MMORPG.com has an issue with Perpetuum.  Its probably related to the launch era ratings boost on the site where the site's owners locked Perpetuum's hyper meter.  Its unfortunate because the game does need an influx of new players to help keep the markets going.

Check out: http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game … abled.html

I guess they didn't like people expressing interesting in one of the few sandbox games out there.

Bill Murphy is by far MMORPG's worst writer.  Some of his articles are absolute dogshit!:mad:

Stuff like that happens - our goal is to do our thing well enough so that after a certain point they won't be able to ignore us

lol, that somehow reminds me of the "The noob comic" ep. 350

Don't get me wrong - it is a pretty important site for MMOs.  It's a good place to find information about a lot of games that aren't covered by some of the other sites.

Still, overall I don't believe that the work of the staff is well respected within the MMO community.  Their objectivity and integrity has been called into question on more than one occasion, for good reason.

I also believe that the forums there are considered complete garbage by many, given that they allow the population of angry, disenfranchised players to run amok.  Generates hits, though.

Yeah, I mainly go to mmorpg.com for the games list because where else am I going to find out about new games? Except I wish they would include more filter categories, particularly ones for theme park vs sandbox, 2D vs 3D, browser vs separate client, FPS/RPG/RTS, FPV vs TPV etc, open world vs instanced.

I can't remember where I found Perpetuum...it was either mmorpg.com or via people I knew in Mortal Online.

I wouldn't ever use either their reviews or their forums as a basis to decide whether to play an MMO or not. But PO having a higher profile with them certainly wouldn't do any harm, whatever reservations people have about the quality of the journalism and the community.

Some of the columns are interesting - I really enjoyed Sanya Weathers, and was disappointed when she stopped writing for them.

This comic is actually a reference to some events that happened on Darkfall with Eurogamer.

The journalists played for 4 hours total time, never left the first area, and wrote a terrible article about it. (score 2/10)

This would be the equivalent of spawning in an arkhe, running to the terminal and complaining about Perpetuum being different than WoW.

The Darfall community responded maturely by trolling their forums to death, and creating a fake Guild in-game called Eurogamer.net, and proceeded then to declare war on it.
The video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NGiUHKiybY

Fixed. Yeah, the second journalist didn't really enjoyed the game, and gave it a 4.
Still, he wrote a fair article. The game had many flaws at that point, and the only reason it survived was because it fills a niche market.
However, it is worth mentioning  that the game improved greatly since it's launch, much like perpetuum.

RPS has been very good to us from the early beta days. Dunno if they have reviews there but Jim did write an article about us for Eurogamer back then.