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The Free MMO Überlist (updated: Oct 11)
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Haven't tried it yet, too many things to play! D:
I'll put it on the list.
I wrote that they were probably trying to cut their losses, I guess I was sort of spot on.
edit: oh and according to MMORPG.com the Fury company is retaining a few people to maintain fury, although how long for who knows.
Still no word on a free release for the US. Is the game making enough profit there or what?
Really, if you want to play it, just play iRO instead.
There's a US version (ogplanet) closed beta apparently starting tomorrow and scheduled to last all of five days.
http://board.flysis.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X05aZngUeQI
Looks interesting.
There really is no reason to be concerned about it being a decent restart or not.
Flysis is Space Cowboy, its just has bug fixes and improvements that we never got through gpotato.
It's a real killjoy having to kill the same shitty AI over and over again just to get to the good pvp parts.
infantry.station.sony.com
is free again.
Community is dwindling, yes, but Twin Peaks in particular can still be enjoyable.
Probably best filed under "other."
It was SilkRoad without the fun or merchants.
First quest: Go kill five monkeys that have been stealing from the town NPC merchants.
Second quest: Congratulations on killing the monkeys, now go back outside and take on a more cunning enemy...foxes.
...
*uninstall*
Steam, Planetside 2
holic.netgame.com You can add this one to the list, it's an extremely pretty little asian mmo. Typical grinder, gives you lots of skills early on (in comparison to other korean mmos atleast). At level 10 you can gain a second starter class which you can switch freely on the go. You can also change your main class if you want. There's a combo system I don't fully understand that requires party cooperation. Every time you use a skill, a color associated with the skill appears on the screen. Apparently if everyone uses skills of every color, some mega-attack will occur. There's also quests that keep you occupied. Also, it doesn't seem like you have to sell your soul to the game to get little nifty things like ostrich mounts, robot pets, and goofy costume pieces. Did I mention it's pretty? Now for the crap...
Lack of info about the game on the mainsite and game itself. Extremely poor player support. The chat system is broken (to use shout/trade/yell channel, you have to wait 10 seconds after you or someone else says something. As a result everyone is counting down and fighting just to chat. It's made worse that gold spammers have characters autoyell their advertisements exactly every 10 seconds, making the channels useless). Tons of badly translated text (engrish) with vague quest descriptions. Broken text display. Pretty big bugs that haven't been fixed yet, like sit healing not going off.
All in all I think it would have the potential to be a pretty fun time waster, but my prediction is that the devs/producers wont give a shit to fix it and it'll remain crap forever. What a waste
Edit: I tried out Shaiya too, and I was suprised at how much they ripped off Lineage 2's graphics. I honestly think that the art team were just handed copies of L2, and told to make the game look as close to that as they can without getting sued.
The game looks very pretty and the quests are presented in a cute way, but still, it's the same old and the combat does not look appealing enough to continue playing.
I uninstalled Dream of Mirror Online, it is very slow and there is very little going on. It looks really cute and it is very nice that you can really make your own character by combining skills from different classes (kinda like the FF MMO). Just...it takes over an hour to gain one level which brings you .1% closer to your goal. zzz
I installed Perfect World instead and so far I'm liking it. It looks awesome, combat looks pretty, it is fast. Quests consist of the usual grinds and FedEx deliveries, but sometimes you get something different like trying to jump to the top of a large building within 5 minutes to collect a treasure. It's like you're walking on the moon, which is fun. At lev30 you learn how to fly, I picked a human so I will get a flying sword, the beasts get a flying fish and the elves get stronger wings (they start out with wings but can only fly for about a minute before they run out of mana).
The character creator is really elaborate, more elaborate than that of Oblivion and ..unlike Oblivion.. characters dont look like they miss a chromosome. I'll create a topic if I still like it in a few days.
I wonder how much that brings to the table in terms of balance?
I'm terrible at RTS games, but I'm so, so tempted to play this just from the site.
Steam, Planetside 2
Holic Online is surprisingly good if you take into consideration what it is (a very standard Korean grind fest). Excellent character models, I dare say I wouldn't mind seeing them in a commercial MMORPG. The environments are pretty bland, and enemy designs aren't anything special, but it's good to burn a few hours on.
Once I have some time off I'll start a proper Perfect World thread, I've got two friends playing with me on the Delphi server and we're all appreciating what we see. I should look into starting a guild, but I think you need a rare item for that. D: If anyone else is playing, use the mailbox to send a message to Aldah. Or see if I'm online and toss me on your friendslist.
Steam, Planetside 2
The grind is insane though.
Even if I was able to make Master Asia..
I never asked for this!
What more do you want for 0$?
It's free to play, although you do get various rewards for donations in multiples of 10 dollars, including some interesting monthly ones, but these can all be bought on the player market with in game money, but at obviously high prices. More importantly however, the game has a lot of fun and even obscure references (Some are even in image file names) and parodies abound. Notable jokes are the Palindome, (An area based entirely on palindromes) the Fraternity Orc vs. Hippy War, and the Emo Squid.
Seriously, did I somehow miss this one? It seems like it would be up there.
It's also a lot of work to put all those sites up there, there's so many and I don't care about any of them. I don't know for sure, but it does not sound like something people looking up this thread are looking for.
WoW has spoiled me.. damnit.