Best of 2006 nominations: Player, Addon, Best and Worst Blizzard Move
by Mike Schramm 
Dec 15th 2006 at 9:41AM
Today's the final day of asking for your nominations for our end of the year awards. We're choosing the best of 2006 in ten different categories-- we've gotten your nominations this week, and next week we'll be posting our choices for Azeroth's best of the year. Thanks to everyone who's commented already, and please comment throughout the weekend on your choices for all the categories.Today, we're asking you to nominate the Best Player of the Year, the Best Addon of the Year, and the Best and Worst Blizzard Move of the Year. For Player, yes, we realize there are seven million players out there, and it is extremely hard to choose just one of them-- if we could recognize all of you, we would. But we're trying to find one player that has really stood out in WoW this year-- won amazing victories, raised the profile of the game, or really embodied what WoW players are all about. We're looking for a hero among heroes, someone who embodied Azeroth in 2006.
For Best Addon, we're looking for the Addon that most affected the game this year-- either an Addon that really moved the game along in terms of interace, an addon that was invaluable to players of all types, or an Addon that stood head and shoulders above the others in terms of functionality and polish.
And finally, we want to know your choices for Blizzard's Best and Worst Move of the Year. What's the best thing Blizzard did for the game this year-- the best and most satisfying change they made? And on the flip side, what's the absolute Worst thing they did to the game this year, that sent players running for the hills (and for the competitors)?
Finally, if you haven't posted your nominations for the other categories yet, as I said, we'll leave those comments open all weekend, so please post them for us to read. The WoW Insider staff will deliberate over the weekend, and all next week, we'll announce the WoW Insider Best of 2006. Thanks for your input.
Previously: Nominations for Server, Class, and Guild; Nominations for Friend, Enemy, and Instance.
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Blizzard
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Shat Dec 15th 2006 9:51AM
Player: Leeroy. Needs no explaination.
Best Blizzard Move: Linked battlegrounds, no question. Queues went from >2 hours to
Shat Dec 15th 2006 9:52AM
First post screwed up, let's try this again:
Player: Leeroy. Needs no explaination.
Best Blizzard Move: Linked battlegrounds, no question. Queues went from over two hours to under 5 minutes
Worst Blizzard Move: Nerfing warriors. Again.
Dave Dec 15th 2006 10:11AM
Best Player - Naked Troll Hunter
Sylythn Dec 15th 2006 10:03AM
Player: Kralnor!
Best Move: The Warlock talent review...er patch 2.0.
Worst Move: Pally/Shaman for cross faction - my disbelief cannot be suspended enough to make that lore work! (even though I'll be rolling a horde pally).
Addon: Auctioneer - I'm dying without it right now!!
Jorane Dec 15th 2006 10:20AM
Best Addon: It's a tossup between Gatherer and Auctioneer. Auctioneer probably would win my vote, though.
Theramon Dec 15th 2006 10:16AM
Best Addon: Auctioneer, no question. I can't sell a damn thing without knowing the value of it. Oh how I miss that damn mod.
Matt Park Dec 15th 2006 10:37AM
For addon, I'd say Auctioneer, but more importantly BeanCounter - knowing how much every item sells for is absolutely invaluable for when my bags are full.
Best player - Xi from D&T for his reworking of Tigole's old post from EQ2. An absolutely great piece of satire.
Yung tung wung Dec 15th 2006 10:42AM
Player: Mute! the world of roguecraft series is still my all time fav
Best move: i gotta say linked BG's u can do PvP at any level now its great
worse move: AV...yeah its just stupid now
Leyo-Thunderlord Dec 15th 2006 11:09AM
Addon: Auctioneer. It should win hands down for improving gameplay for me.
Best Blizz Move: I agree with linked BG. Best improvement to the battleground system.
Kahja Dec 15th 2006 11:20AM
Player: Faxmonkey. I love that guy. And he knows how to chose music for a video.
Addon: Not just auctioneer but the entire collection.
Best move: Content patches.
Worst move: Content patches with content I can't reach. /cry
Link Dec 15th 2006 11:24AM
Addon: CTMod collection
daxstyles Dec 15th 2006 11:35AM
BEST PLAYER: who cares. too many out there, might as well vote for yourself.
