Just back to gaming. Whats hot in MMO's right now and whats coming?

Alpenn

So I used be a big WoW player, havent played mmos in awhile and I am wondering what to play. Whats out lately and coming out that is worth playing or going to be worth playing?

Tell me some info please guys so I can find the right game

Thanks

Alpenn

Yanocchi

Black Desert Online seems to be quite popular at the moment. There's also Elder Scrolls Online, The Division and some MOBA games like League of Legends and Dota 2.

Nothing big and interesting coming out. Maybe Star Citizen if it ever gets made. There's mainly a bunch of indie low-budget games on horizon.

SEANMCAD

Alpenn said:

So I used be a big WoW player, havent played mmos in awhile and I am wondering what to play. Whats out lately and coming out that is worth playing or going to be worth playing?

Tell me some info please guys so I can find the right game

Thanks

Alpenn

This is my top level view of the gaming market now (EVERYONE: please understand this is my opinion, some of it is facts, some of it might be incorrect facts and some of it is purely my opinion however all of it will be stated as if its is factual because of this statement)

MMOs are out, customized Personal Server games are in (aka The Forest, Life is Feudal, Ark etc)
AAA games havent change much
indie games are getting more varied, wide in scope, and better in graphics.
Building and crafting games (aka survival) are very popular.


what to get? well that depends more on your personality and gaming type I will leave that for others for now

Avanah

Play Single Player Games until 2017. Then look into Chronicles of Elyria.

Ceironx

Avanah said:

Play Single Player Games until 2017. Then look into Chronicles of Elyria.

Everyone knows CoE won't launch in december 2017. I'm afraid it'll launch end of 2018 or early 2019.

NorseGod

Not a good sign that only 4 people replied.

Kopogero

At least it's a good sign that many grasshoppers are ready to support the next great game over whatever is out there.

Distopia

Alpenn said:

So I used be a big WoW player, havent played mmos in awhile and I am wondering what to play. Whats out lately and coming out that is worth playing or going to be worth playing?

Tell me some info please guys so I can find the right game

Thanks

Alpenn

ESO has some good questing, as well as exploration. It certainly has enough content to keep one occupied for quite some time, if you sub there's even more to partake in. Out of any MMORPGs out that's the one I'd most recommend.

Precusor

You should check out Legion.

Ammon777_new

Camelot Unchained is a spiritual DAOC sequal without the PvE. Its like a persistent world-wide WoW battlegrounds. It has 3 realms with up to 30 customizable classes and a lot of races. Each side can build customizable block-by-block towns and buildings, ect. It has seige warfare and continual warfare with 3 sides, like DAOC was.

Ammon777_new

But its not out for quite a while...

While I wait for CU I play WoW...

Kyleran

Unfortunately while you turmed your back traditional MMORPGs went south and all hopes lie largely in the hands of under funded indie developers.

Best bet, something released that you enjoy and plan on sticking with it or them for the next few years.

ESO, FFXIV, BDO all come to mind, along with the upcoming Legion expansion in WOW this August.

Nanfoodle

Depends what you like, action combat it's BDO. If trinity games are your thing, newest MMO is SWToR lol. It's the game I'm currently playing. Lvl 1-50is free to play and IMO one of the best MMOs out there. 

Thornrage

Elder Scrolls Online

cameltosis

Alpenn said:

So I used be a big WoW player, havent played mmos in awhile and I am wondering what to play. Whats out lately and coming out that is worth playing or going to be worth playing?

Tell me some info please guys so I can find the right game

Thanks

Alpenn

Depends on what your preferences are. 

The western market is somewhat in stasis at the moment. The last big western MMOs to come out were Wildstar and ESO. Wildstar tanked hard and, from the earnings reports released by NCSoft, is likely to shut down soon. ESO actually seems to be doing really well, the PC launch wasn't overly successful but the console launches have gone down very well and community seems thriving and DLCs are selling really well. 


The eastern market is still churning out MMOs. Black Desert Online and Blade and Soul recently got released in the west, some people are finding them fun. FFXIV is also still doing OK. 


