Rawr!
So, I have looked into soooo many mmo's and mmorpg's at this point, and can I just say, what are developer's thinking? Most of them are crazy cash shop's that are more like a scam than an actual game model. Some of the games might be fun, but because of the money methods, the game is worthless, and some of the cash shops might be ok, but the game is really nothing to write home about.
I have found some that seem to have decent gameplay and decent cash shops, such as Path of Exile, or Tera, but oh my goodness! I have never been into never ending grinds, and both are just that. The combat is action based, so less boring that your typical WoW clone, but the grind is real. And the community in Tera is very League of Legends maturity level as far as I can tell. Mostly, there is a ton of sexist, racist, abusive, comments and bullying, and overall aggression shown in the chat, and so on. I don't get how people can stand toxic environments like that. I just ignore such people entirely, but I don't want to encounter them everyday I play a game. I play for fun, for inspiration and imagination.
There are some games that seem cute, or like a nifty idea, until you find out that no, no that is not happening. Looked into some things like, for instance, Dragomon Hunter, because my new wife thought it was adorable and we both like collecting in games, and found out that the company that runs it is pretty much totally known for terrible cash shops, so no Aura either, because, oh, wait, not only do they try to get you to spend money every single turn you make, but if you go long enough without spending, they will cancel your account due to "financial inactivity".
Then there was SWTOR, which I gave its own post. Won't even go into it here, but it was so very bad.
Wildstar, I didn't try, because it isn't my style of graphics, and I didn't want to look at it all the time, so to be fair, I didn't really look into it.
Lord of the Rings Online, I tried it, and EVERYTHING is gated behind money spending in that game too. Free to Play is terrible.
And then there are the pay to win offenders, much like Allods Online, games like Neverwinter and/or Aion, where you can buy your way to the top. I hate games like that too.
Rift, I used to play, and even enjoy, but it is all about the RNG boxes, which a lot of games have started having it seems. Too many games offending with this problem to count. You pay money, to GAMBLE with results. It isn't, "spend such and such and get such and such", so much as "spend such and such and get a tiny chance at the such and such you WANT, and get instead you'll get a bunch of worthless junk you don't need".
So, my choice is a game that is a constant grind, to get fair treatment and something that doesn't just have mediocre gameplay, or else something that is just 'ok' and not really a good game, but cheats you constantly.
So, after all this investigating, in April, GW2, which is a game I quit for very specific reasons a while ago, patched a lot of those reasons. So, I am currently trying it again, which it is a "Pay for the expansion once, and then don't have to spend again if you don't want to". It does have a cash shop, but it is a very well done one, where you literally don't ever have to spend a sent more than buying the expansions if you don't want to, and prefer to grind. Nothing in the shop will give you an advantage in combat over anyone, and they don't constantly tell you about all the things you should be buying whenever you come across an aspect of the game. The community seems less toxic as well.
Basically, the whole Free to Play thing is frustrating, because a lot of games look fun at first, and then really are just a huge let down. A ton of stuff seems interesting or even like a good idea, but it is buried under poorly designed issues and/or greed.
I didn't even bother with some things, even though they looked neat, for instance ArchAge, because the same company, Trion Worlds, makes Rift, and Rift I will not go back to. I basically have decided a grind is worth it, and will being hoping that everything works out.
Rawr!
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