Been feeling the itch to get into an mmorpg. Hard to tell if there’s any good ones out. Seems some in the works but what is good this currently available?

My context: was huge into EQ2 for a long while. Loved Rift. Played AION. Didn’t really get into WOW but played it a tiny bit.

I like crafting and love the idea of building my house and world. One if the things I loved most about rift was building my dimension. I had HOOOOUUURRRS into it with some very cool stuff.

Anyway… what if anything is anyone playing. It feels like that genre is currently in a drought.

  • Navarian@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    WoW (Private Servers)

    GW2 (Personal fave out of these)

    FFXIV

    ESO

    I also hear New World has vastly improved since launch but I’ve not played it since beta so I can’t really say.

    • Waker@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I could’ve swear I wrote this… Only thing I’d say is to pick your WoW server well. If you like the story pick a server than has good scripting. Imo the one that has the best scripting is TauriWoW but they are still on Pandaria. If you want something more modern try Felsong. Still alright scripting bit naturally, the closer you get to retail on Xpacks the less polished they are on private servers.

      Also, FFXIV trial is a bit limiting. If you’re playing alone you might be alright but with friends on trial it’s not so fun… You can’t start parties. You can’t PM/DM people… To play together with my SO, the workaround we found was to go to limsa to beg someone to create a party for us and then they leave the party, leaving just the 2 of us there.

      Also, but not least important. Unlike WoWs trial, on FFXIV if you ever pay for the sub/buy the game, there’s no going back to free trial. This is actually why I don’t play ffxiv that much…

      (sorry the text got this big, didn’t mean to :( )

  • crius@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Final Fantasy seems the one for you to be honest.

    The player base is quite chill and overall enjoy playing casually, doing RP, decorating the house, etc. Crafting is actually interesting instead of just seeing a bar fill up!

    I would not recommend ESO as it’s very very very choke full of microtransactions and you actually will have a bad experience playing without ESO Plus (restricted space in bags, most content locked).

    The same can be said for GW2 really and on top of that, it’s way less polished than FF.

    Just try FF, I couldn’t stomach the classic oriental style cinematic and the quests until lvl 60 can get really frustrating (fetch quests) but overall it has the better potential considering your taste IMHO.

  • cerement@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    not so much a drought as people getting burnt out on cash shop and gamble box shenanigans

    out of the top tier, it’s been pretty much status quo for awhile now

    • thanks to Blizzard, World of Warcraft really shouldn’t be an option
    • Final Fantasy XIV
    • Guild Wars 2
    • Elder Scrolls Online
    • Lord of the Rings Online
    • Waker@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Massively agree with gw2.

      Overall good costumer practices (not perfect). Buy to play, no worries that time is running out and you need to grind like a maniac for the next days…

      Great community and story.

      WOW is algo a good option, if you’re going to a private server. Those seem more fun honestly and less bullshit