
Well, this is it, folks. The end of the year. A time of reflection, of massive weight gain and of lists. Man, we like our lists, do we not? Fortunately, at Perfect Ten Industries, we’ve been excelling in lists for months now. Frankly, we’re just getting warmed up!
While 2010 may not have been much to write home about in terms of newly launched MMOs, there was more than enough controversy to keep the discussion brewing for months. MMOs are big business, and when every move you make is closely scrutinized by millions of gamers, there’s no room to slip up unless you like forum hyenas pouncing all over you, snapping and snarling at your faulty flesh.
So let’s take a jaunt down our top 10 list of the most controversial stories of 2010 on Massively, keeping in mind that it was devilishly hard just to keep this list to 10 at all. What’s a week without being riled up about pixels and polygons, after all?
1. EVE Online: Players rise in dissent
2. Dungeons and Dragons Online: An offer players could refuse
3. Allods Online: $20 for six inventory slots
4. Derek Smart and David Allen get into a verbal slap fight
5. Real ID proves to be Real Idiocy
6. EA Louse decries WAR and TOR
7. The long, dark night of Star Trek Online
8. The $26 million Final Fantasy XIV ragequit
Suffice it to say, there were quite a few unhappy fans when Final Fantasy XIV launched — a fact which Square-Enix eventually responded to with extreme measures. But no player was quite as unhappy as an unnamed stockholder who dumped $26 million worth of Square-Enix stock in perhaps the most epic ragequit of all time. Square-Enix’s stock dipped noticeably from the event, but soon rebounded.
Kanghi Final Fantasy XIV