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If you could play one multiplayer game until 2017...
Kopogero
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If today you had to choose one multiplayer game to play until 2017, your pick would be? Over the last 5 years I've seen myself spent the most time playing these multiplayer games: World of Warcraft, DC Universe Online, Path of Exile, Ultima Online (p server), Counter Strike 1.6 (warcraft mod) and this year Marvel Heroes Online. Below I'll describe detailed my experience with them until the very end if anyone has nothing better to read.
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World of Warcraft - The PvP seasons take way too long, I expect 3-4 months vs the current 6-7. Similar story with the PvE, I enjoyed 10 man heroic and guild progression/competition which seems to be missing now, mainly due to the lack of PvE content as well being delivered. I also can't see myself to stomach raiding the same raid bosses for 6+ months. That's simply unacceptable. MoP was considered one of the worst expansions, but for me that changed when I enjoyed it far more than WoD. I also remember enjoying hunting those difficult to obtain, limited mounts from defeating hard content (sadly time is limitless now with how long a single raid takes)
DC Universe - This game was truly amazing, especially during its first year since launch and then it all went downhill. Delayed content updates, meaningless PvP (once you get the feats), and unmplayable for the F2P player with the limited cash balance as well as being forced to buy the DLC to be able to PvP evenly with the rest. Bottom line, it wasn't worth the sub, not when WOW was still at it's prime. Now, I've lost track of the game and it feels like on life support since most others have as well.
Path of Exile - A fresh air for the ARPG genre, sadly it never truly reached its potential. The game has great gameplay, lots of build diversity, but now the only thing it offers at endgame is to do some time sink, easy mode challenges that reward some banner in your hideout, where people rarely come to or care about. The ladder is only a gimmick as the competition is nonexistant, with how the game is heavily designed around whoever has the most currency to invest in mapping + with the help of group/friends can rotate highest lvl of maps to reach highest lvl possible. With 3rd party sites offering currency for $, yea the game is basically just another single player ARPG, catering to the casuas who are the majority left playing in the softcore leagues.
Ultima Online (p server) - Sadly, the game is and never will be the same game we've known at its prime. 3rd party programs destroy PvP and on the server I play PvP doesn't matter. So, I did PvE and to get the best loot all you have to do is farm the same mobs over and over and then wait on someone hoping they sell what you want, which rarely happens, mainly due to the very low population that the game is not designed around.
Counter Strike 1.6 (warcraft mod) - This was a blast, sadly recently I installed the game again, but that server is gone now. What I really liked about warcraft mod was how I could pick 10+ different classes and level them up. That combined with how I could equip 3 unique items out of many per round, which cost CS money made CS feel far more unique with strong community. Sadly, just like the Half Life bubble mod server I enjoyed for years, these two mods are no longer popular at all. There was only one warcraft mod server, sadly it's Russian.
Marvel Heroes Online - Beside the amazing combat, the enjoyable heroes and some of the events (which become useless later on) the game mainly focuses on attracting new players since the endgame is severely lacking. It's about prestiging (re-leveling over and over) characters you like (with specific costumes) until you find some other new character/costume you'll do the same. This is pretty much what the entire game is all about. There is one raid you finish in 15-30 min in the week and yea, it's good game to keep it in your backlog, so you can do something on some specific events, but thats about it.
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Anyways, back to topic if I could play one multiplayer game today until 2017 I really don't know which I would pick, but I'll pick one to contribute to this thread soon. So, I'm going to do further research after quitting these games for my next long term game and what would it be if I could pick one of the hundreds out there.
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Grand Theft Auto 5 online. I've had more fun in it than any mmo in the last several years.
There are tons of people cheating their ass off but it only rarely affects my fun.
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Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
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I'm staying with GW2. Only mmo that actually answered my tickets. Lots of variety of things to do. Still haven't opened up all the world on all my chars and now the HoT expansion is coming. I don't think the HoT xp is going to have enough content. Should have added new races. Still, I've never played an mmo before where the real staff got on the forums and talked to the players from time to time. Cannot beat a no sub mmo. Cash shop isn't offensive since I can buy anything in it with money I earned in the game if I don't want to spend irl cash.
Never heard of this game.... One of the old text MUD's?
BWAHAHAHAHAHA
WaWoT.
it's got a new expansion coming out soon,
it will be over 1000000 pages,but players will finish it
in heart bit,since they'll just skip reading and press "I Accept".
I wouldn't. I'd play more than one.
But if forced to, TF2 would likely be the strongest pick. The tight skill-rewarding gameplay remains interesting ~8 years later.
If everyone was forced to play the same game (guaranteeing a solid player population, and tons of revenue to fund ongoing development) I would've loved to spend more time in Tribes Ascend. There's even more depth and mastery in this jetpack shooter than TF2, and if they'd kept adding weapon/equipment content to the game it could've been great, as well as possibly some new game modes.
"What is truly revealing is his implication that believing something to be true is the same as it being true. [continue]" -John Oliver
Yeah, that's now how it works at all.
It would be something I could play LAN party coop style. Play with GF and the occasional friend or family.
Probably some classic game I could hack / mod to keep it interesting.
edit: kant spel
Age of Conan
Yep, I said it. The adult raiding community kept me playing off and on for 6-7 years. I can count on it.
would have to be Eve Online. The diversity of the game wins if i only got one to play until 2017.
If I chose one, I would want to know how many expansions were coming out for it during that time period. I would probably go with WOW.
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If its an mmo, Marvel Heroes only if it was on PS4 with a gamepad. Otherwise i could easily stick to GW2 on PC forever.
Fantasy Grounds
It's any game I want it to be.
'Sandbox MMO' is a PTSD trigger word for anyone who has the experience to know that anonymous players invariably use a 'sandbox' in the same manner a housecat does.
When your head is stuck in the sand, your ass becomes the only recognizable part of you.
No game is more fun than the one you can't play, and no game is more boring than one which you've become familiar.
How to become a millionaire:
Start with a billion dollars and make an MMO.
As much as I absolutely hate the thought of playing another Perfect World Entertainment MMORPG, I have already gone to a game called ROYAL QUEST. It is 2.5D / Isometric (like the Diablo series or UO), and has many features I saw from the game Perfect World International (PWI). Having played PWI for 5 years, I at least know the ropes of how things work, as it is very similar in many ways. The main reason I can even stomach another PWE game (this Royal Quest in particular), is the server currently available is considered "open beta" and opened up somewhere between January and May of this year (2015). In other words, PWE has not had enough time to destroy the economy yet (see PWI to see what that ultimately looks like). So, I know this game has about 2-4 years to enjoy it until Pantheon or Lucimia or Citadel eventually come out and hopefully end up becoming "my mmorpg" to play for many years thereafter.
PS. If it did not close down, I would say and be playing Vanguard.
Toss up between Starcraft 2 and LoL.
It shows what PvP games are really all about, and no, it's not about more realism and immersion. It's about cowards hiding behind a screen to they can bully other defenseless players without any risk of direct retaliation like there would be if they acted like asshats in "real life". -Jean-Luc_Picard
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Destiny.
Already eats 99% of my gaming time, big xpac coming in just over a month, for sure will be new DLC in 2016, HOPEFULLY also a full on Destiny 2 release (please, please, please current gen only!) in fall of 2016.