Anyone interested in playing a free MMO as a group?

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Go for it... Although I'll wanr you, if you don't like bots... They will most likely take away from your experience. The game is filled with them, especially now since the "Classic" server has been released... Bots going nuts trying to get the upper hand before everyone else and GM's almost do nothing about them.

That game was swarmed with bots when I stopped playing in 04. I'm not surprised at all. RO has always been the very definition of grindy. The GMs have always been crappy, I remember God-Poing aka Christy Kay, I wonder if she ever moved on to greener pastures.

Arg. I didn't do enough research into that. Now that I look around, this may not be the best game for us. It looks like you are basically limited to a demo version unless you fork up $6 a month.

Gonna go do some serious research. Anyone else have suggestions?

I'd kill for a version of dungeon fighter online that hadn't been nexon'd into development hell.

Gm's are even worse. There are less of them and they are more careless. Trying to get bots banned in any game under Gravity is nearly useless. It so rarely happens a bot is banned. Each of their games are dying, even Ragnarok, which is quite possible one of the reasons they made the Classic Server. You might like it though, it's how it was a lonnnng time ago, but the game is still P2W, and bot filled. I'm not finding anything about Christy Kay on the forum. It's weird how this company works. They have tons of bugs/glitches in each of their game, yet they are buying old and generic games from other people while ignoring the other game's problems... Surely they are making decent profits to be doing such a thing, but the games they have now simply are not improving neither is the population which for each game is dwindling.

^^ Greetings everyone. I believe that I have quickly checked and I believe that the system requirements for Lord of the Rings Online are very similar to those for Wakfu.

Wakfu system requirements:

CPU: Pentium ® 2Ghz or Dual Core
RAM: 512MB
VGA: NVidia: GeForce 3 and +,
Ati: 9200 and +

OS: Windows ®: 2000, XP, 2003 / Mac OS X ® / Linux
HDD: about 300MB

Lord of the Rings Online System Requirements:

OS: Windows XP (Service Pack 2)
Processor: Intel Pentium 4 - 1.8GHz or AMD equivalent
Memory: 512 MB
Hard Disk Space: 10 GB Free Space
Video Card: 64MB GPU with pixel shader 1.1 support (NVIDIA Geforce 3 or AMD Radeon 8500)
DirectX®: 9.0c

^^ However, I believe Lord of the Rings Online requires a very large amount of hard disk space indeed. ^^ However I would be very happy to play many online games that individuals may wish to play.

I have been playing LOTRO since it went F2P. As with most "free" games you are limited in certain aspects until you pay something towards it, but it's still fairly accessible for free players.

I would say Phantasy Star Online 2 would be a great place to start off at but that game's English version hasn't come out yet and even then, they only allow a party of 4 and maximum 12 players in a Multi-Party quest. So yeah. Aside from that, got no good choices.

Yeah, I figured Wakfu wasn't a good idea once I saw the trial thing. I'm already paying for a WoW subscription. I'd tag along for a Ragnarok Online guild but I'm probably the only person here interested in that game, its quite old and very grindy, I haven't played it in 5 years but have fond memories of it.

Here's an idea for all of you: Guild Wars 2 is coming out at the end of next month. You buy the game but there is no monthly fee and I believe you can join multiple guilds. I don't know how much I'm going to play GW2 but I put my money down so I might as well try to get my money's worth. I know you specified -free- games.

I would be down for a game. As for guilds, though, I tend to want to make my own and lead it. I think I've got enough experience from the last disaster... to be fair, none of them were mature and I didn't know I possibly had asperger's. >.>

I won't play Freemium's, though. Well, besides Wakfu and Dofus (Related games.). Both of which are cheaper and high production it seems. I've been trying out Elsword, but my old as hell Logitech Rumblepad 2 just doesn't respond the way it used to, so I'm not sure it's a good choice right now...

Still, down for a lot of things. Also, can't recommend Dungeon Fight Online, or really any Nexon game. Though, I can't play Vindictus, possibly the only good game they have. I haven't tried Dragon's Nest, though, but I know it has a stupid fatigue system.

It's a graphical quality thing. A pretty spell in LOTRO would be all 3 FPS on this laptop xd.

Anyone else experienced with/interested in Dragon Saga? <<Link

It's a fun action side scrolling, instanced/open world MMO. I was reluctant to suggest it because I've already got a few characters, but I could use what I've accumulated to get us a guild sooner and my knowledge to help new players. It has really good party gameplay. It has kind of a small community, but that just means we could be an awesome old guild someday that seriously means something within the community. It does get a little grindy after you hit second job, but I think having a good guild to regularly party with would alleviate that.

1) I'm good with anyone who can dedicate enough time leading. I've led a handful of guilds, but I can't really dedicate the time necessary to keep one going strong anymore.

2) Dragon Saga doesn't have too much of a cash shop advantage, at least not yet. That's a major part of why the THQ incarnation went down, though. =/ As for Elsword, isn't is fairly heavily instanced? Pondering mentioned in another topic that he doesn't really like instanced games.

3) I totally agree with you there. My first MMO was maplestory, which had a lot of great ideas executed poorly every time. Then I was a beta tester/opening tester of DFO. The basic game is the best MMO I have ever experienced. I would be playing that game to this day, even with an economy you can't be part of without paying, if my account hadn't been one of hundreds to stop working (without being banned) and never get addressed.

If you don't mind me asking, how much is it compared to the other 2D side-scrolling mmo's? You know, MapleStory, La Tale, etc?

It's way better than both of those in every way. It's actually 2.5d. It has multiple gameplay modes: various instanced dungeons with multiple modes, open world combat, pvp in various forms, simple and complex item crafting/upgrading. Quests actually have meaning (unlike maplestory). The combat is a bit simpler than LaTale, but more fluid and intuitive. Less repetitive than MS by forever, but what isn't? The grind is less than maplestory. There are so many quests that there is no real "grinding" in the maplestory sense of murdering sand rats by the million as fast as you can. The quests actually put together a better storyline than most MMOs. Though, the engrish does get worse and worse as you get deeper xd

Sounds interesting... Is the combat deep enough to be challenging and skill based, or more gear based, as it is in both Maple and La Tale?

Also... Sand rats? I'm guessing you played Maple post-Big Bang, then?

Definitely. It's far from dungeon fighter level skill based, but it definitely requires reflex action and a few combos to be learned. Much of the combat is about juggling or stun locking groups of enemies with a few combos working in conjunction.

Also, I played maplestory during several major phases. I had a hard time shaking it for a while xd. I even played a few of the bigger private servers.

Maple... I was the same way. I played when Ludi was the newest thing. That was in late '06.

DFO doesn't count as skill to me, honestly, because it's so incredibly unbalanced, laggy and just a general nexon game. XD

By stun locking and juggling... we aren't talking Street Fighter tiers of that, are we? Where you can start performing infinite combos that kind of ruin the fun?