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So What MMORPG Are People Playing
Philip Wales
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So afters years fighting through EQ and WOW I stopped playing MMORPG'S about 4 years ago. I've been playing World of Tanks recently (last year) and have got the hankering for an MMORPG again.
So recently I tried FFXIV and while it's good, I'm just not all that into JRPG's, so stopped after my month was up. I tried ESO again (I did the Beta) and I just find it very boring.
So I've started playing Guild Wars 2 and I'm enjoying it, there's plenty of people around in the zones, the graphics and story are good, so I think this will be my main game.
This week I've tried Wildstar and while there's meant to be plenty of people around end game, the levelling seems very empty, I don't want to rush to end game. I deleted it last night. I've now started Tera, there seems to be plenty of life in the game, but again it's the whole JRPG thing that puts me off.
So what are you guys playing or looking forward too? I'm guessing Black Desert, but again it's a JRPG (ok Korean, but you know what I mean), but apparently it has no PVE endgame, it's very easy to level, so your going to get to end game pretty quick, I heard you can do it in a few weeks.
So recently I tried FFXIV and while it's good, I'm just not all that into JRPG's, so stopped after my month was up. I tried ESO again (I did the Beta) and I just find it very boring.
So I've started playing Guild Wars 2 and I'm enjoying it, there's plenty of people around in the zones, the graphics and story are good, so I think this will be my main game.
This week I've tried Wildstar and while there's meant to be plenty of people around end game, the levelling seems very empty, I don't want to rush to end game. I deleted it last night. I've now started Tera, there seems to be plenty of life in the game, but again it's the whole JRPG thing that puts me off.
So what are you guys playing or looking forward too? I'm guessing Black Desert, but again it's a JRPG (ok Korean, but you know what I mean), but apparently it has no PVE endgame, it's very easy to level, so your going to get to end game pretty quick, I heard you can do it in a few weeks.
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Other games by the same developer include Rift, ArcheAge, Devilian and Trove. I downloaded and gave them all a go as well (minus Rift - but I did play that 2 years ago). I haven't really played much of ArcheAge yet but it seems ok so far. Trove isn't my kind of thing, kinda like Minecraft I guess but I haven't play Minecraft so I could be wrong (looks similar). Devilian is a fun game, somewhat repetitive whilst leveling up but, in my opinion, definitely worth a look. They're all free to play as well.
Currently, when I've got some free time, I'm mixing it up between ArcheAge, Defiance and Devilian.
Have tried many other MMO's since, most recently Planetside 2. Its best time was during its beta through the first few months after release. I continued to play it casually for another year.
Then I heard of Star Citizen. No other game has grasped much of my attention since. Waiting patiently for 2017/18 for its full release.
Lets face it, almost every other game is either simplistic or a mish mash of some other game(s).
I kinda like old school, but I find newer things interesting to learn,
I tried Star Wars The Old Republic when that was first released and it just felt rather empty to me and I ended up getting bored and quit somewhere between level 20-30.
A work colleague recommenced Guild Wars 2 and the fact the game didn't have a subscription made this a big positive for me... Personally I love the customization in this game as it makes your game a bit more unique. The issue I had with the game is the questing, it just wasn't my cup of tea as I often just stumbled on quest that were already half done with.
After about a year away from any MMO I got the urge today to find another one to try, at first I thought about giving Star Wars another go but for some reason decided not to ... not really sure why not, but maybe I still will. I then looked into Marvel Heroes but looking on youtube it looked crap... I then looked on Steam and saw Elder Scrolls online was on sale so figured I would just jump in and give it ago... once it has finshed installing I will give it ago and hopefully it will keep me entertained and will fill the MMO void in my life :cool:
EQ is still going, releasing yearly expansions, but it kind of only for people who have been playing for years now. Not played WoW in years, no plans ever to play again after picking up the last expansion and playing it for about 4 hours, before thinking this is just the same old stuff again.
I gave Blade and Soul a bash recently, and the combat is actually really cool and the setting is different than your usual. I've not got the time to play it much though, and apparently it gets a bit pay to win at the higher lvls.
Star Trek Online is appealing and I spend some time on that one.
I also like the fact the zones will down scale you for that zone. So I entered a 25-35 zone completed everything full map completion. But I was to low a level to enter the next zone, mobs taking 25% health off me in one hit etc. So I went to another 15-25 zone, got downscaled and got my extra few levels there.
The community is very good and friendly, mainly because you can't kill steal, no gathering node campers and because you scale you get higher players coming into your zone to do dailies or map completion, they actually encourage you to follow them to do the harder instanced mobs/quests.
Ahh TESO. Loved the game in beta, bought it and we played it as a guild for a couple of months but the PvP is shocking unfortunately. It promised so much to be a DAoC-like system with collapsable walls etc which is fun for a while but it just ran out of steam.
Not played it since before my extended hospital stay in 2014 but might fire it up again for a look. It did have a lot of good things going for it before we all got utterly sick to death of the PvP.