The indie scene is what is currently getting most of the press around here. In development is Camelot Unchained, Crowfall, Pantheon and Chronicles of Elyria (to name just a few). The indie scene is really starting to experiment with mmo mechanics, both in refining the old school paradigms as well as taking us in new directions. However, none of them are close to releasing.


The big trend in "mainstream" MMOs at the moment is action combat. Developers have decided that dumbing down combat but making it more twitch based is a good thing, its certainly more interesting to watch but I find it a bad thing.

The other big thing happening at the moment is console developers starting to move into the MMO space. Both Destiny and The Division (developed by Bungie and Ubisoft respectively) have sold extremely well and whilst neither are MMOs, they do have semi-persistent online worlds and are purely online games with RPG elements. They are proving that their is a healthy appetite from the console community to play this style of game so we might see a genuine MMO from a big console developer in the not too distant future. 



As for recommendations of what to play? Really depends on what you like. I'd probably go ESO if you can tolerate the combat, it has tons of content and new releases on regular basis, solid community and some decent pvp. 

Personally, I'm waiting on the indie scene, in particular Camelot Unchained, but I'm gonna have to wait until next year.

scorpex-x

Alpenn said:

So I used be a big WoW player, havent played mmos in awhile and I am wondering what to play. Whats out lately and coming out that is worth playing or going to be worth playing?

Tell me some info please guys so I can find the right game

Thanks

Alpenn

Wow is still king of the genre, by a huge margin.  Check out legion.

If not, check the list to the side for games like ESO, Black Desert, Tera, FFXIV, Wildstar (however be warned that all these games prop up their profits heavily off cash shops, even the p2p ones).  There is nothing big in production and the few that were have been canned, the publishers lost interest in trying to make the mmorpg market mainstream and failing so moved on.   Nothing has managed to get even a 1/4 of the success wow managed, they gave up.

All the titles are still running and being updated though so it's not like the market is dead.

Sid_Vicious

I am enjoying Darkfall the most right now.. but I am a bit burned out from playing it for almost 8 years now.

I try to play other games but I usually get sucked back in . .. probably because its the most group oriented and cool people are always in teamspeak to chat with.

Antiquated

Dr. McCoy comments on the state of MMORPGs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH7KYmGnj40

doragames

 I am also wondering of using it..

xpowderx

LOTRO is pretty big right now.  Much more active mmo.  Has made a very big comeback from the days of yesteryear.

Kopogero

Kill time until end of Augist for Legion, which will help you kill time hopefully until Star Citizen. So, these next 3 months will be challenging, but after that easier for the MMO gamer.

If WOW can keep me interested for 6 months it will be great. Getting through 2016 will be the biggest challenge, cuz in 2017 you won't know what to play first...

Loke666

Alpenn said:

So I used be a big WoW player, havent played mmos in awhile and I am wondering what to play. Whats out lately and coming out that is worth playing or going to be worth playing?

Tell me some info please guys so I can find the right game

Thanks

Alpenn

Well, GW2s base game is free now, without any "optional sub" or other bullcrap, try it if you havn't already.

Otherwise is ESO and FF XIV  pretty good as well. Black desert and Blade & sould is fine if you enjoy K-MMOs.

vveaver_online

The Secret World has great story and community.

nariusseldon

MOBAs, The Division type hybrid MMOs, Hearthstone, Overwatch ....

Oh .. you mean classical MMOs? Nothing much. 

wiennas

Video games in general, do not make a lot of progress (outside graphics), basically you can find only a handful of games that are trying to go beyond standard paths. Ironically mmos, role-playing games & strategies are by far the most advanced games, here is the biggest progress,  those are the only games which are trying to bring ''freedom of choice,''..into games, all the rest is fully scripted, pre-written steps, which differ from an 10 years old game exclusively only in modern graphics - hardware conditioned. For example if we take Rise of the Tomb Raider, it is based on 10 years + old standards, only graphics is the one, which creates more real world, but that's it.

DKLond

There's exactly one game coming out in a few years that could, potentially, be truly exciting.

Star Citizen.

It could also be a monumental failure.

But it's the only game I'm aware of that's potentially a game-changer. Everything else is more or less the same old take on the same old.