OKY, Im not 100% sure I will play one very soon, but Im curious about MMOs in 2025. I used to play WoW around its release and up through Burning Crusade. Hows the MMO landscape in 2025? What are some good MMOs to try if I wanted to give one or two a shot?
I did play other MMOs than WOW here and there. Namely Aion, Guildwars 1 and other smaller ones.
I’m open to trying most types of MMOs and don’t mind subscribing monthly if it’s worth it. I’m especially curious about MMOs besides WoW (which would probably be the obvious choice), but I kind of want to try something different—even if WoW in 2025 is a completely different game compared to 2006
Oh btw. Doesnt need to be a MMORPG could be something like Foxhole or Ark as well. As long as its a game with servers and many players.
Thanks for any input
FF14 is free to play until you finish the main quest line. It’s a very cozy game and has a chill user base. MMO design has completely stagnated since WoW, but if you have the itch ff14 is like the least toxic choice.
Try FFXIV, there’s a very generous free trial and it’s a good game with a good story.
Tbh I mostly stick to older, or at least older style ones so from time to time I’ll pick up EverQuest for a month. I use to play project 1999 with friends but trans oceanic timezones are a pain but they enjoyed it as a thing to do while we hung out. Im watching the development of a couple similar things: Evercraft which is just a blocky EQ but it seems promising, and legends of old which is a single player free eq clone.
The ascension wow private server is fun if you like gambling with random abilities and has a test server up for their custom classes. They’re interesting so far, tinker let’s you use different ammo for your guns or built a robot to help you fight, necromancer is a cross of warlock and death knight: DoTs and you can summon an army of skeletons.
Old school RuneScape is picked up occasionally as well, but mostly as something to do on my lunch break or when I want to watch some shows
i wish i could recommend OSRS but they raised the price significantly last year and it also seems like they’re gonna completely ruin the game before too long:(
Imo WoW is still good, but the sheer amount of content make 90% of game neglected and basically just be there for nostalgia trips and transmog, but this is same thing as in every other games with seasons.
Star Wars Old Republic is also still there and free until you hit endgame, so it’s definitely worth checking.
Except that i can’t think of a single new MMORPG game that wouldn’t be action slasher with combos and other twitchy shit so the genre is in deep stagnation in bad place generally.
Imo WoW is still good, but the sheer amount of content make 90% of game neglected and basically just be there for nostalgia trips and transmog, but this is same thing as in every other games with seasons.
It’s a guilty pleasure for me. I still sorta like it, but it felt a lot easier to connect with people and make friends in the past. Nowadays, I just get on every few months to a year to grind m+ solo
Star Wars Old Republic is also still there and free until you hit endgame, so it’s definitely worth checking.
Agree with this. I used to play SWTOR a lot and the first 55 levels especially are really good. That is the initial release and the first expansion (rise of the hut cartel). The rest I could give or take to be honest, but it’s by far the best story telling I’ve seen in an MMO. It’s really fun to go around to 2-3 other people all playing different classes and you can all watch each other’s stories and their choices and then help them with the combat in their quests while they help you with yours. It’s really well designed in that you all basically take turns doing your personal stories and then there’s usually a planet specific quest chain that slots in along side those. Great for small group multiplayer.
Sadly, I don’t have anymore Windows machines, so cannot play it anymore, but I have to admit the story kind of went off the rails with the expansion where they basically established a second hidden empire that suddenly attacks the galaxy.
