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Let's start a thread dedicated to MMOs.
>Talk about your favorites
>Wag your e-penis about how highly-leveled you are
>Tradan
>Buyan
>Lootan
>Boss Grindan
What's your favorite MMO, /v/?
I'm looking for recommendations for an MMO to play.
I have two requirements:
>1. No monthly fees (One-time purchases are fine, though.)
>2. I want to be able to be a merchant.
I loved Recettear, but I wanted to be able to interact with real people. Does anyone know of an MMO where you can go dungeon crawling then sell your wares to random players? I really want to be a traveling merchant and be known for the cool shit that I carry.
MMOs are dead kid get over it.
RuneScape was the best, hands down. There's nothing to debate.
>>332095062
>MMOs are dead
>>332095234
>the best
>graphics look like turds filtered through diarrhea
>>332094934
>Talk about your favorites
Anarchy online. It had kickass quest generator.
WoW at it's launch. It felt magical.
Rift. It was fun for first month but died quickly.
Ragnarok online. Perfect music, cute art and dark art mixed together. Played nicely.
>Wag your e-penis about how highly-leveled you are
I usually reached max level with all classes on any mmo i played. Did not however reach such levels in Final fantasy realm reborn, Guild wars 2 or Blade and soul.
>Tradan
>Buyan
>Lootan
Rare and powerful loot>>>>Constant gear upgrade.
>Boss Grindan
People who have not played Ragnarok online don't even fucking know the true meaning of boss grind.
What's my favourite MMO? Most likely Ragnarok online. MMO as it is now is pretty dead to me.
>>332095339
it was an in browser f2p game you shithead
underage faggots really need to stay out
>>332095339
>Playing MMOs for their graphical fidelity.
RuneScape is the patrician MMO.
>>332094934
you just want recs you fucking mongoloid
go to an MMO blog/forum if you honestly want someone to tell you what MMO to play
>pic related, you probably have this
>>332096110
Anon, did you already have a picture of an FAS baby saved on your computer or did you take the time to go download it? Because either way, that's kind of weird.
Does card games count (No, is not RNGstone)? OP said MMO not RPGMMOs.
Dat feeling when I made my first char in WoW. Spawning in as a Nelf hunter, being blown away by this magical world. Ah to be young again.
Right now GW2 is the only mmo I play with any sort of regularity. That's right, I like GW2.
I havent had the energy to get into any MMO since I stopped playing WoW at Cataclysm. Now and thne I get huge craving to play some but it just never is enough to actually find and play something. I tried Tera and it was fun I guess, same with Blade and Soul. But neither of them captured me enough. I guess I will try Tree of Savior when it comes out because it has so many seemingly cool classes I want to play as. I feel kind of sad since I could find some new cool friends from these MMOs due to my current social life being very lonely. But I guess I wont play any anyway.
I would love a MMO to play.
The last one I tried was Wildstar, but after playing for a few days I got bored. Just quest after quest, none of them memorable.
I have some hope for Crowfall for the purely PvP MMO but I've given up on PvE MMOs because they're mostly shitty themeparks.
Black Desert would be great if it wasn't a single player game with chat in PvE.
>>332097537
>Tree of Savior
Don't even fucking bother, even the Koreans abandoned it because it was shit
MMO's are dead. All the "saviors" like ToS and BD have been garbage and some even cancelled like Everquest: Next.
So give up.
>>332100170
Yes, I have seen the threads and such about the tokens and junk. But the game is still free to play so I will lose nothing by trying it out.
Even if I didnt try it out, there arent really any alternatives. Have to cling to hope that something works out.
Right now Im playing WoW and ESO after taking a break from FFXIV
Im only playing WoW because of the legion hype and after my sub runs out, I wont be back untill the pre-expansion event
ESO on the other hand is really fun but like any other MMO its mind numbingly boring if you play solo. I'd like it more if I had people to play with and if I could figure out how to continue the story quests but aside from that the game is really fun and expansions come out quarterly from what I've heard.
currently playing bdo
>just reached lvl 40
>am apprentice in 4 life skills with gathering almost skilled tier
>~15mil+ worth of assets
>+8 wep and armor
>put my workers to chop pine wood to make noble wagon
>put my workers to gather flax to craft noble clothes
>can't wait to ride my 4 horse wagon named 'DeVille' around the map and snipe trade blitzes
why is this game so engrossing and comfy?
