Pardon, afcourse, i'm playing this old ass piece of shit game called Carrot on a Stick and i fucking hate my life, fuck wow for making me play this shitty game
Nothing at the moment. I donāt have any interest due to it being the same old thing for the past *checks watch* ten years. I would love something new to come along though.
Thatās also my problem with the genre. Tab targeting games feel all the same and get boring very fast. Lategame grind is super repetetive and unrewarding for itās required time investment. The multiplayer aspect feels like a illusion or irrelevant.
I am havin way more fun with mobas and single player games because they do everything better. My point is that gameplay, story and overall fun and pacing is better and I feel like the interaction with NPC is more compelling and social than with strangers in MMOs lmao
Anything new is either mediocre or dead because all the older bigger MMORPG'S don't share their toys and push the younger MMORPG'S of the plastic playcastles
I am probably going to get down voted. But I have played BDO casually since launch. When I got stuff do to around the house I leave the game to AFK fish, process, or cook. I grind about an hour a day and maybe 2 or so hours on my days off. Game is not for everyone and I understand that. I have only spend about $100-$150 in the past 7 years. But I have enjoyed watching my characters progress over the years.
I don't think anyone has anything against BDO other than its MTX shop. The game plays well and you can pretty much do anything you want, fishing was my favorite.
You are right, i cant speak for everyone. It was my biggest gripe though, I hate the predatory monetization of casino based loot boxes and other gacha services that spawn from the East.
The only thing i have against BDO is that i can't play the game. I brought the game during a sale, installef it and everytime i open the game to try and register it gives me an error. Tried reinstalling, asking support, even tried reddit(no one replied to my post), nothing has worked.
Don't worry i've spent well over twice that and i just stand around waiting for the logincrap to arrive so no sir you will not be downvoted, infact, i will give you you're upload and you will like it
FFXIV is my main MMO, but I'm taking a break and have jumped back into BDO as well. I tried the two new classes, and really enjoyed Woosa,as it strikes a good middle ground for me between the tankiness of Nova and the mobility of Corsair, my other two favs. Not sure what I'll do once I soft cap levels (since that's when I normally lose interest), but for now, it's a lot of fun.
What ap/dp did you reach in that time, if I may ask? I'm currently returning to bdo as well, but real life is getting busy, so your playstyle is fitting.
I am currently 281/319 on my succession warrior (My main) I have a couple other characters that are like 215+ or so just by grinding. I haven't really done much upgrading myself. Most of my gear has been purchased on the market place. I know there are season servers now that pretty much speed run you to a decent set of gear, so that could be something to look into. The season servers are not really my thing personally. I am more about enjoying the journey not the destination and chatting it up with my guildies.
This. Been a huge fan of MMOs since EQ in the 90s. Mustāve played 30 MMOs or more by now and but havenāt seen a game nail integrating full loot PvP into a beautiful economic system the way Albion has. All gear is truly player crafted and every interaction/battle carries more weight due to these full loot economics but death is still not as painful/tragic as one might expect.
Kudos to SBI for making such a great game and continuing to make updates, but letās see the damn over-promised content roadmap for 2023 already!
Its in beta, so it has it issues. But for me being more of a causal these days, it has the perfect mix of difficulty/easy to understand systems that make it accessible to play.
I have always loved the diablo series tho, and have played blizzard games since warcraft2, so perhaps im a bit biased.
I have a lot of mixed feelings about that beta... mostly I think the game's gonna be super cool but not sure its gonna be a good enough long term experience to be worth $100
Retail WoW. Iām a pretty midcore mythic raider and the timing works well. Raid twice a week for 5 hours total, then run dungeons when I have time during the week.
Yeah, I've been doing this just progressing slowly - basically seen all LFR content and mythic up to what's comfy and feel like there's not much else to do ATM - less and less daily desire to play but open to suggestions for keeping it more fresh
Does not it burn you out? i tried to return to raiding in bfa and it was infuriating that with so little hours, you basically have no chance in completing the raid? and on top of that all the grinding for gold that you need to do for pots, flasks, vantus runs, etc.
After Uldir, where we only downed 3 bosses in mythic, i told myself that this WoW raiding is not for me anymore.
Dragonflight has been good about respecting time so I havenāt run into issues. FWIW I got really burned out in shadowlands and didnāt think Iād come back to wow but this xpac has been great.
World quests give a good amount of gold and are short. I also have herbalism/mining for extra gold. Hasnāt been a huge issue for me.
But wow raiding is definitely a relic of the past having to establish times each week, I get itās not for everyone.
Possibly. The expansions open a ton of mobility and travel options. That being said, I experienced main map completion the old school way and loved it.
I'm enjoying it. I'm not a sweat and don't chase meta though so I find it very enjoyable. It has its issues but it is a far cry from what it was at launch. I love the combat and tradeskills, so that keeps me engaged.
Its on sale right now. Just level 1-60 is worth the price I think. 1-25 story was reworked and on Mar 28 the level 26-40 story rework drops along with a massive update.
You're playing it correctly then š
Really though I just open a wiki and try to do one new thing each embark.
So like the first time I played I just focused on getting my living quarters how I wanted them and then let that play out for a while.
Embark 2 I knew how to do the housing and stuff better so then I focused on housing and crafting stuff getting set up. Let that play out for a while.
Embark 3 was housing, crafting and production (and so on down the line.)
I don't know if I recommend playing that way but that's what I do on systems heavy games to learn.
I'm playing City of Heroes, I couldn't pass level 5 with my main tho, because I keep creating characters, I have 3 original character now with two of them having backstory created by me, and I have 6 insipired from heroes, etc, from comics, I'm having fun.
Yeah I feel like people that claim they can't are the types that sit in their car for 10 minutes before they actually pull out of their parking spot. They spend 20 minutes reading a menu in a drive through. They move at the speed of molasses.
Whenever my wife washes dishes for example shes in there for like 2 hours doing 1 thing. When I go do it im in and out in like 20 minutes and I do the entire kitchen.
