Good F2p games.

[zumbledum]

Thought i would start a thread rather than snark at others for a change

so what good f2p games have you found?

let me start with a couple of suggestions.

Warframe -
Really High production quality on this 4 player co op ninja shooter. it features very enjoyable FPS gameplay where you take on the role of a Tenno (magical cyber ninja badass) features an extremely deep progression system though i have to wonder if some guy has a bit of a fetish for XP bars there are millions of them!
The game play is a nice mixture of parkour, melee and ranged blasting backed up with class powers. mission types include assassination, sabotage, rescue the vip, extermination , survival and last stand. and take place in a rich lore filled and beautiful backdrop.
The business model takes some criticism because you can buy in game items along with cosmetic and convenience items. but i never found anything that was so hard to find in game i felt pressured to buy it, but thats purely subjective.

ive sunk over 400 hours into this game and recommend it to anyone that likes a FPS theres just no reason not to try it!


Marvel Heroes- (a diablo style game)
controversial! This game arrived to near universal disappointment and derision. bad optimisation , poor net code, insane payment model. bad character designs.
But hey have been busy bees over the 10 months (the celebrations of on go for the rest of the week) they did a complete pass over every character to get them playable and are doing a much slower more detailed pass on an individual basis now. the game mechanics have seen many overhauls the defense system especially was re done from the ground up. and the business model which is still a bit steep imo has been toned down a huge amount.

Its a diablo Style game where you play one of marvels heroes. it features a large roster 31 currently. each one has around 18 skills passive and active to choose from, and there is a lot of cross over on some character and you do see different skins of the same skill appear quite often on some characters. there are also a fair amount of very unique heroes like Hulk, Dc Strange and Ghost rider. basically they are getting better at it.

So why would i recommend it over Path of Exile or D3? well im not sure i would but it does play differently and is worth a look. the thing it does well is make you feel like a real Super hero. you are one powerful entity. If your Storm (starter character) flying around summoning a massive Lightning storm thats wrecking everything on screen while your passive auras freeze and batter everything on screen as you hurl out massive bolts of chain lightning and summon areas of intense cold to slaughter massive packs of enemies. or your the hulk leaping across the screen jumping up and down on people and battering everything around you with massive fists. its teh first time any of these games has captured that feeling you got in D2 of power. which given Mr Brevik's involvement is perhaps not surprising.

The business model is still on the high price side imo. but with the inclusion of eternity splinters ( a currency that you use to buy heroes) it is entirely possible to play for free , but you might have to save up a while for that hero you really want to be. it does take up to 600 splinters to buy a hero (200-600) they do drop pretty frequently and at every level , steam says i have 100 hours logged but i know some of that was alt tabbed or asleep. and i have found around 800 splinters so far.

 

[NuclearKangaroo]

TF2, obviously

0 percent Pay 2 Win, and the best online FPS on the market right now

Path of Exile

-1% Pay 2 Win, a very enjoyable diablo-like game with coop and competitive modes, and a nice economy system

Blacklight Retribution

fun CoD-style game, havent played in months dont know how alive is the community nowadays

 

[Elfgore]

I'd say League of Legends and Smite are both decent, even if you don't pay.

For League, you can get along just fine without paying. Your pool of Champions will be limited, but you can still enjoy the game. You all know what League is like, so I really don't need to explain.

Smite has recently attracted my time. One of the most engaging MOBAs I've ever played. You wouldn't believe how much actually having to move and attack for your character makes the action so intense. Awesome pool of gods and goddesses from multiple pantheons, intense combat, and one of the best MOBA communities I've ever had the pleasure to play with. You get three free gods at the beginning and a weekly rotation of five.

 

[Prime_Hunter_H01]

Tera
Not pay to win at all the cash shop is mostly cosmetics and bonuses like most Free to Play games, In fact since they have gone free to play they give away High powered weapons for collecting their pieces as dropped from monsters, and you can circumvent various account purchases like bank upgrades and character slots if you can track down a retail copy. Which is actually quite cheap still.

 

[Zontar]

World if Tanks.

With the exception of a few tanks and more garage space, every single item in the game can be purchased without the use of real money, and the things which are only purchasable using real money are far from game breaking, with games typically being determined by player skill and tactics above all else.

