Well deserved.

WOW on nr 1? Trying to stir up some controversy, are we?

Pretty damn good. I assume it means games played within the first decade of this century, not the century or millenium. In which case, very deserving I say, especially given how open it is to modding.

That screen shot is awesome.

Woot Sins!

As for WoW being #1, is anyone really surprised? Disagreeing maybe, but surprised?

Lot of those games were xbox ports.  Thank god for the Xbox, or there would be even less games for the PC.

WoW as #1 should come as no surprise; I may hate it, but there's no questioning it has definitely been the most influential PC game by a wide margin.

Glad Sins made the list.  As a strategy gamer, Sins, WC3, and Civ 4 would definitely make my top 3 games of the decade.

World of Warcraft: I hate it, but I know it changed online gaming and has made mucho money. Yeah, it gets it.

Diablo II: For the same reason as WoW, it's still played today and the vast array of possibilities with each class are amazing. And unlike most MMORPGs, the combat design allows for more tactical play that point and click.

I would kinda agree that Dawn of War should be there more than the second, BUT it really came in small bits which did nothing more than starcraft did. As a whole it was much more impressive.

Homeworld 2 I would be inclined to agree with because I'm a fan, but I get why they didn't do it. It didn't push the boundaries beyond what Homeworld did and it had fewer tactical possibilities than the first, and most certainly fewer than Homeworld: Cataclysm. Not to mention that, unlike Sins, it is not designed to be modded, thus projects like Homeworld: Complex have to stand on their own.

Hey, don't piss on Plants vs Zombies

That game is soo cool

I guess that's why we have the internet then - so we can don't have to take every source we read at face value.   But I do agree that WoW does sort of have the "peer group pressure" feeling about it.  (ie. so many people are playing it so it must be good. )

Best regards,
Steven.

All of these are basically your opinions. In fact, the things you listed to start your commend is the only true way to determine a "top" game. If the game is making $200 million in monthly subscriptions, obviously a great many people are finding it fun enough to play to justify subscribing to it. If that many people are finding it fun enough to play, that makes it a "top" game, regardless of what you feel it offers. And, in fact, this makes it the most objective pick in the list. You can argue the psychology of MMOs to keep people playing, but that's also irrelevant because the whole point is to make it just fun enough that people will let you lead them around the same repetitive activities for an end result. It's not like it's some sinister torture that sucks the life out of people.

How could they? Poor GPG.

Oh well, I think that at least Sins deserved it.

I always thought of WOW as extremely high quality for its time. And the expansions have done a good job at keeping up with other MMOs.

I'm not that surprised to see Plants vs Zombies there either, if just as a nod to the casual game market. These games are huge and popular with a lot of people. The entry for this game outright said that they had to list one game of this type. And it is just a fun game.

Tropico 3 was a stranger pick. I actually do think the original was a classic, and that Tropico 3 was a little better then the original. But still it really was such a small improvement that I don't think it's a classic in it's own right.

And of course WoW's commercial success and influence is due to the fact that lots of people (myself included) think it's a great and well designed game. I doubt that there is a single highly popular game they could pick that wouldn't have someone writing a rant about how awful it actually was.