Good MMORPG's in 2024?

[BosanskiSeljak]

Keep this cringe off my GRPG

https://rpgcodex.net/forums/forums/mmo-rp-g-online-discussion.7/

 

[Cryomancer]

DDO, the unique mmo with in depth character building akin to D&D 3.5e and interesting quest design about exploring dungeons, adventuring, with lots of side objectives and etc.

 

[MjKorz]

DDO, the unique mmo with in depth character building akin to D&D 3.5e and interesting quest design about exploring dungeons, adventuring, with lots of side objectives and etc.

This is correct. DDO is one of the few exceptionally rare MMORPGs that feel and play like an actual RPG instead of a dungeon crawler or a hack&slash adventure:

Spoiler

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Wow is still the best, your other alternative is to play FFXIV but you have to be a pedophile furry to enjoy that game.

So... skinwalker plays it eh?

 

[Torus]

When it comes to enjoying the journey FFXIV is surprisingly good. Never felt the need to rush to endgame there. In fact I never even got to max level and still felt I got a lot out of the game. Huge contrast to how wow was for me.

 

[damager]

DDO, the unique mmo with in depth character building akin to D&D 3.5e and interesting quest design about exploring dungeons, adventuring, with lots of side objectives and etc.

This is correct. DDO is one of the few exceptionally rare MMORPGs that feel and play like an actual RPG instead of a dungeon crawler or a hack&slash adventure:

Spoiler

Interesting. What’s the business model? I might play this until AoC alpha in fall

 

[Cryomancer]

Interesting. What’s the business model? I might play this until AoC alpha in fall

Is F2P with a optional vip and expansions on sale. Expansions only become "mandatory" in high levels and epic levels, without menace of the underdark, you will have a hard time. If you want to play with Codexians, join Argo server and Argo Codexia guild.

 

[Chuck Norris]

I have been playing Age of Conan for the past 4 years and I have been having a blast with it. People say the game is dead and technically, by MMO standards, it is. But you can find players for 6 man dungeons in global chat quickly. And the only players who have remained are cool veterans of the game. The only challenge is to start 24 man dungeons. You have to follow guild schedules for that. But apart from that, it's one of the least pozzed MMOs out there. Everything is manly, gritty and imaginatively realistic. It is by far the best representation of Howard's world. You really feel like you're immersed in the Hyborian age when you get in the game.

 

[damager]

Awsome. I feel I already got to chose between some good options here.
#1 City of Heroes - newly licensed by NCsoft to the biggest freeshard operator build porn
#2 Ultima Online freeshard - Cult classic
#3 DDO - Seems like a professional version of NWN PW's
#4 Final Fanstasy XIV - The way is the destination anti-WoW JMMORPG
#5 Age of Conan - Unpozzed manly muscles and boobs

I will probably dip my toes into DDO this afternoon and report back.

I will also watch AoC's livestream on wednessday which is supposed to reveal the Alpha 2 release date in fall. Hope they sell keys for it again at launch. It's cool because I had my eyes on this game for years now and it's finally getting in a playable state when I'm burned out from WoW. Seems like destiny.

 

[damager]

Man the asthetics of DDO make it a hard to love child.

It's hard to get hyped for a game from 2012 when the starting screen already looks like from a 1988 DOS game.

 

[damager]

The drawn art in between is nice. But this?

 

[Cryomancer]

If you want a good mmorpg with good graphics, sorry but you would't find. The best ones are the old ones. Every modern mmo is a generic gear farming QTE based cooldown management with no depth.

 

[damager]

Well some asthetical pleasing artstyle would be already a big plus. Doesn't have to be high-end graphics. But don't worry I still give this a shot. Generating a char right now

 

[Val the Moofia Boss]

The best ones ATM are still WoW, FF14, and GW2. They have the most classes, the most robust features, highest amount of polish, etc. Unfortunately they do not facilitate socialization like in classic MMOs and are mainly content based. They're really fun to play for a month or two when a new expansion comes out, and then they become really boring once you've toured the content. So what you want to do is to rotate between them as new content comes out for each, and then if you're caught up on all three then you kinda have to just go play other games for a year or two.

If you want an actual community as in the MM part of MMO, then you need to play a private server for an old MMO, like Star Wars Galaxies, Return of Reckoning, Chrome Rivals, etc. Unfortunately, private servers tend to be temporal, as they are erected at a window of time in a person's life when they have a lot of free time to host and manage a private server, but time marches on and those people usually become preoccupied with other things or lose interest. And, ofcourse, you have the usual drama with the people running the server which can also kill the community.

 

[Finster]

I agree with the poster above, MMORPGs are a dying genre. I've had to abandon all of them over the last few years, GW2, ESO, you name it. Gloria Victis was the last really novel and creative title I enjoyed, but it was recently discontinued. I tried to fill the void with Mortal Online, but can't recommend the game. The gameplay was too tedious for me, I tried the game for at least 30 hours and none of it was fun! The game also looks terrible, it really isn't a feast for the eyes. Well, the one I'm hoping for is Pax Dei. OP, maybe that title will be our salvation. What I can also recommend is M&B Bannerlord. Yes it's not a classic MMORPG, but it ticks both boxes RPG and MMO, especially with mods you get the combined experience.