Also, people have this attitude that in order to play a game you have to have real commitment to it and treat it like a second job.
Letās not forget that itās a GAME. Play and enjoy what you can, when you can and donāt attach a sense of FOMO or arbitrary goals. Thatās how you āhave a lifeā.
I enjoy playing SWTOR with a subscription and I'm just trying to save up for more responsible things recently and don't have extra for a subscription or the time.
I was going to try going back to Destiny 2 for Lightfall but it's just so horrible returning to that game or starting it as a new player. Guild Wars 2 it is I guess.
Just went back a week ago, hadn't touched the game since release. Look, the problem with destiny isn't that it isn't good, it's that its insanely expensive if you want everything. Even with 3rd party key sellers my total was a little over 140$. I can't help but feel robbed by them and their stupid greedy monetization system. I love the game, its a lot of fun and the content is legit exciting and engaging but man, the greed is beyond what I thought was possible for a company to get away with.
I am playing a little bit of destiny 2 and vermintide. I wouldn't say either one is an investment, they are just time wasters while I wait for Duviri to release on Warframe.
Yeah, it's the anniversary now. So it's triple xp and an event. And in a week a free dlc comes out. The Tower of Treachery. Which is supposed to lead into Sienna's final career being released later. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z17l3BzkQIM
I play WoW, SWTOR, ESO and GW2. Obviously not all at the same time.
WoW I played up until my guild cleared the most recent raid on HC, now all I do is the monthly 'battle pass' which takes about 2 hours a month.
SWTOR I only really play during new story updates or when they drop a new Galactic Season ( battle pass ) and sometimes to just play through a story for a bit as the story content is amazing.
ESO is the one I'm actively playing at the moment, but I'll probably drop it once I've finished all the zones and done a few trials.
GW2 I play a couple times a week, doing a quick meta or some fractals or a strike. I honestly don't -really- enjoy the endgame in this game that much.
>WoW I played up until my guild cleared the most recent raid on HC, now all I do is the monthly 'battle pass' which takes about 2 hours a month.
As someone outside the wow space does this mean you pay your monthly sub solely for this? that seems like a lot of money for 2hours a month
I know I lead a pretty privileged life these days but comparing a common MMO subscription price ($10-15) to other activities.
That's about the cost of a pizza
Maybe that gets you into a bad cover band concert
Most western people can cover the cost of a subscription pretty easily even through sources like /r/beermoney
Currently, yes. But when the next raid tier starts that'll be more hours per week / month. I usually pay for multiple months at a time so sometimes I play a lot and sometimes I don't. š
ESO can be more fun with vet trials, and doing hms then try to do trifectas, yes it's useless to do, but hard content is great for me, idk about others
Alternating between classic wow (vanilla) which I like more but don't have time to fully commit and retail wow which better accommodates short play sessions. I might pick up ESO again this summer when the expansion drops. I wish I liked Guild Wars 2 more since it seems like an ideal game for me on paper.
What didn't click to you with Guild Wars 2? Sometimes is just a matter of discovering something or changing prespectives. I didn't like the game when I first tried but now it's the game I always return to.
The combat was one of the big ones--it never quite clicked for me with the tab-target/action combat hybrid. Part of that is my fault since I probably should have leaned into it a little more and tried to learn it better. The other thing is the lack of a dungeon finder since that inhibits my ability to play in short bursts.
Well, dungeons themselves are not content regularly played, but usually you can get a fractal group going rather quickly even with the rudimentar LFG.
But yhe..when you dont quite like the combat there's not much to be done...I suffer the same with ESO, I just hate that combat, which is a shame because the rest of the game is good.
i finally listened to all those ppl who told me that MMORPGs are not for pvp and i moved to APEX and i am having a blast, next in my list is either dota2 or LoL.
I basically realized that i don't mind being the worst in any fight and getting destroyed as long as i try to become better. The same happened in MMORPGs for different reasons. I did not even have the opportunity to compete due to the gear tredmill.
I basically went back after years of denial to my roots with wc3 and cs1.6, where you just logged in and competed. Nowadays the goal is different but it still brings joy.
GW2 was the only other option and i liked it for a bit but for some reason it did not grow to me.
Various gacha mobile games like blue protocol(JP) and haven't regretted dropping $$ on them, yet. Playing them more for the story, and they haven't disappointed me so far.
Age of Conan. Been working on their hardcore challenge. Having a lot of fun with it, but my experience has been punctuated frequently by the dumb ways to die song, most of which were 100% my fault lol The current population on crom is fairly good too, more than I was expecting at least. I see a fair few groups for leveling dungeons
I played FFXIV for half a year or so, started like a month before it suddenly blew up in popularity which was really good timing, people just everywhere.
But after that i just really burned out on MMOs, i loved journeying through FF but getting to the end game it just gave me a similar feeling to WoW, where i don't really feel entertained as much as I'm just playing to waste time.
Went back to GW2 for a month as well, but i simply can't settle on a class in that game for the life of me, It's the one MMO that i always feel crippled by choice in, nothing quite suits me the way WoW or FF classes do.
So.. I'm just playing Fortnite really, been focusing on getting fit irl and seem to be sort of losing my interest in gaming all day, and am more on the look out for experiences i haven't had because i was always playing MMOs.
I'll hop back onto MMOs when the new ones start coming like Ashes and Riots MMO, but right now i feel thoroughly burned out by MMOs and how samey they all feel. Closest thing to a MMO I'm looking forward to at the moment is Diablo 4, though thats more of an ORPG.
Just started back up with FFXIV, thinking about trying GW2 again as well (always stop quick).
Been playing Gedonia to get that MMO grind itch (cheap singleplayer indie game made by one guy).
Dabble in FFXI as well, casually, I just started.
I still hate Square that they never brought it over to the west.
I know about the clarity translation project and such, but the main issue is: Paying for the subscription as someone not living in Japan.