 

[Padwolf]

League of Legends. Though the community isn't great at all, EUW is what I call a hive of scum and villainy, but the game itself is fantastic and a lot of fun to play. You don't have to pay for anything at all other than cosmetic things. You can still get all the champions, it's just going to take a lot of playing to do so.

 

[Keoul]

Wakfu
Specifically, Wakfu Asia for reason I shall tell you at the end. Wakfu is a tile-based, turn-based, mmorpg. It's got something in it that I don't really see in a lot of MMORPGs and that's a government system and a focus on the ecosystem. Governments are players elected into positions of power and the ecosystem can be modified in part by the player, crops, herbs, trees and almost all player planted and do not respawn on their own.

Now for why Wakfu Asia, it's a lot better than regular Wakfu because a lot of the content is available to you, the only thing you have to pay for are cosmetic items and convenience items that can also be gotten in game. Wakfu also has a subscription system but it's relatively cheap and the only perks are Increased loot, xp, and money drop rates and the ability to run for Governor (Basically president of a nation). Normal Wakfu has you restricted to about 2 or 3 maps and that's it, no nation, just grind.

Speaking of which there's a lot of grinding but considering you recommended Warframe, grinding shouldn't be an issue.

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[Mister K]

First of all, DotA2. You don't have to pay for the game, you don't have to pay for characters and modes. The only thing that requires money is customization of characters' looks and other purely cosmetic stuff.

Team Fortress 2 also comes to mind. It is a bit less of a FTP game, because you have to buy at the very least something to get access to absolutely everything, even so, paying 99 cents for a rhing to forever be a premium member is nice. And while thre are great many weapons for each class, non of them is stronger than the other. They are just different.

 

[jdbuck]

Hawken
Just hit Steam, really good fun. I'd put it on par with any AAA FPS.

 

[BeerTent]

I'll still say Spiral Knights is good. I haven't touched it in a while, but Loved the shit out of it.

Loadout's silly, and enjoyable. But I don't see it lasting long in today's market.

Same with Hawken. Astonishingly well done aesthetic, looks absolutely amazing, but it's lacking longevity. And I foresee it lasting about a year.

 

[antidonkey]

I've been playing a lot of Hearthstone lately. It's a simple collectable card game with a warcraft theme. It's also very easy to do well without a single microtransaction so long as you have a little patience. In game gold can pretty much get you anything.

 

[Phlogiston]

The ones I know off the top of my head:

FPS:
Planetside 2
Quakelive
Team Fortress 2
Tribes: Ascend
Warsow

MOBA:
Defence of the Ancients 2
Heroes of Newerth
League of Legends

Other:
Dwarf Fortress*
Minecraft Classic
Toribash
World of Tanks

*Warning, bloody complicated and ugly

I dabbled with all of those except the MOBAs (not my cup of tea) but only really play Quakelive and upgraded to the paid version of Minecraft too

 

[CrazyCrab]

I'd say League of Legends and Smite are both decent, even if you don't pay.

For League, you can get along just fine without paying. Your pool of Champions will be limited, but you can still enjoy the game. You all know what League is like, so I really don't need to explain.

Smite has recently attracted my time. One of the most engaging MOBAs I've ever played. You wouldn't believe how much actually having to move and attack for your character makes the action so intense. Awesome pool of gods and goddesses from multiple pantheons, intense combat, and one of the best MOBA communities I've ever had the pleasure to play with. You get three free gods at the beginning and a weekly rotation of five.

I have to second Smite.
I started playing yesterday and I'm absolutely engrossed, it's so much fun.
And the AD carries actually require skill instead of being 'right click on a target'

On top of that the pricing is extremely fair. I've payed 23 euros for all gods and all future gods and I haven't looked back.

 

[nightmare_gorilla]

MARVEL HEROES: I constantly recommend marvel heroes to people, yeah it was a little crap when it first dropped but now it's awesome and they are constantly adding new player friendly content to the game, they keep coming up with new ways to run events and give out stuff that otherwise costs, yeah the cost of their packs and things can be a little much but the only thing in the game you HAVE to pay for is costumes beyond that you can buy any hero with in game items. every other week they're doing a bonus xp weekend or boosted drops. it's great.

my friends really like clash of clans and warframe. not my style but they enjoy em a lot.

