The 10 Most Played MMORPGs in 2019 - What MMOs Should You be Playing?

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[@zerooskil7161]

but i never win, very well i shall try haha

[@MMOByte]

It's worth trying!

[@Kucimir]

@@zerooskil7161 same bro, i know the feel

[@WaidoGodX]

What's the game at the start and end of the video?

[@MMOByte]

Waidowai, kzbin.info/www/bejne/gmqye3xuntdrntU

[@guilhermewaldelm9560]

MMORPG developers be like: I made this beautiful game with a beautiful world for you to explore.. but how about kill 10000 wolfs instead?"

[@akapin9971]

More like how about you endlessly pay to even play the game

[@ForemostCrab7]

i am guessing you are refering to Black Desert Online, no? Idk if you still play the game, but when i last played it, they had Drastically reduced the amount of exp farming you had to do, which was.... roughly half a year ago or so. Still doesn't make me want to activly play it tho, that fkn Open Season PvP after level 55(?) is always gnawing in the back of my head that is stopping me from wanting to return, just end up staying in my home doing fuck all while i feed my workers their precious Beer, then make several thousand beers from all the stuff they gather, sell ores and wood, then eventually log back out for months on end.

[@guilhermewaldelm9560]

@@ForemostCrab7 yeah.. even on private server bdo is a stupid grind.. not worth it... im into ark now and having alot of fun

[@hjelpen5387]

the worst is seeing all the hype trailers every year for MMOs that you know wont release in another 5 years and some of them never

[@MMOByte]

Right? And by the time they do, there are already new trailers hyping even better looking games.

[@gilney.mathias]

I'm still waiting for Lost Ark ;___;

[@junoxii6181]

Laugh in Phantasy Star Online 2*

[@aaronlefebre5060]

@@junoxii6181 I've been laughing in PSO2 for almost a decade... T.T

[@grim948]

@@junoxii6181 you could play in JP servers Ive been palying since 2015 never had a problem and also im in NA

[@tshooe]

I just realized, I've been searching for "best mmorpg" on google for like, 4 years already? and haven't found anything good. it's always bullshit list of BDO, some Chinese/Korean dev mmo, and WoW. EVERY, DAMN, TIME. like, are you guys who made the list even play those?

[@TheRealGigaCat]

Coz they are good one's. You know any better?

[@Hoch134]

Same here. Haven't played an MMORPG since years. Witcher as an RPG caught my interest but of course it wasn't online. Nowadays the only thing that counts is to earn money. And while that would be a fair point (monthly subscriptions would be okay for me), many games have been destroyed by this type of greed.

[@tshooe]

@@TheRealGigaCat any of those in the list are actually have an increasing player base? or big real life event? currently nothing can have the title "the best", they are..okay, but not that good. but ofcourse, every fanbois can say their game is the best

[@tshooe]

@@Hoch134 true, and every newcomer mmo are just "another copy" of current mmo, its like just another attempt of a greedy company to gain money, by copying other mmo. notice this cycle also happen in battle-royale game. like almost EVERY company make one.

[@Hoch134]

@@tshooe You name it. I got a notification today that Raft also has Battle Royale now. That's a game where you sit on a raft and improve it by collecting garbage from the sea. Well, it was. Now it's some kind of airplane bomber shark island garbage.

[@AbsoluteSkycaptain]

I know a lot of people complain that these lists are always the same. But I would have killed for way to get updates on MMO activity back in the day, and it's even more helpful now with how quickly people move on from games and how quickly publishers ruin them. Keep it up!

[@MMOByte]

I think the same way! It's always refreshing to know what MMOs are doing well and if the market has shifted towards a different MMO.

[@AshersAesera]

Yea, I appreciate videos like this. However, maybe if it front loaded the MMOs that are rising stars, or just new in general, and quickly glossed over the redundant one's it'd be received better by those people.

[@MMOByte]

Honestly, this time it seems to be pretty well received. I'm surprised!

[@akaiyoru2681]

@@MMOByte Funny thing is, I'd like to try some MMORPG again, though none of them make me interested enough anymore. Funnier is, that I never thought I'd be playing a mobile game for more than a half a year

[@Shack2223]

@@akaiyoru2681 I feel this so much. I'd like to try a MMORPG again, but none of them actually catch me, sadly. And i'm here, playing a mobile game called Epic Seven for probably what's a year already.

[@ThunderKat]

I went checking for Black Desert and this is what I get on the buy page: "Your country is restricted from accessing our service"

[@tahmeedrahman3101]

You need a VPN to play.

[@kizubwana]

There is another BDO for middle east and Turkey if you are from these areas just search fr Black Desert on steam and you will find it

[@yahyeet1869]

I wouldn't play it piece of crap really super p2w and if you say anything dreadful about it all the delusionial fangirls call you out for it

[@joaotiago7803]

you need 100000000000$ to play

[@CorsairSoul]

I even went thru all the fun of getting into PSO2 with translation. I will 100% be playing this when it comes out in the west officially.

[@MMOByte]

A lot of people will!

[@ShadeKoopa]

Heha, agreed. Still play on the JPN server but I do want to see how the US servers will play out. Plus, support it so other region can get the game. Along with maybe a PSO 3 to come early as well. :P

[@rseasons3605]

It's hillarious how he goes through the whole list and the game he shows at the beginning and ALL the way through the end of the video is not on the list or even mentioned. It's the only game I was interested in.

[@zachsenna2054]

Renan Campozana do u know what it is?

[@mrpool339]

@@zachsenna2054 project bbq

[@lzac5825]

Man, I'm super excited for Project BBQ

[@MMOByte]

Project BBQ and Blue Protocol, man!

[@biropedeset]

Same for Project Bbq if it ever comes out

[@aaronconecept6448]

Same I’m hyped for dfo 2 I’m surprised they just haven’t said dfo2 yet

[@bloodnessx]

Blue protical is gonna be the most classic rpg of the decade🔥🚫🧢

[@sunbathing27]

0:56 , someone know what game this is?

[@Kkkkkkkkkk747]

I´m actually really happy about Astelia. It´s giving me enough and i´m satisfied. I don´t want some insane new thing, just something worth playing and the pokemon style gathering is on my liking.