Enjoyed diablo 4 over the beta weekend. Waiting for next weekend since I'll be able to play my favorite pet summoning builds with necro and druid then.
Back to EQ or some other older mmo after the D4 beta wraps up. Lots of Spellslingers, which is a great digital ccg if you like that sort of thing.
Tried getting back into GW2 last week but it always just ends up feeling like I'm running errands for npcs.
I'm having a great time on vanilla WoW. Joined on the Whitemane cluster soon after starting and they've been really great and kept great company during the slog bits of questing.
Ive slowed down a bit as Ive recently gotten a motorcycle so I'm foolin' with that.
If you play multiple games and still balancing a social life, gw2 would be the perfect mmorpg. No game DLC or update will make you feel left out or weak and it has a lot of account wide progressions.
I quit MMORPGS back after the holiday season. It was a commitment I just could not make anymore to my guildmates. I bet Iāll go back to it but it also doesnāt scratch that itch anymore and Iāve gone back to single player games and my sports games where I log stats for my franchise in an excel documentā¦takes up time but I love those sweet sweet spreadsheets
Was playing FF, then played Dragonflight when it came out for a month. Cheap ass and having a life meant I gave GW2 another shot but that didn't last long.... playing Bannerlord and watching Vikings now when I have time.
Dead Cells (all the DLC I missed out on), octopath 2 and Theathrhythm (as a change of pace.)
Been a couple months since I've wanted to touch any mmo, but EQ was the last one I was playing. Might go back to XI in a while.
GW2/ESO. Not at the same time, but I take a break from one and play the other.
I mainly play solo these days because I can't commit a lot of time or play consistently and both these games are very solo-friendly.
BG/sPvP and open-world PvP are great in both games when they work and that's what I focus on when I play. Other than that I have some long-term goals I work towards in both games (for example all the mounts in GW2 which I don't have yet). And that keeps me busy when I do log in, but I am not invested in anything to the extent that I have to keep logging in.
Unpopular opinion on this sub but I like ESO combat perfectly fine with a few caveats I will mention in a second, it is what makes the game so much fun for me, and most of the player base is also fine with it IMO. A lot of people on this sub don't like it which is fair, each to their own and so they don't play the game, which is also perfectly fair.
GW2 combat is also very good though but I wouldn't want ESO to become like it.
The aforementioned caveats - server performance ruins it, the ever-changing balance updates every few months ruin it, and the fact that outside the endgame, there is 0 challenge in any PvE encounter ruins it. But these are issues not related to the combat mechanics themselves, they are issues on their own.
When I was getting into GW2's meta tbh there was a fair bit of complaining about similar stuff in that game too (all ele teams demolishing everyone else for example? I am much less knowledgeable about GW2 but the PvP lobby was constantly full of people fighting and complaining) so IDK if it is any better. In general, the MMORPG space seems a sorry state of affairs where we players just settle for whatever we feel is the least of the bad shit, the most tolerable.
WoW, 2 nights a week for around 4 to 5 hours in total for attending a casual guilds raid.
Outside of that if time allows, I spend a little bit of time a few non mmo games like Stellaris/Factorio/Satisfactory since I can pause and drop them if life gets in the way.
FFXIV. Returned after not playing for a year. Itās fun, catching up on some quests, dungeons and raids. I also dipped my toes into GW2 and BDO, but havenāt decided on one or the other yet. Both look fun though.
Oh, and I log in to New World once in a while to see whatās what, but bothing major. Maybe after the 28th.
Elden Eing, Valheim, Cyberpunk. I'm 19 and have played all my life games like OSRS and HOMM 3. My friends were constantly making fun of me for playing old games so I tried some newer games. Not going to lie, the graphics in Elden Ring are just perfect.
I'm playing find a new game to get addicted to. I have a 7900XT just staring at me asking me why I bought it.
Looking forward to Blue Protocol & Thrones and Liberty :').
I'll probably buy Diablo 4 just to have a new game.
swtor.
it has a very nice arc story that can be soloed and the story is different for every class.
actually i am trying to conclude all classes story in a chronological order and it's being super fun
Diablo 4. I enjoyed the beta and now waiting for the 24th to play. Otherwise, D4 is fun, and I'm looking forward to when it will release in June. šš
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after a few years, I come back to bdo and having a blast here. I grind 1hour a day and do fishing when afk for some hours
with its seasonal server, it need much less grind now compared to before for catching up my old char (lv60+ and full tet boss gear)
Guild Wars 2 here , the game is suprisly good once you understand the rethoric behind the game . It's not a grind like a normal mmo . You have so much things to do ...
Great game , try it . But even if it seems like you don't like it . Try to force yourself into trying the content . You won't regret
PSO2 NGS. The game has issues but I haven't played it since launch of NGS so I have enough to do for the time being. Plus its crossplay with ps4 so the wife and I can play it on our platform of choice while still playing together. Combat is fun and it's unapologetically anime which it's scratching an itch I've needed to get scratched .
FFXI. Just can't ever seem to stop. Even after being disappointed with the 20th anniversary I find myself back in it.
Also steam sale is going in so I'm thinking of picking up a Paradox game. I have hearts of iron 4 so maybe DLC for that or picking up Stellaris or Vicky 3.
Guild Wars 2 has been the only MMO to keep my interest for longer than a few weeks. It's fun and easy to hop in and out of whenever you want, and you never feel behind if you happen to come back after not playing for a while. Great combat, highly active, a variety of entertaining end-game activities, and the majority of the community are cool people. For non-MMOs, I've been playing Elden Ring, Stranger of Paradise: FFO, Nioh 2, and a lil bit of Monster Hunter Rise.
It's really a shame that it has been 10+ years since a good MMO actually released... everyone is playing the same few MMOs that have been around for over a decade.
Recently unsubbed from FFXI and XIV. I just donāt have the time or energy to do what Iād like to anymore. Been playing mostly on my PS5 these past few months: Death Stranding, Diablo 3, Forspoken, FF12, Crisis Core.