 

[Cryomancer]

The best ones ATM are still WoW, FF14, and GW2. They have the most classes, the most robust features, highest amount of polish, etc. Unfortunately they do not facilitate socialization like in classic MMOs

Classic mmos aren't superior because they "facilitate socialization", they are superior because they have the bare minimum RPG on it. And mentioning wow, ff14 and gw2 as "the best ones atm" is silly. I hated all of this games. In fact, guild wars 1 is miles better than gw2.

 

[Lariko.Sch]

I'm currently playing gw2. it's nice enough, i personally enjoy the setting, plot, races and such. played all the expansions to date, enjoyed them all (mainly the main quest plotline) except Secrets Of The Obscure, SOTO sucks.
And Janthir wilds (latest expansion) will be coming out soon.

On the "real money" side of things, i'm sure you've already heard all the "pay once play forever" thing and all. Besides that, there are some cosmetics that can be bought with gems, and you get those gems with the game's gold (the economy is really healthy) or your credit card. The gold to gem ratio is quite allright, i haven't spent a single dime on it, and i don't do any life-sinking mindless farming either.

 

[Finster]

I'm currently playing gw2. it's nice enough, i personally enjoy the setting, plot, races and such. played all the expansions to date, enjoyed them all (mainly the main quest plotline) except Secrets Of The Obscure, SOTO sucks.
And Janthir wilds (latest expansion) will be coming out soon.

On the "real money" side of things, i'm sure you've already heard all the "pay once play forever" thing and all. Besides that, there are some cosmetics that can be bought with gems, and you get those gems with the game's gold (the economy is really healthy) or your credit card. The gold to gem ratio is quite allright, i haven't spent a single dime on it, and i don't do any life-sinking mindless farming either.

GW2 has developed no depth over the past 12 years. There are like 20 skills per class and everyone has slotted the same 5. It looks like a schizo fever dream now, the players and the zones. They mixed too many themes and cluttered it too much over time. I felt like playing gay fortnite steampunk furry simulator the last time I logged in. It really stopped being enjoyable around 2017.

 

[Russia is over. The end.]

I remember installing GW2 on day 1. One of the first quests had a gay NPC help you profess love to another gay NPC. Into the trash it went.

 

[Lariko.Sch]

I'm currently playing gw2. it's nice enough, i personally enjoy the setting, plot, races and such. played all the expansions to date, enjoyed them all (mainly the main quest plotline) except Secrets Of The Obscure, SOTO sucks.
And Janthir wilds (latest expansion) will be coming out soon.

On the "real money" side of things, i'm sure you've already heard all the "pay once play forever" thing and all. Besides that, there are some cosmetics that can be bought with gems, and you get those gems with the game's gold (the economy is really healthy) or your credit card. The gold to gem ratio is quite allright, i haven't spent a single dime on it, and i don't do any life-sinking mindless farming either.

GW2 has developed no depth over the past 12 years. There are like 20 skills per class and everyone has slotted the same 5. It looks like a schizo fever dream now, the players and the zones. They mixed too many themes and cluttered it too much over time. I felt like playing gay fortnite steampunk furry simulator the last time I logged in. It really stopped being enjoyable around 2017.

yeah that's one aspect that i don't really enjoy about the game, i really despise the extra glowing cosmetics, specially on charr. Just seems too out of place.
as for the skills, i've only started playing the game last year, so i haven't had the time to get bored of them

 

[430am]

Spill the tea! What happend in F:O?

WARNING FLASHING LIGHTS AND EYE RAPE AT 11 MINUTES IN


So basically, the season came down to two final strongest factions (V-Tec and Brahminboys) having a last decisive battle at the north one's base. Thing is, Brahminboys were kinda known for exploiting, cheating, duping, and all kinds of shit during the season. Admins didn't seem to care that much. So they developed a cheat plan for this final fight. There is an artifact in the game called mindblast (or something like that) that basically shakes the screen and flashes seizure eye rape for EVERYONE on the location. It's just a meme and completely useless, nobody ever touches it. Except they devised a plan for everyone in the faction to remove the eye rape by modifying their game files so it would look completely normal, just with a little screen shake. So all that seizure flashing making the game unplayable, they don't see it. One Brahminboy spammed that and the rest of his faction just pushed in and wiped everyone because V-Tecs were blind. Obviously, V-Tec had instant extreme butthurt, and the admins looking at this figure out this shit can't be legit, so they spawned like 100 enclave power armor NPCs that wiped the Brahminboys in turn, which of course caused mega butthurt from their side as well. Then there was a shitstorm for hours in the community, and prominent players who have been coming to this game for years and years just said fuck it we're not playing on this shit anymore, what the fuck? There's a big ton of content and awesome fan mail with rage associated with this. I only played this season in FOnline anyway, and didn't like it that much.

Also the Ultima server is called "UItima Outlands" as far as I remember.

 

[damager]

Thanks. This elaboration didn't disappoint

Brahimboys seem like fuckin losers though

 

[ADL]

Aside from what people have already suggested here, I'd recommend Neverwinter Nights 1 persistent world servers accessible through the original game of the Beamdog client. They're very tight knit communities but they function as MOM's and the people that play them are a similar crowd to what you'd find on P1999 and UO Outlands.

 

[damager]

Yeah I actually bought NWN1 digitally back when it was on sale for like 3€ as I lost my discs at some point

Because I knew about the potential that lays in mods and pw's

 

[luj1]

Guild Wars 1

legacy servers for Galaxies, Acheron's Call and WoW Classic

I doubt there is a way to play Tabula Rasa