[@MMOByte]

Great, I'm glad to hear that! Hopefully it holds you over for at least a few months - since you'll have more than gotten your moneys worth by that point.

[@kenshiku]

Astellia legit just looks like TERA but with better optimized. Everything else is just screams TERA, the HUD, the art, icons, dungeons, etc.

[@Goldy01]

@@kenshiku If the combat was just 10% as good as tera's, I would have stayed, but nothing compares to the glorious action combat of our beloved exiled realm of arborea... :(

[@selfishbun]

i want something like tera, open world where u can meet other players while also doing dungeons and not just doing end-game stuff and meeting them there. if y'all know the solo-leveling manhwa, something like that would be nice.

[@amiraldahri1452]

Go for Black Desert

[@charlesvaleroso5849]

black desert is what you are looking for then

[@selfishbun]

Amir Aldahri any other alternatives though? cuz i feel like the whole mmorpg genre is just becoming worse and not really mmo anymore, its just that other players are in ur world but they have absolutey no use

[@charlesvaleroso5849]

not really sure what other game is similar to bdo and tera but on bdo there's forced pvp at end game so atleast pvp is alive.

[@frozendeadbody]

Blade & soul.

[@friskyrsps1747]

when the market shifts from amazing massive worlds with shitloads of content to cashgrab battle royale trash

[@johnrizzo9901]

for some people those amazing massive worlds are tarnished by the worst grind possible to get you to spend money. all games are cash grab nowadays

[@wootywooter5652]

and here we find someone who no matter how many guides he can read.. will never be good at a shooter.

[@friskyrsps1747]

@@wootywooter5652 i have nothing against shooters and am kinda fond of a few of them but the battle royale thing being a hype is just stupid it's a minigame within a shooter at most bit like zombie mode in cod

[@christopherdsuza7531]

Naa... it was pretty trash even before the battle royal bandwagon as most were pay to win trash dumps. Really couldn't get into any of the new MMORPGs and found that it was mostly older ones such as guild wars 1 and wow which left memorable impacts on me. Newer MMORPGs I might play for a bit then move on, nothing memorable just a good time waster. Mind you I did enjoy final fantasy 14, but finding a good modern mmorpgs that is worth investing time in the sea of trash and free to play shenanigans that plagues today's games, is like finding a needle in a haystack. Lol at these 5-10 year road maps when they can't even make it past the 1st year without their own economy crashing and burning. They just don't make them how they used to sadly. Finding one with a good story and world building is also hard as game developer just don't seem to care anymore. Shit story, questing (oh god the intro of fetch quests) and monotonous ways to waste the players time in hopes of maintaining player retention is the name of the game for today's MMORPG. I still have hope though so I'm always on the hunt but have been disappointed far too many times. The only things that really improved I feel are graphics and perhaps one can argue the shift to real time combat which makes things more action oriented, but this is more just a shift in game play style.

[@VOlDTALES]

I was a super fan of battleroyales in the beginning 2 years after the hype and it's a super dry genre now I just want to level up my wind magic bowhunter in some other world but it cant rlly happen with the battle royale craze. Did anybody get the wind magic bowhunter reference. Little bit of apothecary

[@lol_savi]

I've been playing a lot of Adventure Quest 3D lately, and it has got to be one of the most free to play friendly mmorpgs out there with active developers pushing out new content, events, and improvements consistently.

[@crax7420]

The amount of time gating and grinding makes me not want to play that game ever again. It's such a dry grind and the combat is quite boring. The game being cross platform (mobile/PC) doesn't help it much either in my eyes in regards to being any sort of competition to other MMOs since they can't put out huge updates that are definitely required to bring more players to the game. I wish the best for Artix Entertainment and their games but if they don't start making giant changes to most of their games i can't see them succeed in the long run.

[@lioraneve5265]

AQ3D is decent and deserves much more attention than its been getting, there is always some event going on or bits of new content but unfortunatly the combat is lackluster.

[@Asa69]

never got into AQ3D Was a big AQW player tho

[@_MARSyt]

3D?? I remember AQ from back in the day but didn't know there was a new version

[@NBKio]

AQ3D sucks

[@Neptune8]

Still sitting in my room wondering when we will get a good mmo I can take with me. Yea BDO mobile is coming but I want a switch mmo. Wish they'd bring FFXIV and port it over or even if Nintendo had a new IP that would be fine. The closest you have currently is ffxii with a slower pace , open world battle style with quests and hunts but it's not the same

[@davidcreed921]

I think you can play ffxiv on your vita and take it with you

[@RR-op9xz]

Asobimo makes some pretty good MMORPG games for IOS. They have character creation and serviceable enough action combat to make it pretty entertaining. I’d definitely recommend Izanagi and AVABEL. We definitely need some more MMO games for switch though.

[@Eisi0wns]

Still playing ESO to this date. MMO's have a huge problem though: Keeping the interests of players. Look at other game genres and how much players they are getting every day/week/month... and MMOs struggle to keep up with these numbers. We're currently living in a time where MMOs obviously are at a backseat. That's why the next MMO that can get everyone in will top them all. Just creating one is very hard.

[@Cthulhu013]

The expansion model is a both a curse and a blessing. It means that a often small hardcore fanbase will keep paying you to add more to the game, but it also means for most of your player base, it will be revolving, because most will reach content fatigue. In that either they never want to play to endgame because of the vast quantity of content they have to go through or they simply lose interest after putting many hours in. Especially if the gameplay is repetitive and too themeparky, most will give up.

[@MrProthall]

Everyone trying to be WoW still, despite nobody wanting ANOTHER game like that.

[@BoardWalkToke]

BDO man. It could easily be at the top of MMORPGs if it wasn't held back by a terrible progression system and horrible monetization.

[@recohplays552]

BoardWalkToke progression is easy and the monetization is not even bad lol just have patience and don’t be lazy

[@Prokaizer]

@@recohplays552 Meanwhile today i failed 4 times to TET my bheg gloves and i also broke a PRI Ogre on attempt to DUO it and make some profit with 55% chance. I uninstalled after. Also progression is not easy at all, if a TET armor part cost 3 billion silver and you make around 130 million silver per day. Now consider that a player have to TET 3 different weapons, 4 different Armor parts and to TRI 6 accessories "JUST TO REACH THE SOFTCAP". By making average 150/200 millions every single day you will need about 115 days "JUST TO REACH THE SOFTCAP" and start doing some pvp. But yes progression is easy and the monetization is not even that bad when people selling or melt costumes.

