Been feeling the itch to get into an mmorpg. Hard to tell if there’s any good ones out. Seems some in the works but what is good this currently available?
My context: was huge into EQ2 for a long while. Loved Rift. Played AION. Didn’t really get into WOW but played it a tiny bit.
I like crafting and love the idea of building my house and world. One if the things I loved most about rift was building my dimension. I had HOOOOUUURRRS into it with some very cool stuff.
Anyway… what if anything is anyone playing. It feels like that genre is currently in a drought.
FFXIV is great and free to play until level 60
70 by the time most people who start now get to Storm bloods content
not so much a drought as people getting burnt out on cash shop and gamble box shenanigans
out of the top tier, it’s been pretty much status quo for awhile now
- thanks to Blizzard, World of Warcraft really shouldn’t be an option
- Final Fantasy XIV
- Guild Wars 2
- Elder Scrolls Online
- Lord of the Rings Online
Massively agree with gw2.
Overall good costumer practices (not perfect). Buy to play, no worries that time is running out and you need to grind like a maniac for the next days…
Great community and story.
WOW is algo a good option, if you’re going to a private server. Those seem more fun honestly and less bullshit
Aren’t WoW private servers free too?
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Based on your other interests, Guild Wars 2
If you want to try something different, there’s an MMO called “Secret World Legends” that is super unique in a lot of ways. Also super niche, so don’t worry if you decide you don’t like it; but if you do, it’ll become one of your favorites.
Is legends as good as the original? The original was truly a game you had to try out. Loved all the puzzles in that game.
It’s the same game, just with a load of QoL improvements, and iirc a few of the expansion chapters come free. Biggest change is combat and targeting… idk if I can explain it well without making it sound like trash, but instead of click-to-target, you have to aim your character at the thing you’re fighting, which sounds clunky, but you get used to it in a hurry - it makes combat much more fluid. Also all the currencies from various factions you could acquire in the base game, 90% of which were obsolete, have been consolidated back down a more reasonable number.
I started on TSW back in the day; switched to SWL. If I ever get the itch to dive back in, it will 100% be for SWL.
I’m personally looking to get into “Palia”, it’s going into open beta in on the 10th. I’ve seen reviews that say it’s “the love child of WOW and animal crossing” so going to get my family in on some cozy gaming.
Same here, love these chill games without combat, like Animal Crossing, Disney Dreamlight and etc, so a MMO version of this is all I wanted.
It is so much an “Animal Crossing, the MMO” type of game. I’ve been having a blast in the closed beta. The house building aspect is surely what op is looking for. So many little details one can build out!
Been in since alpha and love it.
FFXIV now (next patch) offers over half of the entire Main Story for free.
You can’t go wrong and the community is the best around.
But can you play pvp as a f2p? Whwn I played it was “temporarily” disabled …
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I see, PvP you say, not often we see players wanting to play PvP haha, well for PvP it’s not really available for Free Trial.
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I’ve been sad that there is no active New World community. I love that game.
GW2 seems to be the answer. I played it briefly when I had more time and it was fun af.
If you like houses and decoration Elderscrolls Online is pretty awesome for that. Combat is pretty fun and there’s tons of variety between the classes.
If you want something on the EQ2 end of the spectrum give Horizon XI a try. It is a private server for FFXI, square’s first mmo. The amount of work put into it is incredible for a private server. Lots of devs and is very polished.
Have you ever checked out Ark? Not quite a true MMO, but it’s the closest I’ve ever gotten to feeling that “brand new to EverQuest” feeling. The worlds are massive, full of a massive amount of different dinosaurs, and the base-building is robust. Highly, highly recommend.
Star Trek Online
Second Life RPG groupsIf you also like online TCGs, try Wizard101
If you’d like a bullet hell combat system, try Spiral Knights (now F2P)
Final Fantasy seems the one for you to be honest.
The player base is quite chill and overall enjoy playing casually, doing RP, decorating the house, etc. Crafting is actually interesting instead of just seeing a bar fill up!
I would not recommend ESO as it’s very very very choke full of microtransactions and you actually will have a bad experience playing without ESO Plus (restricted space in bags, most content locked).
The same can be said for GW2 really and on top of that, it’s way less polished than FF.
Just try FF, I couldn’t stomach the classic oriental style cinematic and the quests until lvl 60 can get really frustrating (fetch quests) but overall it has the better potential considering your taste IMHO.
I’ve dabbled in the FF world years ago and several have suggested the newest one. I thibk I just might give that a shot. I don’t mind some fetch / grinding quests as long g as it’s not the entire focus. Part of why aion lost a bit of luster for me… got pretty grindy especially near end game when you’re gearing up for pvp