>>332094934
if you care about playing, it's b2p and yes you can be a merchant/trader
>>332096429
not really weird considering all the suzyfags
>>332094934
Either Runescape or Ragnarok
There's GW2 but eh... Eh.
> mfw EVE player for almost a decade
>>332101329
I have it, but when I realized all the crafting and shit was basically just a shitty Single Player thing, I dropped it so hard.
>you can be a merchant/trader
You can, sure, but you're going to be bored to death since there's no interaction.
>>332101329
not OP, but in BDO you can be a merchant/trader? This is all I want from an RPG/MMO is to be an actual merchant and to sell shit. Is the economy fucked or is it even viable?
>MMO starts out super promising
>spirit of the evil jew takes over the developers
>WE NEED TO MAKE THIS MORE CASUAL AND START TRIPPING THIS SHIT DOWN TO ITS BAREBONES
>WHY ARE WE LOSING PLAYERS AND MONEY, MAYBE AN OBNOXIOUS PAY2WIN CASH SHOP WILL FIX IT
>>332101996
You might as well play Recettear as the trading part is completely cut off from everyone else.
Been playing Star Trek Online, I think its an unsung hero of the genre. Space combat is really fun, ground combat is like a much better KotOR.
>Buyyan
Picked this classy bitch up the other day. You don't necessarily need to throw money at an endgame ship but fuck the Martok is powerful
>>332101689
EVE seems so fucking fun but I have no money or time to embark in a second job. Specially knowings I'll never ever catch up to people like you.
>>332101996
not beyond buying stuff from one place/looting it from mobs/fishing it and then selling it in another place as far away as possible.
the trick is to create a node network so that you can sell stuff at higher price farther from where you got it.
>>332101996
yeah unfortunately you cannot trade directly between players, only via the marketplace.. which has dynamic price limits imposed by the devs...
crafting however I find it enjoyable. It's complex enough to not be mindless, but not to the extent where you feel lost.
>>332102324
I already played Recettear to death and it's pretty decent.
My all time favorite was Anarchy Online. But when it comes to mmo's I generally think that it is the people you play with, not the game itself. Fondest memories from all the mmo's I have played have been because of the people in my party, the bant, the synergy, the oh shit moments, the wipes, etc.
>>332102362
>ground combat is like a much better KotOR
Unless it's been changed to hell and back, hardly better than even KotOR. The space combat is pretty damn great, though. I wish the ground combat was removed so they could focus more on the ship stuff.
>>332102362
I've been thinking of getting into STO, but 300+ eurobucks of DLC makes me depressed. Is it playable as a F2P game, or is there some specific pack I should buy?
My favorite of all time was FlyFF. I met so many great people in that game. People I'm still friends with to this day, oddly enough. Early 2000's MMO culture was so much different. People hung out. Got to know each other. Did stuff together. Communicated, you know? Now it's just instances and grinding and silence.
>>332095234
>shitty 3D iteration
Runescape died when it became 3DPD.
I really loved Wakfu when it was in beta, but now the world feels to small for an MMO. Dofus is amazing but totally ded, maybe it will be alive again when they release the tablet version and no one can multiclient (except retards that buy multiple tablets or some shit)
>>332094934
>Favorite
Ultima Online, played it late in middle school and on through high school. Shame it's terrible now.
Currently playing Black Desert Online. It's okay. Better than any other MMO I've played recently.
>>332095234
>RuneScape
That was just UO for poorfags.
>playing BDO
>notice there's only about 4 different armor sets
>uninstall
What's the point of spending all this time making a waifu if I can't dress her in varying outfits. This is horse shit.
I've been playing Blade & Soul for about three weeks. I started it just for a laugh but it's actually decently fun.
Recent new content is kinda shit so far though.
>>332103282
got bored with it pretty fast while i was quite hyped for it. :?????????????????
>>332101689
>mfw Anarchy Online player for almost a decade.
Any decent browser MMOs?
Taking a break from FF14 with my cousin currently. We do 2v2 arena in wow every week just for fun.