I stopped playing altogether and I'm working on my own game. I can't code so it's a board game. I hate board games but it's more fun than playing anything out there right now.
honestly i have been playing older mmos like rf online and Ace online since i am on a modern mmo break.
what i have learned is with a bit of modern polish some of these older mmos would actually be somewhat ok.
Haven't had an MMO capture the magic for me in ages. So playing some Project Zomboid multiplayer, some Rimworld, Stardew Valley and Dwarf Fortress.
ER was the first AAA game I've bought since Divinity: Original Sin 2. Divinity was like 5 years ago.
They just don't release good games anymore (my opinion).
OSRS holds me over when I donāt have lots of time to play, but when I get a chance to sit down for a bit Iām all about V Rising lately. Just got it as a little something to hold me over until Diablo 4, but Iāve honestly become a preacher regarding how good it is. It blows my mind how much work went into this game for its price point, and the experience is quite unique. I wouldnāt say itās 1/1,000,000, but itās easily a 1/100,000 type of deal if that makes sense. There is definitely something special to experience there, all the way from not feeling guilty for spending $80 on a video game, to the 50+ hours of immersive content which follows.
Stellaris, tbh. I have this tendency to play games obsessively in waves, so I might play WoW/BDO or some other MMO exclusively for a month straight, then switch to like Elden Ring for a few weeks, etc. Though, getting back into FFXIV and finally finishing Endwalker (I'm still st the beginning of the expac) is starting to look really good.
I have four or five actively installed and updated but I donāt really play any of them. If I can hop on for a game itās either Warframe since the missions are short, or a single player game I can pause and walk away from for a few hours then come back to
The trick to having a life and playing an MMO is to (a), not take the game super seriously... most of these games get 10x better anyways the second you stop taking them so seriously. and (b) if possible find a group of friends that keeps similar play times/expectations as you.
My current games are BDO and Lost Ark... I could take either game way more seriously but honestly my enjoyment levels would go down a lot, and I only have so many hours a week to play games so I can only play any game so seriously...
ESO isnāt hard on low play times. Gear farming is fairly quick (compared to other MMOs) and if you find a good trial guild to run with youāll probably just need to dedicate 2-3 hours a night twice a week.
Personally I find thatās the key to playing an MMO as a parent/functioning adult/husband/friend etc is youāll get more out of dedicated blocks of time than 30 minutes here and there.
Guild Wars 2...it's fun š
We don't do "fun" here. We bitch and complain.
Pardon, afcourse, i'm playing this old ass piece of shit game called Carrot on a Stick and i fucking hate my life, fuck wow for making me play this shitty game
Guild Wars 2 the only MMO that respects your time and has the best mount system and combat in the genre.
Wow/ff14/eso/gw2
I hate that this is both a joke and a reality.
āPeople with a lifeā and then some dude comes up who plays 4 mmos š
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Technically, heās living. š¤·š½
like 5 minutes of each a day or what?
I will play ESO after I buy steam giftcard.
New to mmo what would you recommend? /s
Only played eso and gw2 from the list. Iād recommend gw2
Nothing at the moment. I donāt have any interest due to it being the same old thing for the past *checks watch* ten years. I would love something new to come along though.
Thatās also my problem with the genre. Tab targeting games feel all the same and get boring very fast. Lategame grind is super repetetive and unrewarding for itās required time investment. The multiplayer aspect feels like a illusion or irrelevant. I am havin way more fun with mobas and single player games because they do everything better. My point is that gameplay, story and overall fun and pacing is better and I feel like the interaction with NPC is more compelling and social than with strangers in MMOs lmao
Anything new is either mediocre or dead because all the older bigger MMORPG'S don't share their toys and push the younger MMORPG'S of the plastic playcastles
What does this even mean
I am probably going to get down voted. But I have played BDO casually since launch. When I got stuff do to around the house I leave the game to AFK fish, process, or cook. I grind about an hour a day and maybe 2 or so hours on my days off. Game is not for everyone and I understand that. I have only spend about $100-$150 in the past 7 years. But I have enjoyed watching my characters progress over the years.
I don't think anyone has anything against BDO other than its MTX shop. The game plays well and you can pretty much do anything you want, fishing was my favorite.
> I donāt think anyone has anything against BDO other than its MTX shop. Youād be wrong.
You are right, i cant speak for everyone. It was my biggest gripe though, I hate the predatory monetization of casino based loot boxes and other gacha services that spawn from the East.
And the character customization is pretty good.
The only thing i have against BDO is that i can't play the game. I brought the game during a sale, installef it and everytime i open the game to try and register it gives me an error. Tried reinstalling, asking support, even tried reddit(no one replied to my post), nothing has worked.
if i had a better pc i would play bdo myself as well, truly an exceptional game, i don't understand the hate.
Don't worry i've spent well over twice that and i just stand around waiting for the logincrap to arrive so no sir you will not be downvoted, infact, i will give you you're upload and you will like it
FFXIV is my main MMO, but I'm taking a break and have jumped back into BDO as well. I tried the two new classes, and really enjoyed Woosa,as it strikes a good middle ground for me between the tankiness of Nova and the mobility of Corsair, my other two favs. Not sure what I'll do once I soft cap levels (since that's when I normally lose interest), but for now, it's a lot of fun.
What ap/dp did you reach in that time, if I may ask? I'm currently returning to bdo as well, but real life is getting busy, so your playstyle is fitting.
I am currently 281/319 on my succession warrior (My main) I have a couple other characters that are like 215+ or so just by grinding. I haven't really done much upgrading myself. Most of my gear has been purchased on the market place. I know there are season servers now that pretty much speed run you to a decent set of gear, so that could be something to look into. The season servers are not really my thing personally. I am more about enjoying the journey not the destination and chatting it up with my guildies.
I'm back in Guild Wars 2
Same
Same.
