM and totally gave up on the whole stuipid thing. At this point it back to Northrend for me. Too bad I got my hopes up for a truely leveless classless game.

STOR is coming out in 2009?

I hate to rain on your Parade but getting excited about dakfall right now is a tad silly seeing as there is very little REAL information about it besaides what the Devs (Who have never made a game before) say about it and if theres one thing we have learned from Conan its that what the devs say and whats really there can be two VERY different things. When we start hearing some seriously positive reviews from public beta or release day from multiple trusted sources THEN get excited. Untill then your setting yourself up for a possible even likely disapointment.

Thanks for holding my hand and stifling my tears.

That's exactly my problem with Darkfall (which i will for sure try anyway), it reeks "conan" from a mile apart.
The impression it's team gives me is that they simply scanned the forums for every single complains hardcore (sometimes excessively hardcore) MMO players had about previous games and tried to slap them all into a game, ending up biting too much compared to what they can swallow.

I'm entirely ready to be proven wrong, but at least conan had a lot of hype to count on for initial sales. Darkfall, besides it's rabid but very limited community of worshippers, doesn't have even that, one false step and it'll simply sink and be forgotten.

Age Of Conan was about a thousand times more promising than Darkfall is, at least Funcom had made games before. Granted they weren't particularly good or successful, but at least they'd made some mistakes which they might have learned from.

Mark my words, Darkfall will either never be released, or it will be released and fail horribly.

That's the one i'm looking forward to. Even if I'm kinda worried about the mess they could do with the background. The warhammer 40k universe is VERY difficult to adapt to an MMO, probably the most difficult i know. One thing that expecially worries me is faction balance. If they put space marines, imperial guard and sisters of battle together, what will they pitch against them? And if they don't, It'll become a lore-devastating mess like the DOW expansion, in which imperial forces fight one-another in the name of game balance...