Star Wars: The Old Republic is pretty much the only one I play these days. I'd love to be able to log into DAoC but I've lost all my three accounts' log in details! I could recover them easy enough I guess but it's more hassle than it's worth really.
My long time guild are mostly flitting between SW:ToR and then games like World of Tanks, War Thunder or Rainbow Six Seige, none of which are my bag.
Besides these days it's rare I get enough time to do any MMO gaming. I've been playing online since the mid to late 1990s in text MUDs and then EverQuest/DAoC etc but that's nearly 20 years ago and I have a 7-year-old son now and most of my fellow guild mates are the same, all with children now.
WOT is far too toxic. I usually give it a go in the morning before work while drinking my coffee and the communities great, but if you do that at the weekend you notice by 10'ish all the kids come on line and it just gets bad, getting called a "Noob" when you have a "mark of distinction" on your barrel for instance. I was once attacked in chat in the game, even though I won it for my team, the guy then followed me onto private chat, bemoaning me, and pointing out how "crap" I was I then pointed out he managed to do all of 30pts of damage more than me, even though I was in British TD with low alpha damage and low mobility, and he was in a HT.
The game then gets ok around 4'sh but again goes down hill when kids get in from school, picks up late at night. But it's such a "money sink" of a game, which I don't mind, but I'm not paying to be abused.
Tried Elder Scrolls and it's fun but not a game I could play a lot.
Secret World was ok but Funcom suck at launch and the elitism made it less enjoyable,
I hope a game like SWG is released. An MMO with true character freedom and great combat.
i dont mind a bit of a grind to level up my alliance but i expected more than a chapter update that took less than an hour to do and one new companion to recruit that again took less than an hour to do
I'm still tempted to play WoW but Warlords of Draenor is probably the worst expansion so far. I can't cope with the stresses of raiding due to health issues so I generally solo, go questing etc, and for people like me there's not much to do. Garrisons are merely an elaborate Facebook game. When I completed my mage's transmog set I got bored and unsubbed, I've still got a whole bunch of reps to grind but I can't be bothered.
I'm usually a solo player or I play with a small group of friends unless it's a raid, but I think when Blizz decided to make people jump through hoops to get flying they trashed the game. Feedback was already bad: they were haemorrhaging players due to dumbing down the skills system (admittedly pre WoD), messing up the launch, a lot of what they promised was absent, and then there was the Flyinggate incident (which revealed a lot of mistruth on their side).
I think what did it for me is the fact that they're not listening to their user base and the level of vileness in chat in the trade channel. When people pay £120 a year to play a game they want it to be fun, not something that feels like they're working and/or being abused constantly. Doing repetitive shit day in day out is not fun, especially when they're expecting you do it to unlock something like flying. The initial was when you get to 100 you'll get flying, then it was they're removing it from now on (including any xpacs), then it became a case of "well you need to do all this to get flying..." and it was boring.
I'm currently playing Elite: Dangerous, but I'm enjoying that in solo mode and I don't mind because it's been a pretty steep learning curve.
Blizzard's big problem is the lack of content updates over recent years. Since the Siege of Orgrimmar in Sept 2013, there's only been 3 content updates and one of those was quite small. It's been almost a year since the last update. Blizzard seem to rely on daily quests to keep people playing, but as you say, after a while that's no longer fun. Blizzard have stopped reporting numbers for WoW which isn't a good sign and whilst low WoW figures are still amazing by other MMO standards, it's still suffered a severe decline.
And I'm not sure Legion will bring the numbers up significantly either. It's been too long, people will return but many have simply moved on.
The MMO market is a mess. EQ Next has been cancelled, most other MMOs have gone Free to Play in order to survive. This last year has been the first year that I've played no MMOs at all since EverQuest hooked me in 1999. Sad days.
I've rarely played anything this year but that's because it's now 20+ years since I started gaming on text MUDs in the 1990s and my priorities and time availability are massively different.
I simply don't have the time to game like I used to, not with a family.
I wanted to try Black Desert Online, but not sure if my laptop would run it smoothly enough, it runs the Division in Ultra. So I was told to try the Russian version, which is FTP and see if it ran nicely. What a PITA to actually play the game, so I gave up. Will wait till they start doing 7 days trials etc.
I was a little surprised that Everquest Next was cancelled. It seemed a very promising game too. I even paid $19.95 I think it was for the Landmark option and early access etc. I do not think that money will be returned some how!
Camelot Unchained looks to be released later in the year. As all us MMO players know release dates are never set in stone. I was, and still am, a big fan of Dark Age of Camelot so I am particularly looking forward to Unchained.
There are a couple of "zombie games" coming out. One of them looks pretty ok - The Repopulation I think it is called.
As someone has already said the MMO game market is not good at the moment.
But I just don't like Asian MMO's, in what world do hot pants and a skimpy top make for armour.
Pinning all our hopes on this one
It reminds me a lot of Ragnarok Online. I played that MMO for years.