MMO of the Year
The MMO of the Year is an annual award for massively multiplayer online games (MMOs). Its aim is to recognize the most innovative and most popular MMOs and thus provide a platform that would benefit the perception of the genre. It is the biggest honor for MMO games as measured by the number of participants In the Audience voting.
Competition structure
The award is split into two individual competitions, the jury voting and the audience voting. The jurors choose between the games that have been nominated by the award organizers, media partners or other contributors prior to the voting phase. Only titles that have been released to the public in the preceding year are considered for a nomination. Participants in the audience voting can choose whatever game they like best without regard to its release date. Due to its global spread it is an online-only event without a physical award ceremony.
History
The MMO of the Year dates back as early as 2005. Initially being focused on the smaller genre subset of Browser MMOs and limited to Germany only it is now an international contest providing localized websites for English, Spanish, Portuguese and German speaking audiences.
2013
MMO of the Year 2013 has been held between January 15, 2013 and February 15th, 2013. The record number of over 200,000 people from all over the world participated in the audience voting, making it the biggest one in history of the MMO of the Year.
- Best Indie Game: Topia Island (Jury) & Asmandez II (Audience)
- Best Innovation: Browserquest (Jury) & Topia Island (Audience)
- Best Portal: Kabam (Jury) & Goodgame Studios (Audience)
- Best Community-Relations: The Settlers Online (Audience)
- Download MMOs
- Best Strategy Download MMO: Light of Nova (Jury) & League of Legends (Audience)
- Best Role-playing Download MMO: Guild Wars 2 (Jury) & RaiderZ (Audience)
- Best CASUAL Download MMO: Dofus (Audience)
- Best Action Download MMO: Tribes: Ascend (Jury) & Planetside 2 (Audience)
- Best Classic Download MMO: World of Tanks (Jury & Audience)
- Browser MMOs
- Best Strategy Browser MMO: Forge of Empires (Jury) & Goodgame Empire (Audience)
- Best Role-playing Browser MMO: Herokon Online (Jury) & Schulterglatze (Audience)
- Best Sports Browser MMO: Online football manager (Audience)
- Best Tycoon Browser MMO: My Fantastic (Jury) & Rising Cities (Audience)
- Best Casual Browser MMO: Battlemons (Jury) & Goodgame Big Farm (Audience)
- Best Action Browser MMO: Dino Storm (Jury & Audience)
- Best Classic Browser MMO: RuneScape (Jury) & The Settlers Online (Audience)
- Mobile MMOs
- Best Android MMO: The Hobbit - Armies of the third age (Jury) & Order & Chaos Online (Audience)
- Best iPhone & iPad MMO: Clash of Clans (Jury) & Order & Chaos Online (Audience)
- Best Windows Phone MMO: Age of Sorcery (Jury & Audience)
- Best Classic Mobile MMO: Kingdoms of Camelot (Jury) & Order & Chaos Online (Audience)
Hall of Fame (2005-2012)
The MMO of the Year Hall of Fame features all category winners since 2005, reflecting the changing focus of the event.