After SWTOR, are there any other MMO's worth playing?

[stp602]

I'm generally a single-player gamer... or I was until SWTOR.

I was hooked by the 8 class stories and how they wove together, but I stayed because I found a great guild of extraordinarily supportive players dedicated to lifting one another up at all stages of the game. It wasn't just a gaggle of gamers, but a genuine sense of community which held us together through the end game cycle.

That guild fell apart, unfortunately, and I feel like taking a break with something different.

Are there other MMO's out there worth playing? Tell me about them. What makes them comparable to or better than SWTOR.

[Berserkr]

I play Lord of the Rings Online as well, I don't play anything that requires a sub to play, I have ESO with all previous chapters except the most recent one, I barely have 100 hours in it as I don't really have the time to devote to it, but a few times a year it'll go on sale for like 67-70% off for the colection, as for LOTRO it's pretty much f2p up till lv 95 area then you have to unlock stuff, you can get premium store currency in game just for playing the game so people have unlocked stuff for free, one thing you can't get without subbing is swift stable master travel everything else can be unlocked for free with time and effort
I played GW2 up till level cap and then got bored
Wow and FFXIV are both hard sub to play so I don't play them

[H3llF!r3]

Eso or gw2 come to mind but nothing has the lvl of story that Swtor gives.

[PocketYoda]

Guildwars 2 is also pretty solo till 80.

[Percello]

Most MMOs out there are capable of being solo'd as long as you stay away from dungeons and the obvious "group content". Here are some of my opinions:

-- Guild Wars 2 has a ton of content, no subscription and a pretty good story through multiple expansions. You can solo most content and all of your story quests. Most events are also soloable, but people will most likely join to assist. Compared to SWTOR, the world feels more open and the combat is less clunky. This game also still has a pretty good population and friendly community. PvP is also pretty good.

-- Elder Scrolls Online is very similar to Guild Wars 2 in terms of content, but also has an optional subscription, and by optional, I mean the game experience is better with it. This game has a ton of content, mostly soloable other than dungeons and has a lot of chaining quests. The only thing I didn't like about ESO is how repetitive the quests felt to me and lackluster PvP. Others may disagree.

-- World Of Warcraft would be another pick, but is a lot less soloable when it comes to gearing up. This game also *requires* a subscription to play. You can get to max level and get some pretty decent gear, but you will need to do dungeons, raids or PvP to get a majority of the best gear. This game also doesn't have much of a character story, but more-so stories based on the zones. A lot of people cringe just by hearing the words "World of Warcraft" for their own reasons, but if you haven't tried it, it may be worth it.

[cube]

The main thing for me is finding an MMO that hasn't adopted the mobile F2P aesthetic. SWTOR and ESO have stores but they don't really harp on about it. LOTRO on the other hand is completely unrecognisable from before it went F2P.

[Raansu]

Depends what you're looking for. If you're heavy into story content, FFXIV is the perfect game to pick up, but just be aware it starts out a little slow. Doesn't pick up till you get to the first expansion (heavensward).

[Gwath]

I usually bounce between swtor, eso, bdo, and ffxiv depending on what they are currently offering, and I would recommend trying out all of them.

Perhaps you would like Black Desert Online? Since the demise of Tera Online, I regard it as having the most impressive combat in today's MMORPGs and still standing out as one of the most visually appealing options available.

[Snake Eater]

I only ever played WoW on private servers, but even so, I still consider it my favorite MMO experience. The fact that Warcraft 3 was, and still is one of my favorite games of all time was a big factor in that I suppose. I also like SWTOR but I mostly look at it as the KOTOR 3 we never got, and I'm only really in it for the story content.

[PocketYoda]

I only play Swtor and GW2 these days most other mmos are way to forced multiplayer for me. i like to chat but being forced into group combat makes me anxious and i do not enjoy mixing with others, so i avoid most mmos.

[Berserkr]

Originally posted by PocketYoda:

I only play Swtor and GW2 these days most other mmos are way to forced multiplayer for me. i like to chat but being forced into group combat makes me anxious and i do not enjoy mixing with others, so i avoid most mmos.

Just curious on GW2 did you get all your hero points in expansion zones solo? If so what class were you using and what build did you settle on? As I said above I got to level 80 and was gonna keep playing just to get the map 100% explored and stuff but I just stopped playing as I got bored, I haven't logged in in probably over a month

[Phoenix]

Most of these are all scratching at 1 - a few thousand players now. I have been trying to find something, or go back to, but they are mostly virtually dead.

The only 2 I've seen at 10k+ are FFXIV and ESO, just.

[PocketYoda]

Originally posted by Berserkr:

Originally posted by PocketYoda:

I only play Swtor and GW2 these days most other mmos are way to forced multiplayer for me. i like to chat but being forced into group combat makes me anxious and i do not enjoy mixing with others, so i avoid most mmos.

Just curious on GW2 did you get all your hero points in expansion zones solo? If so what class were you using and what build did you settle on? As I said above I got to level 80 and was gonna keep playing just to get the map 100% explored and stuff but I just stopped playing as I got bored, I haven't logged in in probably over a month

Yes i got them all but mostly waited on trains and tagged along.. Probably the best classes at soloing were Engineer and thief.

[Mikel]

Originally posted by Luna:

Most of these are all scratching at 1 - a few thousand players now. I have been trying to find something, or go back to, but they are mostly virtually dead.

The only 2 I've seen at 10k+ are FFXIV and ESO, just.

I mean, there are also people who play on the retail launcher outside Steam, so they number would be atleast 2x

[Berserkr]

Originally posted by PocketYoda:

Yes i got them all but mostly waited on trains and tagged along.. Probably the best classes at soloing were Engineer and thief.

Cool yeah I got into 2 guilds cool people and all but both of their HP trains and group stuff were just really bad times for me, guess I just got bored lol, too many things to play out there, also a decent amount of single player games and a few decent blobbers in the works, thanks for replying

[ele]

Nope. Nothing else has been released and worth playing since SWTOR came out.