Other then WoW, what's the best MMO-RPG out there?

[Frosty]

Any suggestions on another game?

EQ 2 now with RAF: http://everquest2.station.sony.com/

[Nisch]

The game is just getting annoying.
Single boxing is boring to the point of not being worth playing the game.
Multiboxing made it fun again, but the last two major patches require reinstalls.
Which is bullshit, bottom line.

I've never had to reinstall on any of my 5 computers, nor my wife's computer for the patches.

Something's wrong with your setup if you have to reisntall every time.

[Aradar]

Just came back to give you my feedback since I kind of derailed your post:

I personally run one normal WoW folder which is where I used to play my pre boxing toons. From there, I have another folder symlinked which is where I play my main out of. I then have a 3rd folder that I play my slaves out of.

For every patch, I run my original WoW folder and due all the updating in it. I don't bother with the linked folders until the main folder is fully updated and working properly. From there, I find the patch file (which is usually in my /public folders for some reason) and copy it to the other two folders. I also do the same with WoW.exe file from my original folder. This has worked perfectly for me everytime and yesterday was probably the smoothest yet since I've now done it enough times that I actually remembered what it was I did in the past. Sometimes I have hiccups because I can't remember which files to copy and where they are but this time I had zero issues.

Hope that helps.

[genocyde]

Wow, about 4 on topic responses and 15 responses about patching wow... some of them, like hairball's, are kinda rude and flamey. What a community!

Anyways, I found Warhammer online to be a little bit bug filled and glitchy, but I played it single box back when it released. Never got to the high end content it was just too much of a struggle with problems. Seemed like it went smoother than WoW's release by a good margin though. I would guess they are probably working the bugs out, and all in all it was a pretty good game.

Also somewhere on these forums I kept seeing someone talking about Runes of Magic. Completely free knock off of WoW that I hear is actually quite up to par and boxable. Thinking about trying it myself once Halo 3 lets go of me. (stupid MLG)

Also FFXI, EQ2, I'm sure there is others.

I would love to see somebody box another genre like RTS, or FPS. That would be hilarious. :thumbsup:

[heffner]

I have had a couple problems in the past, but nothing that I couldn't fix without having to do a full re-install. I have my folders backed up as well. I simply run launch from my "main" wow install and just copy the patched files over to my other folders (I don't copy any folders within the wow folder, just the files). Haven't had any issues with the last few patches.

So, you probably just don't have your set up the way you need to for multiboxing. I don't know. Anyway, Blizzard doesn't really make it that easy though. Why they changed the folders on Vista is beyond me. Put the patch files in the main folder damnit!!

As for other games. I like Vanguard Saga of Heroes. I played Everquest for a long time so it seemed like what EQ2 should have been. My brother got bored of WoW and has been playing Vanguard for about a year. I'd give that a shot, especially if you used to play EQ.

[Ulta]

is there space in anyone's life for more than one MMO ??

imo.. Not unless your grotesk and confined to a wheelchair 8|

[Trushot]

**double post**

[Trushot]

HEH not very on topic thread but here is some insight for OP on another game



I 6 box LOTRO and have a blast ... played the first two years with one char and just started 6 boxing ... either way the game is very enjoyable ....



NOTE: the graphics are intense yet beautiful ... meaning you may not be able to box on same machines you box WOW on becuase it is so much more hardware intensive game ... i hardware box it with 6 comps ... but others are pushing 2 to 3 instances i hear out of good rigs .... not many boxing the game so sure someone could figure out how to get more out of machines ... but i am a hardware boxer and do not know much about software boxing ...



regardless LOTRO is amazing great fun .... and i have been playing MMOS for over a decade starting with text based muds tto EQ to WOW to AOC WAR and everythign in between ...

LOTRO DEV Turbine has won the MArch Mayhem DEV showdown of 64 devs 2 years in a row ... 2008 2009 bascally form happy LOTRO players ... BLIZZARD / WOW went out in 3rd round

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/tournament/results



HERE IS A REVIEW I POSTED on another website....



I wrote this review on another thread ... but hope it helps you ...

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Fallout three was really nifty game ... but no where near as good as MASS EFFECT ... maybe since I finished Mass Effect right before starting Fallout 3 it had a bearing in my decision of what an aweomse RPG feels like ... but like I said Fallout 3 was fun just not GREAT...

