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[Column] General: 5 MMOs to Play with Non-MMO Players
SBFord
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By design, MMOs are more fun to play with your friends. Most of them encourage or even require grouping for a lot of the best and most rewarding content, which necessitates either being social in the game world, or coming into the experience with a pre-determined group of friends to play with. Sometimes though, it can be hard to find people. Not everyone that plays MMOs hang out with others that play MMOs. Maybe your group of friends sticks to the latest shooters and single player RPGs, or maybe your significant other just doesn’t pick up the controller or keyboard to game very often. Whatever the case may be, every MMO player wishes X friend would play in their favorite virtual worlds with them.
Read more of David Jagneaux's The List: 5 MMOs to Play with Non-MMO Players.
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I second that.
to me MMO is:
A massively multiplayer online game (also called MMO and MMOG) is a multiplayer video game which is capable of supporting large numbers of players simultaneously. By necessity, they are played on the Internet. MMOs usually have at least one persistent world.
Guild wars only massively player area is there town, the rest is all instances.
You do realize its Guild Wars 2 right? Have you played 2?
lotro has cash walls and eso every one just quest grinds no one plays together unfortunately and the game feels the same from level one upwards,i stopped at level 30 with lots of characters and everything felt the same.
maybe the witcher 3 will be the next elders scrolls type game I wanted,unfortunately no co-op.
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I agree on Lotr:o Mostly because of the many things you can do that is not directly progression oriented and DCUO because it has a very easy curve with the game all the way up to 30 in essence being a long tutorial making for fast and fun play with little grind.
Once you hit 30 you better hope your non-mmo friends have become MMO friends... because beyond 30 the game is really ugly with the worst of grinds you will run in to this side of a eastern grinder... Unless you happen to be 8 people of diverse class and powerset... Then it will be peachy. =P
This have been a good conversation
He did put '2' in there - which is a vastly different game than 1... (even though i would argue 1 was also an mmo, but not the place to talk about that I suppose.)
None of what you said is accurate for #3
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Because?
Just curious as to why you would say such a thing among gamers with all sorts of different interest.
On topic I have few gamers friends in real life, most friends like other things, the few that do like games play mostly singleplayer games and every now and then we jump into a multiplayer games, I tried to get them into MMORPG but they never lasted more then a few day's, just not their type of game.
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The article has a point? I think someone just put a shout out around the mmorpg.com office-
'I've got to do this bloody list article, any ideas?'
'Five mmo's that... erm... people who don't play mmo's... erm ... might play'.
'Finished'
"MMOs are more fun to play with your friends. Most of them encourage or even require grouping for a lot of the best and most rewarding content, which necessitates either being social in the game world, or coming into the experience with a pre-determined group of friends to play with."
Ten years ago they did, we are all non-MMO players now. You have about as much contact with other players as you have with commuters going into work. You are all on the same transport system but that's your only connection.
Only if I want my friends to hate mmos ;-)
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Pretty much that was my first thought too. It would've been a much better list without the MMO part
(as in "MMOs to play with Non-Players")
And for such a list I agree with tawess, LotRO and DCUO are nice candidates. I know people who started DCUO just because they were comic addicts, and currently there are plenty of folks in LotRO who joined just for the course and haven't even played before - not MMOs, nothing. Maybe some Minesweeper. It's great fun to play with them and teach them, while talking about Tolkien, the scenery, etc.
Someone mentioned Defiance, it's not a bad candidate either, I know a dude who mostly plays strategy games (real ones, turn-based, not those crap Dune II clones) but he's a series addict, watching tv-series maybe 5-6 hours / day, and he liked / likes Defiance. Now he's planning to check the game, even if he doesn't like shooters nor MMOs. He's curious about the story