Looking for an MMO to play, suggestions?

[Gray2233]

Thought I'd see if anyone can offer some advice.

I'm a long time off and on WoW player, BFA didn't interest me and while I'd be willing to give it a try in order to scratch my current itch I'm not willing to put down £39.99 for a year old expansion that requires a sub on top. I'd consider it at £10-15 but they can get stuffed if they think I'll fork out the price of a brand new game. I had a look to see if I could find a cheap key but the legitimate resellers don't have any in stock.

I've played most mainstream MMO's to some extent over the years. My main draw is end game content, I'm not that interested in the leveling process unfortunately. I tried FF14 a year or so ago but struggled to get into it while leveling.

I'm half tempted to just sub to classic, but I'm not sure if I could stomach leveling up.

Anyone know of something with decent end game and a healthy population that I might be unaware of? Should I just grit my teeth and power through the leveling portion of classic WoW? Is it worth pushing on with FF14, does it get better?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Gray2233]

Its not quite out yet as it got delayed but amazons new world is worth keeping an eye on

Thanks, I'll keep an eye on it.

 

[Gray2233]

MMO or MMORPG? Since you mention WoW I assume you mean the latter.

The latter, yeah.

I tend not to differentiate as everyone who spoke about "MMO" titles back when I wasn't a grumpy middle aged git meant stuff like Everquest, WoW etc.

 

[Gray2233]

Blame the marketeers, most so-called MMOs arent MMOs, or if they are , then by that criteria almost every MO is an MMO

Yeah, agreed.

Stuff like World of Tanks and Warships aren't MMO's, a lot of people might be playing them but by that argument any game with lots of people playing could be classed as an MMO.

@Nodiggidy123 Thanks for the suggestion, tried GW in the past and couldn't get into it.

@ShortWarning I'm sorely tempted but I hate leveling up, the only thing I really care about is end game/raiding in most MMO's and I've always found the leveling process in WoW to be poor, especially so in vanilla/classic.

 

[Gray2233]

I hear you. Levelling is a long old job in Classic.

I don't love levelling either most of the time, all MMOs require it though!

Unfortunately!

I don't mind doing it if I know the payoff is worthwhile, but I've done all the classic content before back when it came out so I'm not sure if the slog will be worth it.

If we get a classic version of TBC I'd be all over it, mind you.

 

[Gray2233]

I have a few hundred hours into TESO from when I played with a couple of friends, I enjoyed it for awhile but the play style didn't really appeal to me unfortunately and I ended up bored of it.

Thanks for the suggestions though!

I think you can see my dilemma now, lol! I've played a bunch of MMO's but most just fail to grab me.

Same thing happened with TOR for me as did with TESO, the closest I think I've got to a good WoW alternative was Rift when it first came out.

I even tried going back to Eve for a change of pace after about 8 years away but the current state of the game isn't appealing at all.

I'm really tempted to just pick up FF14 as I can get the complete for £19.99 with a month free. I struggled with aspects of it when I trialled it a year or so ago but a lot of people keep telling me the end game is great once you push through.

 

[Gray2233]

Sounds like you've just had enough of MMO's, scratch through the surface and in the end they're all exactlly the same thing.

Not sure if that's the case, I haven't played one for almost 3 years not counting the FF14 trial which I spent a couple of days on.

I just have an itch to scratch and fancy playing one again.

I tend to go through phases with the sorts of games I play, I've been on a JRPG binge for the past half year or so, played a bunch of online horde games prior to that.

 

[Gray2233]

While not an MMO at all, in fact not an MO even, have you played through Kingdom Come Deliverance? I thoroughly enjoyed it, as did the Mrs, and it provided a decent challenge and a some great stories. If you like graphics it also looks really decent as well, doesn't bother me but I know some people will care.

I can't think of any MMO's at all, if you still have the itch when WoW: Shadowlands comes out maybe worth ago since you'll be at the same state as everyone else. As for WoW Classic TBC yes it would be amazing, I think it was my favourite of all the expansions as it still had good challenges, a good story, and offered an open progression system with all content available to everyone from the day it launched other than the very final Sunwell patch.

I loved Kingdom Come: Deliverance, really enjoyed the challenge of the combat and the setting/story. It was nice actually having to think about what you were doing in a game like that, usually you get to a point where you just massively over power everything.

I'll take a look at Archeage.

 

[Gray2233]

Have you tried Lord of The Rings Online ? It's got tons of content, healthy population, free to play and atm you can get 90% of the expansions/addons for free - details here --> Link

Many years ago, I'll take a look at it.

 

[Gray2233]

So... I ended up buying BFA as it just went on sale.

I figure if I dislike it too much I can use the sub for Classic.