good mmos under 15$ a month?

So I was looking at DAoC which looks pretty cool and Im downloading the trial right now but it looks like there arent many people playing it. I was wondering what other games there are with a monthly fee under 15$ a month that have a good community.

 

Seriously? Isn't the answer quite obvious?

 

Did I miss something :S

 

startrek online.

 

World of Warcraft, of course.

There's this 10-day free trial you can try, it streams everything as you play so you don't have to download tons of stuff before you can play. Though it is quite limited in terms of area/quests etc... but it should give you some basic impression of the game,

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/burningcrusade/trial/

 

It's 6GB download. There's no stream content in wow.

 

I'm pretty sure they had, maybe they changed it, cos I tried the trial last year, and I did not have to wait for a 6gb download to finish before playing.

 

<500mb download, free to play, free to download, plenty of people playing (me inc):
Talisman online.

 

I am 100% sure. I just canceled subscription last weekend. The trial download is somewhat smaller, but there's no in game download.

 

Hmmm.. that's weird, oh well, back on the topic.

Try:
WOW
Runescape - has both free and pay
Age of Conan
Guild Wars

 

wow is 15$ a month... unless I am missing something.

 

$14.99 in store I think.

 

If you get it for 3 months, it's $13.99, and for 6 months it's $12.99 per month.

 

Erm...the topic is for 'good mmos'.


EVE Online ~ $14.99/mo but make enough ISK (in-game currency) and you can buy game time with it. There are also monthly/yearly bulk discounts. My favorite mmo.

Dungeons & Dragons Online ~ Free & micro transactions. Free makes it worthwhile.

Lord of the Rings Online ~ $14.99/mo with bulk subscription discounts. There was a sale on a while ago for $9.99/mo whis was a great deal. Better than WoW, imo.

 

I think by $15 a month he means you can safely rule out games with the default $14.99 for one month at a time.

I'll second Guild Wars, it's fee is $0.00 per month!

I've tried a lot of free MMOs but most of them gimp freeplayers pretty badly if you don't buy things with microtransactions, which I never did. You could probably do pretty well on $5-$10 a month spent on microtransations on a game like DDO though. In DDO's case you can buy one or two new dungeons/adventures per month and you only need a few of the pay ones to get to the level cap if that's your priority and then you can focus on endgame stuff.

 

IMO do not get started on MMOs... you won't even know where your time went :S

 

Sometime when people say under certain amount really just mean below that amount.

 

global agenda

 

agreed, do your life a favour and forget about this genre
try single player games which can keep a balance between real-life and video games (MMOs)

 

I will have to sadly agree. WoW was my first sub based MMO and yeah... played hardcore for like 4 months before slowing down and I was pretty damn lazy during that time. Didn't get crap done - I was a loser lol.
Part of the reason, for me, was I felt like since I was paying that $15 a month I had to get "the most" out of my money and played as much as I could. Part of it was the MMO addiction, but more of it was the mental "Need to play, paid good money for this playtime". So I suggest either playing a Free2play or hope you're good at managing your time.

I'm doing much better balancing game time and free time with my single purchase games and playing when I really want to and quitting when I want, knowing I can get back to it a week later, a month later, a year later without having to spend any more money

to answer the OP:
Guild Wars (F2P) instance based missions and good PVP
Global Agenda (F2P pvp/pve) there is a sub for the conquest mode which is like big guild v guild type of thing for ~$12.99/mo I think

 

another reason to play global agenda, as currently the game favors skill over levels and gear - since, gear right now is very minimum unlike in typical mmo's.

also, there is no raiding for weapons as leveling up constitutes your weapon unlocks like the battlefield series.

levels, skill points, and upgrades supplement your ability to do well, they do not replace it.

the game is easy to pick up and put down. matches last between 5-15 minutes, so you can play 4-5 matches which would accomplish a lot and be sufficient enough for you not have to play anymore for that day without you feeling you're lacking.

the game is currently a 'hybrid' mmo if anything - it blends fps content and mmo content very well.

 

Yep, I also recommend Guild Wars. I played it for about a year, then stopped, then played some more 6 months, now I've stopped again because I moved and I got plenty of work to do.

GW doesn't force you to grind because you get to the level cap pretty fast. The only reason to grind is to buy items that look better (i.e. bows with lightning sparks on the string, etc), but have the exact same stats as a cheap-o item.

 

Guild Wars!!!

 

Friends don't let friends play WoW.
(babysitting other people's kids at their absolute worst isn't fun)

Lineage2 is the only MMO I play at this moment.
Its an older game, but cheap to play and features player politics, massive castle sieges and full PvP.
Ever meet someone who just needs to die (repeatedly) in an MMO?
Full PvP means you can kill them anywhere but in town (provided you are stronger than they are)
It also features a player community that doesn't suck.