[@recohplays552]

Prokaizer if you only make 130milluon per day you don’t know how to grind lol you can make easy 100million per hour at blood wolves with loot scroll so idk what you doing but you are doing it all wrong lol go watch sauce Responsibly and he just loved moved to PC and is already getting close to softcap BDO is not for casuals or the lazy sorry

[@Prokaizer]

@@recohplays552 You ignored the fact that you need 21 billions to buy the gear from the marketplace (if you do not enchance it yourself) to even reach the Softcap. I have level 5 Node in both Sycraia and Protty and it only drops one Shard per 2/3 hours of nonstop killing grinding on Arsha server with 100% drop rate scrolls. Making money from grinding is based on RNG. So before you call other people lazy do some research first. "BDO is not about casuals" toxic fanboy detected.

[@BoardWalkToke]

@@recohplays552 100mill/hr at blood wolves? No...just....no. That is far too rng based. Wtf are you on about. That place would be infested if this was true.

[@nekoali2]

I'm still working my way through Final Fantasy ARR. I've got subscriptions to WoW and ESO still and I will log in occasionally, but right now my game time is severely limited... And when I do play I usually go for FF14.

[@MMOByte]

Fantastic choice. I have active subs to WoW and FFXIV both - have had for years.

[@Mystra]

He got the numbers for XIV way wrong

[@infinityvy]

Warframe players be getting deja-vu's everytime someone says "registered users"

[@Arasaka.Employee]

5 milion registerd LOE-users

[@ardalla535]

There are two games that I would consider works of genius: EQ1 and City of Heroes. EQ1 is complicated; it's either a work of pure genius, an accidental success where somehow all the bugs make the game extremely challenging and interesting, or a combination of the two. Some of the zones are so challenging, if you didn't know EXACTLY what you were doing, you would be a corpse in short order. When you figured out the zone, it felt like a real accomplishment. City of Heroes. I mention this because it's available to play now, and it's easy to install. It's not like any other game. Cryptic/Paragon did an amazing job with this game. Why is it so good? The powersets are like nothing else in any other game. You're not just a dwarf swinging an axe, you're a superhero with a variety of abilities. The team combat is the best in the genre.

[@unloyal4847]

Its finally my 4th month in ff14 and my god I enjoy every bit of it, finally an mmo I can stay with, got that mmo itch being scratched

[@afshin3k3]

should somebody play previous games or read some background stories before joining this?

[@unloyal4847]

@@afshin3k3 oh truth be told this is tech my first ff game, totally not needed since its a story of itself, no need to know any of the previous games. Though from what I got playing through the game up til stormblood(now at sb) their are some neat Easter eggs that exist in the world that is a callback to some of the previous games they have but totally not needed info for the overall.

[@afshin3k3]

@@unloyal4847 Thanks a lot! I didnt want to jump in a game with no clue about what is going on!

[@Hateious]

Speaking from someone who's played older final fantasy it's totally safe to play this without playing them I would try play old ones sometime though classic games ;p I do miss ff14 been a while since been on.

[@fistofram5526]

You people really like dull MMORPGS. Looks like another chinese or korean copy...

[@kazemba3177]

I LOVE Eden Eternal, but theres little to nobody there anymore, sadly.

[@danielesquivel1222]

Any idea if grand fantasia is still playable?

[@Art-pj8zq]

I used to play it especially the private server but till they changed it to different private server and I need to start from zero again

[@alexanderschoenfeld7406]

Same, I used to be one of the leaders for the biggest guild on Eden Eternal but after becoming inactive out of nowhere (laptop broke), my own guild kicked me out and thus killed my motivation to play the game. I created another guild to face against this guild before I decided to give up and just quit the game entirely.

[@kazemba3177]

I was a part of one of the biggest guilds aswell, Deity. I think they were actually number 1 for the longest time, but than yeah out of nowhere it became super inactive, and guilds started passing us and than before I knew it, there was like 20 avtive players in the whole game lol I miss the game so much, still the absolute best game out there in my opinion

[@BrianDiamond48]

@alexander fairy tail leader frost or klaus

[@lennyd4712]

The only mmo that I'll be definitely gonna play is Lost Ark (if it will be released in the EU and NA).

[@darthportus]

Yeah right now yo ucan play it semi-illealy on korea servers however you have to hide you nationality. Players are known to report every nonkorean player.

[@trollingisasport]

@@darthportus racist fucks

[@jakesanity]

This will be available on NA year 2030 ☠️

[@Lunaii2]

5:49 On steam its said that there's only 3k people connected at the time i'm writting this

[@jiiyuuu]

that is probably just steam players. there are pc palyers not playing in steam , and ps4 players etc. etc

[@Boznete]

Steam is not center of all games, Bdo was released many years before it got launched on steam. Some MMO like bdo that put them on steam many years after being launched, they do this to get a bit little more money because the game is dying anyway and if you as a player want the game on steam you have to buy the game again. Sorry for my english.

[@Kaazzuki]

Problem with MMO's today are either being a subscription base / P2P game that aren't even worth its content, and the other problem is region blocking. Its not bad having to pay for a game since it really supports the game and the devs, especially those big companies but sometimes what you are paying for is not really worth its price for a game that might not hold your attention for even an hour. But even if you don't need to pay for a game, chances are that your region has been blocked. Hopefully, Archeage unchained wont become like BLESS.

[@MMOByte]

Here's hoping!

[@Fascism_Is_One_Helluva_Drug]

@@MMOByte this comment didn't age well. AAU is full of the same exploits left untouched in every other FS, gold trading is rampant, alongside the bleeding active populace. So glad I dodged that bullet

[@projectzet]

No triple A MMORPGs. No wonder we still play stupid WOW

[@magic_cfw]

you forget to mention that most pso2 players seem to be playing and living in some bank in Japan.

