My 2cents.
Final Fantasy Online - If it's anything like the single player games, this is going to be king. Simply amazing, with its e-mail, message board, etc. as part of the membership. The card game looks *awsome*. Along with a beautiful game. Final Fantasy has been, and always will be, #1 in my book.
Shadowbane - They're sitting next to FF:Online, next step down. Until I heard about the announcement for FF:Online, I was pitching my chips at this one for the next king.
AC2 will be a "surprise success", in comparing it to its current incarnation. I say they're going to become quite a noticable competitor (my spelling none withstanding...). AC already has monthly quests, which are GREAT for these types of games. AC2 promises other quests, and has really impressive graphics, amongst other improvements. I see this as attaining #3 a semi-short time after its release. Something like a year and a half at latest - short for a MMORPG. They'll have to battle against their current reputation but word of mouth does wonders.
World of Warcraft is coming out too distant in the future to be listed here, otherwise, I'd say it and AC2 would be wrestling for the position, with WoW in the lead, at least at first, due to Blizzard and their reputation. I would love to work for these folks. I don't know enough about WoW to fairly compare these two...
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NWN #1 as a non-persistant ORPG. I see Neverwinter Nights as the next fleshing out of MUDs. Plenty of people still play the text based games, I know, but I see some folks hosting NWN games 24/7 in the same vein that MUDs are hosted.
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I don't see Horrizens being a major top-three competitor, namely because of its set backs. I feel for the company, they have a good idea. Although ultimately I have to agree with a friend of mine - d00d speaking dragons would kill it for me.
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Single player games.... I don't know of one coming out that's very interesting.
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Starwars Galaxies.. *wrinkles nose* Ultimately, EQ with much much prettier clothing and different setting.
Planetside - isn't this their first person shooter? *shrug*
Personally, I'll not touch another varant product. Just my own opinion, of course.
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