It’s been a longstanding problem that end-of-the-year awards for MMORPGs aren’t ideal for honoring “classic” MMOs, especially the really old games, really small games, really ugly games, and all the stuff you played when you were kids but that your kids probably think is dated as heck.
So for the last few years, we’ve been polling our readers for their pick for which of the classic MMOs is aging the most… gracefully. Last year, we even started including WoW Classic and some of the more reputable emulated MMOs at the urging of our readers, though for the most part, we’re still limiting the choices to living titles. As usual, we’ve done our best to pick out MMOs from the first couple of generations, but if you really do want to fight over what counts as “classic,” knock yourselves out in the comments, you do you. To the pollmobile with your three votes apiece!
Leaderboard: What's the best classic MMORPG still running at the end of 2020?
- Age of Conan (1%, 102 Votes)
- Anarchy Online (0%, 72 Votes)
- A Tale in the Desert (0%, 12 Votes)
- City of Heroes (7%, 1,000 Votes)
- Dark Age of Camelot (2%, 359 Votes)
- Dungeons and Dragons Online (1%, 140 Votes)
- EVE Online (2%, 325 Votes)
- EverQuest (2%, 317 Votes)
- EverQuest II (1%, 99 Votes)
- Final Fantasy XI (2%, 319 Votes)
- Guild Wars (2%, 334 Votes)
- Lineage (0%, 8 Votes)
- Lineage II (1%, 109 Votes)
- Lord of the Rings Online (24%, 3,582 Votes)
- MapleStory (0%, 70 Votes)
- Meridian 59 (0%, 9 Votes)
- RuneScape (3%, 400 Votes)
- Ryzom (0%, 13 Votes)
- Star Wars Galaxies (9%, 1,373 Votes)
- Tibia (0%, 64 Votes)
- Ultima Online (1%, 148 Votes)
- Vendetta Online (0%, 6 Votes)
- Warhammer Online (36%, 5,514 Votes)
- WoW Classic (5%, 711 Votes)
- Wurm Online (0%, 25 Votes)
- You forgot X! I'm gonna drop it in the comments for next year! (1%, 117 Votes)
Total Voters: 13,468