[@VampireNoblesse]

best mmo atm in almost all categories is FFXIV ..., it just starts VERY slow (action- & storywise) and has a very "group coordination" PVP WoW is the only other contender, but not worth grinding thru from todays standards as a new player ESO is cool too, if you just enjoy strolling the overworld and like fully voice-sync in all quests, .. but its actions makes you sleepy after a while most other mmos dont have any deep or sustained endgame content . or lack in the story

[@sasaki8765]

See, I used to agree with this but I disagree now. FFXIV Is way too sterile. Everything eventually starts to feel bland. It's like a padded room with a couple pretty fun toys, but they're all very safe toys and the nanny is watching you the whole time, so don't try to do anything too dangerous.

[@delmartuy5251]

@@sasaki8765 How About GW2?

[@levant4620]

ffxiv is overrated, I'd think about going back to play it, if its raids werent just extra trials, they basically just copy paste content with different skins

[@djschaum520]

if you are a hardcore pvper, then FFXIV is a terrible choice. it is objectively the worst part of the game and has the least activity. you are better off playing wow, eso, gw2

[@vinny-yj9ln]

i love FFXIV, it's a great game and personally, the story isn't too slow in my opinion. at least based off of how engaged i was in the story that i almost never wanted it to end because it was just so intriguing.

[@ChaosRevealsOrder]

If WOW would be Free to play or Buy once play forever + Pay for additional DLCs it would be my favorite game.

[@Ailwuful]

it would be very hard to maintain the level of quality and support that WoW has without being subscription-based.

[@BlueShadesX]

Since launch of skyrim, i have over 3000 hours in skyrim haha Morrowind and Oblivion were my childhood. I feel so old when i see mmorpg's i played (and i played most of them), are shutting down. Worst feeling ive ever had was when i enjoyed archeage with all my friends and trion then went full p2w. Watching the once populated living world be so dead...made me sad. I played WoW last months, i actually became one of the best Affliction Warlocks in a world 200er guild. BUT the game doesnt feel rewarding at all. Class design is pretty poor and bosses are pretty "easy". Everything is giving to you for nearly no effort. So i left WoW 2 Weeks ago. MMORPG'S are my life. Im sick irl so i spend nearly 20 h a day in them. Im waiting for the next big thing. Im still hoping for a new Star Wars MMORPG. Im enjoying FF14 rn. WoW Classic : it was fun cause of the Community but i dont gonna lie, its pretty boring when you hit lvl 60. Molten Core is not a challenge, some of us even went afk cooking while infight haha. Good video :) I always enjoy watching them.

[@MMOByte]

Thanks, Edrani! I appreciate the kind words! I have far too many hours invested in the Elder Scrolls games lmao. 800-1,000 in Morrowind, 600+ in Oblivion and at least 200 in Skyrim!

[@Cody-ox2uu]

Why aren't you playing Archeage Unchained then? Game is literally archeage with ZERO pay to win elements. I would argue it's easily the best mmo out right now and every single server is full 2 of the first ones still have queues to get in over a month later. WoW is pretty much garbage by comparison.

[@WitheringZealot]

@@Cody-ox2uu because there was an exploit that people EXPLOITED and jumped 10 years ahead of everyone. Fuck archeage

[@jona630]

AncientWarrior Indignation yeah but most of them god banned

[@BlueShadesX]

@@jona630 literally no one on Alexander got banned for it. How i know it? Cause many of my friends exploited the shit out of the system and now im glad they did. I did not. Im stuck at 5,5k Gs, they are running around with legendary T4 and divine Armor already. Gamigo managed archeage unchained so damn wrong.

[@jfbeland690]

Archage, BDO and astelia were on that list and guild wars 2 was not, really?

[@noobmasterchief4314]

PSO2 hands down for me because fashion is the true end game.

[@MMOByte]

I look forward to playing it next year!

[@GreedC]

PSO2 will still live strong no matter much the MMO hype have changed over the years cuz of the dedicated JP players

[@kamiya4700]

Even the gameplay content is running out,the grinding for meseta(in game currency in pso2) to buy fashion and affix loop will never end

[@craiver00]

Made for weebs, waifu simulator, fast pace hack n' slash, grinding simulator, lots of events. You can still be decent player even you just play it casually.

[@zacharrari2409]

that’s funny cuz irl u can’t dress

[@ClaytonMalarkey]

hey for the contest could i get entered for a chance to win a full tale for a tale in the desert ?

[@MMOByte]

You definitely could if you win, yes! You could request the game via email after you're picked!

[@xmachina1374]

Nice. for next please make "10 most played free mmorpg in 2019".

[@MMOByte]

I'll definitely have one ready sometime next month!

[@KingVox_]

Runescape Runescape Runescape Warframe Warframe Gw2 Gw2 Gw2 LoL POE

[@ensignd.crexote5350]

X MACHINA yeah, free lol

[@jackzera7356]

@L u Nope. Nor LoL nor PoE are MMORPGS... People dont even know what MMORPGS means..

[@theboss9635]

Don't bother with free MMORPG's. Almost all of them are pay2win anyways.

[@AClRCLEOFLlGHT]

The genre is still slowly dying... but with announcements of a new, modern Tolken/Middle Earth (set before the events of the Hobbit) MMORPG already in development, as well as a new Star Wars MMORPG, it may breathe new life into the genre. There's also Star Citizen, which I play off and on a couple times a year just to check development, and it's amazing.

[@bigdaddygibbs251]

I want to play WoW Classic but man it is so not worth $15/mo in 2019...

[@InuArao]

Work my man

[@demitaper]

@@InuArao I believe what hes saying is he doesn't find the benefit to outweigh the 15 per month, akin to how I dont believe benefit outweighs the 15 per month for audible.com even though I work 40 hours a week.

[@InuArao]

@@demitaper understandable, everyone has different needs.

[@InuArao]

@@nev7 yeah

[@coopivm]

@@InuArao If you define a WoW membership as a need, you need to lose your virginity.

[@Witchblade2099]

I wish they would make a new Tera or just update/renew it... or just make something with that combat system

[@MMOByte]

They're making a new TERA for mobile if that interests you!

[@112007Roman]

You're as regular as Saturday morning cartoons :D

[@MMOByte]

Hopefully that's a good thing!

