What's a good MMORPG?

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I have sort of gotten bored of WoW and I wanna try something new. I played Eve online, and didn't like it. I like to have a sense of community, and playing in a group in an MMORPG, and eve didn't have that. It just felt like I space sim with a built in online chat box, not a community.

Also, I dont want a terrible grind like FFXI, however, I wont mind a grind if theres something interesting to do.

So, whats a good MMORPG?
 
Martyr said:
you know you are gonna end up back with wow right?
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I doubt it, I might pick it up again when the expansion comes back, but Im pretty much done with it, I could never get a character past lvl 31, and I dont suppose Ill ever make one past 40.
 
The new D&D online seems ok. Due out in feb.

Other than that, not much is out that's worth it right now. Excepting WoW, but I'm burned out on it as well ( battle grounds are fun, sorta, but on my server alliance gets it's ass handed to them on a regular basis. I don't think we've won a battle ground in weeks. No I'm not kidding ).
 
Gob said:
I doubt it, I might pick it up again when the expansion comes back, but Im pretty much done with it, I could never get a character past lvl 31, and I dont suppose Ill ever make one past 40.
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why? 20 in a few days, 30 at the end of the week, 40 the next week, with enough gold for a mount. thats not playing alot either.
 
You cant quite WoW, the WoW will not allow it......



*back to Wow*


*go away RL, I have things to do*


RUN RUN FAR FAR AWAY MAN, DONT LET IT GET YOU
 
*RAISES HAND*

I quit WoW 6 weeks ago and life is better lol. Instead of looking forward to a weekend of drawn shades, cheetoes and WoW ... I do this thing called ...

LIFE.
 
Martyr said:
why? 20 in a few days, 30 at the end of the week, 40 the next week, with enough gold for a mount. thats not playing alot either.
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Ya, but I hate grinding, I can't really stand it. I dont know how some other people can spend 2 hours or mroe a day just killing the same thing over and over again.
 
Been playing city of heroes/city of villians pretty much lately. Not for everyone, but still fun imho...
 
XOR != OR said:
The new D&D online seems ok. Due out in feb.

Other than that, not much is out that's worth it right now. Excepting WoW, but I'm burned out on it as well ( battle grounds are fun, sorta, but on my server alliance gets it's ass handed to them on a regular basis. I don't think we've won a battle ground in weeks. No I'm not kidding ).
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The same thing happens on my server. Most of the time we get destroyed in less then 10min. I think I'm 1 for 35 at Warsong Gultch. No one listens or plays like a team. I think its the Horde's way of getting back at us for raping them in South Shore before Battlegrounds. The only reason we did well was numbers.

As for WoW, I resently quit it again (for the second time). I just don't have the time it takes to run the higher lvl raids (lvl 60 hunter) or even farm gold for my epic mount. Once Oblivion comes out I don't think I'll ever have the need to go back to WoW again.
 
Gob said:
Ya, but I hate grinding, I can't really stand it. I dont know how some other people can spend 2 hours or mroe a day just killing the same thing over and over again.
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toss on a movie, get 4-5 quests of kill such and such, and go to work
 
Try EQ or EQ2. EQ is old, and there is a grind, but it's still better then pretty much everything out there (although I haven't played the past few expansions). EQ2 is basically a middle ground between WoW and EQ/FFXI - you level slower then in WoW (which is a good thing), but it's not the grind that FFXI was. It did have some issues and there was a combat revamp last year similar to SWG's first combat revamp. I also despised the way they made no effort at all in itemization (pieces of gear all had the same set of stats), and the game had training wheels with all the 'controlled' gameplay encounters.

Eve Online has one of the best online communities in the mmorpg world, I'm not sure why you didn't think it did. Heck it's been out for a while, yet it's the only MMORPG that sticks around and has new people trying it on MMORPG boards because it's the only unique game out there - one of the few games that keeps on getting stronger. MMORPG's are so bland nowadays, every company just regurgitating the same old crap without any innovation.
 
It took me a year to get a character to 51 and another to 40. I quit for a few months, then I started to give it another go. So far I have been playing for 3 weeks and I have a character at level16. I just pick up the game when I can, that's why I like it. I don't know what I would do if I got up to level 60 :p
 
Squishead said:
It took me a year to get a character to 51 and another to 40. I quit for a few months, then I started to give it another go. So far I have been playing for 3 weeks and I have a character at level16. I just pick up the game when I can, that's why I like it. I don't know what I would do if I got up to level 60 :p
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do you pay the subscription or use game cards? if you dont play alot game cards are useful.
 
