Genuinely the Best Free to Play MMORPGs of 2024
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- čas přidán 4. 06. 2024
- There are hundreds of Free to Play MMORPGs. Here are the few that i genuinely recommend and advise people to try out in the year 2024.
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00:00 Intro
01:26 SWTOR
02:28 Lost Ark
04:04 GW2
05:49 Runescape
08:19 Albion
09:59 Neverwinter
11:05 FFXIV
12:11 Final Thoughts / My recommendations - Hry
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The same MMORPGS since 5 years....
I mean... you're not wrong!
more like 10-15 years haha
beating a dead horse
@@strub3868make a better game then
@@dramatyst5661 that is such a dumb comment. People can dislike something without being able to do it better, especially if it is something so special than game creation or movies..so take your 5 childish thinking outa here boy.
Worth noting for OSRS that Runelite has several graphics plugins as well. The GPU plugin greatly expands draw distance and adds antialiasing and texture filtering. 117HD is an entire overall of the graphics approved by the developers, Jagex, that keeps the oldschool artstyle but brings in modern shadows, lighting, high framerates, and more.
Don't forget the HDOS client, makes the game look like from the original 2008-2012 era!
im pretty convinced you made this list to talk about osrs again lol
Can neither confirm nor deny
Osrs is goat 🐐
Heya, @waydots. Could you let me know, what song you used for the Albion footage? For some reason I got some really nostalgic feeling hearing it.
RuneScape and old school RuneScape are easily #1 with guild wars 2 being an incredible mmo that is pretty much free base game. Final fantasy 14 is somewhat free, but will suck you in if you enjoy it and ultimately will not be free once you pay for the sub.
Content wise, OSRS and RS3 have hundreds of hours of free content. Can’t ask for more than that!
Honestly it can be so hard to sort through the chaff these days. Thanks for doing it for us, Waydot! :)
GW2 and SWOTR all the way.
Gw2 as a free player is horrid
@@Krunkeridleios nah fr
@@rimiriyxd2755 it is, you are very limited, you really need to buy their packs if you want to unlock everything
@@Krunkeridleioslol really no. Gw2 is the best f2p
@@Pinapplexx facts
i actually started playing gw2 because of your first impression video. Now i’m 200 hours in! and all i could say is thank you for playing gw2 and sharing your experience . If not for you i’d still be a sweaty League player lmao
That's awesome to hear :D glad your enjoying GW2 and good one less sweaty league player is a net positive
@@Waydots I thought sweaty league players are also welcomed in your community :(
Lost ark is not new-player friendly, it's one of the worst new player friendly games.
yeah it's the shittiest in the list
idk im having a blast 2 months in, spent like 10 bucks thus far
@@cielush1848 it's not about money. it's about community
@@SkyeReim I won't say I haven't seen toxicity or negativity but I do find the community aspect satisfying, still having a blast, this game's quality is awesome
@@cielush1848 me and most of the people didnt find it that way. good for you then
Great list! coming off a WOW stint and need something to fill the void, I have played GW2 since it released and I havent played osrs since it was just regular runescape.. I'm going to go back to both of them now and give them another shot!
*Endgame in Final Fantasy 14 is very different than what most of what you will Experience as a New-player while Leveling.*
*It will be Slow(maybe Boring) in the Beginning/Mid-Game, you will not see a noticable difference in difficulty until are atleast Lv 70+.*
*When you are done with MainStory you will have to do A LOT of Unlocks to completly open up the Game for all types of Content.*
*The Difficulty between Super Casual-Leveling Content and the Hardest-Content in the FF14 is very big - So be prepared.*
How do I get ffxiv free trial? Is it purchasing in steam? Or website
Albion really is fantastic. I tried it a few years ago when the tutorial was even shorter and things were slightly different and couldn't get the hang of it but I've had much less trouble this time around with guides and a guild and all that. Highly recommend! It's got a very similar feel to Oldschool Runescape.
Just started playing Albion recently the nature staff is very good for soloing pve content and its super cheap so I am not that mad if I lose one
What is coming out soon?
