Help me anons. Is there any semi decent MMO that is entirely free?
It can even be an old MMO with 50 players. I have a lot of free time and would like to experience one. The only condition being it’s for free. I'm considering trying EverQuest (P99).
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Project 1999 is one of the best MMO experiences you can have at the moment and that's coming from someone whose tried a majority of the genre over the last two decades AND tried the game for the first time in early 2019 several months after the launch of the green server.
Does any MMO's art have as much SOVL as the original everquest?
>Is there any semi decent MMO
No, everything is a log in for weeklies raid treadmill. There is no world to explore or experience. Just rush to max level and RAID. Your best bet is private servers for older games.
>EQN
>Landmark
I will never not be mad. This has to have been one of the biggest scams in video game history and they got away with it scott free. There wasn't even an uproar, just silence as no one ever spoke of it again.
did landmark tarnish the idea of "early access" forever? im sure it wasnt the first but it had to play a part in people being apprehensive to ever pay for an unfinished game again
I mean what did you want them to do? Sony sold the studio and whoever bought them fire everybody and scrapped canned every project to milk profits off what was left.
Landmark was actually great while it lasted, it was very promising. It played great and had a great community of amazing builders. The engine was solid.
I always felt like SOE biggest asset was their technical people. SWG,EQ2, Planetside 2, Landmark, they all had amazing engines and technologies on launch. It's such a waste.
>eq2 had an amazing engine on launch
it did? i thought the game ran like shit which ultimately helped people make the jump to world of warcraft with everyone else
Well yeah, a game that has low poly low texture models tend to run on more machines.
It's irrelevant though, the engine (and the game) did a lot more things. WoW was technically pathetic on launch but it benefited from the huge popularity of war3 and snowballed from there, that's all there is to it.
Sadly no.
>all those people you loved and hated are gone
>there's only the empty world now
Feels too real
Such is the way of things.
We can only hope that a new generation finds the world of Norrath and has half as much fun as they all used to.
Hopefully project Lantern can do that.
All I have to add is, you aren't going to "experience" an MMO if you play something with super low player count.
Go ahead and play P99. You will eventually lose interest. Also check out private servers like SWG Legends/SWGEMU, any WoW private server, City of Heroes Homecoming, etc. Ignore the GW 2 morons that will tell you that their mmo is free when you have to buy all their expansion and hidden DLC.
Gw2 is basically a Korean game at this point but the devs care even less. Frick Anet and frick people shilling that garbage.
Good, you're learning. You could also look into either of the Toon Town Private servers and see why autist love those game so much. There some TERA private servers that exist but they're all the "Reach max level, do endgame dungeon now" kind of deal. The actual EQ 1 and 2 are full of bots and hacker if you even think of wanting to try those two game.
I miss swg so much and original graphics rs
Its still running SWG EMU is the original base game still or you can play legends if you want stuff like JTL and post CU stuff. Theres actually quite a few ppl on both. My EMU launcher stopped working a couple months ago and I havent been bothered to fix it..
Did you stop playing before or after they added a server that heavily restricted boxing?
>lose interest
anon please........it took me nearly five+ years to get pic/related then my laptop got fried ;_;
Private servers of every MMO exist
Mabinogi
it's truly a treat
getting an engine upgrade to Unreal 5 soon after 20 years of being out
Currently there are a lot of events running for new/returning players
guild raids right now, extra challenges, free item repairs, etc
very fun lots of talking
thread on /vm/ if you're interested and you should be it has a lot to offer and is unlike any other game
also buying stuff is for morons the game is entirely built around the journey not the destination
Seconding this choice, I came back after not playing since 2013ish. Made a new character a week or two ago and been having lots of fun. Game is not dead, even though I thought it would be.
p99 isnt the greatest server by any stretch but it's definitely something you should check out if you haven't played everquest before.
it's not a perfect reproduction but it's the closest you'll get to see what mmos were like before they were popularized. it's also not a forgiving game. you may end up hating it before you even leave the newbie zone which is okay because its not for everyone. theres a reason the genre turned into what it is today
>but it's the closest you'll get
we're getting something even closer anon
lanterneq.com
FFXI private server
>SMT mmo private server died because of some moron
I hope that homosexual gets agidyned to death
Qrd. What did gayatron do
Afaik there was 2 imagine servers, one of them with a cash shop that had like 5 players, and one without that had a ton. Atlus sent a c&d to the small one cause they had a shop and the autist in charge of the big one got scared and shit his down too
Should’ve moved the server to Russia and feigned ignorance. Sorry bros.
project 1999, horizon XI or eden XI
UO Outlands. Good amount of players and freedom to do what you want.
final fantasy 14 is free for a long ass time. basically the entire first and second expansion. if you take your time and appreciate the story, you can get easilly 100-200 hours out of it, and you'll likely want to sub at the end. but even if you can't pay, you'll still get those first 2 expansions worth of content. the main campaign is basically a single player final fantasy game, but you will do dungeons and raids with other players. and all of that old content is still being ran all the time by people levelling/gearing new classes
wanted to add. if you do give it a try. get it off the ff14 website, don't buy on steam.
dont play ff14. it's not even an mmo
MMOs are doomed unless we get a sequel to 11
vscape
>playing a server populated by 6 players, all of them trannies
No
P99 is a spectacular choice.
