MMORPG choices

[Naegling23]

I'm getting the itch to get back into an MMO, but I dont want to pay a monthly fee. I was looking at guild wars, tried the demo and liked it, but the fact that its not linux native was bothering me slightly. Then I remembered Regnum. Does anyone have any thoughts on this game? How does it compare to Wow, Guild wars, and some of the other MMO's? How does the premium content work, is it a one time upgrade for everything, do you purchase it piece by piece? Im going to try it out, but sometimes you need to play for a while before making a decision, and I was looking for suggestions. Also, if anyone knows of a game that might fill the void, let me know. I've already tried planeshift, and that doesnt work. Im also into the mideaval type stuff, so eve doesnt work, and Im really looking for something that is in a 3D world, so the 2d ones are not what im looking for. Also, the persistant worlds in NWN just dont have enough going on to hold my attention.

[donkyhotay]

I tried regnum awhile back, it was ok, but I didn't get that far in it. The game focuses heavily on PVP action and the 'questing' to get there was very dull and repetitive and I didn't have the patience to slog through it to get to (what sounds like) the good stuff at the end. I've done guildwars using wine which works pretty good (some graphic oddities but nothing major). Sadly there just aren't any really good WoW-ish MMORPG's available for linux (even paid). Myst online recently went open source (less then a month ago) and I've been hoping that since they've released both the server and the client that eventually it could be converted/modded into something more similar to WoW for those of us wanting a free native legal alternative to WoW. For now at least, the best non-monthly MMORPG capable of running on linux that I know of is wined guildwars.

[Acradon]

I am playing Silkroad online occasionally and have found that it works fine on Ubuntu. However, I think there might be a problem with downloading the client using firefox. The website is optimised for IE. I downloaded it using my windows machine, then installed wine on my ubuntu machine and copied the client using a dvd onto the linux box. from there on it has been a treat.

Acradon

[Sense]

I'm an active player of Regnum Online (level 43 at the old Spanish/International server and 23 at the new English/Internationl server) and although I like it, I have to admit that gaining level is hard and requires a lot of time. Of course this is done to encourage the purchase of premium XP boosters to fasten up the process a little.
Furthermore there isn't that much to do next to warfare. There is a quest that asks you to collect an immense amount of rare rocks to get reasonbly good weapon in return: the start of the crafting system. The main purpose of fighting is capturing the castle of one of the two opposing realms -- there are three -- and one of their two forts. When a realm doesn't control its castle and just one fort, half an hour after the last of the two was taken their gate to the inner zone can be attacked and the enemies can run into it, killing low-level players and capture the two gems.
When a realm has all six gems it can open its portal to find a ... surprise!

Premium items include XP Boosters, War banners(banner with text, also appears on the map), mounts, armour painting, hair cuts and dyes and a name change scroll.

It's mostly fun because of its incredible community.

[Naegling23]

I tried regnum, but I just couldnt get into it.

I came accross dungeon runner, its a free mmo from ncsoft, with pay for premium content. Has anyone played this one, its listed as gold on winehq, so it should run fine, im just wondering if its a decent game or not.

Right now, im trying to decide if guild wars is worth it, or if I should just stick with nwn persistant worlds. The guild wars non native thing irks me a little bit.

[dodle]

Am I wrong or are 80% of free 3d MMORPGs based on the same game engine and the server is in Korea or is a Korean based game?

Examples: Silkroad (http://kr.joymax.com/silkroad/), Lat Chaos (http://lastchaos.aeriagames.com/), 9Dragons (http://www.9dragonsgame.com/), 2Moons (http://2moons.acclaim.com/).

[Greyed]

I came accross dungeon runner, its a free mmo from ncsoft, with pay for premium content. Has anyone played this one, its listed as gold on winehq, so it should run fine, im just wondering if its a decent game or not.

I played about 1/2 hour and then left it alone. The graphics were lacking in originality but not in garishness and the game itself was a snoozefest.

Right now, im trying to decide if guild wars is worth it, or if I should just stick with nwn persistant worlds. The guild wars non native thing irks me a little bit.

GW is pretty but I am loathe to call it an MMO. The only portion that is massive are the towns and they are spam-central. To me having everything instanced makes the towns a glorified server browser with the actual game not really better than the non-MMO bretheren.

Am I wrong or are 80% of free 3d MMORPGs based on the same game engine and the server is in Korea or is a Korean based game?

Examples: Silkroad (http://kr.joymax.com/silkroad/), Lat Chaos (http://lastchaos.aeriagames.com/), 9Dragons (http://www.9dragonsgame.com/), 2Moons (http://2moons.acclaim.com/).

Probably not. They (Koreans) have been cranking out dozens of micro-payment MMOs. Most are low quality games which require coptious amounts of caffiene in an IV drip so as not to fall asleep.

[Grant A.]

The Mana World (http://www.themanaworld.org/) is a great Free and Open Source 2D MMORPG that works on Linux.

[binbash]

silkroad onlie and pi story works with wine perfectly

[LeeMellor]

Is it possible to run Guild Wars in Ubuntu but from a directory of my windows partition?

[HunterThomson]

I love this one :guitar:

3D and all just like EQ but it is much less team based and magic is not all that useful. Everyone is a fighter for the most part.

http://www.eternal-lands.com/

[Greyed]

Is it possible to run Guild Wars in Ubuntu but from a directory of my windows partition?

Generally, no, you cannot run Windows games through wine when they are housed on an NTFS partition.

[wolfyking2]

What about Savage 2? It's free now, premium content looks kewl, and it's like an RTS/strategy/MMO and it's linux native :)

[Greyed]

There's Travian (http://www.travian.com/). Looks like a browser based MMO Strategy game in semi-real time.