Really digging these dives into other MMORPGs. In all these videos i've never seen you dive into RIFT and give it a try. Would be curious to see your opinion on it! Was a pretty flourishing game 10 or so years ago, but i hear its nearly dead these days.
@@Ravalion i literally said its dead at the end. Did you even bother to read the entire comment? And do you not even watch his MMO videos? Thats the point of the series is to explore dead MMOs. GTFO off my comment.
10k hr in gw2 , 8k hr in ffxiv and still go on. 100% ruined my life 😂😂😂
xD its never too late!
Waydot, not sure if it's your type, but I'd love to see a review of Warhammer Online private server...
Thanks!
Love this content Waydot. Better see you for WoW S4 baby!!
I will try GW2 and this video deserve a sub! WP!
im still getting back into maplestory and other old games after all these years... like dragon saga too , idk why i didnt get hook by gw2 and all the mmo's uve mentionned in this vid
Damn, I was gonna try out GW2, but I don't have great internet, and it's a 60GB download.
Surprised that ESO wasn't mentioned. It's actually very healthy and has 10 years worth of content and updates.
ESO isnt free. atleast it wasnt when i bought it a few years ago.
@@628psp Ahh yeah thats true. Forgot it was a F2P list lol.
You missed Lord of the Rings Online! That game is amazing still and just hit 17 years!
Old school RuneScape are easily #1 tbh... Hundred of f2p hours, unique combat system and skilling.
I think the OSRS section understates how necessary membership is and overstates how much content f2p has. The balance is closer to 95% of the game being locked behind members, in my opinion. I do think there's a lot of fun to be had for the first time in f2p but going for high stats there outside of a self imposed challenge isn't really necessary.
Played a lot of wizard 101 as a kid ff14 recently but man idk how eso isn’t bigger , it’s got all I wanted
The graphics are literal dogshit
i am not sure if i would say RS skill system is unique, imo it is derivation of ultima online system
also if you like skilling up noncombat way and dont mind ondschool graphics, look at wurm online (or solo-friendly version wurm unlimited)
A little bit biast but Wizard101 gives a very unique way to play to mmorpgs with turn based card gameplay and i'm surprised noone ever mentions it on this types of videos. (also f2p with subscription model)
I would put Rs3 as a top Mmo with a *. If for any reason the suit dummies running Jagex let the devs do what they want for a change, then I could honestly give it a huge recommendation. Sadly the future looks grim. We can only hope a good company like Valve buys out Jagex at this point, but realistically, I don't see Rs3 ever coming back unless the players fight for it. If they actually brought back regular polls for Rs3, and actually listened, the game would sit nicely beside its older looking, yet younger brother.
Fun fact: Guild Wars 2 used to be a buy to play MMO. That's why it has such high quality.
Fun fact: all they gave the players who bought gw2 pre-f2p was an ugly knight skin no one wants to use.
what about bdo?
I would like to point out that FF14 isnt as generous as it may sound. The main sellign point compared to other mmos is the community and guess what you cant really access that with the free trial membership.
@5:00 you own these games forever* (or until they get shut down)
Just found your channel in the last few days. good work here.
1. Tera Online (dead but still alive), currently on private servers like MT: The Dreams or Starscape, Tera is way more alive that was ever been in the last few years before official servers shut down.
2. Metin2, yep... another Gameforge title, and one that not many are even taken in serious... =)) / But still the game is hugely active on the official servers from Gameforge (not steam, no one play it on steam lol... xd ), and also there are private servers with like from 5 to 20k unique player /24h and like 1 - 2k online at any time, those are numbers that cam easily enter the top 100 steam chart, and is not one or two servers like that are quite a loot of them (Shira, Loranda, Elveron, Rodnia, Caliope, Azyrah Origins2, Alaska2, WoM2, Aerion2) and many others and hundreds if not thousands of smaller ones (PS: like 99% of them are in Europe and Turkey, most of them have English available, but keep in mind that they are targeting specific regions where the game is most played, so don't expect much...)
