Good free to play MMOs?

[Andrew R]

Keeping in mind that I have never played one. :)

[miakisfan]

I played a lot of MMOs back in the day and I would suggest not doing so if I were asked.

That said, I would say Path of Exile was pretty fun if you have the time to play it. Be prepared for a time sink, though. The rest of them end up being all of one until someone wants something specific to their character.

I can tell you from personal experience that even the best guilds I have been in in both Everquest and World of Warcraft ended up being destroyed by personal gain for certain people inside it.

The only MMO that I would have given a thumbs up to is Dark Age of Camelot ... that is until they decided to do the desert expansion which in my opinion ruined the game.

[Nemu]

Some people only play the FFXIV free trial, it's a good amount of content.

[Raelic]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von eula fridge:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Raelic:

League of Legends is my go to massive multiplayer online game, but if you mean MMORPGs... I'd give a Ultima Online freeshard a chance. Not the official ones.

It's one of the oldest MMOs, if not the oldest if you don't included old MUDs.

I think a lot of people who enjoyed things like Stardew Valley would enjoy it, but getting a house can be troublesome.

If you did manage to go from free to paid, the Official Shards have plenty of housing space on all but the single busy shard.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massively_multiplayer_online_game

"This article has multiple issues. "

[Raelic]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von LeviathanWon:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Raelic:

League of Legends is my go to massive multiplayer online game, but if you mean MMORPGs... I'd give a Ultima Online freeshard a chance. Not the official ones.

It's one of the oldest MMOs, if not the oldest if you don't included old MUDs.

I think a lot of people who enjoyed things like Stardew Valley would enjoy it, but getting a house can be troublesome.

If you did manage to go from free to paid, the Official Shards have plenty of housing space on all but the single busy shard.

LoL is a moba. Moba's basically take the player vs player out of MMO's and put in an 15-60 min game of pain.

It's Massive. It's Multiplayer. It's Online. Are you here to argue or are you actually going to participate in the topic?

[B]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von miakisfan:

I played a lot of MMOs back in the day and I would suggest not doing so if I were asked.

That said, I would say Path of Exile was pretty fun if you have the time to play it. Be prepared for a time sink, though. The rest of them end up being all of one until someone wants something specific to their character.

I can tell you from personal experience that even the best guilds I have been in in both Everquest and World of Warcraft ended up being destroyed by personal gain for certain people inside it.

The only MMO that I would have given a thumbs up to is Dark Age of Camelot ... that is until they decided to do the desert expansion which in my opinion ruined the game.

I highly suggest staying away from Path of Exile. It is an absolute monster of a grindfest that boils down to playing the stockmarket with the games crafting currency and trading.

[Caldari Ghost]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Raelic:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von LeviathanWon:

LoL is a moba. Moba's basically take the player vs player out of MMO's and put in an 15-60 min game of pain.

It's Massive.

5v5 is not massive.

[Under there]

do mmos even exist anymore?

[❤ Sly Succubus ❤]

I'd ask what type of games you enjoy first. MMO's is a rather broad subject which covers everything from online first person experiences to base building world games.

Personally when it comes to MMO's, especially free ones, I always make sure that the game has at least people playing it, and I mean active people. The game may have many users but having a ton of users does not mean its popular, next to that is to ensure the game is not to new.

Not saying new MMO's are bad, however I've found that very few are actually new in any context and do not have ideas from other existing games. Like for example I tried Kepler 2300 two days ago, its free and has tons of people but I swiftly ran into the second issue that the game was new sure, but entirely made of stolen assets from the Steam workshop, a badly forced in Microsoft AI, not even the ChatGBT one either and was active in a sense that it has lots of "players" which, context, in the game, a person can have more then one account, so on any one map you could multibox a literal clan so it was not active in these of players, it was active in the sense of one-man mega empires.

Its always best to actually check reviews for MMO's, sure reviews are a dime a dozen in the rough but when it comes to MMO's and you don't know what your getting into, frankly its best to check the reviews. Ya Kepler has a blue review positive mark, till I then saw most of its reviews were all red downvotes with empty bot positives outweighting them.

[Raelic]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von eula fridge:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Raelic:

It's Massive.

5v5 is not massive.

There is a massive amount online in the pool that gets pulled into the 10 player match. You could do the same reduction in every MMO listed here. You're not seeing every group of players in the game in any MMO. Hell, in the most popular MMOs, they are sharding players. I'd hardly call a cap of 100 "Massive" either.

[Caldari Ghost]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Raelic:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von eula fridge:

5v5 is not massive.

There is a massive amount online in the pool that gets pulled into the 10 player match.

Which doesnt qualify it as "massively multiplayer". 100 players all interacting with each other at the same time in the same instance counts as massive because that is a scale that falls outside the conventions of any other kind of multiplayer game. You could have pointed to warframe as being questionable but there are hubs and clan areas where players can all congregate on a scale that is far beyond what is allowed in missions.

[Vince ✟]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von 240p Enjoyer:

do mmos even exist anymore?

Not in the traditional sense. They now serve small segmented populations of elitists who won't drop the only thing they were ever good at, a revolving door of new sub who leave after the trials or first month of paid whatever, and of course don't forget the main population comprising these MMORPG numbers, the hacker groups who farm/glitch/hack their ways into the game economies, ruining them of any semblance of fairness or need for multiple players interaction between each other. No. MMOs are pretty much dead. Look at WoW taking the dev from old ass EverQuest in order to learn how to keep afloat with the crappy hardcore progression idea. It's all swirling in the bowl, and in reality it's all been flushed twice, it's just that bad of a turd.

Extraction shooters. Arena games, mobas etc. Are it. And of course multiplayer games that just aren't as "massive" ie; Empyrion etc.

Why? Greed. People. Humanity. Just be happy you can find 30 like mind's in another smaller type game who won't ♥♥♥♥ it up for everyone playing.

[ImSoCool599]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/582660/Black_Desert/

The only good MMO in the whole world

[B]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Raelic:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von eula fridge:

5v5 is not massive.

There is a massive amount online in the pool that gets pulled into the 10 player match. You could do the same reduction in every MMO listed here. You're not seeing every group of players in the game in any MMO. Hell, in the most popular MMOs, they are sharding players. I'd hardly call a cap of 100 "Massive" either.

Words with friends would also check those boxes.

[gza]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1284210/Guild_Wars_2/

[LeviathanWon]

You are looking for an MMORPG, that will never be made, never have the resources, never have a functioning work force, never be economically viable, never be secure without going to court a few 100 thousand times... get a steam card or a blizzard card from Walmart and go to time for a month or two until you find out they are rip-off fun little games that only reflect what you could do if you were working a real job that required you to coordinate and socialise with real human beings.