For a while there it seemed like everyone was making an MMORPG and there was a new MMORPG coming out every week, particularly once the free-to-play model caught on.
I haven’t heard anything from that space in a long time though and other than the two or, well, two, big name MMORPGs, I haven’t heard of any being developed or gaining much community attention.
Are there any MMORPGs coming out soon that you know of that sound interesting and that you’re looking forward to?
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I’m personally interested in Ashes of Creation and Pantheon Rise of the Fallen. I wouldn’t say “soon” though. These are also quite old school style MMOs, which I’m old and remember EQ so I’m looking forward to them.
Supposedly Blue Protocol is coming out “Soon”. It’s more of an anime action based MMO.
If you like skill based, janky, developed by 2 people, Project Gorgon is quite impressive imo. $45 1 time fee, and go to it. It gave me a sense of adventure, exploration, etc. It’s very old-school feeling, very slow, all skill based, so you’ll be doing a lot of grinding. Some folks power leveled me, but I’d recommend not doing that as you miss a lot I feel.
Someone below mention Veloren. It’s totally free to play, because it’s all FOSS, built on Rust. It’s a lot of fun, but nowhere near complete. You can play it singleplayer or multi. You can even run your own server if you want.
Project Gorgon is quite impressive
Does it have much of a user base?
That also makes me wonder if there are any MUDs out there that sill have a decent-sized active user base.
There seems to constantly be people in the main city. They hold an event on Saturday for people to get buffs and have fun. It’s quite impressive to see how many folks attend. So I think there’s a very dedicated user base for the game.
Ashes of Creation seems like it has potential - it’s certainly gotten my friend group very excited to play an MMO other than WoW for 1 month every 2 years!
I’d recommend checking it out, there are regular Dev logs and fairly in depth wiki entries about what the game will have (though these are just taken from talks the lead Dev has given and aren’t necessarily how the game will turn out)
It’s also worth noting that development seems to be going slowly. I’m cautious to call it out as another Star Citizen, but I might be blinded because I want this game so badly, like Star Citizen backers are desperate for Star Citizen to be real
Best approach to those sort of game is to basically ignore it until they actually release it. I got burnt by Star Citizen before and from there, I just assume all games are vaporware until released.
The economic model just doesn’t work in a winner takes all market. Maybe try https://veloren.net as a open-source multiplayer RPG (not really massive, but there are typically 100+ players on the main server at any given time).
