MMORPG reccomendation.

It depends what type of MMORPG you want to get into. I played Dungeons and Dragons online for awhile, which is free apart from some premium benefits. You should check out the Free To Play tab on steam and go through the different ones, I suggest Forsaken World because it's a lot like WoW and has a good community.

Maple story

most of the mmos out there are now free :true story:

I play LOTRO and STO, but I know a lot of people aren't into those. I hear RIFT is pretty good and supposed to be F2P for the first 20 levels or so? I haven't played it myself, but one of my friends liked it.

You can try Aion, if you aren't afraid of a little grinding.

I used to play Cabal. I thought that it was pretty fun.

Lord of the rings online

I dont like the hardcore MMORPG playing system with the 1-6 for attack and selecting enemies, thats why I like DC Universe Online a lot. It combined MMORPG with an action game (LMB and RMB are attacks and 1-6 are special powers like burst flames).

But if you are into the typical MMORPG style you should try out Star Wars The Old Republic ONCE IT GOES F2P. Yes, they probably go F2P soon because they lost more than 400.000 subs.

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Anarchy Online

Spiral Knights?

Buy Guild wars it's free after you buy it which isn't bad. Or Runescape. There's plenty of options for you.

Guild wars 2!

Right now, the best free-to-play MMOs out there are probably Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons & Dragons Online.

Even if some of their content is indeed locked and you have to pay for it, there's still plenty to do.

I'd say try to get a beta key for Planetside 2 or Firefall and play those, but they're not MMORPG. They're actually MMOFPS.
Until Guild Wars 2 comes out (and it's actually going to cost, even if it doesn't have a subscription fee) I'm afraid your choice is a bit limited, unless you want to play on a private server.
There's also Star Wars: The Old Republic and RIFT, but you can only play for free until level 15-20, and you get there pretty fast.

If you like the anime/chibi style, there's also Ragnarok Online. Not really my type of game, but I've heard good things about it.
DC Universe is also pretty good, but I've heard it has some restrictions for the F2P players.

If you want, I also have a spare buddy key for the beta of The Secret World, but honestly the beta is most probably going to end before summer, and you wouldn't be able to play with your friends anyway, since I only have one.

Realm of the Mad God

I recommend not to play MMORPG.

Playing Champions Online, Vindictus, and Continent of the Ninth Seal (Coming soon).

Out of those, Vindictus and C9 might not count as full scale MMORPGs, but they are really good for free games.

• Vindictus is true action, and when I say this I don't mean TERA's definition. This game has true, real time action. Any mistakes are your own, and you have to know when to heal yourself, dodge, and attack. The game has a cash shop (ran by Nexon), but it is not required to get to the end-game. I just recently leveled a character from 1-64 without needing a cash item.

• C9 is also good and will have an Open Beta test really soon. It is an instanced based game like Vindictus, but it differs in terms of combat. This game relies heavily on racking up combos, but it is a ton of fun seeing what you can create. The character creation system is also much better than Vindictus.

• Champions Online is also great. It has one of the best (if not the best), character creation system on the MMORPG system. The amount of freedom you have with appearance and ability customization (gold freeform characters), is pretty great. You could probably end up making 20+ characters before you know it.

If you arent affraid of some learning curve you might want to try Pirates of the Burning Sea

Runescape. Intense action guaranteed. Click on your enemy and watch your character auto-attack it for a minute and eat a LOBSTER!

Face of Mankind

Ultima Online still has servers up. Remains the best MMORPG I've played to this date. Plenty of free shards still up and kicking.

Star Wars The Old Republic will be free to play/pay to win in a few weeks; rumor has it.

Also, you can't go wrong with Everquest 2. Not as good as the original one, but still pretty fun.

The MMORPG I played most (before it went F2P) was City of Heroes. What I like about it is that it has stories which make you feel you're actually doing something heroic, fast combat with not too many powers to click, and tons of costumes.

The F2P version is a little too restricted (although the latest update improved this a bit), but can still be fun.

As for players, I've dropped into the game on the last few days and there were always people around me with action on the LFG channel (one of the aforementioned new things in the latest update). Most of it was on Virtue, which is one of the more populated servers, but whenever I'm on Protector I also see people.

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Path of Exile (A copy of D2), but u need a betakey to play it, because its still beta.