Look into "LanternEQ" and wait for it to be done (basically Classic EQ ported to unity engine thats currently a WIP)
City of heroes is also good.
why did Kerafyrm not destroy Norrath?
She was moronic.
>she
Yes. Kerafyrm was a gril. She wanted to destroy the world because she was on her rag.
i like how original everquest is the world and doesnt have instanced dungeons and raids.
It's a neat idea but i don't know how you deal with the problem of Server Mafia's forming that lock down raids
by becoming a chad and cucking them
you have both. now dad guilds can raid on their own schedule while the sweats fight over contested raid mobs for a shot at twice the amount of loot per week
Mafias are good for MMOs as long as there are multiple. To enable that, the game needs to make it possible to grief big groups with only few people.
>Mafias are good for MMOs
It's a monopoly that keeps any new guilds from forming and usually has some insane job application level requirements to join, and good luck getting any scraps of loot for months of raiding.
If the mafia gets too exclusive, greedy or top-heavy, individuals will start griefing them at the grassroots level and eventually form a new mafia.
The game only has to make guerrilla griefing possible.
There isn't a single good mmo, let alone a free one.
Hop on horizonxi you ugly chimp ass Black person
why would anyone waste time playing EQ when an actual MMO like WoW exists?
an hero, zoomer
Sorry troony, no one likes your world of pozzedcraft any longer
if you're a Tolkien fan, the only answer is LotR Online. it's a WoW clone and the map is amazing. leveling in the shire/Bree/the old forest was so fricking comfy, doing quests for the gaffer and the Sackville bagginses and shit. i didn't even get to moria or minas tirith
Didnt they pozz the frick out of this game though? Its LOTR ip in 2023...
they may have, i remember some b***hing about woketry update after i had stopped playing
I swear i saw a picture of a male character with breasts kek
Turtle WoW
操你个混蛋,我的喉咙里有屎
Chinese players are getting their own server
I might play my nelf healbawd again if this is true
Hardcore Black folk should also get their own servers
I dont know shit about turtle WoW, is hardcore a specific setting or a mindset?
Specific setting, disregard them, it's 1.12-based which is a dealbreaker for me personally. I would recommend Duskhaven Reforged when it releases in October or Project Epoch. Both are classic+ servers based on 3.3.5 (WOTLK client) with custom zones, quests, dungeons/raids, race and class combos. Duskhaven even has Mythic+ dungeons and shit like a Bard class.
That doesn't mean they'll actually use it, especially the botters and gold farmers. The worst fate for a Chinese WoW player is having to play with other Chinese players exclusively.
Hardcore players should have gotten their own realm first and been forced to move over to it. Even if most chinks can't fricking communicate in English 99 times out of 100, at least there's SOME meaningful interaction you can have with them through grouping up and completing quests. You can't do that with hardcore players, they're purely a hindrance you're in constant competition with until you reach the Great Filter of level 35-40 where they start thinning out, but even then you'll still run into the c**ts occasionally.
OSRS F2P is the best you'll get.
I tried P99. It was interesting from an academic perspective but not fun as a game for someone who didn't play it back then. Game's very cryptic and rudimentary, which is charming, but the playerbase is very insular and myopic in a way that makes getting any onboarding basically complete gibberish. Motherfrickers told me mining bonechips for cash to sell to higher level players for some quest turnin that it turns out barely fricking anyone needed. So as a newbie you cam explain to be regularly ignored and just solo leveling for months on end.
I wish it was as exciting as the Keith Parkinson illustration makes it look
Entirely free? P99, UO Outlands, SWG Restoration III and Warhammer Return of Reckoning. Willing to throw $7.50 at something during the next steam sale? pic related
>Everquest
But what if I don't want to take 20 years to regenerate 1 point of MP?
Then you group up with a bard or an enchanter. Crazy concept I know.
OSRS F2P
>no mention of Flyff
come on anons,it was amazing back in the early 2000s
I wonder if there are Elsword private servers. Or a way to just host your own and adjust currency and shit by yourself