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I've grown incredibly bored over the last month as quite literally every single penny of my funds (aside from vital bills like food etc) has been going towards saving up for covering the costs of my US fiance visa.
Since my kotor2 game only works when the sound is disabled (thus rendering playing the game rather pointless and boring as half the enjoyment is hearing the whoom sounds as you hack and slash your enemies to pieces), I've been trawling through some free to play mmos trying to find something to occupy my time. So far I've gone through four and it took long enough to evaluate them alone (almost a week now...would've been more but that will be explained in a second), so I'm going to ask for some assistance from the community because as a whole you've probably covered all the mmos out there.
The first mmo i turned to was wonderking. A side scrolling mmo which was filled with hacks and security holes during closed beta. So much so that players were standing still on one map and everything around them died instantly after spawning. Apparently they got those holes fixed when open beta hit so i decided to try it again. So i opened up my client, updated it, patched it blah blah...only to have the message that my accoutn was suspended. Confused I logged onto the site only to find that they had IP blocked the whole of europe because of a publisher issue or some sort. Reguardless of reason I was apparently banned (along with the rest of europe) because companies cant play nice.
The next mmo I went after was an usual one, Wizards 101, it was quite an addictive game, combat was turn based and enemies were added for each player that joined your battle (upto 4 on each side). it was all great fun with a semi premium style, purchasing extra items as ou needed. I quite enjoyed it and planned to play it forever...till i found out you need to pay for all the areas outside of the main starter areas (3). So I got to level 10 and was essentially beached on a bank of tiny exp and repeatative killings of the same boring monsters and quest lines that were blocked by pay to play restrictions.
The next one I moved onto was a well known one. Dungeons and Dragons Online. The reasons for me abandoning this one are as follows:
1) No health regen outside of town.
2) potions only cover a tiny fraction of your hp (like 5-9 hp each time and you have 90+ as a lvl 3 rank 12 fighter and it takes a second to use them)
3) no food or drinking outside of taverns to regen health unless you buy special food from the DDO store which costs IRL money.
4) map icons are tiny so its hard to find what you're looking for
5) quest system needs work, completed quests are kept in your main log...which is pointless IMHO. they should be on a different page if they want to keep them.... See more
6) vendors sell sucky gear. Even the 3rd town vendors barely sell any good gear for affordable prices, and even the expensive stuff is pretty shit compared to what early quests give you.
7) The character mechanics are *wwaayyyy* too complex with no tooltips to give you help on understanding how they work. It's in the manual, but its a 90+ page manual.
I could go on but those 7 together added up to me not wanting to play it much anymore. Yes I suck at maths and formulas and not fluent in table top lingo.
The last one I tried was a jrpg mmo "Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine". Not a bad game overall, combat is ok but no keys to auto target that i was told about or could find. Starter spells used up 3/4 of your mana and mana took a *long* time to regen. HP regen wasnt much of an issue as block took every attack down to 1 so you stayed alive pretty well. You could befirend demons but this took forever with some unless they were on a specific quest. I spent an hour trying to befriend one kind of demon only to have the sneaking suspicion in my mind i wouldn't be able to do it till a later level only I hadnt been told by anyone. Attacks were alright but you have to charge up almost all of them which is a bit of a pain especially when your demon decides it doesnt want to obey even though its supposed to by game rules, like when you click on a shop and the npc ignores you because the message doesnt register or something. It used the old method of radar and minimap in different windows and there was no general diraction pointer for where you had to go so if you werent paying 100% attention you sometimes miss where it tells you and have to do guess work. The key bindings were pretty confusing aswell. C was for your inventory (chest apparently) L was supposed to be for your minimap to open up but it didnt work and demon menus were opened with B of all keys. Add to that the fact that you have to level up the expertise of everything which also takes *forever* (0.05 per normal attack and 10 ranks to go through at that rate before second rank). All this had me quickly throwing in the towel.
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So in short:
I'm looking for a free mmo thats easy to play has a regular interface with sensible keybinds (m for map blah blah, normal stuff), isnt likely to be dropped by its publisher soon, doesn't rely on premium services too much and is of a fantasy or scifi genre preferably (except for mechs. For some reasns mech +mmo just doesnt seem right to me).
