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I am curious what everyone plays. Thinking of trying a few out to do something with my free time.
 
Played WoW off and on for years, currently off. Also played Runes of Magic off and on for about 3 years.

I'm kinda sure I'm done with MMOs.
 
My favorite genre is MMORPG.

But the problem with them is that they tend to die out...especially when new games come out.

Right now I'm messing around with Guild Wars 2.
 
Mycroft said:
My favorite genre is MMORPG.

But the problem with them is that they tend to die out...especially when new games come out.

Right now I'm messing around with Guild Wars 2.
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I played GW2 for about a week and got tired of it. The gameplay just lacked fluidity, the kind I was used to from playing WoW off and on for years.

I am also big on PvP, which means that GW2 would have a shelf life for me, as I heard what little PvP it has is laughable.
 
I've pretty much played them all. I go back to WoW for a week of content then a few weeks of raiding when they drop a new expansion, else I stick to my first love. Everquest

I play on the free Mac server that is stuck at Planes of Power, the best expansion, and also on a emulated classic progression server that is only on the 1st expansion. Everything else seems to be either easymode, a bad Korean grindfest, or an attempt to be a WoW clone and fails. I played alot of SWTOR though, if the full game was truly free to play I might dabble in it from time to time, i really thought I'd be the one to beat WoW.

I also have Guild Wars 2, haven't put more than 20 hours into it though, no rush to since Im not paying monthly. For some reason I just can't get too into it, thought when I'm playing it I'm loving it. It can be quite challenging at times, compared to WoW which is as easy as possible.
 
WOW is probably easiset to intigrate into. You most likely know SOMEONE playing, there's TON of people, TONS of resourecs to get info about it, and a huge amount of content.

Star Wars TOR is easily the most fun single player experience in an MMORPG I've had. If you like the notion of being in an open, massive world with occasional interaction with other people but largely just want to play in a great story...this is really good.
 
Lachean said:
I've pretty much played them all. I go back to WoW for a week of content then a few weeks of raiding when they drop a new expansion, else I stick to my first love. Everquest

I play on the free Mac server that is stuck at Planes of Power, the best expansion, and also on a emulated classic progression server that is only on the 1st expansion. Everything else seems to be either easymode, a bad Korean grindfest, or an attempt to be a WoW clone and fails. I played alot of SWTOR though, if the full game was truly free to play I might dabble in it from time to time, i really thought I'd be the one to beat WoW.

I also have Guild Wars 2, haven't put more than 20 hours into it though, no rush to since Im not paying monthly. For some reason I just can't get too into it, thought when I'm playing it I'm loving it. It can be quite challenging at times, compared to WoW which is as easy as possible.
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They thought that with SWG too. SWTOR came closer, but both were miserable failures in the "dethrone WoW" race.

Neither Star Wars game had PvP that could hold interest for a full day, let alone for years. They even lacked in normal content, to the point where the only people who stayed were the Lucas fanbois.
 
Gipper said:
They thought that with SWG too. SWTOR came closer, but both were miserable failures in the "dethrone WoW" race.

Neither Star Wars game had PvP that could hold interest for a full day, let alone for years. They even lacked in normal content, to the point where the only people who stayed were the Lucas fanbois.
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I actually enjoyed PVP battlegrounds, I was just so sick of Huttball since there were so many more Imperials. I wish SWTOR had better world PVP, that the planets weren't so segregated and that you actually had reason to go back to other planets regularly, rather than being done with them after their level range with one set of call back quests.

I loved the content, the voice acting, the leveling and questing quite a bit. Once I hit max level though, if it wasn't raid day my choice was repetitive dailies or an alt.

Still a good game, if it were fully free I'd go back and play every class for the story, but as it stands my account is Free to Play and stuck w/ 2 character slots.
 
Best: Everquest, Eve Online
Worst: SW:TOR
 
Lachean said:
I actually enjoyed PVP battlegrounds, I was just so sick of Huttball since there were so many more Imperials. I wish SWTOR had better world PVP, that the planets weren't so segregated and that you actually had reason to go back to other planets regularly, rather than being done with them after their level range with one set of call back quests.

I loved the content, the voice acting, the leveling and questing quite a bit. Once I hit max level though, if it wasn't raid day my choice was repetitive dailies or an alt.

Still a good game, if it were fully free I'd go back and play every class for the story, but as it stands my account is Free to Play and stuck w/ 2 character slots.
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They seemed to pay attention to leveling as far as making it interesting, but they were the opposite of WoW - in WoW, the game doesn't begin until you hit max level, and in SWTOR the game seems to end. It's actually that way for a lot of games, it seems. It seems interesting and keeps you baited while you level...but after max, you just walk around.

