I’m sure a lot of you are very sick of this question. Like me, you’ve probably remained on the hunt for that perfect mmo experience for 10+ years. I’m not sure if there’s anything else for me to find I haven’t looked into, but I still really want to hear from the lemmy community on this. I’m not just looking for reccomendations for me, but also just wanting to know what you like. I’m expecting this to go about the same as the reddit threads asking the same thing, but I think the conversation is still worth having!

As for what I like, I was a classic runescape player before moving onto guid wars 2, but my all time favorite is dungeons and dragons online. I value character expression above almost everything else, and ddo is pretty good about giving you the same freedoms you would have in pen and paper did. Despite its shortcomings, this alone is why I keep going back to ddo over things like gw2 or elder scrolls online. With eso, and most others, I feel like my character is the same as everyone else’s. Ddo makes my roll as a Rouge or cleric feel much more rewarding, and I still feel like I’m playing an individual custom character.

Honorable mentions would go to Black desert online for its amazing graphics and game play, and Albion online for being one of the most unique and interesting mmo experiences I’ve had in a while.

I don’t think there is currently anything out that will be 100% what I like, but anything new to explore is welcome. Of course the goal here isn’t really to find anything new, I just want to hear your thoughts on some of your favorites.

I’m bad with acronyms so I would appreciate it if you said the games real name at least once. Throw whatever you want at me even if it’s way off topic. Upcoming or in development games are fine too!

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    This is one I’m not familiar with! Or remembering anyway. Looks like there are still private servers going of you want to scratch that itch. There was also a sequel, and maybe a couple others? I didn’t do much research because I’m pretending to work. Going to check it out!

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      AC was released in late 1999, I started playing in August of 2000 and played till around 04, took a break on and off for several years and in 2014 I came back and and played till they shut the servers down in 2017…

      Even played for about a year on one of the emulators around 2019-2020…

      It’s the only MMO I’ve played—and I have thousands of hours in GW2, hundreds in WoW, and hundreds more over Warhammer Online, Aion, Lineage 2, DAOC, RS Classic, New World, and I’m sure several others I forget now—that truly scratched that itch for me.

      You can make whatever type of character you want and the best armor in the game is loot gen.

      There were like, 14 years of monthly updates…

      I will say, getting used to Decal and all of the plugins will make your head spin that those programs were allowed during retail…

      It has been the one MMO that I want to suggest to everyone, but it’s kinda hard to get into and even during the height of its popularity the servers never had more than like 10k people online at a time…

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          I was on Darktide, but, I was an Anti back in the early days and was never part of any RPK monarchies like Blood…

          I was in Schattenkind -> Fists of Vengeance -> Samite -> Killer Whale -> Art of War… then went on hiatus and when I came back in like 2014 I joined Charlie Chans and I’m still hanging out with those guys