On the side, I'm trying to get blazing drake from dragonsoul each week on 3 characters. Really getting sick of that place. Also recently started working on argent tournament dailies for the nice pally mount recolor. I'm hoping tomorrow is the last day I have to do it.
Two of my co-workers also got me to install TERA and play that with them. I'm about level 20. Combat is fun sometimes (I'm a slayer), but my God the soulless Korean mmo feeling.
anyone ever played one of these browser P2W games? ogame/ikariam/tribal wars. wish there was a B2P one of these without any P2W features.
>>332103497
oldschool runescape
>>332103498
Yeah tera's kinda dry at times
But god damn, there's nothing more fun than grabbing a small group of friends to go on low level gank squad
Even if Tree of Savior turns out to be garbage, it'll be worth it just for the sake of going on a crusade to purge the BRs.
>>332102374
Not trying to convince you but as long as you can afford the subscription your time investment doesn't matter. I had times where I would log in once a month, farm for an hour and burn that money in pvp.
As for catching up to great players, nobody cares about great players. Everybody knows the story and name of the first titan ship, but barely any of those people remember the name of the its pilot. The greatest players are those who participated or witnessed the greatest stories.
>>332104326
It's just so incredibly complicated and intimidating, I don't think I'll ever have the drive to try it again.
>>332103802
Unfortunately my homosexual co-workers are anti-PvP
That's a good ass, btw
Only thing I have been playing is the yet again revived Rumble Fighter, for once it's not shit I guess
>>332104756
What a terrible shame.
There's really no better thrill than getting leash, hiding just a bit off the roads and grabbing a new player into your party's waiting arms to rip them apart
PORN MMO WHEN?
HOW CAN NO ONE THINK IT WILL MAKE BILLONS OF DOLLARS WITH THAT
>>332105336
Furcadia has existed for about twenty years.
Pretty sure that several of the developers live in a shitty house in Texas.
>>332105336
Because the internet is already almost entirely free porn as it is. Why would anyone pay for it?
>>332105336
Sociolotron
And now you see why it wont ever catch on.
>>332105256
I can only imagine. World pvp was hands down my favorite thing in wow before they killed it. All pve, all loot was so I could go smash faces that much better.
It does suck, my tastes don't align with my co-workers' much.
> won't PvP
> dark souls is too hard
> I play games to relax, not challenge myself
These guys, I swear
>>332094934
Speaking of MMOs I'm thinking about getting a meme mouse.
>>332095234
Ironically, RuneScape has been the only MMO that I've played that had actual, good quests.
>>332106057
While your friends do sound horribly casual, I should also say that Tera PVP feels a bit degraded from before, there's really only two places to fight, and that's the lumbertown line of quests after the tutorial area, and then level 65 castle siege pvp, everyone's more content in just hanging around town and using vanguard to go to the next dungeon run, it's really sad there's so few other players just wandering about.
>>332102604
What the fuck are you talking about? Content isn't locked behind a pay wall man you can play everything. Most you'd spend money on is a ship. Somebody lied to you
>>332106414
Forgot to add an Elin.
>>332106414
>>332106057
what's the best MMO for world PvP these days?
>>332106762
NOSTALRIUS
>>332106414
Shame. Community is so important in mmos, but people welcome these "quality of life" features that really hurt the community. For wow, first it was BGs, then cross server BGs, then LFG. No one needs to be out in the world anymore. No one knows each other outside of trolls in the trade chat channel.
I want to see what will happen if my cousin and I go attack an opposite faction town...
>>332106852
gross
The only MMO I really enjoyed was Mabinogi.
Too bad Nexon buttraped it to hell.
>>332101329
Family name: moot
Holy fucking fuck you disgust me
Do you guys think we'll ever get a good MMO again?
I still can't believe the MMO genre turned so shit so fast.The genre had so much potential, but now it's undeniably the worst of all genres.
>>332106762
I really don't know, friend. I'd like to know as well
>>332107014
MMOs were never good
they were new for a bit and the shine wore off
stop kidding yourselves
>>332106893
Truth hurts.
>>332106951
What's wrong with Mabinogi now, outside of some dead servers and max grinding for gunner/ninja/magic craft/engineering? It still manages to be one of my absolute favorite mmos for how it comes close to fulfilling the "Your fantasy life" tagline it has where you're not rushed to do things.Was it the combat update?