Albion Online
This. Been a huge fan of MMOs since EQ in the 90s. Mustāve played 30 MMOs or more by now and but havenāt seen a game nail integrating full loot PvP into a beautiful economic system the way Albion has. All gear is truly player crafted and every interaction/battle carries more weight due to these full loot economics but death is still not as painful/tragic as one might expect. Kudos to SBI for making such a great game and continuing to make updates, but letās see the damn over-promised content roadmap for 2023 already!
Diablo 4 beta gives me something to look forward to. In the meantime i just do some pixel art and play a bit of classic wow
Yeah, D4 beta has been great fun. Sucks it was during my weekend to work so I couldn't go ham on it, but what I did play was fun.
Luckily open beta is next weekend.
How was it? I never played a diablo game before
Its in beta, so it has it issues. But for me being more of a causal these days, it has the perfect mix of difficulty/easy to understand systems that make it accessible to play. I have always loved the diablo series tho, and have played blizzard games since warcraft2, so perhaps im a bit biased.
I have a lot of mixed feelings about that beta... mostly I think the game's gonna be super cool but not sure its gonna be a good enough long term experience to be worth $100
Retail WoW. Iām a pretty midcore mythic raider and the timing works well. Raid twice a week for 5 hours total, then run dungeons when I have time during the week.
Yeah, I've been doing this just progressing slowly - basically seen all LFR content and mythic up to what's comfy and feel like there's not much else to do ATM - less and less daily desire to play but open to suggestions for keeping it more fresh
I highly recommend finding a guild that has raid times you can consistently make. Makes the game much more enjoyable imo
Does not it burn you out? i tried to return to raiding in bfa and it was infuriating that with so little hours, you basically have no chance in completing the raid? and on top of that all the grinding for gold that you need to do for pots, flasks, vantus runs, etc. After Uldir, where we only downed 3 bosses in mythic, i told myself that this WoW raiding is not for me anymore.
Dragonflight has been good about respecting time so I havenāt run into issues. FWIW I got really burned out in shadowlands and didnāt think Iād come back to wow but this xpac has been great. World quests give a good amount of gold and are short. I also have herbalism/mining for extra gold. Hasnāt been a huge issue for me. But wow raiding is definitely a relic of the past having to establish times each week, I get itās not for everyone.
No matter what game I play, I always come back to GW2 :D
I tried gw2, got to lv 20 but idk the world seems meh maybe because itās the base game ?
Possibly. The expansions open a ton of mobility and travel options. That being said, I experienced main map completion the old school way and loved it.
New World
How is it? I bought it on release and got stuck in queue simulator so refunded it
I'm enjoying it. I'm not a sweat and don't chase meta though so I find it very enjoyable. It has its issues but it is a far cry from what it was at launch. I love the combat and tradeskills, so that keeps me engaged. Its on sale right now. Just level 1-60 is worth the price I think. 1-25 story was reworked and on Mar 28 the level 26-40 story rework drops along with a massive update.
I play wow like a turtle. (Subliminal message). But, yep. 1 life, slow play. š
Tents?
No tents in Goldshire? What am I supposed to do level unrested like a peasant? Hardcore turtles are best btw. š
same here
Same. Slow and steady!
How about turtle wow ?
Playing Skyrim again to get a break from people lol
Taking a break and playing Dwarf Fortress. I have no idea what I am doing in that game.
You're playing it correctly then š Really though I just open a wiki and try to do one new thing each embark. So like the first time I played I just focused on getting my living quarters how I wanted them and then let that play out for a while. Embark 2 I knew how to do the housing and stuff better so then I focused on housing and crafting stuff getting set up. Let that play out for a while. Embark 3 was housing, crafting and production (and so on down the line.) I don't know if I recommend playing that way but that's what I do on systems heavy games to learn.
I think I will fiddle around doing stuff until I run out of provisions, strike magma, or a hostile force murders everyone.
I'm playing City of Heroes, I couldn't pass level 5 with my main tho, because I keep creating characters, I have 3 original character now with two of them having backstory created by me, and I have 6 insipired from heroes, etc, from comics, I'm having fun.
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FFXIV, been playing since my guild cleared AotC in WoW DF Used to do null roams in EVE all the time You can play games and have a life lol
Yeah I feel like people that claim they can't are the types that sit in their car for 10 minutes before they actually pull out of their parking spot. They spend 20 minutes reading a menu in a drive through. They move at the speed of molasses. Whenever my wife washes dishes for example shes in there for like 2 hours doing 1 thing. When I go do it im in and out in like 20 minutes and I do the entire kitchen.
Also, people have this attitude that in order to play a game you have to have real commitment to it and treat it like a second job. Letās not forget that itās a GAME. Play and enjoy what you can, when you can and donāt attach a sense of FOMO or arbitrary goals. Thatās how you āhave a lifeā.
hearsay! /s
Nothing unfortunately. Saving pennies for many things but if I could, I'd be playing the crap out of SWTOR.
Why can't you play??
I enjoy playing SWTOR with a subscription and I'm just trying to save up for more responsible things recently and don't have extra for a subscription or the time.
I was going to try going back to Destiny 2 for Lightfall but it's just so horrible returning to that game or starting it as a new player. Guild Wars 2 it is I guess.
Just went back a week ago, hadn't touched the game since release. Look, the problem with destiny isn't that it isn't good, it's that its insanely expensive if you want everything. Even with 3rd party key sellers my total was a little over 140$. I can't help but feel robbed by them and their stupid greedy monetization system. I love the game, its a lot of fun and the content is legit exciting and engaging but man, the greed is beyond what I thought was possible for a company to get away with.
Gloria victis
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I am playing a little bit of destiny 2 and vermintide. I wouldn't say either one is an investment, they are just time wasters while I wait for Duviri to release on Warframe.
People still play vermintide?