3. Silkroad Online
I never understand why so many times ff14 is featured in free to play when its not free to play it has a free trial, but the game is subscribe to play
Because the free to play trial features hundreds of hours of potential content. Its literally the same thing as guild wars 2 its just they call it "expansions" and "base game" but it's the exact same monetization premise and it's worth mentioning.
The fact that people are playing OSRS, blows my mind..
How much is the game ?
200 bucks
The only MMORPG I play is Warhammer Age of reckoning on the free server and it is a freaking ancient game. I want good old pvp driven game and none of these offer it. Maybe Albion at some extend. I am sad I can't try the first Guild Wars game, friends say it had best guild wars and 4vs4 arenas.
I still play Runescape 3 to this day and I love it but it's absolutely sad how P2W the game has become. It actually became even more p2w when they released some battle pass shit but they received so much critique they removed it and refunded people who put money into it and apologized because a major amount of people actually cancelled their memberships Atleast that was respectable but it still remains p2w. I am completely okay with cosmetics and stuff being buyable but when it comes to gaining xp it should never be buyable to climb the top ranks. In the long run this is what kills games.
I still think it's a fun game no doubt but it struggles to attract new players and I think it's because it's hard to get into, has terrible F2P content and it has a pretty bad reputation. Because the game is so much about being as efficient as possible with everything it feels like it's not even worth playing in F2P. But the game is not bad. I think more OSRS players should give it a chance, it's a pretty flawed game but it receives more hate than it deserves. While many people quit because of the combat update, I continued to play and I really like it now. They really fixed the problems it had in the beginning.
I also think they need to make the game feel more social and there's tons of dead content and minigames.
I play both of your top two - good stuff right there, glad to know I can just keep playing these games 😎
GW2 is amazing mmorpg, BUT it always was so badly optimised, no matter what specs my pc is its always performing really bad, fps keeps jumping around like crazy
TL + GW2. Absolute Best.
idk man i ve tried every game u mentioned but nothing beats albion online in MMORPG Experience, i have like 21 discords channel for albion, there just too many people to play with, its MMO ofc we need big communities, not solos
Completely agreed with GW2 its has the best community
Guys try out RS3
please do a fallout 76 or aion "is it worth playing" love the others
osrs is easily the best progression in any game ever.
If this list is about 15 year old games, Rift and Runes of Magic are still alive. Way better than this list.
I would consider Lost Ark more of an ARPG than an MMO. You do not see that many people around to make it "MM"
My favorite truly free to play MMORPG in 2024 is City of Heroes. It's better than many games on this list and is truly 100% free to play.
You basically didn’t experience anything in lost ark that would make you keep playing the game, because the entire reason game is popular and beloved, is content that you never even reached. Legion raids and raids in general in late T3 that a new player can access simply by claiming a free power pass is something you skipped when trying out the game. You should’ve claimed your powerpass and attempted to do one of the legion raids like Valtan at the very least, without that you can’t say you played lost ark because the MSQ part of the game is by far the worst part of it.
Another thing is, lost ark doesn’t have to be your full time job if you want to stay F2P, majority of people only ever spend money on skins and never pay for progression while always being at the latest content on release, just by not taking 6 month breaks. If you actively log in every week to do your weekly and some daily quests you can stay free to play if that’s a concern for you. What a lot of people don’t understand about swiping in lost ark is that it’s extremely inefficient and a whale bait, if you spend $50k in the game for a whale weapon that gives you only 7% increase in damage that you can compensate by simply being better at the game. Skill in game outweighs spending always.
Hey I'm in this video too! Hell yea go Albion! Good video and succinctly summarizes your various videos over the last few months. Looking forward to the FFXIV review!
You don't recomment Neverwinter in your other video and you put it into best f2p mmos list.
Yep, and i even explained why in this very video! shocking!
did he not mention ESO...? or did i miss it?
ESO is not f2p
oh its not? my bad. Must have forgotten that I bought it.
