Well said Sleepy. I agree 100%. Its loss was disturbing in a genre overcrowded with unimaginative clones.

Another low point was the bankruptcy of the company that created The Chronicles of Spellborn. A game with such an excellent innovative combat system and such wonderful quest writing doesn't deserve such a fate.

It was a year with so few high points. CO and Aion were a step backwards in the evolution of the genre. Fallen Earth brought some new things to the genre, but not in the most exciting or memorable ways. AoC and WAR are withering away. I think a lot of people hung onto WoW because of how depressing the rest of the genre is.

CO a step backwards? are you serious?

CO is not class based, the player character combinations and customizacion possibilities are nearly to infinite, how you many people dont appreciate his virtues and relegates the game to the "death MMOs" category in his first or second moths, that is very unfair with that game and with many other. Inclusive the best MMOs dont have gained momentun until the second or third moth, is the unrealistic expectatives from actual players in the first moth what destroy them. They want four years of content and polish in the first moth and that is impossible.

For me the key point in 2009 is the constatation of that fact, actual MMO players dont have the pacience for leave a MMO madurate before judge.