GW2 did a little to remedy that insofar that there was more content than there was needed to max out, so you could get 100 and not see a fraction of what there is to see. But, as I was PvP based, it couldn't hold me.
 
Lord of the Rings Online and The Secret World, at the moment.

EVE is whispering at me to get back into it.

I've been clean from WoW for years now.
 
Gipper said:
I played GW2 for about a week and got tired of it. The gameplay just lacked fluidity, the kind I was used to from playing WoW off and on for years.

I am also big on PvP, which means that GW2 would have a shelf life for me, as I heard what little PvP it has is laughable.
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The draw for me from GW2 is the character stories and how being a different race, a different class...and your choices...can make the story different with each character you make.

I agree with you on the PvP issue in GW2. My very first MMORPG was a F2P game called Archlord. Now that was straight PvP. The quests were rudimentary. The game was all about PvP, Guilds...and fighting other Guilds for control of Castles and, of course, who would be the Archlord for a month. The benefits were enormous. My favorite PvP game was Warhammer Online. My favorite thing to say to people in MMORPG's is "I don't do dungeons".

Unfortunately, those games have died out and the games being developed nowadays try to combine PvE and PvP in one way or another. I've never played WoW, but I blame that game for the stuff we have today...like GW2, ST:TOR, Rift, etc.
 
Mycroft said:
The draw for me from GW2 is the character stories and how being a different race, a different class...and your choices...can make the story different with each character you make.

I agree with you on the PvP issue in GW2. My very first MMORPG was a F2P game called Archlord. Now that was straight PvP. The quests were rudimentary. The game was all about PvP, Guilds...and fighting other Guilds for control of Castles and, of course, who would be the Archlord for a month. The benefits were enormous. My favorite PvP game was Warhammer Online. My favorite thing to say to people in MMORPG's is "I don't do dungeons".

Unfortunately, those games have died out and the games being developed nowadays try to combine PvE and PvP in one way or another. I've never played WoW, but I blame that game for the stuff we have today...like GW2, ST:TOR, Rift, etc.
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Yeah that's really a crime. I don't think Asheron's Call ever lasted too long either. Strictly PvP games often get whined about from people who get ganked.

I should know. I've heard lots of complaints from people I ganked.
 
Gipper said:
Yeah that's really a crime. I don't think Asheron's Call ever lasted too long either. Strictly PvP games often get whined about from people who get ganked.

I should know. I've heard lots of complaints from people I ganked.
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I have a good story about getting ganked when I first started playing Archlord. Towns were safe places, but anywhere outside the gate was "free to kill". I went out the gate and some Archer killed me. I rezed back in town...went out the gate...he killed me. I rezed...went TO the gate...and started talking to the guy. I asked him why he was doing this and he said "it was fun". Now, I was a newbie to MMO's and I couldn't understand that mindset. We talked about it for a while and he ended the conversation by telling me, "You will do it, too". I told him, "No way". Six months later, I was making twinks and ganking people.
 
Mycroft said:
I have a good story about getting ganked when I first started playing Archlord. Towns were safe places, but anywhere outside the gate was "free to kill". I went out the gate and some Archer killed me. I rezed back in town...went out the gate...he killed me. I rezed...went TO the gate...and started talking to the guy. I asked him why he was doing this and he said "it was fun". Now, I was a newbie to MMO's and I couldn't understand that mindset. We talked about it for a while and he ended the conversation by telling me, "You will do it, too". I told him, "No way". Six months later, I was making twinks and ganking people.
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He's wise.

I've told a lot of people my MMO motto: My fun comes from ruining yours.

I know that there were dozens, if not hundreds, of people in my WoW time who got tired of rezzing and immediately dying, so they logged out to cry or to pull a Croyt. This was fun to me.

On my old server I had a thread made about me that went into the dozens in pages. I was the 2nd lvl 60 warlock on my server (one that was around when the game went live in 2004) so I was 60 when lots of people were still leveling. While others did 40 man raids of Stratholme and Scholomance, I went to Redridge Mountains, to my favorite Alliance town - Gankshire (Lakeshire, but I renamed it properly). So many level 15 paladins for me to one-shot.

See, back then, guards couldn't swim - and there's a huge river that runs along Lakeshire. Warlocks can also breathe underwater with a spell (or undead can too). I could hide underwater unseen, wait for someone to come into town, come out from the river, kill them in half a second, and run back into the water while Lakeshire guards stand on the coast in combat, staring at me unable to do anything.

Man, to think of all those noobs who couldn't turn in quests and pick up new ones. What a dick I was.

