Originally Posted by
AOD_Nakisanye
I liked SWTOR and played it a fair amount in between 2012 - 2019. The stories are def worth an initial playthrough. You really should take a sub for it tho eventho its F2P, the model doesn't allow you to really have any fun really. The PVP was also a lot of fun. End game didnt really get going until 2015 imo. Haven't played it in a while, dont know what the current situation is.
I also played Neverwinter which had fun gameplay (coming from systems like WoW/SWTOR), especially when it just came out. Had a massive problem in constantly rebalancing the game to keep players rolling new characters. There was no pay to win but there was def. some pay to skip grind. But TBH you'd have to spend THOUSANDS to really pay to win in that game. No idea what it's like now.
Other than that there are the games that have already been mentioned here. I, too, am waiting for that MMO to sweep me off my feet, but it never comes. I was hoping it would be BDO and ESO but they didn't keep me playing.
Strangely enough the game that feels most like an MMORPG to me atm is Valheim, but maybe thats because I'm playing on a huge server with people I both know and don't know. Everytime I log in the world is a little different. Not an MMORPG tho, there are like 45 people on the server (and never more than 20 at a time)