Best free-to-play MMO?

I've never played an MMO before, mainly because I live in a third world country and the internet speeds here are pathetic. Last week, I got a reasonably good internet connection by my country's standards, so would like to start playing an MMO. I can't go for any paid ones because they don't accept my country's currency, and I don't have an international credit card to pay in dollars, pounds or euros. So I just wanted to know which is the best free-to-play MMO to start with, and also one in which even non-paying players too have a realistic chance of progressing in the game. Please help me out with this. Thank you.

Tera or Rift would be my first 2 completely free choices, however, if you can buy Guild Wars 2 I would go with it.

Neverwinter is new an f2p..Its not bad an has player made areas..Some of it was quit interesting when i played i just get bored these days of mmorpgs..

Tera or Rift would be my first 2 completely free choices, however, if you can buy Guild Wars 2 I would go with it.

Xeogua

Thanks. I'll try out both. And its impossible for me to buy Guild Wars 2 because I don't have an international credit card, and they don't support payments with my country';s currency.

Neverwinter is new an f2p..Its not bad an has player made areas..Some of it was quit interesting when i played i just get bored these days of mmorpgs..

Gladestone1

Thanks for the suggestion! :)

I am going to go with the very unpopular opinion of Dungeons and Dragons Online. Or Lord of the Rings Online. Had so much fun with both of them, was actually a paid subscriber to DDO for a very long time.

lotro actually isnt that bad, shame so much content is locked behind pay walls

Aw Man, too bad you can't get yourself Guild Wars 2 :(

Apart from the initial buying price, afterwards it would be no doubt the best F2P out there right now where you could progress and have awesome fun for months without paying anything else anymore.

Not even big Online Stores like Amazon etc. offer an option for your currency? :/

Just out of curiosity, which country and which currency is it?

Aw Man, too bad you can't get yourself Guild Wars 2 :(

Apart from the initial buying price, afterwards it would be no doubt the best F2P out there right now where you could progress and have awesome fun for months without paying anything else anymore.

Not even big Online Stores like Amazon etc. offer an option for your currency? :/

Just out of curiosity, which country and which currency is it?

Justforvisit

Amazon isn't even there in my country. It does ship products to my country, but doesn't offer an option to pay with my country's currency. Since you asked, my country is India and the currency is rupee.

I am going to go with the very unpopular opinion of Dungeons and Dragons Online. Or Lord of the Rings Online. Had so much fun with both of them, was actually a paid subscriber to DDO for a very long time.

Schreek

I guess I'll try out Lord of the Rings online.

rift,its not even a contest.there is no reason to play any other f2p mmo.lotro has half of its content locked by turbine points(and the turbine points that you can get in game are laughable) and tera is amazigly boring,empty and repetitive

rift,its not even a contest.there is no reason to play any other f2p mmo.lotro has half of its content locked by turbine points(and the turbine points that you can get in game are laughable) and tera is amazigly boring,empty and repetitive

Hate_Squad

Thank you, I'll try out Rift tonight!

I agree with Rift, just stay away from the crappy unbalanced pvp.

I agree with Rift, just stay away from the crappy unbalanced pvp.

vfibsux

RIFT, it's the best free MMO out there imo.

I'm currently giving Neverwinter a bit of time. It just makes me appreciate WoW even more every time I try another MMO. One observation I've made about MMOs these days is their game world. Developers seem to think having a city hub where you'll find a mass of players makes for a good MMO environment. It makes me appreciate WoW's environment and makes me wonder why, eight or nine years later developers still can't build expansive, open, sandbox areas in which everyone has access to. Instead in games like Neverwinter you have area after area strung together. I can't define "massively multiplayer" as a game that's only taste of massive is its city hub. I can name a bunch of MMOs that do the same thing. The only thing I can think of is that they seem to be trying to build an MMO around single player design mechanics and it just fails.

Rift is great, Tera Online is all right.

Guild Wars 2 is a one time payment, there is no subscription and I consider it better than both and even WoW. 

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I agree with Rift, just stay away from the crappy unbalanced pvp.

ferrari2001

I'm currently giving Neverwinter a bit of time. It just makes me appreciate WoW even more every time I try another MMO. One observation I've made about MMOs these days is their game world. Developers seem to think having a city hub where you'll find a mass of players makes for a good MMO environment. It makes me appreciate WoW's environment and makes me wonder why, eight or nine years later developers still can't build expansive, open, sandbox areas in which everyone has access to. Instead in games like Neverwinter you have area after area strung together. I can't define "massively multiplayer" as a game that's only taste of massive is its city hub. I can name a bunch of MMOs that do the same thing. The only thing I can think of is that they seem to be trying to build an MMO around single player design mechanics and it just fails.

-Unreal-

I'm currently giving Neverwinter a bit of time. It just makes me appreciate WoW even more every time I try another MMO. One observation I've made about MMOs these days is their game world. Developers seem to think having a city hub where you'll find a mass of players makes for a good MMO environment. It makes me appreciate WoW's environment and makes me wonder why, eight or nine years later developers still can't build expansive, open, sandbox areas in which everyone has access to. Instead in games like Neverwinter you have area after area strung together. I can't define "massively multiplayer" as a game that's only taste of massive is its city hub. I can name a bunch of MMOs that do the same thing. The only thing I can think of is that they seem to be trying to build an MMO around single player design mechanics and it just fails.

-Unreal-

You are worse kind of troll here, Blizzard funboy. Be a gamer, dont be a slave of commerciality.

I'm currently giving Neverwinter a bit of time. It just makes me appreciate WoW even more every time I try another MMO. One observation I've made about MMOs these days is their game world. Developers seem to think having a city hub where you'll find a mass of players makes for a good MMO environment. It makes me appreciate WoW's environment and makes me wonder why, eight or nine years later developers still can't build expansive, open, sandbox areas in which everyone has access to. Instead in games like Neverwinter you have area after area strung together. I can't define "massively multiplayer" as a game that's only taste of massive is its city hub. I can name a bunch of MMOs that do the same thing. The only thing I can think of is that they seem to be trying to build an MMO around single player design mechanics and it just fails.

-Unreal-

It's his opinion and it has merit, I don't play WoW but a lot of mmo's partition players away from each other to the point that it's like playing a single player game with multiplayer town hubs. WoW is still number 1 for a reason, nothing matches it's production values and ease of access. I did play WoW when it came out and it managed to have the sense of wonder that draws you in that other mmo's just simply don't, you want to explore the map, you want to see the dungeons (atleast for the first time experiencing it) as where most mmo's are just go to x, find y and you stare at the minimap only caring about the end goal of aquiring xp or items. WoW managed, if for only an instant, to create an experience that players want to play instead of creating an end point that players want to get to. 

Altho not really an MMO, it still takes my time away the same :P Path of Exile.

It's his opinion and it has merit, I don't play WoW but a lot of mmo's partition players away from each other to the point that it's like playing a single player game with multiplayer town hubs. WoW is still number 1 for a reason, nothing matches it's production values and ease of access. I did play WoW when it came out and it managed to have the sense of wonder that draws you in that other mmo's just simply don't, you want to explore the map, you want to see the dungeons (atleast for the first time experiencing it) as where most mmo's are just go to x, find y and you stare at the minimap only caring about the end goal of aquiring xp or items. WoW managed, if for only an instant, to create an experience that players want to play instead of creating an end point that players want to get to. 

robokill