[@112007Roman]

You know it!

[@MMOByte]

*high five* my man!

[@JHM117]

My favorite MMOs ever were Everquest (up to Luclin) and Star Wars Galaxies (before they did the combat upgrade) during their prime days.

[@はいこれはロボ子の婚約者]

video: starting with "doesnt it suck..." me: yes, yes it sucks. life sucks man.

[@MMOByte]

Hahahahaha.

[@WolfBetter]

>when your favourite youtuber give away free copies of games you already have.

[@MMOByte]

At least other people have the opportunity to win! haha

[@nietrafiamwklawisze3450]

Not stonks

[@kodax5721]

What's the game at the beginning? Looks really good

[@railnrst]

Project BBQ

[@DemMedHornene]

I played ESO since launch, but actually quit after Elsweyr, because of the issues continuing to pile up. I've played it maybe close to 4,000 hours, and while I do recommend it for any MMO fans, it is with several caveats: The devs do not care about their endgame community enough, and cater almost exclusively to casual players, meaning that if you're looking for meaningful endgame you are unlikely to get satisfied, as you can easily beat all of the current content, and then be stuck repeating that content for a year until 1 (maybe 2 if you get really lucky) new endgame trial is added. PvP similarly doesn't have any meaningful endgame, and its flawed by design as the devs are in love with the 3-sided design, which, for small-scale PvP like battlegrounds, creates more balance issues than enjoyable gameplay. The PvP has the potential to be amazing, but the 3-sided aspect ruins a lot of great moments, and creates something that is impossible to balance. If you enjoy questing and taking your time with the games stories, there's plenty for you there, but there's sadly only a handful of questlines and stories that I personally think are worth doing, with the rest just being fillers that more or less repeat the same concepts, despite the original pitch for ESO was that their quests were going to be "different" and offer "meaningful" stories instead of fetch-quests, etc., but this promise has rarely been delivered on, further, most of the choices you make within main quests are usually self-contained to the questline or result in miniscule differences to the appearance of your character's world. Gameplay-wise, the game has also been toned down a lot and is now a watered-down version of what it once was. It was truly a fast-paced action experience when it launched, and remained so for a couple of years, but then they kept nerfing the strongest setups, and eventually resulted in a combat style that is stationary and uninvolved for the most parts. PvP is really the only place where you can find exciting combat, and that is fraught with lag, balance issues, cheaters, and several other things that often make it a very frustrating experience. ESO also lacks something which I personally think is important for an MMO, and that's making solo play worthwhile, such as providing solo players an enjoyable experience with group PvP and PvE through queueing systems and such. ESO doesn't do that, and if you want to dip your toes into the endgame experience, you are essentially required to join guilds that focus on that, since it's very rare that solo players are picked up by groups who don't know them. I've gotten to know so many awesome people through the game, thanks to what was once an awesome community, but as the game has matured, it has developed the kind of elitist toxicity that many MMOs are known for, which is very unfortunate, but I will always be thankful for how many friends I've made through the game. Many of the friends I've made don't play the game any longer, which to me says quite a lot about an MMO, especially when most of these people were loyal players, who were dedicated to the game, but became frustrated with the lack of respect shown to them by the devs who never seemed to listen until it was too late. TLDR: If you haven't played it, you should give it a try, BUT you will likely become frustrated if you ever try to play the game seriously, as the devs have shown they do not give a shit about their dedicated endgame players.

[@123jackterry]

Saturn666 what would you recommend playing instead?

[@devmen3210]

Again I forgot to say great job is always on the video always love to hear the new news on the MMO world

[@MMOByte]

No problem, Devmen! Thanks for always stopping by!

[@devmen3210]

@@MMOByte of course

[@MasterNoah30]

​@@MMOByte man the name of the first game come on ?

[@Ble4ker_Official]

@@MasterNoah30 Blade&soul

[@HitotsunoTsubasa]

what game is he playing in the opening seems interesting ?

[@arcannine5480]

Blade&soul

[@muskaman2k]

pretty sure those are clips from project BBQ which is still being developed last I heard. Its related to DFO somehow, I dont know all the details, but I'm sure a quick google search will give you more answers.

[@HitotsunoTsubasa]

@@arcannine5480 been playing that game for several years now, thanks for trying to troll, but try harder next time

[@Niernatsu]

@@HitotsunoTsubasa project bbq looks too good to be true, let's hope it actually happens

[@Dilandau88]

What game is being featured in the opening of this video? The anime one?

[@geassgeass4443]

Dilandau88 yeah what is that

[@sameryounis1510]

Anyone?

[@RetySempai]

Project BBQ

[@4_Shinu]

@@RetySempai damn i thought ur joking cuz of the BBQ xD but its the real name

[@axjanix8528]

@@RetySempai Do you know if it's any good? Or would you recommend?

[@Riley879679466544567]

This guy literally makes the same video every year.

[@mkiispartan6553]

I play ESO, SWTOR, Old-School RuneScape and Warhammer: Age of Reckoning (private server).

[@MMOByte]

Which is your favorite, though?

[@darthroxas8045]

i play SWTOR too!

[@mkiispartan6553]

@@MMOByte The best MMO overall is ESO, though I've been playing RuneScape since 05 and Warhammer since 08, so I'm attached to those.

[@maydayflowers]

You should add Dofus to this list. Retro servers were released a few weeks ago, server count went from 5 at launch to 8 currently due to demand. Queue times were long then, better now. The newer version of the game, 2.0, is also extremely populated on the monoaccount server Ilyzaelle. For a game that was first released 15 years ago, it's doing incredibly well. Check it out here: www.dofus.com/en

[@SlightlyGrimGaming]

I did the last reset server last year. They only last 3 months. And yeah, lots of people did return to play but if youre grinding too hard.. you then spend days waiting for people to catch up to do content woth you. Was fun first month then lost its touch imo

[@QuizzTwist]

I just want free-to-win remake of Age Of Wushu! Man, no company wants to innovate and improve it.

[@Rakkis88]

Who's here after Blizzard got on its knees for China?

[@wallchkn2977]

Lol I only checked the comments to look for the Blizzard/HK mentions xD Not disappointed.