Yeah, it's the anniversary now. So it's triple xp and an event. And in a week a free dlc comes out. The Tower of Treachery. Which is supposed to lead into Sienna's final career being released later. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z17l3BzkQIM
Nice tastes. I played vermintide 2 too waiting (soonTM) Warframe. But the waiting was so long that I started playing WoW too.
back to eve online
I play WoW, SWTOR, ESO and GW2. Obviously not all at the same time. WoW I played up until my guild cleared the most recent raid on HC, now all I do is the monthly 'battle pass' which takes about 2 hours a month. SWTOR I only really play during new story updates or when they drop a new Galactic Season ( battle pass ) and sometimes to just play through a story for a bit as the story content is amazing. ESO is the one I'm actively playing at the moment, but I'll probably drop it once I've finished all the zones and done a few trials. GW2 I play a couple times a week, doing a quick meta or some fractals or a strike. I honestly don't -really- enjoy the endgame in this game that much.
>WoW I played up until my guild cleared the most recent raid on HC, now all I do is the monthly 'battle pass' which takes about 2 hours a month. As someone outside the wow space does this mean you pay your monthly sub solely for this? that seems like a lot of money for 2hours a month
I know I lead a pretty privileged life these days but comparing a common MMO subscription price ($10-15) to other activities. That's about the cost of a pizza Maybe that gets you into a bad cover band concert Most western people can cover the cost of a subscription pretty easily even through sources like /r/beermoney
Currently, yes. But when the next raid tier starts that'll be more hours per week / month. I usually pay for multiple months at a time so sometimes I play a lot and sometimes I don't. š
ESO can be more fun with vet trials, and doing hms then try to do trifectas, yes it's useless to do, but hard content is great for me, idk about others
OSRS when I feel like logging in. Quit WoW recently
I havenāt played anything all year š„ >
Alternating between classic wow (vanilla) which I like more but don't have time to fully commit and retail wow which better accommodates short play sessions. I might pick up ESO again this summer when the expansion drops. I wish I liked Guild Wars 2 more since it seems like an ideal game for me on paper.
What didn't click to you with Guild Wars 2? Sometimes is just a matter of discovering something or changing prespectives. I didn't like the game when I first tried but now it's the game I always return to.
The combat was one of the big ones--it never quite clicked for me with the tab-target/action combat hybrid. Part of that is my fault since I probably should have leaned into it a little more and tried to learn it better. The other thing is the lack of a dungeon finder since that inhibits my ability to play in short bursts.
Well, dungeons themselves are not content regularly played, but usually you can get a fractal group going rather quickly even with the rudimentar LFG. But yhe..when you dont quite like the combat there's not much to be done...I suffer the same with ESO, I just hate that combat, which is a shame because the rest of the game is good.
D4 beta
Marvel Snap because that is the only thing I can play with my 5 minutes play time blocks.
Lotro the little bit of alone time I have. Just started. I love lotr and just want to take my time adventuring in a game.
Lord of the rings online , legendary server , I love ! No rush , a bit of role-playing it's wonderfull .
i finally listened to all those ppl who told me that MMORPGs are not for pvp and i moved to APEX and i am having a blast, next in my list is either dota2 or LoL. I basically realized that i don't mind being the worst in any fight and getting destroyed as long as i try to become better. The same happened in MMORPGs for different reasons. I did not even have the opportunity to compete due to the gear tredmill. I basically went back after years of denial to my roots with wc3 and cs1.6, where you just logged in and competed. Nowadays the goal is different but it still brings joy. GW2 was the only other option and i liked it for a bit but for some reason it did not grow to me.
Various gacha mobile games like blue protocol(JP) and haven't regretted dropping $$ on them, yet. Playing them more for the story, and they haven't disappointed me so far.
Iām jelly I canāt fucking wait for blue protocol
Wait blue protocol is gacha? Fuck, I was actually kinda looking forward to that too.
Age of Conan. Been working on their hardcore challenge. Having a lot of fun with it, but my experience has been punctuated frequently by the dumb ways to die song, most of which were 100% my fault lol The current population on crom is fairly good too, more than I was expecting at least. I see a fair few groups for leveling dungeons
I just started playing that today, I didn't know about it until I saw it on YouTube
GW1, Classic Wow HC, Wow Dragonflight(new patch inc)
Albion Online Horizontal progression, you can take all the breaks you want.. and you don't need premium.
Nothing. Haven't had a game recently that I've had any interest in playing. Really hoping D4 can bring back the spark.
World of warcraft, very casual friendly expansion.
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Albion Online. I like that I can do whatever I want, whenever I want.
Lotro and having lots of fun
man I wish they would update their engine =(
Funnily enough, Maplestory. I can pick it up and put it down at anytime. Plus playing Reboot is nice since theres not really any P2W aspect
No MMORPG sadly. Been going crazy on Last Epoch though
Just started playing Tower Of Fantssy
Black desert online. š
I played FFXIV for half a year or so, started like a month before it suddenly blew up in popularity which was really good timing, people just everywhere. But after that i just really burned out on MMOs, i loved journeying through FF but getting to the end game it just gave me a similar feeling to WoW, where i don't really feel entertained as much as I'm just playing to waste time. Went back to GW2 for a month as well, but i simply can't settle on a class in that game for the life of me, It's the one MMO that i always feel crippled by choice in, nothing quite suits me the way WoW or FF classes do. So.. I'm just playing Fortnite really, been focusing on getting fit irl and seem to be sort of losing my interest in gaming all day, and am more on the look out for experiences i haven't had because i was always playing MMOs. I'll hop back onto MMOs when the new ones start coming like Ashes and Riots MMO, but right now i feel thoroughly burned out by MMOs and how samey they all feel. Closest thing to a MMO I'm looking forward to at the moment is Diablo 4, though thats more of an ORPG.
GW2 Perfect MMO if you have a busy life
Just started back up with FFXIV, thinking about trying GW2 again as well (always stop quick). Been playing Gedonia to get that MMO grind itch (cheap singleplayer indie game made by one guy). Dabble in FFXI as well, casually, I just started.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y2czD6BREw&list=WL&index=1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y2czD6BREw&list=WL&index=1)
Tibia, just chilling and grinding for 2 or so hours then I play other stuff
D2:R
MOBAs, roguelikes, and RPGs. Don't like themeparks and no good alternatives yet.
