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I've tried Guild Wars and never really got on with it.
Are they are others that you would recommend? I don't mind having to pay for the game, I just don't want any monthly fees and I won't get a chance to play all that much.
Are there any totally free or micro payment MMO's that I should be looking at? Or even a web based option?
Thanks in advance.
See this thread for a good one:
http://forums.hexus.net/hexus-mmog/1...-now-free.html
I quite enjoyed what I played of Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine Online (or Megaten as it's otherwise known)
A good resource for finding free MMO games is OnRPG.com
Runescape, or Runegape as everybody seemed to call it.
Cheers guys. I forgot about D&D being free now. I will look into that first :)
I played it and really enjoyed it +1 DnD online
I'll be checking out D&D online as I also found Guild Wars to be very meh.
You could always try Runes of Magic.
It is a clone almost of World of Warcraft, but is free to play. Although.......it does use micro-transactions for somethings. But I hear that top level players are getting by totally free - the equipment is holding out without having to buy anything.
Only been playing for 5 days roughly, but interesting enough so far.
5.2 gig download then the patches are around 2 gig.
D&D Online is proper proper good. It's much more involving that Lineage2 or WoW for actual character movement in combat. It's almost first person shooter in some instances, because if people are firing arrows at you, it's possible to side step and in combat you HAVE to be facing the enemy to hit it.. none of it is automatic.
But it does get virtually impossible to get beyond Lvl 4 on your own. It's ALL about team play, but even solo, with no one else to join you, the sheer abundance of dungeons to explore with give you literally 40 hours of free gameplay.
Myself, saofg, Serious Sam and Sair all played online for a few evenings and so long as we were similar levels it was proper good.
It's very Dungeons and Dragons too... my mage can only learna few of the spells from his spell book, and when finding a scroll with anew one on, can only add it to his book for permanency with the right inks and writing stuff from a shop. Once done, you have a plethora of spells but can only recall a few per dungeon.. you have to leave the dungeon of find a rest shrine to swap them,and same for Mana and healing.. a rest shrine in mid dungeon is a blessing.
Thieves have it even better and more exciting.. and creeping round in shadows to do some of the quests is tense and very exciting.
It's possible to blend some of that.. I chose a halfling mage and added the experioence I gained to tumbling, hiding, sneaking etc as well as to mage skills. Made the character really good fun for 4 levls but I'm snookered now.. cant go anywhere on my own without getting mullered now.
Anyway..... D&DOnline is very sophisticated, has tense dungeoon action and looks really good too.
The only issue I have with these free MMO is they sometimes use pando media booster to distribute their software. I downloaded D&D last night and afterwards my connection kept failing and falling over.
After a quick check on the open processes etc, I found Pando media booster to be still open even after installing D&D and this was saturating my connection so much this was causing the issue.
A quick uninstall of this and a reboot cured the issue, but I thought I would inform others of this in case they have the same issue.
oo.... I'll look for that now.. but I've had no instability or broadband death.
It could have been because I resumed the download I had of openoffice waiting, but there was about 30-40 connections from pando open at the same time and as soon as I removed it, the problem went away.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zak33
Co-incidence? Well it could have been but my connection fell over about 10 times and I had to login to the router to do a reboot each time, yet as soon as pando was removed, it was stable again.
A quick look at Pando Media Booster shows that is uses P2P technology, probably bittorrent as it states the following ;
:O_o1: Secure and transparent....so it hides itself and uses all your spare bandwidth :O_o1:Quote:
The Pando Media Booster is a tiny (2MB) UI-less client that enables you to cost effectively stream full-screen HD video by leveraging your viewer's collective spare bandwidth. Running as a secure transparent background service on your viewer's computer
I'm updating game now.. will see if it adds it
I've found this on the D&D website regarding this downloading program as well :)
http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?t=199250
So it doesn't show in the start menus at all, but you can remove it via the control panel add/remove programs which is what I did last night once the game was downloaded.
nope.. uipdated.. and played for 10 mins.. no sign on Pando
I asked Serious Sam to download it again... cos he's got a new install of XP.
He also had to install Pando ... so it's a new thing I think :(