OKY, Im not 100% sure I will play one very soon, but Im curious about MMOs in 2025. I used to play WoW around its release and up through Burning Crusade. Hows the MMO landscape in 2025? What are some good MMOs to try if I wanted to give one or two a shot?

I did play other MMOs than WOW here and there. Namely Aion, Guildwars 1 and other smaller ones.

I’m open to trying most types of MMOs and don’t mind subscribing monthly if it’s worth it. I’m especially curious about MMOs besides WoW (which would probably be the obvious choice), but I kind of want to try something different—even if WoW in 2025 is a completely different game compared to 2006

Oh btw. Doesnt need to be a MMORPG could be something like Foxhole or Ark as well. As long as its a game with servers and many players.

Thanks for any input doggirl-grin

  • Kras Mazov@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Hows the MMO landscape in 2025?

    I don’t really like MMOs; the only one I liked and played was Tera, but that was a long time ago. That being said I just started Black Desert with my brother and a friend. So let me share my experience with 3 and a half hours of playtime.

    The combat seems super fun and super cool and it’s the thing that is keeping us interested in it, the way it is freeform and combo focused makes so it doesn’t feel like an MMO, or at least like MMOs I have tried before. But so far that is the only good thing I can say about it, it’s just that it is a really good pro.

    Now comes the bad. The UI is complete sensory overload, there 500 gorillion things on the screen at all times, including all your combo buttons reminder. It is beyond overwhelming. And it is not intuitive either, you have to take your time looking at every single small button to know what it does and to what menu it takes you.

    I also cannot understand why the first player experience is so bad. In these 3 and a half hours, I swear that 95% of our time have been going from point A to point B and spamming the dialogue skip option, and I really mean spamming. There’s so much dialogue and so many cutscenes in this game, it’s absolutely exhausting. If it would let us at least play a bit and kill a ton of monsters, even low level ones, then take it’s time to slowly present the world it would be much better and much more engaging, cause so far it has been a slog. I hope it gets better.

    Also, it is extremely sexist. The character select screen have 90% of it’s women characters in skimpy outfit and 95% of it’s men characters in full clothes or armor.