runescape is supposed to be the best free MMORPG (google it i cba to get a link). But unfortunately there are no decent MMORPGS with uber graphics and retail versions, it just takes too much money to maintain the servers.
Isnt Guild Wars a free MMORPG? But I don't know if its out yet. Or do you mean MMORPG's that you can just download and play for free or ones you can buy then play for free monthly-wise.
You have to pay for Guild Wars once by buying the game, playing online is free.....it's not out yet.
as for some free mmorpg....
Knight Online - not too shabby, graphics are not that great, gameplay gets repetetive
Risk Your Life- Pretty good, decent graphics, fast gameplay, not too many quests are available yet, Uber lag...
Planeshift- AFAIK, there's no combat or quests that are available yet, Everquest graphics.....that's all i can say about it...
Priston Tale- this game has been in US beta for so long that there's already an expansion pack/upgrade for the BETA.... cartoonish graphics, fast gameplay, bad camera control, very populated
Alien Assault Traders is a multiplayer turn based space trading game. Where players use turns that are accumilated over time to trade good and build empires and take over the universe.
Another World
In Another World you can create your own character and travel lifetime journey through amazing world killing players or monsters, fishing and then cooking fish, mining and then smiting it to a nice long sword, with many more things for you to do!
Aspereta
Aspereta is many games, split into their own servers each offering a unique environment. Aspereta servers are not just copies of other worlds. Each server has a unique world, with their own community, classes, quests, creatures, items and magic. Your experience within the worlds is what you make it. They have an array of different worlds to explore and conquer. Choose a world with an environment you prefer, with other people just like you.
Conquer Online
Beautiful 2D artistic backgrounds and advanced 3D effects bring characters and environments to life. Experience the ancient Chinese Kungfu and magic, enjoy the endless beautiful scenery and mythical environment in which you can develop your own character and interact with other real-life and imaginary beings. This marvelous MMOG conquers the hearts of millions of players.
CrossFire
Crossfire is an open source, cooperative multiplayer graphical RPG and adventure game. Since its initial release, Crossfire has grown to encompass over 150 monsters, about 3000 maps to explore, an elaborate magic system, 12 races, 15 character classes, a system of skills, and many artifacts and treasures. Crossfire is based in a medieval fantasy world and is similar to other games of this genre.
Crystal Atatrium - The New Era
In the very early stages of development, keep checking back for more updates.
DarkEden
The first attempt at a HORROR / VAMPIRE MMORPG. And yes i've played it. Take sides with either the Vampires or the Vampire Slayers and hunt your next victim! With advanced magic and melee skills, items, weapons and armour this game has great potential. This game is OPEN PvP.
Darkfire
Darkfire Online, a Living Fantasy MMORPG where Humans, Elves, Dwarves and Lizards battle for the freedom of the land of Darkfire. Here you will find all the resources you need to get started playing the game. Check out our ever evolving screenshot section for the lastest eye candy from within the game, or you can view the forum to get answers and support or just a friendly chat.
Dragon Raja
In the world of Dragon Raja, you may pick any one of the key classes. Each class comes with its own unique strength and weaknesses. Consider wisely before you initiate any class as your own as it will be a long journey of discovery and adventure between you and your character. And yet, we advise you to try each class in the early part of the game, to familiarize yourself with the traits, abilities and uniqueness of each character. Whatever your choice may be, the key objective is to have fun and we're serious about it.
Dungeon Stomp
A 3D multiplayer/single player dungeon game based on the d20 game system. Dungeon Stomp will allow you to see your dice rolls, as you would, in a d20 based game system. You can also see your rolls when you listen at doors. Dungeon Stomp can be played as a single player adventure game or you can work together (or not) in a network game. Network Dungeon Stomp can be launched via the multiplayer menu or simply through MSN Messenger.
Eternal Lands
The game is now in Beta stage, but that doesn't mean it is incomplete and it plans on being FREE. There are 9 skills, total character development freedom, many quests, religion, a lot of NPCs, animals and monsters. If you are a PKer, you can fight other PKers in special maps. If you are not a PKer, then you can stay on the non PK maps, where you don't have to worry about being attacked by other players. Fighting: You can fight monsters and other players, hunt animals, or join with a group of friends and take them on together!