On the MMO side .. I have played them All ... starting with Ultima online many years ago ... and text based muds before that

DDO ... I did not care for it much at all ...... with that said however LOTRO is another story .....

Lotro may be one of the most Unique MMO's I have ever played ... I signed up for a trail accoutn early on and was like meh its alright ... but I gave it another try about 6 months later and took a char up to level 20 ... I began to see how awesome the game really was ...

The Epic books story quest are an incredible adventure all by themselves !

everything else is gravy

it has a music system to play all sorts of instruments and add abc notations into your folder and play your fav songs in game on tons of different instruments! you can even sync up with other toons and play as a band ... pretty darn neat ... heh yestersay me and a guy played Dueling banjos and it was awesome ... even been rocking out on lutes and drums to def leapard tunes ... its unreal fun ...

the crafting is actually quite fun compared to a lot of games but still nto as detailed as I would prefer ...

If your into heavy raiding the game is nto for you though ... it des have hiugh end raids just not a lot becuase this game more about path to to the end not getting to the end which is a neat concept for a game for a change ... there is still plenty to do though after reaching max level ... the amount of quests and deeds and traits to acquire is mindboggling!

GRAPHICS on DX10 ultra high .. are insane good ... prolly best in industry HANDS DOWN no contest ...

hobiies could use a lot more work ... fishing is alright but not reeally satisying

I highly suggest anyone that has not tried it in awhile to give the free trial a go ... its really a lot of fun ... It also has one of the most helpful and friendly communities of any MMO ive played ....

PvP I cannot comment on ... i just dont do it very often at all ... a lot do though ... its based on players vs . monsters ... you can roll monsters to play in the game as well and switch to play those chars and fight the player chars in the game which is kinda cool and a lot of people do it ... just not my thing

just as any mmo ... it has its irritations sometimes but overall it really is a well designed game ... Ill prolly play it til 2010 when the new Star Wars MMO comes ... but even then Ill prolly split my time between the two ... I bought a Lifetime membership to LOTRO which means i can play until I die or the game dies and never pay another dime ... which is really cool for a MMO!

Anywoo I obviously am voting for turbine although I did enjoy Fallout 3 ... it is just not in the same league of fun factor as LOTRO ... IMHO of course

P.S. I noticed several people refernce DDO and LOTRO as WOW clones ... There could be nothign further from the truth ... they are totally and extremely different games than wow ... not even close .... and as someone that has been in the MMO community since Text based MUDS ( look up what they were heh ) WoW borrowed heavily from EQ that borrowed from Ultimate online that borrowed from Text based Muds ... Wow was nto really that original ... it just has bad graphics that lets it play on almost anymachine .. which lets them get the unreal subscription numbers out of asia ... and others with systems that could not handle modern MMOS

THE LOTRO community seems to be very populated with 25-60 year old gamers and the global chats and exchanges are for most part free of lewt spe4k ETC it will actually gte you on a lot of ignore list for talking like that

[thinus]

Any suggestions on another game?

for multiboxing no ... i can say WAR .. warhammer online seems very good i have been meaning to look into weather it can be boxed for a long time just not got round to it .... witch raises the question .. is there space in anyone's life for more than one MMO ??

WAR's biggest problem is that there is no depth. Once you max your level out and do the instances a few times you are left with the PvP side of things, ie locking down zones to try and get to the opposition's city. The locking down of zones became tedious quite quickly and there just isn't anything else to do.

[Khatovar]

What kind of a game do you want to play? MMORPG General has a list of current MMOs and the stance on multiboxing{with some big question marks because these people keep closing my friggin tickets without answering them} and sections for some of the more common MMOs. Check there.

I personally went to EQ2. Station Pass upgrade gives the option to play EQ, EQ2 and Vanguard whenever I want so I have variety if I ever get bored. Hated AoC. Didn't like WAR. I liked DDO, didn't get to do much in LotRO, they were still in beta when I played them and I wasn't multiboxing then. They should have listened to my suggestion to make a version of the station pass so 1 subscription gets you access to AC, LotRO and DDO...then my husband might have been more interested. ;P

Most games are either PvP or PVE. There's not much of a mix. You can find PvP servers for PvE games, and questing in PvP games, but 90% of the focus and development is going to be on one or the other.

Keyclone doesn't seem to work out of the box with much, since most games have problems if they aren't the focused window, but it can usually be used in conjunction with another program. I personally just went with IS.