 

[XDSkyFreak]

Depends what you consider a good f2p game. My big problem with f2p games is that even though you can come out and say to me: Oh but 99% of the game can be accesed without paying, if that 99% asks for a few hundred hors of my time for every 0.1% then I'm sorry, this is bs. Sure I should progress slower if I don't pay, but there is a big difference between progresing slower and beeing allowed to make one step forward per week if lucky.

I'll just say WoT as an example: worst f2p system I've seen. At least the scumbags that ask for tons of money and restrict vital items behind pay-walls are honest. WoT tells you "you can have everything without paying, come on in" and for the first 5 tiers of tanks it's actualy fun and you are evolving and learning ... and then you hit tier 5 ... and you stop. You need to put in at least a week of games to get through to tier 6 (retraining crew, having cash for the new tank, and getting the xp). Then you see the xp cap for tier 7, you play a few games and see that you are making the same xp as before and the worst part of it all: have a bad day, get matched with an incopentent team or jsut make a mistake and loose the game: AND YOU LOOSE IN GAME CURENCY FOR REPAIRS AND AMMO. And when winning is up to you and 14 other random guys, you will loose. So not only you need to grind an insane number of games to progress, you need to grind an insane number of games to have the resources to grind the games needed to progress. On a different tank. That you need to grind to get elited and have a trained crew for. This game's got fractal grinding unless you use premium accounts, and it gets worse and worse the higher you go in tier.
And I love how everyone says it isn't pay2win now that gold autopen ammo is available for normal cash: News flash guys: when loading up gold costs me more in game cash than the fucking tank I'm loading gold in, this is still pay2win unless you have no life outside of grinding. But then again: a new level to the grind-fest.

f2p devs caught on to something: pay-walls make people angry. But replace them with time-walls in disguise than can be eased over with a little real life money grease and sundely you have made a good f2p game. And everyone is going along with it ...

On-toppic: trully good f2p systems? TF2, DotA2, LoL is decent and those are about it. They don't have paywalls, don't offer game-breaking items for cash and they most certainly do not have grind time-sinks (well, depends on your personal capacity for grinding and level of OCD. LoL is the odd-duck here as it has some rather large grind-times, but at the same time you can only slightly speed up the process with money, and the grind times never become insane, like a day per goal tops. So no big issues)

 

[Elfgore]

I'd say League of Legends and Smite are both decent, even if you don't pay.

For League, you can get along just fine without paying. Your pool of Champions will be limited, but you can still enjoy the game. You all know what League is like, so I really don't need to explain.

Smite has recently attracted my time. One of the most engaging MOBAs I've ever played. You wouldn't believe how much actually having to move and attack for your character makes the action so intense. Awesome pool of gods and goddesses from multiple pantheons, intense combat, and one of the best MOBA communities I've ever had the pleasure to play with. You get three free gods at the beginning and a weekly rotation of five.

I have to second Smite.
I started playing yesterday and I'm absolutely engrossed, it's so much fun.
And the AD carries actually require skill instead of being 'right click on a target'

On top of that the pricing is extremely fair. I've payed 23 euros for all gods and all future gods and I haven't looked back.

Haha! I did the exact same thing after playing for one day. I played as Thor and Apollo and just found myself saying "I want more!" So I bought all the gods and just spend my time in arena mode.

 

[BearShark]

Cry of Fear. Great horror game, I would definitely pay to play it.

 

[INVALIDUSERNAME]

The typical ones:

DOTA 2
Team Fortress 2
Warthunder
World of Tanks
Path of Exile
The thousands of indie horror games on Gamejolt
Any number of truly Free to Play MMO's (SWTOR, TERA, Rift, Vindictus, etc.)
League of Legends
Loadout
Guild Wars 2, not true F2P, but a pretty high quality MMO experience for 30% off at the moment.
Thousands of 'em too in Steam's Free to Play section, so you could check around there.

 

[Darkmantle]

Since no one else mentioned it, I'm going to throw in Infinity wars, it's still officially in beta, but it's one of the most enjoyable TCGs I've ever played. It has a simultaneous turn system that allows for tonnes of strategic depth.