BEAT ADDON: Auctioneer pack or Discord mods. Auctioneer nees to be annexed and made part of the game. Discord mad my UI so fun. I hate the look and functionality of the standard UI. None of the others compare to Discord. I tried Flexbars and now in 2.0 i tried Bartender... they just don't compare. I can't wait for Lozareth to fix it for BC.
BEST MOVE: Not releasing BC "on time" and pissing us all off with a non-working expansion ala SWG.
WORST MOVE: Releasing the 2.0.1 patch with broken ass BGs; or making the Felguard a 41 point talent while leaving warlocks with 2 useless demons (Infernal and Doomguard). I specced pure Demonology and love th eFelguard, and understand why it is a high level Demon, but ffs, do something about warlocks having 2 pets that are rarely, if ever, seen other than for novelty purposes.
Ben Podgorski Dec 15th 2006 12:26PM
Best Add-on: Auctioneer. For the various reasons stated above. Clsoe second would be Discord and Informant (Informant is what Matt Park was referring to, listing vendor prices. BeanCounter actually keeps a history of what you have sold through the AH.) Come to think of it, the entire Auctioneer pack is amazing. Why that kind of stuff isn't part of the game is beyond me.
Mat Dec 15th 2006 12:55PM
Best Addon: Auctioneer
Best Move: Linked BG
Worst Move: Being too often undiplomatic.
Guernia Dec 15th 2006 3:43PM
No! Must not make Auctioneer part of the standard UI! Leae it in the hands of the very competent 3rd party developers. You'll all seen what happens when Blizzard chooses to "improve" the UI (Scrolling Combat Text, the lame LFG tool vs. Call To Arms...)
As for the votes...
Favorite Player: Meh, who cares. I've met such a vanishingly small fraction of the 7 million players that this would be ridiculous to answer.
Favorite Mod: If not Auctioneer, then Discord Unit Frames, which allows me to have as much information at my fingertips about a toon as I can stand. As a healer, HP deficit in the party frame is invaluable.
Best Blizzard Move: XBGs
Worst Blizzard Move: Not implementing some kind of power/server age matching system in the XBGs, and utterly stupid Battlegroup designations: 3-6 month old PvE servers getting rolled by 2-year tier 3 PvP server premades FTL.
Thijz Dec 15th 2006 1:23PM
Player: Leeroy!
Addon: Auctioneer without a doubt!
Best Blizz move: Linked battlegrounds
Worst Blizz move: The new LFG system, blah I hate it!
Ryan Dec 15th 2006 2:02PM
Best Player - The rogue from World of Roguecraft
Best Blizzard move - None... obviously
Worst Blizzard Move - Warlocks
Addon - PhotekUI hands down.
Ryan Dec 15th 2006 2:03PM
@ daxstyles -
You, sir, are an idiot. You're complaining about pets when you play the easiest class in the game? Give me a break.
Finnicks Daerkhiv Dec 15th 2006 2:29PM
@12
While I agree that the Doomguard is completely useless (powerful, but patently impossible to implement realisitcally in any situation wherein he might be useful), the Infernal has limited, though powerful, potential in PvP. There have been times when I've dropped him on a group running the flag in WSG, stunning everyone (healers included) around the carrier just long enough to rape the carrier out of existance. But then you get that pesky 1-hour cooldown which is just no fun. I really seriously think the cooldown for the Infernal should be 15 minutes.
As for me:
BEST PLAYER: Dipex. Summoning people off cliffs is just funny.
Addon: Auctioneer has seen way too many nominations already (although it is the best and definately deserves the title of Best Addon), I'm going to nominate Necrosis because it elimiated almost 12 buttons off my action bars, freeing up space for other stuff. And who doesn't like the whole "right click for fast summon" if you've got Fel Domination, eh?
Best Blizz Move: Nerfing Crowd-Control. Now you don't see nearly as many people screaming "Nerf Fear!" and now fearing someone (and keeping them that way) in PvP is more challenging.
Worst Blizz Move: Failing to fix the Felguard's summoning voice. He still sounds like the freaking Succubus when comes out, dammit!
daxstyles Dec 15th 2006 2:46PM
@17 Ryan
lemme guess. You are a bubbledowhateverIwantadin or a Rogue who can't play his class well enough to beat a Warlock that is 5 levels below you. Whatever you play, you need to realize that NONE of the classes are EZMODE. STFU, roll a 'Lock and report back.