Anyway, I recently found your channel and enjoy your videos!
great video bro,for me the best f2p version would be FFA XIV in terms of content and Runescape the best in terms of restrictions,GW2 seems to me an incredible MMO and in fact I play it for about 2 years being f2p player but I consider that its restrictions of character and endgame content makes the experience once you reach level 80 is very limited,reason why I chose to buy the expansions.
Yup.. i will just say..fot me its gw2 or wow
rs3 is great, kust playit ironman mode.
Dude, wtf are you talking about?
SWOTOR you have to purchase the suscription to have access to the full game
Same goes for GW2
Lost Ark died bc everyone realized how much P2W was
Tf u talking about bro there is no subscription in gw2
I'd honestly just buy a game instead of paying monthly subscriptions.
Lord of the rings online.... 200+ hours of free content up to level 95. Yes, there is a store, but you can have a great time without spending a dime.
Do you have a "Best Pay 2 Play" video in mind?
Gw2 is great.
fun fact you did not say anything about lotro as it's really nice f2p game
I mentioned lotro as a runner up in the end of the video.
@@Waydots thanks then
so basicly in free to play mmo rpgs video there are only 3 free to play games, and rest of them isnt free to play xd, guild wars 2 is kind of free trial before buying expansions for 120 dollars
Every game on this list is definitionally free to play and widely agreed to be free to play by the majority of the mmo community
Just because a game offers a subscription or extra content doesnt mean you cant play the game (and lots of it) for $0.00
Best free to Play + Pay to Win
not sure if you know this but FF14 is not a free mmorpg so idk why its in the video
Unless speaking about private servers or really old games, there are no MMORPGs that are definitionally "free".
Final Fantasy 14 is most definitely considered a F2P game with the option to purchase a subscription later on. There is hundreds of hours of content that can be completed within the free trial and its disingenuous to say otherwise, MOST mmo players consider FF14 to be "F2P"
Neverwinter is a better game than you give it credit for imo.
Where is DC UNIVERSE ONLINE
Pso NGS is the best MMO
I'm hoping gw3 gets released soon enough
Yeah we really need a fresh GW. Tired of using the same weapon skills for so many years
@@stephenmessana5712 they literally just added so many new weapons lol
Gw2 👍🔥💪
Lotro?
Love the content. But this I thought was a F2P list. Osrs is basically not F2P. Compared to other games listed. So I do have to disagree. Without membership of isrs you get roughly 10% of the game. Used to be more but each year it becomes less and less. Only people playing f2p osrs are botters. Also 117HD disregards your graphics if you, and you did out Albion online on here. The minecraft look alike lol.
But again appreciate your time in all this. Thank you🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
I am so tired of the RS3 slander... RS3 is no worse a "free to play mmo" than osrs as they both share the exact same subscription model. In fact; with a RS3 subscription you get osrs included in that subscription. Sure the monetization is much worse than osrs, but the p2w aspects of the game literally only affects the person paying the money. If you wanna play completely free whether that be with a mainscape account or ironman you will not be affected by the microtransactions unless you choose to participate. As far as PVE content goes RS3 is far and away the better game as it has so much more PVE content. Of course if youre looking for PVP then osrs is where youll need to be since RS3 has all but completely done away with PVP content. There really needs to be a more nuanced discussion on this subject, because the continuous RS3 bashing that is happening is only going to end up hurting both versions of Runescape.
The problem isn't that RS3 isn't good, sure you got the OS mega nerds that would bash on it, even if it legit was doing better. The problem is the constant push for MTX, while pushing game updates to the back line. Take all the money you want from TH it doesn't bother me, but take that money and put game updates as top priority. Its the greed people are mad at, they don't do the same to their other game.
While i disagree mostly with what you said here, how exactly did i bash rs3?
I pointed out the good qualities, and some bad, and still offered runescape 3 as a runner up.