So much fun.
 
Gipper said:
He's wise.

I've told a lot of people my MMO motto: My fun comes from ruining yours.

I know that there were dozens, if not hundreds, of people in my WoW time who got tired of rezzing and immediately dying, so they logged out to cry or to pull a Croyt. This was fun to me.

On my old server I had a thread made about me that went into the dozens in pages. I was the 2nd lvl 60 warlock on my server (one that was around when the game went live in 2004) so I was 60 when lots of people were still leveling. While others did 40 man raids of Stratholme and Scholomance, I went to Redridge Mountains, to my favorite Alliance town - Gankshire (Lakeshire, but I renamed it properly). So many level 15 paladins for me to one-shot.

See, back then, guards couldn't swim - and there's a huge river that runs along Lakeshire. Warlocks can also breathe underwater with a spell (or undead can too). I could hide underwater unseen, wait for someone to come into town, come out from the river, kill them in half a second, and run back into the water while Lakeshire guards stand on the coast in combat, staring at me unable to do anything.

Man, to think of all those noobs who couldn't turn in quests and pick up new ones. What a dick I was.

So much fun.
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Archlord was a grinding game. Every class had AoE skils that made it easier. Agro about 8 mobs...run in a circle...pop AoE's on them as they followed...as they die and respawn, agro them again...keep that up for hours to level up. The problem was...there were areas that were good grinding spots...terrain, number of mobs, etc. Those places were in high demand and you could get ganked by someone just because THEY wanted that spot. When that happens, you call out in guild-chat and immediately there were at least 6 guild-mates there to blow the guy away...and then stick around to make sure he didn't return. The game had one class...kind of an assassin-type...that had stealth and really high burst damage. I loved that class. Go invis...gank someone who is grinding (you lose a certain amount of XP when you die...LOL!!)...go invis and try to avoid his guild-mates.

Lots of fun and really challenging sometimes.
 
tacomancer said:
I am curious what everyone plays. Thinking of trying a few out to do something with my free time.
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Check out the free-to-play MMOs that are out on Steam.

The only mainstream MMO I've played - as I've played a few web-based MMOs - is DC Universe Online. It's totally free to play, and I believe if you spend $5 your account gets upgraded. You can either buy a monthly membership that gives you everything or you can pick and choose which things of the game to purchase.

I've also got Dungeons and Dragons Online downloaded to play, but I have yet to do so.
 
Aion is a good game to get your feet wet with. The free-to-play option has very little restricted...it has some decent open world PvP...and you have wings. Anything you can do on the ground, you can do while flying. Think of the game as having a third dimension. It can be a grind at times, but it's got dungeons, too.
 
I started a new Runescape account for ****s and gigs last night. Played for ten minutes. xD

Otherwise, I'm not a big fan of MMORPG. Shooters, RTS and Racing games are more my forte.
 
I used to play WoW a LOT in highschool around 3 months after it came out. I played till The Northrend expansion and maybe went back to it for like 1-2 months every year since. I haven't tried the latest expansion.

I bought GW2. I really enjoyed it, but I just don't have enough time to get into a mmorpg right now. I like everything about the game, but for some reason everytime Im on it I get stressed about other things I should be doiing... while I don't have that problem with other games right now lol... I currently don't play an mmo, maybe it's just too much for the middle of a semester.
 
I've never really played an MMO but I understand that Bethesda and Zenimax are going to put Skyrim out as an MMO and I might just have to get in on that one.
 
tacomancer said:
I am curious what everyone plays. Thinking of trying a few out to do something with my free time.
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I'm not an MMO guy at all (I like games that allow me to avoid interacting with other people), but I watched my brother play the Star Trek MMO over the holidays, and it looks ****ing awesome. Also free to play.
 
Starcraft Battlenet is about the closest I've ever come to playing an MMO for a sustained period of time. I tried WoW and EVE and couldn't really get into them. It just strikes me as being too much work for too little pay off. You might as well just get a job. :lol:

I'm seriously considering giving the new Elder Scrolls Online game a try though. I've been playing Skyrim off and on pretty much since release.
 
tacomancer said:
I am curious what everyone plays. Thinking of trying a few out to do something with my free time.
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Oh, I just thought of one more thing that'll make your time in an MMORPG more enjoyable.

If you don't have one, get a decent headset/mic. Most guilds/clans/etc use some form of voice chat. Teamspeak is one of them. Being able to converse with all of your guild-mates, as you play, is more fun...and sometimes essential. Like, when your party is trying to take down that boss mob in a dungeon or when your group is on a PvP mission.
 
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