>I really like FFXIV
>But everyone seems to shit on it
>/vg/ threads gives the game a bad reputation
>>332107098
For a time MMOs were good. But this was decades ago when technology wasn't as advanced and we all had lower standards.
Since then they just... Got worse.
>>332105653
Man the people in furcadia are so friendly.
BDO if you join a guild. EVE otherwise, I guess.
>>332107175
That is a really big reason. I feel like Nexon is pushing it too hard to become a normal MMO.
>>332107636
Honestly speaking, I don't mind the change, after checking how it used to be by playing pets, it really doesn't feel worth it, it feels like it'd be a huge drag to go through especially with the new content we have.
While there are some things that feel like they were changed for the sake of making things easier (moon gates and no more item drop on death) there's some things I'm glad are gone (MANA EVAPORATION)
hey guys,
I played WoW for 5000+ hours and FFXIV for 3000+ hours, dropped WoW when it was polarizing between extreme casual and hardcore raiding/pvp guilds, dropped FFXIV because it seemed the zones were small, the gathering system sucked, and the graphics and design are forever tied to PS3 limitations. I also tried TESO for around 200 hours, but it sucked and I couldn't get into it.
Also, my first child was born (he's eight months old now!) and there was a shakeup at my job after we got bought by another company so I had to take on a bit more responsibility (read: unpaid overtime), but things have settled down now and I'm ready for MMOs again. /coolblog
I'm looking for something promising, with good graphics as a priority (better than TESO), good PvP, preferably fantasy based but I'm cool with space too (not star wars though). Also, I can't play 6-10 hours a day like I did in high school and university, so something a bit more casual.
Anything coming down the pipeline, anything y'all keepin an eye on?
I can only get into non-RPG MMOs now - like Freejack, S4 League, and Dungeon Fighter Online. The first 2 were fun as fuck back in Beta, but cash shop fucked everything up. I've played DFO for a long time, but that eventually burned me. Nothing to do in the end game but grind for gear, which becomes disheartening after a while.
No other action based MMO holds my interest.
>>332107441
bdo?
>>332094934
I miss City of Heroes. NCSoft can go eat a bag of dicks for what they did to that game.
>>332106997
It's a short form of my irl family name.
>decided to try out Wildstar
>looks good, decently amusing combat, controls nice
>no one else is leveling
>que up for everything, pvp, dungeons
>nothingfor several hours
>check online and the forums just to see what's up: they just fired 60 people
So this is what a 'dead' MMO feels like. I've never felt this weirded out, alone, and depressed while playing a game.
FFXI 2004-2009 era
All the private servers are fucking awful
I just want an MMO that forces players to group up and cooperate for every aspect of the game.
>>332109347
I played Wildstar when it was new, and it was about the same. Wildstar has probably the most boring questing of any MMO.
Is there a point to playing an MMO solo? All I want is a chill free MMO to boot up when Im bored.
What the hell else plays like Guild Wars? The closest I can get are fucking mobas. Obligatory 'fuck GW2'.
>>332109150
Black Desert Online
Not a perfect game, but it is the best available option, IMO.
>>332096721
I'll have to guess that they do not count...
>>332109354
FFXI made you group up for everything? Even mining and shit?
What was like the mandatory minimum party size for casual leveling/questing?
The only MMO worth looking forward to is Crowfall.
>>332109354
Such a MMO would fail hard these days. While I would love to go back to old school Everquest/SWG, its just not going to happen.
>>332094934
MMOs are trash right now. wait for crowfall and star citizen. they're the only games that are tryingnto offer non p2w trash and also aren't doing the theme park style.
>>332110348
>star citizen
MY FUCKING FACE WHEN
What's your MMO disappointment of the year?
>BDO
>PVP is all about stats and p2w suit, no skill involved.
>money is useless due to no Player to Player trading.
>fishing hotspots make the whole ocean useless, everyone on the server just AFK fishes on the same small spot and ignores the whole ocean.
>PVE is just dull AOE grinding.
>horse breeding is RNG to see if your 12-24 hours of horse leveling actually gives you any progress or not, again no skill of any kind involved. Not even knowledge, you are just at the mercy of autorun and RNG.