Martyr said:
do you pay the subscription or use game cards? if you dont play alot game cards are useful.
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My next two months are on game cards. For the first 11 months I paid the subsciption, but cancelled it as the time I played dwindled to basically an hour a week or much less. I figure I will keep getting game cards if my interest doesn't increase to justify the cost of a monthy subscription
 
Hey, back to the OP's post; I know of an excellent MM game. No, it's not online, but it does have a lot of people playing it. I discovered it recently when I quit WoW because of the boredome that I had after awhile playing it. It's called LIFE. You probably know it by the shortened "RL" that people refer to it in WoW's chat. Go on, try it. I'm sure you'll like it. :p
 
hignaki said:
Hey, back to the OP's post; I know of an excellent MM game. No, it's not online, but it does have a lot of people playing it. I discovered it recently when I quit WoW because of the boredome that I had after awhile playing it. It's called LIFE. You probably know it by the shortened "RL" that people refer to it in WoW's chat. Go on, try it. I'm sure you'll like it. :p
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imagine an mmorpg where you play a normal person living their life.
 
I'm stuck still looking for a game..


I think I've hit the one demise of gaming thing..

Very few games interest me anymore as they all..well..seem the same just a few things changed...


I started with EQ (played some ultma but the pvp pissed me off now I miss it) and now all MMO's are boring, and it seems the companies in charge don't give a rats ass about player events and such besides holidays.. MxO (Matrix Online) was fun but the fighting got repeative...


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Martyr: Yeah, its called The Sims Online...
 
If you can't even get to level 40 in World of Warcraft, you will never get past level 20 in any other MMO.

WoW has the easiest leveling system in any MMO I've played. I had a hard time getting past level 26 in the original EQ, and now I have 3 WoW characters over level 50.
 
chiablo said:
If you can't even get to level 40 in World of Warcraft, you will never get past level 20 in any other MMO.

WoW has the easiest leveling system in any MMO I've played. I had a hard time getting past level 26 in the original EQ, and now I have 3 WoW characters over level 50.
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Its proably the grind that bores him into not doing it.


If EQ was cheaper I'd play it again..
 
EQ right now is dirt cheap, you can get all expantions up to GoD i think currently with one purchase, it has an asslode of content, and is probably one of the most complete games i could ever recommend

its a grind to get up to lvl 70, to get through 50's and mid 60's is almost no hassle, and you might enjoy it, theres alot of dungeon creeping to do in EQ and tons of outdoor zones now, especially up in luclin, one down side is the AA's these give a reason to log on especially for the high end guilds when no raiding is going on, just continually improving your character, but you need hundreds of them to make a difference it seems

in WoW its pretty easy to get to lvl 60, its probably the most interesting lvling system i've seen, how ever after you lvl you are pretty much just sitting there scratching your ass, pvp really doesn't change, your gear stats marginally go up if you raid MC/BWL, and you can grind out faction... fun stuff right?

a game you might want to check out is Anarchy Online, AO was a great game, alot of good concepts, just was buggy as hell and couldn't keep a community worth jack, but right now even as i go in and out of the free 2 weeks they throw at me every once in a while i find it to be very solid and still a very good game, its very versatile and you might like it alot, plus it has music worth listening too
 
Trimlock said:
EQ right now is dirt cheap, you can get all expantions up to GoD i think currently with one purchase, it has an asslode of content, and is probably one of the most complete games i could ever recommend

its a grind to get up to lvl 70, to get through 50's and mid 60's is almost no hassle, and you might enjoy it, theres alot of dungeon creeping to do in EQ and tons of outdoor zones now, especially up in luclin, one down side is the AA's these give a reason to log on especially for the high end guilds when no raiding is going on, just continually improving your character, but you need hundreds of them to make a difference it seems

in WoW its pretty easy to get to lvl 60, its probably the most interesting lvling system i've seen, how ever after you lvl you are pretty much just sitting there scratching your ass, pvp really doesn't change, your gear stats marginally go up if you raid MC/BWL, and you can grind out faction... fun stuff right?

a game you might want to check out is Anarchy Online, AO was a great game, alot of good concepts, just was buggy as hell and couldn't keep a community worth jack, but right now even as i go in and out of the free 2 weeks they throw at me every once in a while i find it to be very solid and still a very good game, its very versatile and you might like it alot, plus it has music worth listening too
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subscription fees.
 
MMO's are too addicting and I've realized, after hundreds of hours, that they are just not fun. You keep thinking "I gotta get to the next level", "I gotta get that piece of armor", etc and once you do there is always someting else, someting better that you just gotta have. The problem is what you do in the meantime to accomplish those goals really isnt fun, its just the same old crap over and over literally thousands of times....
 