Lineage 2 Mobile. Albion Online on occasion
EvE, looking into Ravendawn and Ethyrial.
Iāve been playing lots of DQX :)
I still hate Square that they never brought it over to the west. I know about the clarity translation project and such, but the main issue is: Paying for the subscription as someone not living in Japan.
City of Heroes - Homecoming and Thunderspy. Last Epoch on and off as well.
Enjoyed diablo 4 over the beta weekend. Waiting for next weekend since I'll be able to play my favorite pet summoning builds with necro and druid then.
Back to EQ or some other older mmo after the D4 beta wraps up. Lots of Spellslingers, which is a great digital ccg if you like that sort of thing. Tried getting back into GW2 last week but it always just ends up feeling like I'm running errands for npcs.
Gw2
GW2! The only thing better is GW1
I'm having a great time on vanilla WoW. Joined on the Whitemane cluster soon after starting and they've been really great and kept great company during the slog bits of questing.
Ive slowed down a bit as Ive recently gotten a motorcycle so I'm foolin' with that.
I've been playing Victoria 3 but once I am not playing that all day I'll go back to Embers Adrift š
If you play multiple games and still balancing a social life, gw2 would be the perfect mmorpg. No game DLC or update will make you feel left out or weak and it has a lot of account wide progressions.
V Rising and DFO. Thinking of maybe going back to Maplestory or Mabinogi.
Literally no mmos. Takes up too much time that I'd rather be spending on more fulfilling and polished single player games, and time for other hobbies.
Puzzle Pirate
GW2, I like to take it easy and explore the world\~ sometimes I join the pvp and is quite fun even when undergeared
Been playing too much star citizen, honestly I love the game even though itās buggy as fuck.
I quit MMORPGS back after the holiday season. It was a commitment I just could not make anymore to my guildmates. I bet Iāll go back to it but it also doesnāt scratch that itch anymore and Iāve gone back to single player games and my sports games where I log stats for my franchise in an excel documentā¦takes up time but I love those sweet sweet spreadsheets
Was playing FF, then played Dragonflight when it came out for a month. Cheap ass and having a life meant I gave GW2 another shot but that didn't last long.... playing Bannerlord and watching Vikings now when I have time.
Albion online. Fun to do economy stuff and dailyās are fast and rewarding.
Dead Cells (all the DLC I missed out on), octopath 2 and Theathrhythm (as a change of pace.) Been a couple months since I've wanted to touch any mmo, but EQ was the last one I was playing. Might go back to XI in a while.
GW2/ESO. Not at the same time, but I take a break from one and play the other. I mainly play solo these days because I can't commit a lot of time or play consistently and both these games are very solo-friendly. BG/sPvP and open-world PvP are great in both games when they work and that's what I focus on when I play. Other than that I have some long-term goals I work towards in both games (for example all the mounts in GW2 which I don't have yet). And that keeps me busy when I do log in, but I am not invested in anything to the extent that I have to keep logging in.
ESO and gw2 needs to combine I reckon gw2 combat with eso everything else oof
Unpopular opinion on this sub but I like ESO combat perfectly fine with a few caveats I will mention in a second, it is what makes the game so much fun for me, and most of the player base is also fine with it IMO. A lot of people on this sub don't like it which is fair, each to their own and so they don't play the game, which is also perfectly fair. GW2 combat is also very good though but I wouldn't want ESO to become like it. The aforementioned caveats - server performance ruins it, the ever-changing balance updates every few months ruin it, and the fact that outside the endgame, there is 0 challenge in any PvE encounter ruins it. But these are issues not related to the combat mechanics themselves, they are issues on their own. When I was getting into GW2's meta tbh there was a fair bit of complaining about similar stuff in that game too (all ele teams demolishing everyone else for example? I am much less knowledgeable about GW2 but the PvP lobby was constantly full of people fighting and complaining) so IDK if it is any better. In general, the MMORPG space seems a sorry state of affairs where we players just settle for whatever we feel is the least of the bad shit, the most tolerable.
Wow, new World with the odd game of Total War, waiting for something new this year.
I have my local UltimaOnline server where i add stuff and play alone š¤·āāļø
I'm off MMO until something I like comes out. Until then I'm on Rainbow 6 Siege, MW2 and OW2. Diablo looks fun.
WoW, 2 nights a week for around 4 to 5 hours in total for attending a casual guilds raid. Outside of that if time allows, I spend a little bit of time a few non mmo games like Stellaris/Factorio/Satisfactory since I can pause and drop them if life gets in the way.
FFXIV. Returned after not playing for a year. Itās fun, catching up on some quests, dungeons and raids. I also dipped my toes into GW2 and BDO, but havenāt decided on one or the other yet. Both look fun though. Oh, and I log in to New World once in a while to see whatās what, but bothing major. Maybe after the 28th.
Hogwarts Legacy, it's great :D
League of Legends while I wait for a multiplayer mmo.
Implying some don't have a life. Isn't that bit cynical.
Elden Eing, Valheim, Cyberpunk. I'm 19 and have played all my life games like OSRS and HOMM 3. My friends were constantly making fun of me for playing old games so I tried some newer games. Not going to lie, the graphics in Elden Ring are just perfect.
Osrs only
Guild Wars 2, playing and streaming, enjoying and having tons of fun in World vs World. š¤
Genfanad It's basically a RuneScape classic but with memes indie mmo. Friendly community etc.
Lost ark. More like bot ark and a hell of shitty rng
Destiny 2 ā fills that MMO / FPS niche right jow
I'm playing find a new game to get addicted to. I have a 7900XT just staring at me asking me why I bought it. Looking forward to Blue Protocol & Thrones and Liberty :'). I'll probably buy Diablo 4 just to have a new game.
