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It is heavy on the micro-transactions, though, so players who really want to stay competitive in PvP will eventually need to open their wallets. Without a monthly fee, though, it brings the art style to players who couldn’t otherwise afford to play. It’s not the first game to do this, but it’s likely one of the more successful.

It’s definitely a game that is very much worth the time of players.ĤStory is absolutely a clone of World of Warcraft, at least in terms of art. It’s a remarkably grown-up and gritty MMO, one that occupies a very different space in the fantasy world. It’s a great example of how adapting a game to free to play can breathe new life into a game.īeyond the micro-transactions, players will find all the things that made Age of Conan so much fun in its first iteration. Players who played Age of Conan will find that most of the base game remains, albeit with a slew of new improvements that help the game to keep up with more modern MMOs. This is another game that is built on the bones of a moderately successful paid MMO. It’s a great example of how to do free well. The combat is deep and the story is fantastic. The major goal of the game, it seems, is just to provide a great game play experience.īuilt on the lore of the first game, Guild Wars 2 is a fully featured game. Once that’s done though, spending money stops – the only microtransactions in this game revolve around purely cosmetic items. Players are still expected to buy the initial game, which is available on physical disk as well as in a digital form. Guild Wars 2 is perhaps the gold standard in the pay and play MMO market. It’s not necessarily the best MMO that’s ever been released, but it’s become a fantastic free game that players should check out. Now, it’s also known for being an incredibly deep free game. TERA is best known for being gorgeous and it hasn’t really lost a step since it was released. Without its monthly fee, though, it’s become something special in the free to play world. When paying every month, the game was a beautiful but largely empty experience.

One of the best moves TERA ever made was to drop its subscriptions.

No matter the case, though, players never have to pay a dime once they’ve installed the game. Some of these games are totally free to play, while others require an initial purpose. Some of the best fantasy MMOs of 2017 no longer require a player to pay every month. Today, subscriptions have largely been done away with in favor of microtransactions. Fortunately, that model isn’t all that common in the MMO space any longer. There’s something that just feels wrong about paying sixty dollars for a game and then having to pay a fee every month to keep playing. One of the major things that has stopped past players from embracing MMOs has been monthly fees.