Spurred by the "RIP CoH" thread. What's everyone playing nowadays?

I'm playing WoW. My history with WoW is funny, a played for a short time back in 2007 and never really made it to the level cap (70 at the time), or even got to see much of the world (I had a bad, bad case of "altitis" even back then, making 3-4 characters and playing all of them more or less at the same time). I had to quit in no small part due to my very time-consuming graduate education.

Fast-forward 5 years and WoW gets a horribly belated Brazilian release, complete with generously discounted prices, and I'm like "screw it, I'm resubbing". I bought it, bought the expansions, and even got the wife to play with me. We're leveling together an Undead Warlock and an Undead Hunter; right now we're both 79 and can't wait to hit ICC and try our hand at murdering the Lich King (she's a big WC3 fan). I have my altitis mostly under control, with a Troll Druid parked at level 63 (stopped playing it when the Warlock hit the same level, so as not to do the same quests on two alts at such a short interval) and a Goblin Hunter at 34.

No, I haven't hit the level cap yet. And I've been playing for a year (though my top character, the Warlock, has 5, maybe 6 days /played). If anything, I'm leveling too fast; I got to Outland at level 61 and I was 70 before even leaving the first map (I did do a bunch of dungeons, though. My wife is addicted to the Dungeon Finder). I believe in enjoying the ride and I dig the quest storylines, silly as they may be.

Turns out that, 5 years later, Warlock is still my favorite class by far. I had a lot of fun with the Druid too, who is pretty much a one-man party. The Hunter is OK, nothing stellar, but fun to goof around and collect pets with. I tried the Death Knight but was underwhelmed and somewhat confused by the disease management and rune management mini-games. I'm curious to try Shaman (because I'm a sucker for elemental magic, and want to try healing); Paladin and Warrior (because I had a great time tanking instances as a Druid in bear form, and Paladin also lets me try my hand at healing).

Now, I don't think I could find the time to play another MMO, and I'm not sure I'd want to even if I could -- since WoW is such a huge, expansive world full of nooks and crannies to explore. I enjoy questing, dungeons, battlegrounds, crafting, playing the Auction House, hell, I might even enjoy the Pokémon-like "pet battles" they introduced with this patch (as soon as I find the time to play them).

Still, I remember my short experience with CoH fondly. I played trial accounts on WAR (enjoyed Public Quests; other than that, not impressed, despite knowing and liking the lore), LotRO (fun achievement system, great continuity withy the Middle-Earth mythos, but landscapes felt a bit repetitive and I couldn't make heads or tails of the crafting system) and DDO (interesting, but by then I was hooked on WoW).

I'm kind of curious about Rift: Planes of Telara (I find the talent-building system of "souls" and "roles" very interesting, though the lore and the races look fairly boring), Star Trek Online (never heard anything about this since release) and DCUO (ditto, except that it went F2P).

So who's playing what? RPGnet has a healthy community of MMO players complete with RPGnet-specific guilds. I don't think we can get the numbers to create a RPGsite guild, but maybe we can hit each other up here and there. I also welcome your impressions of any games you might be playing.

Playing guildwars 2 with a friend infrequently; not a lot of free time.

Seems very good though.


If I had time I would play Age of Conan.

Currently playing Guild Wars 2 on Tarnished Coast server, mostly as a Charr Mesmer.  It's a beautiful game, and play is very, very deep: while you can pick setups that let you burn down non-dungeon enemies by mashing simple abilities, a more flexible and higher-speed design gives a lot of benefit.  There's a lot of rough spots (glitches, the game economy is bucked, dungeons are too heavily gated for a game without a looking-for-dungeon tool).

I've also been toying with Glitch before it closes, mostly just out of interest in their design.  Less than a week left, and a crap game, though.

The Secret World strikes me as interesting, but I'm hesitant to buy a box or maintain an account for a game that's looking as marginally profitable as it is.

In the past, I've played City of Heroes (Storm/Dark Defender, Elec/Elec Brute, Kin/Energy Defender) and World of Warcraft (Druid and Priest).  Dabbled in Perfect World International, Matrix Online, Tabula Rasa, Everquest II, Champions Online, and a handful of others.

