The Daily Grind: What game do you watch the most, but don't currently play?

I am currently obsessively refreshing any and all pages about Allods Online and Guild Wars 2.

Age of Conan. Would really like to play but it falls at the end of my play list because every time I've started it up it ends up being patched and being unplayable for a while... Also I wish they would have more immersive features.

I watch the progress of sw:tor due to loving star wars, bioware, and kotor. I'm also watching guild wars 2 and apb. Both will be buy once free to play which makes me love em. As far as a game out. I keep tabs on CO. I loved the more action take on things and ppls chars. But I don't play it because I don't see where it is going. I watch dc universe wondering if co will be out of the play circle after it comes out. But you never know. Maybe the next big game is one I just kinda breeze over.

I keep tabs on nearly every MMO I've ever played once in a while, though I mostly rely on Massively for updates.

Even though I plan on never playing it again, I actively keep tabs on WoW, I keep watching Champions for news of its impending demise, and I keep watching WAR, hoping to any deity that will listen that Mythic will stop being completely retarded and actually balance the classes.

I also am monitoring Alganon, waiting for it to get sued into oblivion. Seriously, what the hell is with this game? It's almost exactly like WoW, only much, much crappier.

I played EVE Online for a little over a year, 2004-2005. It would be fair to say that since I left, it's grown closest to my dream MMG. It has many feature concepts I find fascinating. I still follow the news on it, read the web fiction and novels, and listen to the soundtrack MP3s.

But every time I think about returning, I'm reminded of how it actually felt to play. Like the old saw goes, long stretches of boredom punctuated by unexpected moments of sheer terror. Everything took forever to do -- from crafting, to gaining faction, to earning money, to simply moving around (EVE has the dubious distinction of making faster-than-light travel feel like a slog through waist-deep mud).

...and in a few seconds, one jerk can wipe away months of careful work with a cheapjack gate ambush.

Thanks, but no thanks. I'll continue to watch from the sidelines.

I am gonna give darkfall till this next expansion to flush out their skill system. Up till now it has seemed very convoluted BS about freedom blah blah blah that did not really work. If they can actually get something out of it that is not "i have played for longer so i PAWN PAWN PAWN" i will stay. Otherwise i am gone.

APB, GW2, & Aion. I want to play Aion, but I'm kind of doubtful about it :I

Warhammer Online is the game I keep watching and wanting to return to. When I quit, if a city was sacked you couldn't play in Tier 4 for around 18 hours. I'm not sure if they fixed that or not but reading up on all the class, armor graphic, Fortress, City, and gameplay changes I'm close to giving it another shot. The thing stopping me now is reading my old realm forums and getting the hint that the server is largely lop-sided for faction balance. Aside from that, they still have Weapon Skill on my Shaman gear, and the sets meant for healing in a PvP game come from lackluster and boring, RNG PvE dungeons which is the #1 reason I quit. Who wants to run PvE dungeons 100 times in a PvP based game hoping to get that lucky item drop in order to heal or get that 5% heal crit set bonus?

As for upcoming games I have a tie. I'm looking forward to both GuildWars 2 and Final Fantasy XIV. Both of them sound very promising, the artwork from GuildWars is incredible and the ideas behind FFXIV are interesting. Hopefully both of them will be good and give people a bit of a wider range on their MMO choices.

EvE is the game that I follow/read/watch the most even if I don`t play it.It's the only game that really feels like a world.

Upcoming MMOs,I wish I had more infos would be

1.38 Studios "Codename Copernicus"
2.Funcom "The Secret World"
3.CCP "World Of Darkness"

I know,no real infos on these titles yet beside TSW :)

SW:TOR and DCUO

Games I watch like a hawk now: WoW, WAR, AoC, EQ2, Lotro, in that order.

