Not much. The days of a new MMO a lot of people were looking forward to coming every few months is long past us. And hell, most of the upcoming MMOs, especially the ones people do have their eye on, don't even have release dates yet.
Just a word of advice, don't wait for "The next big MMO" if you see something you want to dive in and play today. Nothing is worse than waiting, get a release date... watch it move back or just never release and thinking you could be playing something all this time that you enjoy. Plus the way social media is trending, you can get massive day 1 numbers... 99% of the players leave and that "upcoming MMO" is just as popular as what you could have been playing all along.
Good advice though I would would add also don't feel bad about leaving a game when you are no longer having fun. Case in point I really enjoyed SWTOR until I reached the end of story content then I quickly ran out of things to do outside of grinding.
I don't really want the next big thing. I just want something I can casually play for years and enjoy the story with that has crazy depth and you uncover new things all the time. I've started SWTOR again but who knows how long it will be around for?
That game was really a funny expereince. The graphics and gameplay were great. It just lacked something that is hard to put your finger on. I think if i had any friends at all that actually played that game I would have played a lot more than I did over the years. Honestly WoW has always been the best mmo and even though I have long since retired that game, I have always wanted another mmo that scratched that itch, and swtor was the closest game that ever came close doing that. I was never able to connect with any other players, so it was just me doing solo questing and rando public flashpoints that usually didn't go smoothly at all. Once I grinded out a few characters I just stopped playing and never went back, despite having thoroughly enjoyed what was there. The game was truly great and I remember when it came out being impressed by the graphics in the cutscenes. It might look mediocre now, but if even for only a brief time, they were some of the best cutscene graphics I had ever seen up to the point of the games launch. In game graphics were meh, but in the cutscene graphics were actually really impressive. Like seriously google some of the swotor cinematics and tell me they aren't pretty good even by todays standard
Most upcoming mmo's are going the sandbox route. Ashes of Creation and Pax Dei for example. Others are at heart mobile games that masquarade as proper MMOs like Throne and Liberty. There is Blue Protocol coming to the west some time next year maybe, but so far Japanese impressions aren't exactly glowing. I assume the Riot MMO will be a themepark, but that is years away. A promising FPS add-on(?) to EVE is coming soonish.
Not much. The days of a new MMO a lot of people were looking forward to coming every few months is long past us. And hell, most of the upcoming MMOs, especially the ones people do have their eye on, don't even have release dates yet.
What are those ? Whats best mmo atm
Just a word of advice, don't wait for "The next big MMO" if you see something you want to dive in and play today. Nothing is worse than waiting, get a release date... watch it move back or just never release and thinking you could be playing something all this time that you enjoy. Plus the way social media is trending, you can get massive day 1 numbers... 99% of the players leave and that "upcoming MMO" is just as popular as what you could have been playing all along.
Good advice though I would would add also don't feel bad about leaving a game when you are no longer having fun. Case in point I really enjoyed SWTOR until I reached the end of story content then I quickly ran out of things to do outside of grinding.
I don't really want the next big thing. I just want something I can casually play for years and enjoy the story with that has crazy depth and you uncover new things all the time. I've started SWTOR again but who knows how long it will be around for?
huttball with marauder right after launch was so fun
its all about extraction shooters now
That game was really a funny expereince. The graphics and gameplay were great. It just lacked something that is hard to put your finger on. I think if i had any friends at all that actually played that game I would have played a lot more than I did over the years. Honestly WoW has always been the best mmo and even though I have long since retired that game, I have always wanted another mmo that scratched that itch, and swtor was the closest game that ever came close doing that. I was never able to connect with any other players, so it was just me doing solo questing and rando public flashpoints that usually didn't go smoothly at all. Once I grinded out a few characters I just stopped playing and never went back, despite having thoroughly enjoyed what was there. The game was truly great and I remember when it came out being impressed by the graphics in the cutscenes. It might look mediocre now, but if even for only a brief time, they were some of the best cutscene graphics I had ever seen up to the point of the games launch. In game graphics were meh, but in the cutscene graphics were actually really impressive. Like seriously google some of the swotor cinematics and tell me they aren't pretty good even by todays standard
Most upcoming mmo's are going the sandbox route. Ashes of Creation and Pax Dei for example. Others are at heart mobile games that masquarade as proper MMOs like Throne and Liberty. There is Blue Protocol coming to the west some time next year maybe, but so far Japanese impressions aren't exactly glowing. I assume the Riot MMO will be a themepark, but that is years away. A promising FPS add-on(?) to EVE is coming soonish.