Any help is apreciated
I've grown incredibly bored over the last month as quite literally every single penny of my funds (aside from vital bills like food etc) has been going towards saving up for covering the costs of my US fiance visa.
Since my kotor2 game only works when the sound is disabled (thus rendering playing the game rather pointless and boring as half the enjoyment is hearing the whoom sounds as you hack and slash your enemies to pieces), I've been trawling through some free to play mmos trying to find something to occupy my time. So far I've gone through four and it took long enough to evaluate them alone (almost a week now...would've been more but that will be explained in a second), so I'm going to ask for some assistance from the community because as a whole you've probably covered all the mmos out there.
The first mmo i turned to was wonderking. A side scrolling mmo which was filled with hacks and security holes during closed beta. So much so that players were standing still on one map and everything around them died instantly after spawning. Apparently they got those holes fixed when open beta hit so i decided to try it again. So i opened up my client, updated it, patched it blah blah...only to have the message that my accoutn was suspended. Confused I logged onto the site only to find that they had IP blocked the whole of europe because of a publisher issue or some sort. Reguardless of reason I was apparently banned (along with the rest of europe) because companies cant play nice.
The next mmo I went after was an usual one, Wizards 101, it was quite an addictive game, combat was turn based and enemies were added for each player that joined your battle (upto 4 on each side). it was all great fun with a semi premium style, purchasing extra items as ou needed. I quite enjoyed it and planned to play it forever...till i found out you need to pay for all the areas outside of the main starter areas (3). So I got to level 10 and was essentially beached on a bank of tiny exp and repeatative killings of the same boring monsters and quest lines that were blocked by pay to play restrictions.
The next one I moved onto was a well known one. Dungeons and Dragons Online. The reasons for me abandoning this one are as follows:
1) No health regen outside of town.
2) potions only cover a tiny fraction of your hp (like 5-9 hp each time and you have 90+ as a lvl 3 rank 12 fighter and it takes a second to use them)
3) no food or drinking outside of taverns to regen health unless you buy special food from the DDO store which costs IRL money.
4) map icons are tiny so its hard to find what you're looking for
5) quest system needs work, completed quests are kept in your main log...which is pointless IMHO. they should be on a different page if they want to keep them.... See more
6) vendors sell sucky gear. Even the 3rd town vendors barely sell any good gear for affordable prices, and even the expensive stuff is pretty shit compared to what early quests give you.
7) The character mechanics are *wwaayyyy* too complex with no tooltips to give you help on understanding how they work. It's in the manual, but its a 90+ page manual.
I could go on but those 7 together added up to me not wanting to play it much anymore. Yes I suck at maths and formulas and not fluent in table top lingo.
The last one I tried was a jrpg mmo "Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine". Not a bad game overall, combat is ok but no keys to auto target that i was told about or could find. Starter spells used up 3/4 of your mana and mana took a *long* time to regen. HP regen wasnt much of an issue as block took every attack down to 1 so you stayed alive pretty well. You could befirend demons but this took forever with some unless they were on a specific quest. I spent an hour trying to befriend one kind of demon only to have the sneaking suspicion in my mind i wouldn't be able to do it till a later level only I hadnt been told by anyone. Attacks were alright but you have to charge up almost all of them which is a bit of a pain especially when your demon decides it doesnt want to obey even though its supposed to by game rules, like when you click on a shop and the npc ignores you because the message doesnt register or something. It used the old method of radar and minimap in different windows and there was no general diraction pointer for where you had to go so if you werent paying 100% attention you sometimes miss where it tells you and have to do guess work. The key bindings were pretty confusing aswell. C was for your inventory (chest apparently) L was supposed to be for your minimap to open up but it didnt work and demon menus were opened with B of all keys. Add to that the fact that you have to level up the expertise of everything which also takes *forever* (0.05 per normal attack and 10 ranks to go through at that rate before second rank). All this had me quickly throwing in the towel.
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So in short:
I'm looking for a free mmo thats easy to play has a regular interface with sensible keybinds (m for map blah blah, normal stuff), isnt likely to be dropped by its publisher soon, doesn't rely on premium services too much and is of a fantasy or scifi genre preferably (except for mechs. For some reasns mech +mmo just doesnt seem right to me).
Any help is apreciated