[@carlitosviquera585]

fuck that pussy blizzard.

[@Reaper0123]

I currently play two MMO's. Guild Wars 2 and Final Fantasy XIV, both still very much well populated. Only had a week long break from both due to laptop having to go for some fixing up due to hard-drive issues... but now I'm loading them both back X).

[@MMOByte]

Great MMO choices!

[@Reaper0123]

@@MMOByte Ty! Also had some others in my history; like SWTOR, Wildstar when I bothered to try it free, "RunEscape", Tales of Pirates once upon a time, and AQ Worlds. Those are the ones I remember at least.

[@Mystra]

@@MMOByte You got the numbers wrong for XIV, next time do your research properly

[@greckolentaar3102]

Watching these videos and reading the comments can bring one into the realisation that its not a problem of the genre of mmorpg but the players that dive into them. The 80s-90s generation grew old and have less time and focus, matured and moved on from the love of "endless" gaming, having the 2000s+ generations bringing a less mature and far less understanding community into the games, lack of team work, respect, appreciation. They do not see what it means to work for something, what it means to have randomness in the game, to help your team player, be in need of friends to achieve together goals. Lately, the players are rude, are disrespectful, needy, greedy and highly demanding having no respect of anything. Its not a problem of the genre, its a problem of personalities as a general observation.

[@bitstavros]

What is the MMO at start and the emd of the video? Looks amazing

[@klsa9649]

ugh i miss playing flyff and mabinogi the most... too bad community died off sigh*

[@SuDaixi]

@andrew T I loved Flyff and played it for years but after a few years it often had login problems for me or would throw me out so I stopped playing after 6-8 months of those problems and then just never returned.

[@afisaiful91]

same here, flyff was my first mmo

[@TsunamiCub]

Dear MMOByte, I agree with you on all levels and appreciate you making videos as they are very informative about what's going on in the MMO community. I can't tell you how many hours of searching and games I've tried only to be let down by them. I also entered your contest. #HaveHope #NeverGiveUp #MMOLife

[@MMOByte]

Thanks, Josh! I appreciate both the support and the kind words! I'm glad to help out people by doing the work for them and using my experience to bring content to what would otherwise either normally escape them or be an arduous process to obtain. Good luck, hopefully you win!

[@rasmuskristensen9094]

I've been on ESO last few weeks and really enjoying it!

[@sethrussell7771]

I really want to, but us oceanic players are getting fucked

[@iama187er]

@@sethrussell7771 Ping has improved quite a bit with latest patch

[@sethrussell7771]

@Oussama Aoudia it's really good, alot of content

[@sethrussell7771]

@Oussama Aoudia if you like mmos and interested in the elder scrolls world at all it's definitely worth it, plus the game is like 10 AUD on G2A

[@jeremynewman8844]

If they would let me transfer my PS4 account to PC I would come back in a heartbeat.

[@kieranbachner3865]

what was the first game you were playing?

[@poiuytrewq3546]

want to know too

[@Nsmonn]

'' Project BBQ ''

[@DGraze]

hmmmm diablo 2 ?

[@syedrazvi5062]

Runescape

[@wayne3302264]

I see many beautiful games that I would be interested in playing but they have a PVP focus which is not my thing. Would be great if they would have a server to cater to others like myself that prefer playing through the story, crafting, and gathering as opposed to open world PVP. I enjoyed playing games like Archeage up to the point I grew tired of getting ganked and all my hard work fishing, which I enjoyed very much, was lost. At least Archeage did have zones with no PVP whereas games like Red Dead Online, which is a beautiful game, have PVP across the entire map and I quit playing after being unable to enjoy the game due to constantly being one shot by gankers.

[@DonzWright]

And still Nothing to play! Sure we, players, have become quite picky over the last decade, but hell, its really Nothing to play! It's depressing.. How comes no one can manage to create decent AAA mmo anymore.. ESO wasnt just competitive enough, lack of content in my eyes.. Bored after half a year. BDO, idk, lack of pvp ( or drive to do pvp) tho game was somewhat nice in general, till old one got shut down ArcheAge, just got "old" after playing it for 4 years, content just became meaningless, "top" WB drops wasnt worth a shia... And ofc problem of P2W (i was heavy spender myself). And last, removal of factions was a bummer breaking game for many. Feels i'll have to keep waiting for 2021/2022 for something new.. Duh

[@clocktower5894]

Well BDO has a few reasons to fight in PvP. Also - playing as a red killing machine is fun. The best thing about BDO is that you can progress in so many ways in this game to push your character, family, and guild further. Progression and road that you take to become strong is without doubt the best part of Black Desert Online. What's the worst about BDO is that Progression is the only thing you can do in the game as there's no endgame content. Progressing is fun, but you will do the same shit over and over again at level 13, and at level 62. What BDO needs is come kind of endgame content.

[@sh.renaud]

Try out FFXIV :D

[@Astrumplayez]

Just wait til SAO comes out in 2020. Lmao 😂

[@runkittyrunwow]

Come and play Lost Ark. If you have a VPN you can play on the Russian Servers. Make sure you get the English patch. I'm playing in Australia using Surfshark VPN (connecting through Kazakhstan). You'll need to create an account on Mail.ru but its worth it!

[@evanb6623]

runkittyrunwow Does lost ark have pvp or nah? I was thinking of playing it.

[@BizarreWrld]

Says can't fathom having a game with over 800 hrs, meanwhile I have 4 with over 1000+ hrs lol.

[@MMOByte]

I mean.. most RPGs I've played have 200-300 hours per game and I've played hundreds, I just can't believe I've spend 800-1,000 hours in one single game lol.

[@2071koko]

Only MMORPG I've played is Neverwinter, with 2k hours as of now, and I hate it but it's hard to switch cuz I've invested so much time in it

[@serhatyilmaz775]

@@2071koko trust me, it's hard to switch because you spend money/time into but it's still good for you(r health). I had 20k+ battles in World of Tanks and after they went full retard with the tanks they put in, I uninstalled the game. There are some truly great game out there, just gotta find 'em :D

[@MrRFPinhas]

I have over 200 days on tera and my friends reached over a year of playtime lmao, it makes me feel weird when people say "he plays over am hour he's starting to get addicted to the PC" about their kids or something along those lines

[@edwin7788]

i played 5k hours on BDO and i still doesnt get all content fully yet well of course 60% of time is afk xD

[@TheNamesJT]

have you tried " The Secret World Legends?" the combat is kinda werid, but the missions are so immersive and its my favorite aspect of SWL..its underrated!

