Best MMO for infinite playtime?

[Soren Arica]

I am looking for the best MMO that has the highest longevity meaning it will still be active in 30 to 50 years...

I found these four to be the best. Oldschool Runescape, Guild Wars 2, Tibia, Ultima Outlands. Has anyone here played at least two or more of these games and can you tell me which one of these four is more worth it in the long run?

Say, if I spent 10.000 hours, 20.000 hours and more on one of these four, which one is the most rewarding? I just got to 50% world completion on Guild Wars 2 and I tried OSRS for a little and completed the cooking quest.

Ultima Outlands seems graphically the best and it's pretty cool, but seems very complicated to me and I don't really wanna spend 100 hours just to learn Ultima Outlands... Tibia I've tried also and liked it but is it better or worse than OSRS and Ultima Outlands? Or maybe I should just stick to Guild Wars 2? I don't know which one of these four is the best?

Can anyone compare these four games with each other and tell me what is the most fun gameplay for long amounts of playtime?

[breadman]

wow

[samcharles77]

No MMO is guaranteed to be active in 30 - 50 years. MMOs are a very tough market imo.
Personally I would recommend WoW is you are looking to sink hours and hours into it. The endgame group content can be quite challenging.
For me Guild Wars 2 would come in second. I found a lot of fun things do in it and it seemed to have a pretty good community.

[Soren Arica]

samcharles77 původně napsal:

No MMO is guaranteed to be active in 30 - 50 years. MMOs are a very tough market imo.
Personally I would recommend WoW is you are looking to sink hours and hours into it. The endgame group content can be quite challenging.
For me Guild Wars 2 would come in second. I found a lot of fun things do in it and it seemed to have a pretty good community.

Everyone who plays Ultima Outlands says there will never be a game like it again. Oldschool Runescape looks like it can go for another 30 years as well. Not sure about the others...

[❤ Sly Succubus ❤]

Runescape I play myself and I play on the updated version of it, already level 102 (combat level wise) and only have 40 quest points (thats 20ish quests out of all nearly 300ish in the actual game up to now) and I just enjoy the simple stuff going on in it.

There's...no real reward however once you get to a certain level in Runescape or to a certain gear, at that point everything but boss monsters basically roll over dead within two hits without dealing me anything less of 100 damage, when my main Hp sits at about 6400.

[Reggaejunkiedrew]

I'd agree Oldschool Runescape is probably the MMO with the best longevity. They have:
-a great framework for how new content gets added with community votes to ensure the playerbase is onboard with what their doing.
-a huge and stable playerbase (119,595 online right now)
-a progression system that is very time consuming but satisfying
-a massive amount of content with more frequently being added.

I played Guild Wars 2 at launch and had fun with it but fell off quick. From what I've heard though they've done a good job with it since then. I still doubt it has the longevity of OSRS though.

Ultima I have little personal experience with, but its the Broodwar of MMOs, definitely seems like a daunting one to get into now adays.

I know nothing at all about Tibia.

There's also Eve online, which, content and scope of gamewise is right up there with OSRS in terms of longevity, but the playerbase seems particularly unhappy lately and CCP doesn't seem like what they used to be so who knows if it'll be around in 10 years.

it's all subjective though. Enjoy what you're doing it while you're actually doing it. There is no "worth it in the long run", it's a video game at the end of the day nothing is worth any of it aside from whatever enjoyment you get in the moment of doing it. Any feeling of satisfaction or completeness you might think you'd feel after spending 20,000+ hours playing an MMO is an illusion. The journey is always what matters.

[❤ Sly Succubus ❤]

Reggaeјunkiеdrew původně napsal:

There's also Eve online, which, content and scope of gamewise is right up there with OSRS in terms of longevity, but the playerbase seems particularly unhappy lately and CCP doesn't seem like what they used to be so who knows if it'll be around in 10 years.

I can explain this one, I still play EVE so sadly I know why.

It comes literally down to the fact CCP invested in crypto, not currency mind you, but it was something game related that has zero impact on the player base or EVE in the smallest of forms, its largely a "Bandwagon of hate" because they are reaching outside of their one game and investing in other things.

Thats...quite literally it, like besides that crypto note, CCP has been plotting along with EVE the same way over the last 4-5 years ever sense they started doing Quadrant Releases, which is a bit funny when I have to note that everyone thus far has fallen in love with Quadrant's when one releases but they all banded together in a mob mentality when CCP put some stock in crypto even tho it has zero impact on EVE Online

[Soren Arica]

Reggaeјunkiеdrew původně napsal:

I'd agree Oldschool Runescape is probably the MMO with the best longevity. They have:
-a great framework for how new content gets added with community votes to ensure the playerbase is onboard with what their doing.
-a huge and stable playerbase (119,595 online right now)
-a progression system that is very time consuming but satisfying
-a massive amount of content with more frequently being added.

I played Guild Wars 2 at launch and had fun with it but fell off quick. From what I've heard though they've done a good job with it since then. I still doubt it has the longevity of OSRS though.

Ultima I have little personal experience with, but its the Broodwar of MMOs, definitely seems like a daunting one to get into now adays.

I know nothing at all about Tibia.

There's also Eve online, which, content and scope of gamewise is right up there with OSRS in terms of longevity, but the playerbase seems particularly unhappy lately and CCP doesn't seem like what they used to be so who knows if it'll be around in 10 years.

it's all subjective though. Enjoy what you're doing it while you're actually doing it. There is no "worth it in the long run", it's a video game at the end of the day nothing is worth any of it aside from whatever enjoyment you get in the moment of doing it. Any feeling of satisfaction or completeness you might think you'd feel after spending 20,000+ hours playing an MMO is an illusion. The journey is always what matters.

Is Everquest P99 any good? If not I think I will just play Oldschool Runescape and Guild Wars 2, both. Everquest P99 caught my attention suddenly because the graphics seem cozy and remind me of better times the 2000s.

The graphics of Everquest P99 look like you're in a dimly lit room, like watching an old Merlin movie. It feels like you're in a safe place like an old church all alone, just by looking at the graphics. I haven't played it though. Does anyone know if Everquest P99 is any good? I guess OSRS is the best though.