Looking for a fun MMO

Quite underrated MMO is The Secret World, has no subscriptions but you have to pay the base game (wait for sale)...good setting in our actual world with lots of mysts, secret societies, conspiracy theories. :)

if you're willing to wait and really like beat'em ups, there's the upcoming Dungeon Fighter Online Global. F2P and under better management.

SWTOR

No need for subs, no need to buy anything to have fun. All you need is a Headset, a Micro and TS3. As for new friends? You will find plenty nice guys/guls over there.

I'd recommend Guild Wars 2. It's regularly $20 or less at this point, but there's no subscription fee or limitations on your account. There's a cash shop, but it only contains convenience upgrades (character slots, bank tabs, infinite gathering tools), cosmetic items, and minor temporary boosts (+50% drop rate bonus for an hour when you can get a permanent +100% or greater drop rate bonus for free without trying too hard, +5% to a single stat for an hour), all of which can be ignored entirely, and the cash shop currency is purchasable with in-game money. The community remains active, with minor/moderate content updates fairly regularly and a few hints of a full expansion in the works.

The best part of GW2 is that everything works to make playing with others as seamless as possible - everyone gets their own loot and gathering nodes are instanced, so other players will never impede your personal progress. There was also an update a few months back that basically got rid of servers for everything except one specific PvP game type - outside of that game mode, people from all servers in a region are placed in the same maps, so you will never be in an empty map and can always get help with a difficult event.

MEIPURU SUTORI <3 BROA GMS <3

TERA: Rising is my go-to free-to-play MMO. I find its story fun and engaging, even if its endgame currently suffers. However, next week it's getting a major expansion in North America called TERA: Fate of Arun which is supposed to contain a lot of late- and end-game content, so I'm looking forward to that. Those changes are already present in its Korean version and from the look of the website have also already been pushed out in Europe. Not sure about Japan.

The main selling feature of TERA over other MMOs is its active combat, reminiscent of combat from western RPGs such as The Witcher 2, which is much more involved than something like Warcraft's 'click to get bacon' style of play. You need to aim, you need to dodge, you need to be on your game constantly, otherwise you'll get crushed like a bug.

There are two main levels at which to play: free and elite. Elite is US$15 a month in North America, but I've played the entire game free without any problems. All the monetized stuff is either purely cosmetic or purely meta-convenience-based.

• North America
• Europe
• Korea
• Japan

Tekken online ;)

Cabal Online

I too am looking for a fun MMO, but I would like one without grinding outside of raid. I only enjoy the raiding / dungeoninng part of the game not the "do this quest 1000 times to get some faction to like you so you can buy their enchant/buffs". I was playing rift before but the grinding requirement just to get enough stats for a raid put me off. I would like to be able to play other games and have other hobbies outside of raiding and dungeoning. Can anyone recommend anything?

@OP, you obviously want an MMORPG. But since you like MMO generally, i would recommend you check the MMO Stretegy games from the link below

Chrome's MMO

RiFT.

maplestory for sure

If you're a casual then I recommend Guild Wars 2.

i tried warframe recently and that's not bad. you can play alone and it's okayish. i've played for almost 10 hours now and i think i just finished the first tutorial missions

I thought about guild wars 2 but I read they don't really update anything and there's no raiding. I might go back to wow, I think at least they cater for casual raiders now with the new LFR system, and I don't recall having to grind much in the way of rep.

Neverwinter is fun if you like action combat system and nothing too complicated. Or you can try SWTOR which is good fun and don't let people tell you you can't enjoy the game for free because you can get almost everything for standard credits, even species unlocks and other stuff.

What I play is SWTOR, LOTRO,DCUO, and PotBS... PotBS is really underrated and really fun!

If you wanna try something different check out Dungeons & Dragons Online.
The combat system is quite different from WoW and the likes.

• Wakfu - free to play anime style turn based mmorpg on steam :) i play it from 2 weeks or so and i like it
• Star Wars of the Old Republic - free to play star wars mmorpg, very good, with preffered acc you have 350k cash limit, but require any subscriber friend to do account unlocks (i unlocked all already such as races, bag slots etc with help of sub friend, he bought me expensive unlocks and i pay him back cash in few days)
• Guild Wars 2 - buy to play great mmorpg have few max lvls in here, doing dungeons with freinds and doing pretty much pvp :D i love world vs world in this game and arenas :D

The secret world by far, at least for the next year or so until the new korean mmo's come such as black desert (going to blow peoples minds) and revelation online which looks pretty awesome. :]

Dota2

I've been playing archeage myself.

Rift

Tera , just for the gameplay.

Planetside 2.

-J