One warning, you won't be max level in a week like WoW... L2 is for players with longer attention spans.

 

City of Villains. User generated content, huge character customization options (visually), very active forum community.

 

I once spent 4.5 years playing Runescape. That was pretty much a chunk of my life down the drain. And I must say it wasn't the $5/month. At each point it was more like the fact that I ALREADY used so and so much time so I can't let all that time REALLY go to waste so I need to keep building on what I've accomplished, right? And then... it goes on.
Go play something like DotA or something, pretty close to being an MMORPG but the cycle time is measured in minutes not months / years.

 

DotA - of the new ones, Heroes and League of Legends, which do you prefer?

 

i don't mind HoN. as long as you have a few freinds to play with. most pug games are pretty average with plenty of ranting and not much team play.

Eve is an mmo that you can play a bit more casually. Skills increase voer time whether playing or nto playing. So gettign your money worth is really defined by how much fun your having.

 

Fallen Earth

 

^Terrible recommendation.

 

Never played it, but it has a 10 day trial. I'm thinking of trying it. Concept is interesting.

 

I played the 10 day trial @ launch. The mission goals were confusing and inconsistent. And I was killed by a plant out in the desert. A PLANT!!!

lol.

But seriously, FE just didn't cut it for me and apparently many pro reviewers as well. Let us know what you think once you've tried it yourself.

 

I was in the closed beta for Fallen Earth, and even when it was almost finished and they had put the polish on and everything, it was just plain dull and the mechanics (aside from the ability to aim) seemed dated.

 

I'm more of a traditionalist, so I guess DotA. But HON is very very very similar to DotA.

 

It pretty much is DOTA with upgraded graphics, better netcoding, some re-namings here and there, and the same terribad egoist community.

 

Sure is. Morons can't read either. You read, join 5 v 5 for newbies. So expect, ok, never played DOTA or HoN, this should be good.

Yo guys, let's vote kick, he's one level behind me. Please kick him, please kick him. Umm, I'm new, and I joined since I thought this was for newbies.

Kicked.

?

 

The concept for FE looks like a total Fallout ripoff

 

could make a rant thread about this i guess.

i've played about 2 dozen games and am familiar with abotu 5 heroes and i go a newbie only game and you get guys with several hundred games and k:d of about 1.5 joining.

easiest way is to make a game that says new players only, first few games and boot players that you don't want.

 

EVE Online, (the only true sandbox).


'nuff said..




star trek online is stupid and repetative.... and years behind its time.

 

Guild Wars
Global Agenda

 

Seconded, can't believe no one else has suggested it so far.

 

Cause it's boring?

 

Plus, 60-day periods of EVE Online are 35 dollars, which is more than the 15$/month limit the OP set.

 

& \facepalm

Look on page 2, post #14.

 

I had a very good time playing Star Trek Online during beta. The gameplay is fun, the game menchanics are smooth, and the combat system is intuitive and deep. The leveling system is very much like Star Wars Galaxies in that you have trees you can spend points in, which allows for much more customizable and unique players with orginal skillsets. This is a refreshing spin from WoW's cookie cutter raid spec, PvE spec, or PvP spec which everyone uses.

 

to be fair, there are a number of 'talent trees' in WoW, too.

...it's just that, to maximize your effectiveness for a given role, there is usually only one effective way to do that (hence the cookie cutter builds...)

But, yeah, you're free to take different talents. (I did, but then I was a glutton for punishment... )

 

I highly doubt Star Trek will be any different. If you want the best improvements in a class for any game that uses a talent tree system, you have to focus on one. I don't think Star Trek will be any different once you start to see more competetive gameplay and players realize which builds are the best. I would be very surprised if Star Trek just allows you to randomnly choose any skill or improvements without requring certain other skills or number of points in a talent spec.

If you can choose whatever you want, this in fact leads to less variety as everyone will just choose the best. Forcing players to choose in fact creates variety meaning you won't just have one Warlock running around, you have three types which require a different style of play and strategy for the three.
- WoW has changed so much that a guild's no longer have to require you tube a shadowbolt spamming destruction lock, you can be affiliction or demonology if you want.
- Now you have guild's recruiting Disc Priests for raids, this never happened before. So it's changed a bit.

 

City of Heroes was really fun, and still is.

$15 a month, but is worth it IMO.

 

Allods Online is free and seems to have potential.

May want to wait for the release of Final Fantasy IV or Tera Online. I'm waiting to see what those two will be like.

 

Runes of Magic? o.o It's free =D