Top 5 Best Free-to-Play MMORPGs

Best Free MMORPGs

With rapidly inflating development costs and operating fees, a global economy in the toilet, and just plain old user apathy as resulted in one clear consequence for the MMO market: subscription-based MMO’s are on their way out. Making them is exorbitantly expensive, and keeping them running for their lifespan, usually planned in years, makes them about as fiscally attractive as an abyssal trench. Not only are people sick of paying subscription fees for products that simply don’t deliver a cohesive experience, but they can barely afford the things these days to begin with.

The solution is the Free- to-Play MMO, which is (for the most part) based around a convenience model of micro-transactions, giving the less-than-patient player base a way to immediately access content that would normally take them some time to unlock just by playing the game normally. Fortunately for developers and publishers alike, people are indeed impatient, and micro-transactions have proven to be a great way of recouping production and operational costs!

In this list, we’re going to cover the five best MMORPGs currently available. Well, the five that *I* like best, anyway. Why five? Simple! There just aren’t that many great F2P MMORPGs. I should also note that I’m not getting into other MMO’s just yet – that’s for another article, which will be longer. Okay! Lets get started.