Anyone interested in trying a non fee MMO?

[If-I-Die-Its-Lag]

Guild Wars isn't really an MMO, at least for me that is. It is for the fact that the level cap is at 20 and that most of the world is instanced for only the party.

I kind of felt that the community is crappy, mainly because almost all the guilds that I have been...really are not long lived.

But it was fun for a couple months where I was trying new builds and quests.


And oh yeah, Maplestory.

[Dave]

Guild Wars isn't really an MMO, at least for me that is. It is for the fact that the level cap is at 20 and that most of the world is instanced for only the party.

I kind of felt that the community is crappy, mainly because almost all the guilds that I have been...really are not long lived.

But it was fun for a couple months where I was trying new builds and quests.


And oh yeah, Maplestory.

i had a guild for a year and a bit, did competative gvg had a 1000+ rank before the new gay system
the instances work well since you are on missions not shitty quests ( no one does the quests)
you get a lot of thoose two week guilds, but luckily Guild halls capes and guild hall components are expensive, so you can usualy tell that your in a shit guild if you just join.


the guilds that own the towns are allways recruiting, just join one of them and work your way up the foodchain.


but for the decent pvp guilds you will need pvp ranks which are hard to get on your own. (g1, h5, c1)


PvE titles dont mean shit and thats why i have them all.

-Legend of the luxons lol.

[Darklink]

[quote author=Dave link=topic=2560.msg73078#msg73078 date=1238086257]
[quote author=negate link=topic=2560.msg73076#msg73076 date=1238086166]
theres got to be some kind of super secret mmo that no one knows about thats free to play and doesn't suck.

tf2
[/quote]

I'd play the hell out of a Valve MMO.  Epic battle in city 17?
[/quote]One spanned through all the cities, black mesa, aperature, and some other surrounding areas would be badass.

[Darklink]

[quote author=Ye Salty Karth link=topic=2560.msg72964#msg72964 date=1238018638]
If anyone ever mentions Maplestory again, there will be blood.


I'm freaking serious gais.

Nobody on this forum has as much hatred to Maplestory as I have. I got to 150 before I quit. (BEFORE 4TH JOBS GOD DAMMIT, and before all the good training places we have now), gave my character away and now I just randomly sign online a mule I have to see if my guild is still alive. It isn't.
[/quote]i got to like 32

took to long to level, still does

[CaffeinePowered]

theres got to be some kind of super secret mmo that no one knows about thats free to play and doesn't suck.

rolling free trials on planetside



Edit:

If any of you read the thread, I will be giving something away if we hit 20 people in game on PS Sat

[ribozyme]

I might be up for some Guild Wars if people decide to try it.  I got it the week it came out, played it sporadically for a year and a half, and had a lot of fun.  The great thing about the game is it is about as close to a grindless MMO as you can get.

We could have tons of fun running stupid builds in Team Arena  ;D

[Squishy3]

[quote author=Squishy3 link=topic=2560.msg73009#msg73009 date=1238035720]
[quote author=Ye Salty Karth link=topic=2560.msg72964#msg72964 date=1238018638]
If anyone ever mentions Maplestory again, there will be blood.


I'm freaking serious gais.

Nobody on this forum has as much hatred to Maplestory as I have. I got to 150 before I quit. (BEFORE 4TH JOBS GOD DAMMIT, and before all the good training places we have now), gave my character away and now I just randomly sign online a mule I have to see if my guild is still alive. It isn't.
[/quote]i got to like 32

took to long to level, still does
[/quote]I could grind for 24 hours straight and I still wouldn't gain a level. Granted there's better training areas now, but I just don't give a shit.

[Vongore]

[quote author=Darklink link=topic=2560.msg73093#msg73093 date=1238096050]
[quote author=Squishy3 link=topic=2560.msg73009#msg73009 date=1238035720]
[quote author=Ye Salty Karth link=topic=2560.msg72964#msg72964 date=1238018638]
If anyone ever mentions Maplestory again, there will be blood.


I'm freaking serious gais.

Nobody on this forum has as much hatred to Maplestory as I have. I got to 150 before I quit. (BEFORE 4TH JOBS GOD DAMMIT, and before all the good training places we have now), gave my character away and now I just randomly sign online a mule I have to see if my guild is still alive. It isn't.
[/quote]i got to like 32

took to long to level, still does
[/quote]I could grind for 24 hours straight and I still wouldn't gain a level. Granted there's better training areas now, but I just don't give a shit.
[/quote]

I still don't get why you hate Maplestory. You got to lvl 150. So?

