ESO has had a rockier year than many anticipated, with a lot of early players jumping ship and the promised console version being delayed until 2015.
But here's some good news. The game still managed to eke out a win as the best new MMO in an online poll.
ESO beat Funcom's The Secret World in the "Newbies" category of MMORPG.com's "The Great MMO Faceoff" poll semi-finals. ESO just squeaked out a victory, beating the more obscure horror MMO game 51.3 to 48.7 percent. That means that along the way it was also judged better than other new entries like ArcheAge, Wildstar and Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn by the poll's voters.
ESO will now have to take on the winner of the "Veterans" category, The Lord of the Rings Online. You can see the poll
here.
