I used to be a pretty big WoW player, and got pretty in to it. I enjoyed the game and spent a lot of time on it till Wrath of the Lich King, which ruined to game in my opinion. I’ve seen that most MMO’s that are out aren’t very successful compared to WoW, and SW:ToR just looks like “World of Star Wars” to me. I’ve seen a trailer for an upcoming Warhammer 40,000 MMO which looks really good to me, at least. I’m just wondering if there are any MMOs that are out right now that are worth the money, because I’d rather not wait 2-3 years for Dark Millennium Online.
Honestly every MMO I’ve ever played is essentially the same, except maybe EVE Online, but that’s kind of a niche game. You really have to like spaceships and math to be good at that game.
But games like Perfect World, Aion, and WoW are all almost exactly the same. No one gives a rat’s ass about the story, you just grind, level up, buy new stuff, rinse and repeat. And then some PvP every once in a while. Still, I had a lot of fun with PW and Aion. Even though there wasn’t really anything new in them, they did the formula well, so if you like WoW you might try one of those. PW is also free to play, so if you don’t like it you won’t lose any money. Well, free to play, but it has a cash shop with very useful items and a crapload of vanity items, so it’s more like pay-to-win lol
I’ve been moderately interested in EVE, but it looks like you have to really play a lot to keep up with other players, I do, however like how people make their own alliances and factions, what’s the combat like?
If you really want, try DDO, the D&D ruleset beats any other MMO out there on its own already, paired with the unique level/dungeon design and real time combat… I really doubt there would be any other comparable mmorpgs.
Tough I quit after they went F2P (unrelated reason, just mentioning for time-reference).
When I saw the title, "MMORPG’s " I instantly thought “…are gay”. But anyway, I’ve played WOW and several other MMO’s, Wow got gay as hell. Quit that shit…didn’t like it after 2 to 3 years. And by the way, no, I never got an addiction to that game…it wasn’t addicting at all.
Actually EVE is probably the game you have to play the least. When you play the game, you play to get money because the game mainly is based around the economy. Your skills you queue up to train over time - the first level of a skill trains very quickly, in a few minutes. The very highest skills that are possible to train literally take months. But your skills train constantly whether you are logged in or not, so you can set a few to train and not play for days, come back and they’re done.
Combat is actually pretty fun, but this is where the math comes in. Your weapons have accuracy falloffs and tracking speeds. Basically, you have to know what range to attack from. Small ships with small guns have short ranges but a high tracking speed, so they can circle larger ships at a short distance and attack them because the large guns can’t track them fast enough. Large ships, however, can carry drones, small, agile attack fighters that you can command to attack specific targets. Then you have to know how to outfit your ship to withstand certain types of enemies, whether to shield-tank or armor-tank your ship, if you just want to have powerful guns or if you want to do electronic warfare…all sorts of stuff. Like every game it’s pretty complicated but IMO it’s not too difficult to figure out.
Sounds pretty fun, I’ll have to download the free trial for it.
The fact that you played it for “2 to 3 years” says otherwise.
I would say something about how I play Runescape and that, despite what many people say about it, its a really fun game, but that would just turn the whole thread into a massive flame war and invite trolls of every size, shape, and computer type to trash this post. Crap. I just mentioned Runescape, didn’t I? Sorry if this destroys your thread.
Millions of people could disagree with that.
I play WoW and Meridian 59 (yes old but i still like that very much) i used to play silkroad and uhmm… cabal online and ddo and many other games but others are shit, maybe ddo was little better than other but nothing compares to wow. i am thinking to return to DDO again. well thats it…
WoW is the only MMO I ever enjoyed. I stopped playing around December last year because I had seen everything there had to be seen at that point, and I just couldn’t justify paying €12 a month when I could only play 10 or so hours a month.
I played for 5 years prior to quitting, 4 years in an extremely casual guild that consisted out of a bunch of my real life friends, and people I’ve known for several years on da intarwebz and have met a fair few times so far. The last year I decided to try out some more hardcore raiding, but it didn’t really tickle my fancy. I enjoy leveling and questing a lot more than raiding or PvPing.
When Cataclysm comes out, I’ll pick it up again, most likely go back to the casual guild of old (if my friends keep playing that is) and just level my Hunter and spend time on alts until I get bored of the game again.
Only other MMORPG I played was Guild Wars (well, not like it’s an MMO), it was fun for a while, but got old really fast. The controls and feel of movement were also hugely lacking.
Yeah i’ve quit from december last year as well, probably pick it up again with Cataclysm as well. Currently playing Aion on a private server, screw paying for this game haha
I love the story and so do my freinds :meh:
WoW is like some kind of virtual crack, it’s mind numbing and repetitive, but there’s something that keeps you coming back. For some people it has no effect and they quickly grow bored of it, others become addicted and it takes over their life. You might be able to give it up for months, but then a huge tempting rock comes along and you find yourself logging in again, play and discover all the new content which will last another year or so then get bored and quit. Repeat cycle.
What was it about WotLK that put you off ?, did you get to eighty and try out the new Raids or stop playing as i did while leveling ?. I did start playing again after a couple of months as most do and as Fridge has said.
Personaly for me the Ulduar raid was the best ive seen, although the final raid Icecrown isnt great it is still fun and at Heroic difficulty, a nice challenge.
A very recent MMO that came out retail about 1month ago, sandbox style played in a 1st person view
Holy shit! It’s Oblivion Online! :retard:
On topic: I’ve only ever played Lineage II on a private server and tried Guild Wars and Archlord. They all seem pretty much the same to me…
I got 1 character to 80, but missed out on Ulduar because I was still running Naxx 10’s and 25’s to get good enough gear to get accepted into any decent raid. That was the problem with it then, but now you can farm for badges and buy gear that was amazing several patches before. Then your gear is pretty much made redundant because there’s always better items. I did the new ICC 5 mans and the Argent Tournament stuff, but never got in to the ICC 10 or 25 man raids. By then I had become bored of everything, the constant grinding and daily quests, it just wasn’t fun anymore. The new group finder tool was a godsend though, instead of waiting hours in Dal to get a decent group together. But even then many of the cross server groups were terrible and no-one talked to each other, so it felt like running instances with a group of bots.
Cataclysm is looking pretty good though with all its new content, and just for the changes to the old world alone. And it seems they’re catering more and more towards a casual market, while still trying to please the hardcore players. This isn’t a bad thing at all, since some people like to just play on a casual level and not spend 5 hours running a raid and not even being guaranteed any gear. But the grindy nature of WoW will never change, that’s the formula that keeps people coming back, a promise of a reward always in near sight and the social interaction.
I’ve talked enough about this wallet burning game, what are your thoughts on Cata?
A well needed reboot of the entire concept of WoW.
Sadly they cut a lot of the planned max-level content (aka guild-talents and Path of the Titans).