>game punishes you for PVPing HARD unless you are participating in a guild war.
>guild wars cost money, which means nobody wants to start them.
I'm so sad this game didn't live up to the hype.
If they allowed things like stealing trade loot when killing players that would make being in negative karma actually fun and part of the gameplay, not just a punishment.
You could for example set up raids to the fishing hotspots, kill all the AFK fishers, steal their fish and therefore make the spot dangerous. This could lead to people spreading out and using more of the ocean rather than just AFKing near the 2nd city of the game.
>>332109968
The average party in FFXI was 6 people for exping. Large stuff like Dynamis was anywhere from 18 to 40+.
The main way the game forced you to party was by making enemies your own level capable of absolutely shitting on you, with ones under your level virtually worthless from an EXP standpoint.
PvP in this was fun as fuck. Too bad it tanked.
>>332094934
Vanguard was one of my favorites, I'm hoping Pantheon can be a successful spiritual EQ1 successor, that's really the only MMO I'm looking forward to.
>>332110681
It actually was hyped up very well and the launch was good, too good infact, the servers couldn't handle it for a month and so people who bought the game with the free 30 days gametime just went back to WoW.
>>332110348
>Crowfall
it reminds me a lot Albion at least by their promises.
>>332110348
Can I play as a rifleman in Crowfall?
(what I'm saying in none of this danm games I can play as a rifleman, at better I can play as a crossbowman)
vanguard saga of hero is pretty good
>>332109735
The servers are still up and there's a decent sized community still playing.
>>332105336
How would that be any different than Second Life? I find it hard to imagine an MMO with actual gameplay where you could freely have sex with anything that moves that isn't just a gimmick.
>>332111037
Is Albion any good?
>>332112847
I don't know, shit is in closed beta.
what've read about it is that the game plays like a Diablo-game is that and Ranged/Mages skills rule the game completely (poor STR types)
>>332111970
Was fun when it was still up, I loved my psionicist.
>>332112847
No.
Are there any MMO's that are actually worth playing anymore? was playing LOTRO until i realised how much the cash shop ruins the game now and that the lower levels are dead and pointless.
>>332106387
Quality over quanitity. The thing only had about 100 quests all up, and new quests were big, major patch deals. Most people would probably throw a tantrum if WoW or something similar did the same thing.
>>332105336
Scarlet Blade, it was shit.
>>332114623
99.9% of weebshit east trash is shit
shouldn't have been a surprise to anyone
maplestory was addictive as shit
>>332115194
I do wonder about these people who are seriously looking forward to a lot of that kind of stuff. Have some standards
What's the ideal PvP system in an MMO lads?
No fucking mention of Global Agenda, only two mentions of UO, and only one mention of City of Heroes/Villains.
I am disappointed.
>>332107186
The game is hot fucking trash. It's like a really pretty girl who can only count to chair. The game is as shallow as a puddle and the "endgame" hasnt changed since the game came out. When your playerbase knows of just what to expect from every single patch you should really just fucking change it up some. They won't though. You will get more gay gear treadmill content and it will always be the same amount of content. They will continue to create things just to throw it away. They will never make meaningful gear progression. They will always think their playerbase is retarded and they will never make the game complex in any way shape or form. SE is fucking garbage and they're just a step above blizzard for me at this point.
Is Black Desert Online worth a buy?
I honestly haven't played an MMO in over a decade but I've got the itch
>>332118715
it's comfy and has hella grinding
looks like shit to me personally but some people seem to enjoy it
>>332109968
Questing in ffxi was not what you would expect. In ffxi you would mainly do quests for gear or for unlocking new content or even just story related things. I think there may have been a couple of quests that gave exp. Your main source of exp came from grouping up and killing monsters.
Now they have these little npcs out in areas all around where you can take little objectives to kill x amount of enemies and you get exp that way solo. You can also get npcs that follow you around and act as party members. And no you never had to group up for mining and gathering.
The only time you have to group up usually is when you're doing fights or leveling, which is pretty much most of the game.
Now with the game how it is you can do all of the expansions solo aside from adoulin. Gear is really fucking strong now.
>>332118715
no its not worth buying just vpn your way into the jap sever if you really want to try it
>>332118715
No, it's a shameless skinner box made for whales.
