Yeah those were the good ol days, now you gotta do it yourself

- Mike

I don't usually play MMORPG but I play this game because it's megaten So here's Shin Megami Tensei : IMAGINE or Megaten online.

http://megaten.aeriagames.com/

It's really good in my opinion though.

Now go and try Spellborn. I need more friends and ganging up is really fun in it >_<

I found Conquer to be incredibly generic and boring. Playing it to about level 15/20 and just could not be bothered with it anymore.

Also we tried playing Anarchy as a GW group and it was so fucking boring. Even with like 10+ of us it was just incredibly dull.

conquer online sucks until you're around level 70 and can level yourself decently. luckily it's really easy to get to level 70 being power leveled

SMT Imagine is in closed beta, going open soon. It's not perfect by any means but demon fusion is even more addictive and time-consuming than in the main franchise, and the battlesystem requires at least a small amount of skill.

Personally I've enjoyed it more than any free MMORPG I've ever tried but I'm highly biased towards the SMT franchise so take the recommendation with a grain of salt; I've heard of plenty of people who hate the game (most simply don't understand the mechanics, but eh).

It took me 4 years (and a new years resolution) to break from their grip... so I suggest you quit while your ahead. The grass is never greener when you  make a switch between games. It's all the same shit.

That of course is a lie, but I have to constantly tell myself this to keep from reactivating my game accounts. Playing them are not a positive experiance. They are a hobby in of themselves. A time sink. The only ones worth playing are f2p pvp private servers.... if only to show you how worthless they are as games once you are able to reach endgame content stuff by the first hour.

As I am typing this Ozzy Osbourne is on TV advertising WOTLK.

=(

Wow was pretty easy to quit, actually. My disease is much worse. Such was my disease that WoW seemed too softcore and talk of WoW's grind  enraged me to no ends.

Apart from WoW, the three best MMORPGs I've played at one time or another:

Lord of the Rings Online: A solid MMORPG. It's got all the usual cons - a grind, dumb enemies, an assortment of fetch quests, etc. But it has a great setting, some actual FUN quests and instances, lots of content, and regular updates, and a lot of all around polish. It's a MMORPG, and pretty unapologetic about it, but it is still a very polished one. It is, however, very much PVE oriented. There's PVP, and it's actually pretty unique, but it's definitely not the focus.

Playing as a hobbit was really actually quite fun. I played a "Minstrel", the healer of the game, and adventuring in the Shire was sort of GOOFY. You do quests like DELIVERING MAIL and PIES and defeating swarms of bees. It's still traditional MMORPG fetch/kill bullshit, but there was something lighthearted about it I guess?

I guess there was also an expansion recently too, which was pretty much the size of Blizzard's WoW expansions (re: big!). I believe it added the Mines of Moria and Lothlorien. Unfortunately, I don't think Mordor, Gondor, Rohan, or Isengard are in the game yet.

Warhammer Online: Warhammer Online is really new, just launched in September, and it sort of shows. It's still a bit buggy and rough around the edges, but it's really actually better off than most MMORPGs at launch. The devs seem to be really quick about adding content and hot fixes to the game, having already released a major patch and countless smaller patches/bug fixes. It has some decent, thogh sparse, PVE content, but it's really all about the PVP. You can even level up entirely from PVP, and there are multiple ways of engaging in it - scenarios (think WoW battlegrounds except many more of them and more diverse) and open world stuff like keep sieging and objective capturing. It's a pretty solid timesink.

Ultima Online (lol joke option): No seriously, UO is pretty old and crappy these days I guess, but it was my first MMORPG and I have pretty fond memories of it. I don't know if I can really say if it's any good anymore, I haven't played in years. But few MMORPGs, even today, offer UO's flexibility or dynamic gameplay.

that said, MMORPGs are pretty terrible in general. But consider these king dick of phallus country?

I'm addicted to WoW still but I'd probably play a private pre-AoS UO server over everything else mentioned.