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Best mmorpg to start now?
slowz2secret
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Best mmorpg to start now (with best, i mean which one is the best to start playing now) WoW - GW2 - FFXIV -BDO - ESO - SWTOR - DESTINY 2 (I'll Include it because why no? i know is not an mmorpg tho)
after a post I made yesterday asking if there will be a new mmorpg this year and all the answer i got is NO, the only one that is maybe coming is tarisland but looks like is a mobile chinese wow clone, so I'll go to the secured fun and play one of the old one but my question is, which of the og's is in it best stated to start playing from 0 now (I have no friends playing these so i'll need to find a guild or something). which one you recommend me to start playing at this time?
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GW2 - "achievement hunting the video game"
ESO - decent side quests, pve content, everything voiced but love or hate it combat
SWTOR - is always a good option for at least playing through from level 1 if you enjoy story and classic tab target mmorpgs. Has a questionable future due to recent news
XIV - the trial can give you an impresion but It's not a game you can "main" so to speak. Once you're on top of content you're playing other games in content droughts.
WOW - Can't really give an opinion as not played the latest 2 expansions but has always had decent raids and dungeons
BDO - can't really comment outside it's often free for on sale for basically nothing every other month
Hmmmm, FFXIV takes some time to really get through for a beginner as it's super story-heavy; but it is a well-populated mmorpg right now, and there is a lot to do (like a lot alot,)
Also if you've never played FFXIV, you pretty much have to do the story to get to endgame, as content is locked behind story progression- so it can take months to get through as there's 10 years of expansions and patches- all with main story that has to be done to access each expansions content.
I recommend Elder Scrolls Online simply because it's very easy to jump into new content quicker because of the nature of it's overworld progress and that it allows players to pick and choose where they can start to a certain extent.
Black Desert might be also a good choice because of the new Land of the morning light and season servers- that gives some options to let newer players choose where in the content to begin their journey.
Guild Wars 2... i haven't played it in a long time now, so i don't know how much that's changed, but i remember it being story heavy as well (sorta), but i do recall the open world being fun, and levels scale to character in those regards so that's a good amount of options- i'm not sure how populated it is these days.
Those are the only one's i can comment on, Warcraft and Starwars i have not dabbled in in a really long time, buuuuuuuuuuut, now that i think about it; Starwars was massively fun to jump into from what i remember. (though i'm a huge starwars nerd so take that advice with a grain of spice)
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Also, why did you single out FFXIV?
XIV has 4 raid floors every 8 months with 4/5 bosses (5 for savage and 4 for story mode). The quality is always very high but the quantity is just low.
the trial won't really help you get an impression of how end game is but there's a reason many raiders just raid log and play other games in the meantime. It gives the players very little reason to stay logged in when you are clearing content.
you would have to go through a LOT of content to even reach the ability to raid and the game is going to be in another extreme raid content drought in the upcoming months.
Ultimately everything that isn't latest patch content is irrelevant and fluff if endgame is your focus.
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The players will find a way to ruin it though. They always do.
Modern players suck. They are socially inept.
Old School mmorpgs actually sort of sucked. It was the player community back then that was better.
GW2 allows free access to the entirely of their pre-expansion content which will provide you ample time to assess your enjoyment of the game at no monetary cost whatsoever. There is little reason not to give it a try to see if it suits you.
Otherwise, in your list, I'd vote for ESO.
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Based on your list I would probably lean to ESO. Not thrilled with what has become of these games, they have made them all EZ mode boring.
My preference with this list is from a quote of the movie Wargames
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