Welcome to Tuesday Top Five, where we compile the top five items into the categories where they fit best. It’s like putting together a puzzle with your family, without the risk of someone being chivved. For today’s list, I wanted to go over my top five MMOs that we won’t be playing for a long time. By we, of course, I mean the western audience as one or more of these titles may be releasing soon, or has already released, in Korea, China, or other eastern countries.

5. Transformers Universe

Jagex still has Transformers Universe set for a late 2012 launch, but with minimal details and Jagex’s past history of development, odds are we won’t be seeing a beta this Christmas. So far all Jagex has shown of Transformers Universe is a limited character creator, a few animations, and some sparse details on game mechanics.

If I had to guess, I’d say we won’t be hearing much about Transformers until 2013, when Jagex will either announce a delay or that the game has been cancelled.

4. Lineage Eternal

Adding Lineage Eternal to this list may be a bit unfair. All things considered, NCSoft has a lot on their plates between the free to play transitions of Aion and Lineage II, the development of Wildstar and Lineage Eternal, and localizing Blade & Soul to a western audience. Lineage Eternal has large ambitions ahead of it and the game was just revealed last November.

Lineage Eternal still has a year or two before release.

3. Wizardry Online

Hardcore MMO? Check. Permadeath? Check. Insane difficulty? Triple check. The more I hear about Wizardry, the more I feel like I must be a glutton for punishment, and beatings. To top it off, Wizardry Online will be a free to play game with a cash shop. A fully integrated pvp combat system, permanent death, no mini-map, and high end graphics. How can this go wrong? Don’t answer that.

More important: The Wizardry Online website states that the game will go live in Summer 2012. It is August 7th and beta still isn’t scheduled for another few months. So hopefully Wizardry will surprise me and launch sooner than I am expecting. After all, it has already launched in Japan.

2. World of Darkness

First off: You kill vampires, you don’t make out with them. With CCP working hard on Eve Online and DUST 514, players are reasonably questioning the future of World of Darkness. While it is relatively safe to say World of Darkness will release eventually, the 60-member development team is working as fast as possible to bring the world of Vampire: The Masquerade into the MMO genre. Initially set to only feature vampires, over time World of Darkness will allow players to roll as werewolves and mages. In keeping with the CCP hardcore HTFU design, players are not only allowed to but encouraged to scheme, plot, and screw over their fellow vampires. Be careful when you do, however: Cities will be player-controlled, and with the inclusion of perma-death, your actions could lead to very dire consequences.

Unlike some of the other games on this list, World of Darkness falls to slow development due to higher priorities on other projects. There is no release date for World of Darkness as of this writing.

1. Archeage

If you haven’t heard of Archeage, many sandbox MMO fans will be happy to fill you in on how the game is the next coming of God. As one user put it, Archeage is all about doing whatever you want to progress. You can build your own house, build ships, plant crops, chop down trees and replant them, craft, sell your wares, engage in combat, form your own country, and a whole lot more I can’t even get into. Without a doubt, XLGames has the sandbox community frothing at the mouth waiting for a notice on western release.

Unfortunately, there is no real concrete date on when that will happen. While Archeage aims to launch in Korea late this year, XLGames has yet to come up with a western publisher. While the aim is to get Archeage into western hands by early 2014, there is no guarantee that the game will be localized and ready for launch by that point.