How to cure MMO Meloncholy? - Page 6

Everquest went semi-F2P earlier this year, try giving that a shot. That game will keep you going for a long LONG time. It was my first MMO and I only recently stopped playing it this past spring, and EQ Next should be out within a couple more years hopefully. I also really enjoyed SWTOR but the lack of end game content (at least at launch) was a turn off. But the pvp was by the best I've played out of any mmo (WoW, Rift, Aion, Warhammer (close second though), AoC). I'm hoping that the Elderscrolls MMO will prove to be worthwhile.

Give planetside 2 a go! I have 4 keys left to give buddies!

Everquest 2 doesn't look as dated. Looks better than WoW in places, in my opinion, and is much more challenging. It's been F2P for a long while now, though I don't entirely agree with their business model. Still, you can roll with the F2P long enough to get a good feel for the game and then throw down for a subscription fee if you like it enough.

this is what i do. i look for different interesting games and play them when i'm bored of another. my current drug of choice doesn't really include a MMO tho they are all online based.. if you like diablo type games. then try path of exile. that's pretty fun. tho it's more of a online solo game.

if you enjoy shooters, i would recommend ghost recon online. that game is much more focused on teamplay so you may enjoy that aspect of it (most people play it like a regular shooter, but the good players tend to group up and just pwn people who do not team up.

i've always been a big mechwarrior fan so tried it alittle. but of the few games i did play, it seems pretty fun and shows alot of potential.

a single player game i've been playing lately is crusader kings 2. it's pretty addictive, but gets tedious after your empire gets large. i'm starting to understand why some of the historical kings were tyrants

another game i've been keeping my eyes out for is end of nations. the vids look pretty cool. so might try that out. takes me back to old school command and conquer days

I guess i'm at a phase where i'm slowly growing out of MMO's. there just aren't any on the market that really stands out. I thought SWTOR was going to be the thing... but like you said, there are just too much corporate bull to keep me playing. didn't realy help their cause that they totally ruined dragon age 2 and botched the mass effect 3 story...

I guess there's really only 1 studio left that has become the last hope. I really hope Bethesda doesn't cash in on their good will and turn into another bioware/blizzard.... who knows, maybe eventually CD Projekt would evolve into something of those caliber but the studio is still relatively young and poor.

I know what you mean. my "/played" on EQ1 was over 3 years kinda funny that people talk about "oh i put 300 hours into this game... blah blah blah" I laugh at them and say you still measure "/played" with hours? come back after your /played is over 1200 days

seems insane to put that much time into a MMO, but once you get into raiding, your time just disappears

personally i'm at a point where i try to educate myself with different genre's of games and keep up with the general trends of what's going on in the gaming industry. as of right now, I see the evolution of the 2nd generation of big game studios as the 1st gen studios all get consumed by corporations. companies such as blizzard and bioware are starting to lose their luster. their game wont really be any "good" anymore because it's not profitable to make good games... mediocre games with their big game stickered onto it is enough to sell the box and make profit. fortunately there seems to be a new wave of smaller quality studios that are coming up that would create a new generation of gaming studios that we trust.