[@Olvenskol]

Solid choice. Weird, but definitely involving.

[@jacksparda997]

That DFO project bbq at the start got me going.

[@MMOByte]

It really looks promising!

[@Kooriaisu]

@@MMOByte until you hear the news nexon killed off some "in development mmos" god i hope it wasnt bbq

[@eternalnatsu3273]

@@Kooriaisu Nexon isn't in control of bbq. It's Neopeople or some shit like that. The company running the actual DFO game at the moment and, made it very successful again.

[@Kooriaisu]

@@eternalnatsu3273 neople is a part of nexon my dude

[@jimwhite2049]

Thing thing about MMOs is that the players don't really move so it's damn near impossible to launch a new one. The players have invested thousands of hours into their game, they're not gonna abandon everything and jump into a new one, it's one of the main reasons why old Runescape is more popular, most of them are just the old players. The only solution is to bring in new players into the genre or get old players who quit the genre, but it doesn't seem like that is going to be easy, people who are not interested already decided they're not interested. What this ultimately means is that it's gonna be the same games on top until the end of time, playing old outdated games. It's gonna take a revolution in technology, perhaps a truly amazing VR game that is affordable and accessible.

[@sven3188]

Which game is the intro and outro? :)

[@MMOByte]

I actually did a video on it last month: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gmqye3xuntdrntU

[@BitmapRadio1]

Project BBQ is the name

[@VOlDTALES]

Yeah just gonna wait for full dive vrmmorpg games to exist rq

[@NocturnalServant777]

Same, go full dive or go home.

[@ZeroutlawRBLX]

aight, just wait for decades then

[@n_kas5812]

Weeb

[@NocturnalServant777]

@@n_kas5812 Precisely, we rule the world.

[@v-7815]

Have fun waiting till you're an old person lol. VR technology still in its baby stages.

[@Ed-el6pp]

Eso 11m registered acct, 10M of them are bot.

[@MMOByte]

hahahaha

[@lamsauce4266]

10M of them are like casual. They come back for the chapter/DLC, then 2-3 weeks later, they're all gone again.

[@Mounthuapleb5890]

That game is complete garbage.

[@soothing_de4th863]

Some people like yourselves just cant handle the grind or are too broke for the cosmetics. And pvp? You guys probably get wrecked then say it was cheating lol

[@ironickrempt]

You get a like from me for mentioning SWTOR at all

[@ju4ndlp]

What games was that in the beginning? Please tell me

[@KurceQ]

guess im going to play some old rpg's cause there's no mmo's for me as of today

[@theoutlander2873]

Same. Actually, I mostly just don't play at all now.

[@omegand.]

80k osrs players and 60% of them are bots :)

[@MMOByte]

hahahahaha

[@whenisdinner2137]

Realistically it's more like 10%

[@wilhelmbloodworth1057]

Man thank you for just putting up a video on MMORPGs. Because I have been looking for a good MMO to play.

[@vrshepherd7316]

Need a good starwars MMO, I'd stick with it probably indefinitely if they made one that was any good! Quit SWTOR a couple years ago, was just too linear and bland to hold my interest.

[@cazue0]

thx for the video, i'm playing wow and gw2 currently, but your opinions with stadistics always help me to decide where to migrate.

[@ishy96]

where do you think GW2 would sit in on this, despite they haven't received any actual figures?

[@matthewmendez3632]

600 MILLION people are playing Dungeon Fighter? Almost 10% of the worlds population? Doubtful.

[@TigerTT]

From what I've seen on the steam reviews of it,people are getting banned right after downloading the game lol so I highly doubt that 600 million people are playing.

[@dunninofmountprophet3283]

Dc universe online wasn’t on here ☠️😂😂😂😂

[@StopForcingHandlesAsUsername]

It's dead Dun.

[@joseph.cotter]

Anarchy Online while not most played deserves a shout out as being historical and still amazing in it's core strengths. It's dated, no question. However, it's biggest flaw was it was too complicated for the MMO market of it's time. It is still probably the most complex MMO on the market and the market at it's inception wasn't mature enough to appreciate it in large numbers. The fact it has survived this long is amazing, but more importantly, it is a thoroughly involved MMO for a more sophisticated player who won't be put off by the older engine. Character classes are truly unique to the point that playing one class is such a different experience from any of the other classes, it's like playing a totally different game, and... the more involved boss fights require a well balanced team. AO was the original MMO which 'required' a diverse team of tank, dd, healer and at times other specialists... Their original mission statement was that it would be impossible to not team. They backed off some on that but they still pioneered and have to this day (imo) been unbeaten in team play dynamics. Just a for instance... a tank in AO that tried leveling damage to a high level would fail at being a tank (by not focusing their experience on being a tank) and many unschooled AO players failed to grasp this so were never able to build a high level tank that would fit into high level teams. Tanks whole purpose was to absorb damage and focus healing on him so dd's could dodge and deal the actual damage without overtaxing the healer or getting one shotted by extreme bosses... A tank who couldn't hold agro would kill his team fast. Just as important, a dd who didn't realized the team tank's limitations would get one shotted when they pulled out that massive damage on max and drew agro. That just scratches the surface of this old but still unbeaten game. ;)

[@PhriekshoTV]

A couple smaller still active ones I personally love: Secret World Legends (still doing it's 10th anniversary event), and Neocron. Neocron (basically old school Deus ex as an MMO to put it in basic terms) came out in 02 and even has an event going on this weekend. Usually 2 to 50 players online, but very tight community. Strongly recommend if you're looking to get lost into an old-school game with plenty of content. Always looking to boost the smaller MMOs

[@MMOByte]

SWL was an amazing game. Sadly, the community abandoned it pretty fast.

[@PhriekshoTV]

@@MMOByte a dedicated, smaller fanbase at least. Also plays well solo, but I get a few friends once in a while. Those investigation missions though

[@MMOByte]

Sometimes that's what Google is for!

