90% of this forum has moved on from originally playing ffxi to playing rts/moba/fps/whatever street fighter falls under(i've never played), or not playing mmorpgs at all
again, why are people so closed minded that you think that someone who only plays mmorpgs can only enjoy mmorpgs, that's so hilariously sad
He said why they would be compared to MMO's, not that people like MMO's shouldn't like Mobas. The people who play and enjoy mobas are the people who played and enjoyed PVP in WOW, which is also accurate. A MMO is nothing like a moba, and cannot be compared to one at all. What do you raid in a moba? Nothing, you PVP. A raider(99% of wow's population) will not find the same type of enjoyment in a MOBA, the game is nothing like raiding or running dungeons.
i rarely ever PVP'd in WoW compared to how often i PVE'd. i was like 1400 in 3s and in a top 50 guild on WoW for all the expansions i played.
maybe i'm the minority but i never went out of my way to PVP on any game but i still enjoy LoL and other mobas more than i do mmorpgs. thus my statement
i'm one of those subscribers.
game's just stale and boring to me now.
http://atlantica.nexon.net/
^ fucking amaaaaaazing game, but once you get past the freebie hook you in stuff it's basically shit unless you pay $20-$25 a month, and even then it's only decent unless you either spend a lot or have an amazing support network and are just plain really good at the game
you can maintain yourself pretty solidly once you've got a good start if you're good, but it's not easy
the pvp is absolutely amazing, completely embarrasses any competitive strategy game, real time or not, that I've played since age of empires 2... unfortunately in the end it's straight up pay to win unless you've been in and played a LOT since the very start, and even those people are hugely (I mean HUGEly) outgeared by the big spenders, and basically have to outclass them to the point where their strategies are based around how they're going to deal with X character getting gibbed near immediately
http://2moons.mmosite.com/
really solid dungeons and shit, but you get to a point where you can't even hurt shit without massive investments, plus it's an absolutely insane grind (atlantica is pretty crazy to get near max level as well, and they keep raising the cap making it even crazier)
that one also has a pretty good pvp system, although it's really strict and can be hard to find willing participants, there's a whole jail and turning your name red making you a high value target that can't punish people for attacking you system
the combination of awesome movesets and great level design made the early-mid solo dungeons in that game some of the most fun I've had in an mmo, unfortunately the f2p/grind wall sets in around level 55, which isn't really all that high
those are the 2 off the top of my head that I was thinking of as I made that post
One issue I'm seeing with MMORPGs these days is how they're somehow victim of their own impressive amount of content.
What I mean is that you can hop in almost any multiplayer game once a friend suggest you to. Sure, you have to learn the basics and all, but it can be done.
That means players can move from one game to another, following trends or communities.
But when it comes to games like WoW, FFXI, even GW2, the more time it passes, the more un-interesting a newcomer's experience becomes. Sure, all those games added Exp bonuses, grind easiness, recruit-friends, etc... but those are just ways to "butcher" content by rushing through it. Besides, even with such boosts, a newcomer still needs to spend A LOT of time grinding, just to get on par with those same friends that invited him in.
True, if anything the exp changes and shit for WoW just made lvling alts even easier, but newcomers still have to deal with some of the same crap while not getting the full leveling experience. To me the whole meat of a MMO is the leveling, end game is great and all but there's just so much content that can be there and it gets swallowed up really fast. This is probably why I went back to playing TERA again, leveling in that game is fun, granted the quests are boring and shit, but grinding as melee or as a healer with a buddy of mine and just AoE cleaving down crowds of mobs and doing dungeons is really damn fun. Leveling once through MoP was fun and interesting, but the other 4 times I did it was just tedious, I mean hell even in WoTLK my 2nd - 4th alt leveling experience was still enjoyable and interesting, Cataclysm and MoP lvling was just crap.
Hoping around MMOs isnt a bad thing, its only bad when the developers toss so much money into them that they need you to stay subbed for 25 years of your life to make their cash back. SWTOR would have been a fine f2p mmo at launch, but they wanted to be the next WoW...and no one is going to be the next WoW not even Titan, because WoW was a fluke