In fact, 2017 marks the third year in a row the game’s taken the reader vote. MMOs are never really done evolving until they’re dead, after all! That’s how four-year-old Elder Scrolls Online – fresh off a year filled with solid DLC, the Homestead housing patch, and the Morrowind expansion – managed to nearly sweep the staff vote and pull in half of the reader vote to boot.

Way back in 2014, the Massively staff and readers were so underwhelmed by the field of new MMOs that we voted to name “Nothing” our GOTY, which ultimately led us to relax the rules and allow in older games. MMO of the Year: Elder Scrolls Online (2017), Black Desert (2016), Final Fantasy XIV (2015), Nothing (2014), Final Fantasy XIV (2013), Guild Wars 2 (2012), Star Wars The Old Republic (2011), Global Agenda (2010), Fallen Earth & Dungeons & Dragons (2009)Ĭommunity Poll: Elder Scrolls Online (2017) Elder Scrolls Online (2016), Elder Scrolls Online & Trove (2015), Nothing (2014), Star Trek Online (2010), Runes of Magic (2009) It was by far our biggest content dump to date, even bigger than last year!įollowing our deep-dive into our awards and the attached reader polls, I’ll be recapping all of the end-year articles in one convenient place in case you missed something over the holidays – enjoy! We gave out 19 formal awards this past year, all in addition to dozens of other recaps, roundups, listicles, predictions, bloopers, oddities, polls, provocations, and retrospectives. As we did in 2014, 2015, and 2016, today I’m going to recap our annual awards and other meta articles from the end of 2017.

Best free mmorpg 2017 votes