[@Das_Arcaine]

Neocron was so awesome, no other mmorpg kept me playing this long like Neocron did. The downside is, 99% of the mmorpgs feels the same after playing NC for this long time (over 15 yrs) so they are no real replacement. Still hoping for Neocron 3 ^^

[@PhriekshoTV]

@@Das_Arcaine at the very least, the Neocron team is still active with events in Neocron 2. I've streamed and uploaded footage of the Madness event a month or so ago. I'm low level, but the game's great.

[@williammarcus6396]

WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE GAME IN THE INTRO HE MEVER SAY THE NAME ARE U SERIOUS?

[@Kaidkb]

Project BBQ ...yes, I'm serious.

[@williammarcus6396]

@@Kaidkb a God has arrived thank u so much

[@davidismdumdu]

Wheres adventure quest worlds? It's been out for 11 years and still gets 10k active players

[@missmaple013]

Hey, remember VOID elsword? it just shut down....rip void, im really really going to miss you.

[@MMOByte]

I do! It looks like a lotta private servers did!

[@missmaple013]

@@MMOByte Yeah! While I dont play many, I know that Burning soul worker died too.

[@arazif4436]

Oh no.

[@gergana3943]

Could it be a conspiracy theory hmmmmmmmmmm

[@B0K0691]

@@missmaple013 Is burning soulworker really dead?

[@man1378]

Whats the game he's playing in the beginning?

[@jinnellereyes6147]

gonna leave a comment here in case someone knows

[@Arentu]

X2

[@Plop27]

x3

[@yukeno9694]

it's a Project BBQ Dungeon Fighter Online 3D

[@stanlexgreenson]

Ward

[@mad-dash6448]

What’s he playing in the intro and outro???

[@inretrospect3902]

Project BBQ looks like

[@cobaltdrake9805]

I have over 1000 hours in GW2, it was the first mmorpg i ever played. I tried a few meanwhile, but nothing really got my attention like that - until I started FFXIV. I've been playing it for about a month and a half now, and I love it. Finally found my second mmorpg to spend way too much time in xD

[@Keego0201]

Pantheon Rise of the Fallen looks like it'll be a good MMO when it's done. But right now it's just hard to find an old school ultima online / everquest style MMO that isn't using gimmicks

[@Xeryl999]

AutoJunkieMan try curse of aros

[@mmhmmm2]

Project Gorgon comes close.

[@sonicex8287]

Honestly. Rpg that have online elements tend to be more fun for me

[@mateuszkowalewski9944]

What is this game at beggin and end of the vid?

[@axelquevauvilliers1121]

Project BBQ

[@jakeweldon5181]

I think it’s black desert

[@aimoff1087]

Project BBQ

[@jayy3389]

Jake Weldon it’s not

[@yungblj5377]

If you're on Xbox one looking for an mmo try bless unleashed it's actually quite fun

[@dunninofmountprophet3283]

Wee need an actual sword art online mmo rpg just like the anime

[@OhLatte]

Dunnin of Mount Prophet yes! That would totally be worth buying and so much fun :p

[@dunninofmountprophet3283]

melina ugh ik it’s a no brainer , if I was a game developer that’s what I would be doing

[@rubbishopinions6468]

Yeah because it's so easy to do...

[@dunninofmountprophet3283]

Human Smith the same way they made all the games on this video they can make a sword art o line mmo rpg

[@mrwuggywug]

Can someone just freeze me and wake me up when the 2020+ games are out. Blue Protocol, Project BBQ, PSO2 NA x - x

[@liljm100]

What game is the showcase for when he's not talking about the top 10?

[@CreedFT]

project bbq

[@mikey-fi4cw]

I've played everything. 2007 Runescape, Shaiya, Tera, Dynasty Warriors Online, Vindictus, ESO Tamriel, PSO2 on the JPN server, Black Desert, GW2, ArcheAge, you name it, I tried it. The funnest game I ever played was Aion. Great music, great scenery, the ai's are cool, it was pretty much like heaven. You had free roam to do whatever. With the class I was playing, I could actually go invisible and sneak up on and kill other players. But of course, like any MMO, it doesn't last forever. Nostalgia though.

[@OntologicalCatastrophe]

If Archeage Unchained fails I'm losing all the hope I have left for MMOs.

[@MMOByte]

Well it is Gamigo.. the pay to win king of the graveyard.

[@AbsoluteSkycaptain]

Brace yourself.

[@Teachidoll]

There are alot of decent mmo's that are alive. Ffxiv

[@timmytonberry3246]

Thanks to FFXIV I still have hope.

[@fernandoc9315]

same

[@roxask922]

Keep up the vids! the perfect mmo will eventually come out soon (hopefully). hopefully i get an AAU code.

[@justinwalker4975]

Ok but what game is that before the elder scrolls online?

[@sambakandeh1386]

Project BBQ

[@marlonvonansale6457]

I was a GW2 player not gonna lie because of the time I play low player and farming for gear progression is insane tried ESO and I'm happy as hell..

[@BrothH3r]

whats the game hes playing in the beggining of the video?

[@Lia-ur5tm]

I want to know the same

[@Jisaji]

It hasn't been released yet, but it's called "Project BBQ" If I remember correctly. It's 3D Dungeon Fighter Online, basically.

[@chingobingo4680]

The games to be playing are final fantasy 14,world of warcraft,destiny 2,warframe, and tree of saviour. Ragnarok online is alive for war of emperium ONLY so if you want u can make a character,gear up, join a guild and expect a ton of action during war of emperium ONLY. GW2 is super active but nobody talks and there is no "dungeon finder"(queing for dungeons and auto match with random teamates) so its hard to do dungeons there.

[@aejrj2009]

You didn't talk about the damn game that you show on the end of the video

[@mason_ng]

I haven't really played a lot of MMORPG but in my opinion, FF14 is really the best playstyle for me, I can play every class in a single character without having to create a new character for trying new class. In the japan server(which I currently playing), I might face "server full" quite a lot times since the release of shadow bringer. So yeah, you can know that the servers are full of players. The community is so friendly as well! Check out some videos in youtube, I believe you will fall in love with FF as well :)