Games I watch like a hawk but aren't out yet, and I do this MUCH more than watching the older games I just mentioned: Star Trek Online, Star Wars the Old Republic, FFXIV, and Heroes of Telara

i had a similar feeling to wufiavelli regarding darkfall. so much is awesome about it and so much is terrible about it. in the end the awfulness castrates the greatness, so i only played for a month. i actually DID play the whole month, which means i got more out of the game than i expected to, because i knew it was gonna be a grind (didn't know a forced tradeskill grind was gonna be part of it, i HATE tradeskills). i knew the full loot was gonna make sure there was plenty of grind (unless you do the social grind of making tons of friends and alliances and working yourself into a zerg, in which case you can easily dominate and rob other people to bypass the inventory replacement grind). i don't have any hope they will take out the key terrible things about the game (full loot, skinning, can only sprint moving forwards, overly clicky interface, forced tradeskills (if you wanna be able to compete, and from what i hear now that everyone has alot of magic, AOE is too much a factor) ), but there's an awesome mmofps underneath all the crap. too bad it doesn't matter, cuz it will always be buried.

only upcoming games i have some small amount of hope for are
APB, DCUO & Lego Universe. they will all have SOME element of grind, cuz everyone thinks working a 2nd full time job is what people pay $15 to do. but those 3 suggest it MAY be significantly less, since they actually use real life skills to varying degrees.

what i'm hoping for is a very immersive virtual world with virtually no private instances, (or at least a public option for all instances) and without ANY character progression (that's where the grind comes from, and also what makes the PVP stupid...time wasted versus time wasted).

people need to stop having these convoluted artificial systems of measuring your so-called progress. instead of experience point acquisition, we should be having REAL experiences (something emergent from proper, REAL gameplay, not dice rolling BS). instead of "skills" we should have real life skills. is everyone so unperceptive that they can't tell when their real life skills improve or not? they have to have some number and progress bar based on "simulated" "skills" (if you can really call dice rolling simulation).

there's NO need for dice rolling on a computer that can properly model 3d spaces and objects and how they interact. its such a stupid concept in a computer game. it was good for pen & paper in the 70's but its time for this crap to end.

GW2, WAR, Second Life is interesting to read about as well. always hoping with baited breath for new GW2 info...

Everything. I can only afford to play one MMORPG at a time, but I follow them all.

i bought Mortal Online, but i expect it to be a one month thing, just like Darkfall. i waste money on this stuff because i'm so desperate for MMOs that use real life skills to play. things that challenge your mind instead of your time are not a grind. heh, almost a rhyme. problem is, so far they STILL require way too much time/grind because of things like constant need for keeping many sets of armour and such due to the insanity of full loot.

since i imagine full loot fans will probably try to elicit some response.... in PVP (which is where the idea of full loot is supposed to be great), dying at the hand of another player is PLENTY OF PUNISHMENT in and of itself. there doesn't need to any further punishment. if a player really needs some loot (and winning against someone isn't enough) they could either have a choice of the best item to take from your inventory (still don't really like it but it would be liveable) or they could just generate some loot as if you were an NPC/mob to give to the victor without TAKING anything from your inventory.

i have a tiny, TINY amount of hope for The Secret World since it appears it will use real life skills with actiony combat, and i like the setting/artwork. but i really really HATE the idea of predefined factions you must join. that alone could ruin the whole thing for me, and i know from logic (and my Darkfall experience) that a classless and level-free numerical "skill" system can be EVERY bit as much of a grind as the traditional MMOs. also AoC from what i've heard is not very worldy. its heavily instanced, and i heavily hate that. also invisible walls and a tunnelly way of laying out zones.

I follow quite a few due to my new show that I am doing called MMO recap. Where I do a short video each day covering the news from the major MMOs. If you want to check it out it's at http://mmorecap.com Massively is definitely one of my major news sources and I link here a lot. Let me know what you think. I am still working at being better on video and that will come with time :-) Thanks all.

Still in development: FFXIV (Only MMO in development that looks interesting)

Released: LotRO. I have a lifetime account in LotRO but i am not impressed with the details they have given us on the new expansion. Will wait and see what people have to say when the NDA is lifted, but at this time i am no longer playing LotRO and dont have any intention to play it until Turbine actually makes LotRO a great game again.

TSW 100% because of the ARG