Which Upcoming MMO's Are You Considering?

As this thread has clearly spelt out, there's no MMO where anyone is really feeling at home. I feel the same - I have a CO Account, a Lifetime STO account and a couple of others that get occasional play but nothing concrete.

So, what is coming up on the gaming horizon that you're hopeful for? For my money (all links are to MMORPG.com so you can get some background for each)...

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DUST 514 - The FPS partner to EVE Online, I'm intrigued by this PS3 only title and can see myself dropping in and out of this one too, if not actually making a home there.

Neverwinter - Got hands-on with this one at PAX East this year and despite playing a melee class which I almost never do I actually was entertained when doing so. Will be keeping an eye on this one!

Otherland - I adore the setting from the books by Tad Williams and always though this should be an MMO. Glad to see it's being made and showing some promise. If they make good on things, then I can see myself settling in for a time.

PlanetSide 2 - I'm currently beta testing this and actually having a blast with it. Still only have one out of three continents but each update is making it feel more and more of a fully fleshed MMO. If you like PvP games you should certainly check it out.

WildStar - Yes, it's an NCsoft property which may have some of you instantly disregard it, but this is the one I'm looking forward to most. I've been following it for years and from the interaction with the dev team and info out there it says to me this will likely be my new home. Which I will build ingame. With "defensive" cannons.

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So, what MMO properties are you looking at that aren't out yet that I or others might be interest in?

Planetside 2, maybe, but I didn't really care for the first one. It's not an MMO, really, just a persistent FPS. For FPS fun, I think Tribes Ascension looks better.

Otherland is looking pretty awesome. A cyberpunk MMO!? I've been dreaming of this since I first saw GitS. I'll check out Dust 514 if I ever get another PS3. And while PSO2 is technically out (in Japan), I can't wait to try it when it releases in NA. Finally, I'm with the ton of folks waiting for FFXIV: A Realm Reborn to get here.

Otherland? Guess I'll have to snag that series - it's been on my list for a while.

CoH2.

None.. Its CoH or bust for me..

I'm moving to Champions after COH is gone, but I will also probably be trying out the Game of Thrones MMO when it launches.

omg! How come I never heard of Otherland?! That game looks awesome! It's beautiful and just the kind of game I like!

None.

Show me an MMO where I can make a character that looks like anything I want without having to farm for cool-looking loot for weeks.

Where I can play as a plumber hitting things with a pipe while holding a manhole cover OR as a sorcerer who breathes fire OR as a space station captain shooting a ray gun, and yet they all FIT regardless of what crazy origin.

Where if I think "I wish there was a mission where I did this cool thing I thought of" and all I have to do is go to a mission creator terminal and make it.

Where I can spend an afternoon fighting aliens on top of their crashed saucer, the next preventing a city from sinking into the spirit world, and the following one fighting ancient romans.

Where I can lose hours building and decorating a base for my characters to hang out while planning what to do next.

Where teaming is not required, but it's so easy that you do it anyway, because you don't have to coordinate sharing missions or checking that everybody is at the same "step" in a quest chain.

Show me that, then maybe I'll consider it.

Well i had considered trying this one anyhow because its predecessor is what got me into online gaming, but phantasy star online 2.http://www.pso2.com/us/

Take the Magic: The Gathering 'What Color Are You?' Quiz.

1) I was considering Red Eagle Game's Wheel of Time MMO that is in the works, but I just found out they signed with EA as their publisher.... suppose it could be worse, they could have gone to NCSoft.....

2) I'll probably give Pandaland a whirl, but while I've never really minded WoW as a game, I have found the community there to be generally abrasive (read as: causing me to lose all faith in humanity), outside of a few minor exceptions.

3) I'm also eyeballing The Elder Scrolls Online as a possibility.

I lost all the cool names/concept characters I had in DCUO in the server merge a while back. Still miffed about that so I'm stand-offish.

I have a copy of GW2 I purchased prior to this fiasco, but while ArenaNet != NCSoft, I'm still wary to support anything they have any amount of control over.

If all else fails, there is always the steadfast LotRO. I haven't checked out the recent updates, so there should be new stuff to explore.

I've already got several on my plate right now, but DUST looks interesting.

I've got a few on my "want to play but won't really because I don't have time" radar. Neverwinter definitely sounds interesting. SWOTR is going free to play, and I already signed up to the free infinite trial (to level 15), but that was just before I found out CoH was closing, so I will dedicate my limited gaming time to CoH for now. I put a bit of money on the Shadowrun Online Kickstarter, and will be looking forward to seeing how it turns out.

I'm hoping The Secret World will live long enough to become a new home for me, but it's only two months old so it's way too early to tell. That game has received an uncanny amount of, largely unjust, negative attention. Which makes me sad.

None, most likely.

I am already playing Rift now, having had a long and 3 account career with CoH since '05. Tried WoW, GW, Aion, CO and EvE at times. My sub to CoH had been active over 7 years in total between my EU and US accounts to.

So with Rift:Storm Legion on the horizon and Trion Worlds fully commited to it, other mmo projects looking interesting...but ultimately going down, like TSW which looked great...but is failing already, GW2 looking overhyped and heading for the long goodnight (imho) and pandas with dumbed down skills not been my thing, I decided that the felxibility of Rift would be my thing.

So, after building 5 or 6 goreat solo bases accross many servers, 26 level 50s and over 250 alts, it's time to hang up my cape, crank up my Ascendants and step fully bacnk into talara for much fun and a world about to explode into action I guess.

For games not released yet: Torchlight 2

For games already out: Eve Online or Champions Online

I suppose there is a yet another angle which is leave the sinking ship known as MMOs.