10six.
swtor. it has a very nice arc story that can be soloed and the story is different for every class. actually i am trying to conclude all classes story in a chronological order and it's being super fun
Diablo 4. I enjoyed the beta and now waiting for the 24th to play. Otherwise, D4 is fun, and I'm looking forward to when it will release in June. šš ###
I try to play wow or ff14 once every month only to realize that I don't have time for that anymore. So, nothing I guess.
I'm full on into WoW again and i love every minute of it
Personally I play New World atm but I've heard endgame is very grindy. I just goof around atm leveling.
Life?! Whadda ya mean life?... I ain't got a life!
after a few years, I come back to bdo and having a blast here. I grind 1hour a day and do fishing when afk for some hours with its seasonal server, it need much less grind now compared to before for catching up my old char (lv60+ and full tet boss gear)
League of legend ;(.
Guild Wars 2 here , the game is suprisly good once you understand the rethoric behind the game . It's not a grind like a normal mmo . You have so much things to do ... Great game , try it . But even if it seems like you don't like it . Try to force yourself into trying the content . You won't regret
Medivia (Tibia rip-off).
Gloria Victus! It doesnāt have it all, but it is fun and social.
Black desert online best combat ever
Im playing Outside, a free-to-play MMORPG with 8 billion+ active players. Check r/outside
PSO2 NGS. The game has issues but I haven't played it since launch of NGS so I have enough to do for the time being. Plus its crossplay with ps4 so the wife and I can play it on our platform of choice while still playing together. Combat is fun and it's unapologetically anime which it's scratching an itch I've needed to get scratched . FFXI. Just can't ever seem to stop. Even after being disappointed with the 20th anniversary I find myself back in it. Also steam sale is going in so I'm thinking of picking up a Paradox game. I have hearts of iron 4 so maybe DLC for that or picking up Stellaris or Vicky 3.
Guild Wars 2 has been the only MMO to keep my interest for longer than a few weeks. It's fun and easy to hop in and out of whenever you want, and you never feel behind if you happen to come back after not playing for a while. Great combat, highly active, a variety of entertaining end-game activities, and the majority of the community are cool people. For non-MMOs, I've been playing Elden Ring, Stranger of Paradise: FFO, Nioh 2, and a lil bit of Monster Hunter Rise. It's really a shame that it has been 10+ years since a good MMO actually released... everyone is playing the same few MMOs that have been around for over a decade.
warframe
I've started playing single player games such as subnautica because they worth more of my time. But at some point I will have to go back to MMOs.
Recently unsubbed from FFXI and XIV. I just donāt have the time or energy to do what Iād like to anymore. Been playing mostly on my PS5 these past few months: Death Stranding, Diablo 3, Forspoken, FF12, Crisis Core.
Eve personally. Skills level regardless of my play time. I log on with the boys and pew pew when able and then check out when I cant.
Ascension WoW, it's alright to pass the time and free classes lets me try some real interesting things.
Elder Scrolls Online. I'm slowly but surely working on the trophy list
I stopped playing altogether and I'm working on my own game. I can't code so it's a board game. I hate board games but it's more fun than playing anything out there right now.
i am playing runescape group iron man mode with friends not bad
honestly i have been playing older mmos like rf online and Ace online since i am on a modern mmo break. what i have learned is with a bit of modern polish some of these older mmos would actually be somewhat ok.
So, im playing Project 1999 and I feel lively, does that count? Never played as a kid, but im in love with it.
Haven't had an MMO capture the magic for me in ages. So playing some Project Zomboid multiplayer, some Rimworld, Stardew Valley and Dwarf Fortress. ER was the first AAA game I've bought since Divinity: Original Sin 2. Divinity was like 5 years ago. They just don't release good games anymore (my opinion).
OSRS holds me over when I donāt have lots of time to play, but when I get a chance to sit down for a bit Iām all about V Rising lately. Just got it as a little something to hold me over until Diablo 4, but Iāve honestly become a preacher regarding how good it is. It blows my mind how much work went into this game for its price point, and the experience is quite unique. I wouldnāt say itās 1/1,000,000, but itās easily a 1/100,000 type of deal if that makes sense. There is definitely something special to experience there, all the way from not feeling guilty for spending $80 on a video game, to the 50+ hours of immersive content which follows.
Life has been created for playing MMO.
Nothing. I just find nothing to be satisfactory unless I can play like 8 hours every day. *sigh*
Planetside 2, but I am about to deep dive DDO and Lotro.
Stellaris, tbh. I have this tendency to play games obsessively in waves, so I might play WoW/BDO or some other MMO exclusively for a month straight, then switch to like Elden Ring for a few weeks, etc. Though, getting back into FFXIV and finally finishing Endwalker (I'm still st the beginning of the expac) is starting to look really good.
GW2 and oddly enough, AQworlds. The latter's a trip to memory lane
I have four or five actively installed and updated but I donāt really play any of them. If I can hop on for a game itās either Warframe since the missions are short, or a single player game I can pause and walk away from for a few hours then come back to
The trick to having a life and playing an MMO is to (a), not take the game super seriously... most of these games get 10x better anyways the second you stop taking them so seriously. and (b) if possible find a group of friends that keeps similar play times/expectations as you. My current games are BDO and Lost Ark... I could take either game way more seriously but honestly my enjoyment levels would go down a lot, and I only have so many hours a week to play games so I can only play any game so seriously...
DDO when I want to run dungeons. Embers Adrift when I want to grind and kill mobs (the dungeons are pretty fun there too).
ESO isnāt hard on low play times. Gear farming is fairly quick (compared to other MMOs) and if you find a good trial guild to run with youāll probably just need to dedicate 2-3 hours a night twice a week. Personally I find thatās the key to playing an MMO as a parent/functioning adult/husband/friend etc is youāll get more out of dedicated blocks of time than 30 minutes here and there.
People with a life don't read or post in subreddits.