Hello, are people here playing MMOs? What’s your favorite one?
Warframe is in my favourite. Be a space ninja doing flips while electrocuting a whole room of enemies before blowing them up with your hand carried cannon. Also fair monetisation and a very friendly community.
I second this. Warframe is fantastic and so well done. It never feels pay to win.
I’d love to get back into FFXIV, but that was the main game me and my partner played for six years. We are separated now and the memories just too hurtful :/
Star Trek Online - I really like the ship combat. It does get a bit repetitive after a while, so I take breaks to reset mentally.
Guild wars 2, just one that I’ve been playing for years
#1 has gotta be Guild Wars 2. The content is engaging and fun, I adore the combat, and the COMMUNITY is the best! Such friendly folks there. It’s definitely the MMO that has held my attention longest, and I recommend it to literally everyone. It’s free to get started, so you can decide if it’s for you without any monetary cost. Then, the price of the game is the cost of the expansions. No subscriptions like other MMOs, or xpaks + subs (looking at you, WoW!).
#2 is WoW. 😅 Been playing it since I was a kid. My whole family plays, actually, which is how I got into MMOs to begin with. It irks me that there’s a substantial sub fee plus the cost of the new xpaks every time. Especially since I got back into it, I was going to hit max level before I picked up Dragonflight but the game actually stopped me from doing so. Couldn’t go the last 10 levels to max until I bought the expansion.
#3 right now has to be Dungeons and Dragons Online. DDO is a lot of fun! I love the “dungeon master” narration of quests and things, I think it’s a great gimmick.
Outside of that, my tier list really falls apart, lol. I have ESO, but I haven’t given it enough time to actually decide if I like it. FF14 seems so much fun, but it’s also a sub fee game and… I only have space in my life for one of those right now. 😅
I really like FFXIV. It’s the only MMO that’s ever hooked me, and I think that has everything to do with the communit (it definitely wasn’t A Realm Reborn, if anyone checks it out be prepared for the first… Thirty or so hours to be kind of a slog?) . FFXIV folk are just the best.
Yeah the community around XIV is just the best. I dip in and out a couple of times a year but if it wasn’t for the community (and the memes) then it would be much less often.
Star Wars: The Old Republic
It’s not as expansive as many MMORPGs are for dungeons and raiding (flashpoints and operations) unless you subscribe and join an active guild. However, the RPG storylines with player choices are fabulous.
The base game is free and there are a ton of activities to participate in without having to spend any money. Events rotating on a regular basis, PVE, PVP, start-fighter action, or just play solo and explore a ton of planets and storylines. If you want to dip your toes further into the expansions, subscribe for one month and they all become available permanently.
Definitely worth a try for someone looking for casual entertainment with end-game playability if one wishes to do so.
Lotro - great community, great designs on raid encounters in endgame, where you will die if not everyone plays their role, starting from tier 2. Tier 1 is always designed as a learning experience before moving to tier 2, which makes it great for casuals like myself to get into. Only issue I have is the bloat of leveling, where you now have to go endless hours untill reaching endgame, almost mostly without seeing other players, as those areas are now empty. Feels more like a mediocre Singleplayer game during that time. Otherwise I have started recently on tWoW, lots of people to quest with, which is great 😃
How is the new update? I would love to get into it but I have trouble with how dated it is sometimes.
Honestly, I haven’t yet played it. The newest update introduces just a new quest zone in Gondor to prepare for the next expansion, coming this autumn. Not so much group content in this, so people still play the gundabad and carn dûm group content. With the raid in carb dûm now only being out for like 2 month, and only being introduced to tier 3, this is still the relevant endgame content to play in.
The only one I’m semi active in these days is FF14. I used to be into WoW for a long time, and before that EverQuest. I’ve dabbled with Ultima, Dark Age of Camelot, Guild Wars 1/2, SWTOR, ESO and RuneScape (and EQOA and Phantasy Star Online back in the day if those count) but those top 3 are the only ones I got into extensively.
FF14 is fantastic.
Project Gorgon is an actively developed MMO, it’s very jank, it’s by 2 folks, it’s very old school, but if you like skill based MMOs with tons of unique places to investigate I actually really enjoy it.
GW2 is good if you like more action, beautiful places to explore, but I like PvE and while GW2 has it, it definitely felt really focused on the PvP which it is.
Final Fantasy XIV. I still love it, after all the years.I’ve started back in the PS3 days and still playing with the same character, on PS4 and PC.
I’ve tried some others over the years, but coming back every time to FF14.
This was going to be my suggestion too. So much content and different things to actually do. Very friendly users on most servers.
My main MMO is Guild Wars 2. I like that since there’s no sub fee I don’t feel pressured to “get my money’s worth” every month, keeps it from feeling like a job. Of course I do buy some cosmetics from the shop on occasion when I’m actively playing to make up for the lack of a fee.
Also my personal favorite! Which class do you play the most, chronomancer Mesmer for me.
My main is a Guardian, but I’ve been playing a lot of Revenant lately as well.
Used to play a ton of MMOs. Ffxiv was probably my favourite. Tons to do though I mostly focussed on trying to do the difficult boss content. Non existent PvP though which is probably the only downside. New world was quite fun, looks like they added a bunch of new stuff there too but it’s probably not a game that will keep you entertained for a long time. I played archeage as well. Had a very modular class system and the combat was very entertaining imo though it became a p2w type of game.
You might want to check out FFXIV again, when End walker dropped they redid the PvP systems. I mostly just like to run content and hang with my FC, but a lot of people seem to enjoy the new PvP.
Owh thats good to know might give it a go again
ESO. They’re coming out with a massive expansion in a few days so I got back into it. It is rich in Elder Scrolls lore and has a ton of content, and you can play it solo easily if multiplayer isn’t for you. Scratches the Morrowind/Oblivion/Skyrim itch. Also like that it isn’t pay-to-win.
Yeah I tried it 2 or 3 years ago, I find it was okay but didn’t get attached. I will maybe try it again later, I don’t want to only play MMOs even if I love it
Yeah it does take a little getting used to. I’m not super fond of the combat. Using the bow is much less satisfying than in Skyrim and there’s no ridiculous ragdolling of your foes.
But… the characters and story arcs make up for it, along with the sheer variety of environments and the feel of exploration that comes with it. Morrowind alone feels much like Morrowind of yesteryear.
The customization is also really nice, lots of different outfits to try on and endless ways to decorate your house. It makes the social aspects feel much more natural with that level of expression.
The upper character levels do feel a little samey when getting to high champion levels, but unless you’re min/maxing it doesn’t make a huge difference imo.
Not very “massive” but still falls into the category: Phantasy Star Online 2 New Genesis
How are you enjoying that? Was thinking about it yesterday. Has the content picked up at all? I didn’t play much but I might go back
I play it every day since launch. The release content steadily; they are four regions now. But if you didnt enjoy the content back then, you’ll probably wont enjoy actual and forth coming content, its all into the same line. Like every phantasy star and every mmo.