[Squishy3]

[quote author=Squishy3 link=topic=2560.msg73158#msg73158 date=1238130226]
[quote author=Darklink link=topic=2560.msg73093#msg73093 date=1238096050]
[quote author=Squishy3 link=topic=2560.msg73009#msg73009 date=1238035720]
[quote author=Ye Salty Karth link=topic=2560.msg72964#msg72964 date=1238018638]
If anyone ever mentions Maplestory again, there will be blood.


I'm freaking serious gais.

Nobody on this forum has as much hatred to Maplestory as I have. I got to 150 before I quit. (BEFORE 4TH JOBS GOD DAMMIT, and before all the good training places we have now), gave my character away and now I just randomly sign online a mule I have to see if my guild is still alive. It isn't.
[/quote]i got to like 32

took to long to level, still does
[/quote]I could grind for 24 hours straight and I still wouldn't gain a level. Granted there's better training areas now, but I just don't give a shit.
[/quote]

I still don't get why you hate Maplestory. You got to lvl 150. So?
[/quote]the fact I wasted so much of my time on it before anything even remotely fun for my level came out. I could Zakum and that was it, and half the time our runs were blocked by people hacking zakum, and most of the time they were only level 70 or so, so it would take them about 4 hours to kill zakum, and by that time the next group scheduled showed up. So basically, I did it all for nothing and will never get all that time back. Not to mention a bunch of people accused me of hacking because of one screenshot that was extremely blurry and you couldn't even make out a character name of it. That and there was so much drama it was stupid. Granted my guild did succeed in pissing off a bunch of the high high level people, and we were even #1 guild for awhile.

[copulatingduck]

so...


Maple Story?

[Squishy3]

so...


Maple Story?

banned

[copulatingduck]

[quote author=CopulatingDuck link=topic=2560.msg73161#msg73161 date=1238132458]
so...


Maple Story?

banned
[/quote]

As long as it's not from Maple Story.

[KarthXLR]

Maplestory, simply-put, is a big mess of a leveling system. In it, you have certain stats that alter your character in combat (just like every other MMO). Each of the game's four classes applies to one or two of the stats, but usually ignores one. My first choice of class was the Archer, which just so happened to not need luck. Unfortunately, it also just so happens that luck effects the amount of experience lost when you die, which is going to happen A LOT. If you have less than 20 luck, you can look forward to a fat 20% of exp vanishing once you die. This means, if you're around level 20, you just easily lost 30 minutes to an hour of grinding.

It's an extremely harsh system that kept me in the lower levels for, I kid you not, months. I spent about 2 years* getting my character level to 42 I think, I wish I could've gotten it back.

*I didn't have my PC yet, so I usually ended up gaming on boot camp when our macbook was available.

[KarthXLR]

Ignoring my above post, I don't think I could do another MMO. I still remember what I was like playing MS, and I'm definitely not doing that again.


Unless we find one we all agree on.

[zaneyard]

GW was really fun, i only have the original though

[copulatingduck]

30 minutes to an hour of leveling is hardly grinding. I thought the point of making leveling difficult/tedious was to prevent people from maxing out in a week's time, forcing players to take their time and give them something to come back to month after month. If it's so easy to max out wouldn't players just get bored of the game that much quicker (presumably after they've maxed out and collected all the phat l00t there is)? Isn't that half the point behind MMO design? Sorry to derail, it just seems to me that leveling in MMO's is supposed to be tedious/time-consuming, but maybe I'm uninformed.

[Versus]

He said 20% was half an hour to an hour of grinding at about level 20...and squishy said he could grind for 24 hours and not gain a level.

also, I tried playing Maplestory...one of the most boring things I have ever played. I quit at level 16 because standing there hitting z over and over and over is not a lot of fun.

[KarthXLR]

Sorry to derail, it just seems to me that leveling in MMO's is supposed to be tedious/time-consuming, but maybe I'm uninformed.

Maybe that's the reason I'm so uninterested in them. I really hate grinding, probably one of the reasons I haven't beaten my DS RPG's.

[Evil Cheese]

I was going to try a out a new MMO that is still in beta called Runes of Magic this weekend. It looks pretty average, but I guess I'll still give it a shot. If anyone is interested in meeting up in game or anything let me know.

[Eschatos]

I was going to try a out a new MMO that is still in beta called Runes of Magic this weekend. It looks pretty average, but I guess I'll still give it a shot. If anyone is interested in meeting up in game or anything let me know.

Tried it, nothing special.