But for someone wanting to try a new f2p mmo in 2024; osrs is almost always the better option because:
1. Consistent quality updates
2. Less predatory loot box mechanics that prey on gambling addiction
3. More communication from the mod team
4. 5x larger daily average playercount
5. Easier to navigate UI for new players
I could go on, but osrs is definitely the better choice espeecially this year which hasnt even seen a major content update for rs3 and its already almost may.
@@WaydotsMy comment was not directed specifically at the comments you made in the video. I believe the criticism you have for RS3 is quite fair. Obviously RS3 gets a lot of hate from the OSRS community and I was expressing my exasperation with the abundance of “rs3 bad” takes when the two games really aren’t as different as what most people make out. You stated you disagreed with most of my original post. I obviously believe what I said to be true and accurate and I am curious as to how you disagree with my previous statements. We agree on the MTX which I believe has no place in RuneScape and is in fact predatory. I’m curious about how you disagree with the other statements I made however.
warframe?
Runescape and OSRS are not FREE TO PLAY, there is a extremely limited free to play version, but pretty much 90% of content is behind paywall
Osrs hd is the best
ffxiv is not free to play ??
Free to play games. Game one you need to pay a monthy fee to play all content. yeah nice video...
for gw2 to be labelled "mmo" i think it completely ruins the definition of that word. mind numbing casual experience that you'll never miss. ubisoft tier map clearing trash missions. don't try it if you value your time even if just a bit.
guys come back to champions online.. the last surviving superhero mmo.. it got tons of potential.. if only a company would buy them over an continue to develop.. the game has survived 12 years n still got some regulars!. Wish a company would just buy the game cause the lazy dev dey dont do much or add any real new content..
DDO anyone? 😅
love ddo but it needs some love. . . hell, a lot of love
@@DontHateMeCausImSexy agreed, there is a lot of old, that needs to be redone. Specifically explanations and the early game.
@@spidersav im surprised it still has its lag/jankiness issues
@@DontHateMeCausImSexy spaghetti code, and priorities to release new content to make a profit
the same 5 oldies that the thing i tried all and they suck
Soooooo all the "Best Free to Play MMORPGs of '2024'" are all like 10 years old? Why dont we have anything new or fresh? Why isnt there a studio thats DOING IT RIGHT?
Bc. Every time a new one come they fuck it up like dont uppdate or that they just destroys it
I kinda wish Secret World Legend was a bit more healthy... The game is now self-sustaining with everything it got from fanbase... Quite dead tbf.
These lists are made every single month and they're always the same. Why even make these lists???
Cause people watch IT and we literally generate Money by watching it
still no free mmorpg most of them are pay to get the full game
As a GW2 player i can''t recommend the free version.
Less bags
Little bank inventory
3 character slots
No mounts
Can't go to any zones that's new that you need
Elite specialization are locked (For WoW players it's kinda having a better version of you talent trees locked)
Can't buy other than materials on their Auction house (Trading post)
Everything in GW2 is locked behind a paywall
If you buy the first 2 expansions it's a good game but even then missing loads of stuff.
So no
hmmmmmmm - definition of "Free" please?
free - adverb
without cost or payment.
subsciption required..... is not free.
Great video though!... just a misleading title
None of these games require a subscription or any money to play, they offer a subscription for more content sure, but these are all definitionally "free to play" and widely agreed to be "free to play" by the wider MMO audience and market. Thanks for the comment though !
FF has been the most boring MMO I've ever tried...so much excitement so much disappointment:(
Every fucking mmo list on youtube just has the same bullshit games...sigh.
The only mmo worth playing has been FF14 for over a decade and even that one is mediocre at best, such a sad genre
you didnt talk about warframe nahh you meste the best
same crap as before. do some new ones!
lord of the rings/tolkien is that made modern fantasy not dnd , dnd exists because of lord of the rings
This is true that tolkien created the world and characters, but dnd modernized the dungeon and adventure. I think dnd did more for the rpg genre than tolkien absolutely.
Awwwwwww..........
DC Universe Online was not on the list. :(
;)
currently i see all mmorpgs available now are bunch of trash games nothing can pull me in any more paid or free
same garbage different year