CodeEx said:
MMO's are too addicting and I've realized, after hundreds of hours, that they are just not fun. You keep thinking "I gotta get to the next level", "I gotta get that piece of armor", etc and once you do there is always someting else, someting better that you just gotta have. The problem is what you do in the meantime to accomplish those goals really isnt fun, its just the same old crap over and over literally thousands of times....
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I actually played for more the people that played and I like trading.
 
CodeEx said:
MMO's are too addicting and I've realized, after hundreds of hours, that they are just not fun. You keep thinking "I gotta get to the next level", "I gotta get that piece of armor", etc and once you do there is always someting else, someting better that you just gotta have. The problem is what you do in the meantime to accomplish those goals really isnt fun, its just the same old crap over and over literally thousands of times....
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So true. I use to plat SWG liek a mad man 2 yeasr ago. I played so much that I burned my self out. I just can't get in to MMO's latley. I've tried almost every new popular one too.
 
SWG now after there NGE rocks. I didnt play it before because of the crappy reviews and stuff I heard from people but now rocks. And I have played Matrix, Wow, COH, Second Life, Face of Mankind, Planetside, Ultima, and I like the interface in SWG the best. 10-day free trail too not bad for a spin and no cc required to try.
 
Mesquite said:
You cant quite WoW, the WoW will not allow it......



*back to Wow*


*go away RL, I have things to do*


RUN RUN FAR FAR AWAY MAN, DONT LET IT GET YOU
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QFT.
I got bored of it last march and sold my account... until 3 days ago.
Although imo MMORPGs have nothing on a good MUD...
 
ServerKing said:
SWG now after there NGE rocks. I didnt play it before because of the crappy reviews and stuff I heard from people but now rocks. And I have played Matrix, Wow, COH, Second Life, Face of Mankind, Planetside, Ultima, and I like the interface in SWG the best. 10-day free trail too not bad for a spin and no cc required to try.
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I played a bit today and it lags like crazy. I couldn't get off most specials.
 
RavenD said:
QFT.
I got bored of it last march and sold my account... until 3 days ago.
Although imo MMORPGs have nothing on a good MUD...
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It is dark. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
 
Martyr said:
It is dark. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
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Thy Dungeonman

You are thy dungeonman!

Ye find yeself in yon dungeon. Ye see a SCROLL, beyond ye SCROLL is a flask.
Obivous exits are North, South, and Dennis.


What wouldst thou deau?
>
 
Trimlock said:
a game you might want to check out is Anarchy Online, AO was a great game, alot of good concepts, just was buggy as hell and couldn't keep a community worth jack, but right now even as i go in and out of the free 2 weeks they throw at me every once in a while i find it to be very solid and still a very good game, its very versatile and you might like it alot, plus it has music worth listening too
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Actually Anarchy Online has free play accounts that are good through jan 15 2007, i have one of theese, and the play is decent, and the community is ok, but it takes a while to get into the social aspects, however be aware that the graphics is not cutting edge. :)
 
Player reviews for DDO have been abysmal, so I am being conservative until when I jump into it (assuming it gets better down the road...doesn't sound that appealing to me though from the descriptions). Anyone try EVE online? That one seems to get the highest reviews of anything released thus far....thinking of trying it...
 
I've played it, and it is a pretty good game. BUT it takes a good while to get up in power/wealth if your new and that turns alot of people off who are used to WoW and the like....Once you get past that, it's an engaging game though.
 
Uhh.. SWG = 3/10 ... WoW = 7.5/10 ... SWG is pure garbage now, they destroyed that game! It rocked too, and I'm not even a Star Wars/Sci-fi kind of guy.
 
"Uhh.. SWG = 3/10 ... WoW = 7.5/10 ... SWG is pure garbage now, they destroyed that game! It rocked too, and I'm not even a Star Wars/Sci-fi kind of guy."

Thats because u played pre NGE I just started and love the game. To each his own.
 
ServerKing said:
"Uhh.. SWG = 3/10 ... WoW = 7.5/10 ... SWG is pure garbage now, they destroyed that game! It rocked too, and I'm not even a Star Wars/Sci-fi kind of guy."

Thats because u played pre NGE I just started and love the game. To each his own.
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Haha, the game is completely worthless now, post NGE
 
Mesquite said:
You cant quite WoW, the WoW will not allow it......



*back to Wow*


*go away RL, I have things to do*


RUN RUN FAR FAR AWAY MAN, DONT LET IT GET YOU
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IT is true i have quit WoW 4 times and i am playing it again... :rolleyes:
 
"Haha, the game is completely worthless now, post NGE"

Guess thats why there are still people playing it. If you want to talk about a dead game how about Planetside? It was my suggestion to this guy he tried it didnt like it that his opinion. I think people just bash on SWG just to bash on it because of the changes they made whether they enjoyed it or not and everyone knows noone likes change.
 
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