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go WoW

the only downside is that after a while you won't have a life anymore, but that's not too bad

but just play WoW..the rest is all worthless



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For every person that loves World of Warcraft there is one that has no interest in playing it every again.



in all honesty, it terms of QUALITY, nothing beats world of warcraft. there is a reason they are #1 in the world and it isn't just the blizzard name.

however

everquest
everquest2
world of warcraft
and most other mainstream subscription mmos have a 10 or 30 day free trial, just look for them and try them out.


just try them out yourself and see what you like

imo for a new player

wow>eq2>eq in terms of easing you into the game


guildwars is decent too



EQ really is a great game still but at this point if you are trying to start playing from scratch you are so so far behind in EQ that it is a daunting task just to catch up to casual players. I doubt I will play EQ again, but it really was for me the first and the best.

WoW was pretty lackluster in my view, but I know a lot of people like it. I was just never really able to get into the game, in large part due to the nuisances that plagued the games early days, but also because it felt like just another MMO to me.

Honestly, I will probably do my best to avoid MMOs just for the simple reason that they eat way way too much time.



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I think everyone got away from the idea of "Free to download" and went towards whats the best overall which includes subscription fee games. The whole thread turned AoA should



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If I were to pick up an MMO that I had to pay for, I'd likely go with LOTR. Or Chronicles of the Spellborn when that comes out. One of my favourite bands ended up writing music for the game when they were asked if they could use a song. I signed up for the beta some time ago but haven't gotten in.



To cash in my CC rewards points for $300 in Circuit City gift cards to purchase a 360 or not: That is the question.

Not sure why so many people are mentioning non free games, especially ones that require a subscription!

Getting back on topic, there are several free ones at: http://www.gpotato.com/ that are all fairly good and free.

Or here is a another site with list of dozens of free mmorpgs with rating scores:
http://www.onrpg.com/games_categories/free.html



KohlyKohl said:
For every person that loves World of Warcraft there is one that has no interest in playing it every again.

haha, that's true.  I used to be a no-life raider but quit it because I needed to get my life back.  No intention to go back unless for some reason I decide to destroy my real life again or unless Blizzard radically changes the time-consuming scheme of end-game raiding.

WoW is definitely a great game. Actually It's too great so that it's a bit dangerous to people with addiction problems like me.  This is not to say that some people can't play WoW casually.  But if you try really hard to achieve server-firsts in a reasonably competitive realm, it gets increasingly harder to balance real life and WoW especially after a year or so.

One regret I have is I didn't get to see the whole end-game raid instances in the expansion pack since I quit shortly after doing Karazhan.  But then again, I don't want to go back to raiding.  So a few days ago I installed a private WoW server on my PC just for myself to check it out.  There's a open-source server publicly available.  It just took a few hours to set it up.  Of course, you don't need subscription or anything.  It's a realm running on your PC.

In a private server, you can do anything because you're a GM.  You can teleport to anywhere in the world or to any instances.  You can max out your hp / mp / skill / spell / profession / level.  You can fly yourself, can get any item, can summon mobs anywhere, can run 10X speed, can even tranform yourself into Vaelastrasz ... you can do literally anything.  You become a super man. 

So I explored everywhere with a Nether Drake mount.  I checked out instances and saw most end-game raid bosses (you can kill them with a single command ".die" or a GM spell "Sonic Boom" that does gazillion damage).  I've checked out all the epic items including the ones Illidan drops.  Tried out Tier 6 sets for most classes.  Epic item shopping spree. 

I got to see what it had to offer, so I'm satisfied.  Of course, I didn't really "experience" end-game raiding of the expac per se because clicking a DIE macro doesn't equal the experience of 25man raiding.  Well, in fact, even on a private server, you can still do quests legitly and do regular raiding or 5man if you invite your friends to your server, but then again I don't want to spend another hundred of days so I guess that's fair.

Wowdetox.com helped me about my WoW addiction problem but setting up a private server sort of helped me completely terminate my last craving to go back to the game.  Sorry about not being on the topic.



No, it's not going to stop  'Til you wise up
No, it's not going to stop  So just ... give up
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I played WoW myself last year, with a friend. We travelled together and did quests with guildmembers for a month or so.
I reached level 47 with my Paladin and then just quit.
It became all "fetch this or that" quests and uberpowerful PC's that slaughtered us on PvP arenas.
Grinding for XP really can't justify a monthly fee for me!

Then again, I play most games halfway through, and then leave it at that... Bad habbit I suppose.

PS: I'm looking for a good, easygoing (or hardcore) FPS along the lines of Chaser, any tips?



UO for me was the best when I played on shard (I never played on official servers)... you have some shard where they developed rather good maps and scripts.... and it's the one IMO offering the most possibilities when you script it yourself.... you can push the AD&D system to it's maximum
but it's really not a game you play for graphics though... WoW don't even come close than an UO shard you like in term of possibilities...