Quote from: The Butcher;604992Star Trek Online (never heard anything about this since release)

Played for a bit.  The freemium model is a little irritating, most seriously in character slots, but it's a fun month or so of gameplay.  Mostly in the space game, while they've polished the ground side a lot since release, it's still nothing special.  It didn't hold me for terribly long, though: while space play is fascinating, it never came as terribly deep and the plotlines were more MMO-average than anything fascinating.

I am playing Lord of the Rings Online. Quit once (started right after launch), then came back. Ive played a number of games in the past: Asheron's Call (1 & illfated 2), Saga of Ryzom, Star Wars Galaxies, WoW, Champions Online (the only game I ever maxed levels!), SWTOR.

LOTRO keeps getting very meaningful expansions, and most importantly, I can log in, play for 30 minutes solo and still have fun.

AC1 had this wonderful, scalable system with its own physics that made it really fun - though its graphically ancient.

I am also on Lord of the Rings Online currently (and also Kingdom of Loathing but that does not count).

It is pretty solo friendly, which I like, and has just added mounted combat. That said some of the game is very grindy, and a lot of the micro-transaction stuff is getting very annoying (and not very micro, $50 for a ridable Hobby Horse!).

I miss Ultima Online's big days...

None at the moment. Waiting on the new Elder Scrolls MMO to come out, will automatically sign up for that. Also will probably try the new Goblinworks/Pathfinder MMO as well. Going to try to get in on the Kickstarter Beta, Hopefully, Santa will be good to me!

Quote from: Looter Guy;605131I miss Ultima Online's big days...

I loved Ultima Online.

I ended up working in a sweatshop making shirts (basically ) :)D

Quote from: Piestrio;605143I loved Ultima Online.

I ended up working in a sweatshop making shirts (basically ) :)D

awesome times! I was a professional looter and real estate agent!

I am playing Champions Online, and Star Trek Online. I can be talked into playing other free ones except for TOR (horrible free system.)

Is Star Trek Online any good?

I am playing The Secret World, mostly. It's like an awesome Adventure Game someone dropped into the middle of an "ok" MMO. I have alot of fun exploring the world, finding Lore, solving Investigation Missions, but am annoyed at having to stop to fight some stupid mob every 10 feet.

I also occasionally play Star Trek Online. I love the ship to ship combat. Mostly I play on my Naussican mercenary on the Klingon side, but I do have several Federation characters I lost interest in when the RP guild... err Fleet... I was in dried up.

I used to play Dungeons and Dragons Online, but eventually I ran out of Free content worth doing, and wasn't inspired enough to pay.

Otherwise, I am very non-plussed by the MMOs I've seen. I found LoTRO to be a huge disappointment, given the hype it gets, and would rather gouge my eyeballs out with a fork than play WoW.

Quote from: Spinachcat;605162Is Star Trek Online any good?

Ship combat is fun and excellent and feels very 'Trek, PVP ship combat doubly so (love stalking Federation players while cloaked). Ground combat is mediocre, and misses the mark more than it hits it, but there is a free targeting FPS mode you can play in that almost makes up for it. The story arcs are a mixed bag of super-cool to stupid. Kind of like 'Trek episodes. Overall, it's worth checking out, as it's free to try.

Im playing Guild Wars 2, its pretty good thus far but being fairly new it still has a few teething issue they're ironing out(the usual questlines gettign stuck and overpowered monsters that come with launching abit ahead of schedule).  Still worth a play though if your into fantasy mmo's(jeff grubb helped craft a fair few of the personal storyline quests and a big chunk of the setting aswell).

Currently I am playing a lot of Star Wars: The Old Republic. It's a great game, imo, though it definitely needs polishing (still!).

I also log into GW2 when they have an event, but honestly, the game kind of bores me. The fact they put absolutely no effort into costumes not clipping doesn't help at all.

I used to play: Lord of the Rings Online, Champions Online, City of Heroes, D&D Online, and WoW. I tried out a few others, but nothing that lasted more than the initial month.