Harvest & Manufacture: Mine ores that you turn into bars of iron, steel, titanium and make various armor and weapons. Or pick flowers and herbs that you mix together to create potions or magical essences.
Summoning & Magic: Summon an animal or monster to follow and fight for you! Or Become a Mage and cast deadly spells on opponents, or heal your companions.
Roleplay with friends! There's always someone new to talk to, global or private channels, guilds to join, places to explore, all with an easy to use chat interface.
Eternal Lands has no fixed classes or professions, so you can always do new things and develop new skills without having to create a new character!
Faldon
A 2D fantasy based MMORPG involving quests, guilds and hours of endless adventure with friends.
Furcadia is the magical world where the animals have learned to walk upon two legs and speak. Create your own customizable avatar and start exploring the friendly, graphical environment with rich, player-driven content. Our established online community grew over years and has become a second home to many. Furcadia invites you to an interactive experience unlike any other.
There's many exciting things you can do here! Roleplay in an enchanting medieval setting, be yourself and socialize with other players, participate in games, make friends, join a guild, tell stories and meet interesting people from all over the world! You can even use our intuitive building tool to dream up your own world and make it real and accessible to other Furcadia members!
Hostile Space
Hostile Space is a massively multiplayer online role playing game that takes place in a vast persistent galaxy. Players take on the role of a star ship captain with goals including planetary exploration, mining, bounty hunting, smuggling goods, and taking on terrible space monsters. There is a diverse set of races and classes to select from. Rewards include ship upgrades, new weapons, psionic abilities, new skills, and alien technology. Gameplay is focused toward small team play but soloing is possible throughout the game. Since the galaxy is persistent, new quests are available every day, and new areas/creatures are added regularly.
Illarion
llarion is a graphical medieval fantasy game that focuses on roleplaying, unlike other so-called rpg games such as Tibia and Runescape. This game is not about levelling up or hunting monsters. There is no global chat and no experience points. This game is about roleplaying, which means you interact with other people and your environment as if you were a person in a real medieval fantasy world. You are not supposed to say things that are out of context from your medieval fantasy character. Your character does not know words like "email", "computer", "lol", or "u r here 4eva". Any ooc talk should be kept to a minimum. If you want to play a game where the objective is to level up and kill things or gain as much skill as possible, then this is not the game for you.
Kings of Chaos
A Web based MMORPG, Kings of Chaos brings you in command of an army of either humans, elves, dwarves or orcs. The aim of the game is to achieve the highest overall ranking - worked out by taking a combination of your attack, defence, and covert (spy) rankings - whoever has the lowest combined ranking will be 1st in the overall rankings. This makes it important to keep your army evenly balanced in all these areas.
Magiknights *NEW*
MagiKnights is a medieval setting two dimensional graphical role playing and combat MMORPG. Create a character and adventure into the Newbie lands of Magiknights. Once a certain skill is obtained then you have a chance to join the school of the magiknights ? spells and melee. Here you can grow in the ranks to become a fully fledged magiknight. Magiknights are lawful and loyal to all. Their arch enemy is the evil races and also Evil MagiKnights, those that have shunned the way of the magiknight and vow to destroy them. A growing community of gamers with a high element of role play.
Materia Magica
A Text-based mmorpg, Materia Magica features a huge, totally original, realistic universe with over eight million locations to explore, as well as remarkable and numerous means of travel, such as horses and dragons, magic carpets, enchanted brooms, powerful worldgates, strange devices of gnomish design, and much more! With seas, jungles, plains, desert, mountain areas and underground, you have virtually unlimited possibilities for adventure. In addition, Materia Magica's visible compass provides information and direction as to where you can go and what might await you there.
MU Online
MU, a 3D online game produced by Webzen is a full on 3D MMORPG that is the first of its kind developed in Korea. MU is a highly involved fantasy Role Playing Game based on the legendary Continent of MU. You are given the choice of selecting between one of four classes, Dark Knight, Fairy, Dark Sorcerer and Magic Gladiator, and become a daring adventurer in the quest to save the land of MU.
Murk
Murk is a simple 2D dungeon adventure game with a good look, a MIDI soundtrack, multiplayer mode, and some other nice features. Playing as a fighter, cleric, mage, or thief, you explore mazes and dungeons in search of treasure, weapons, spells, items, and of course, monsters. You can chat with other players, use magical rings, and more.
Myrmidia
Myrmidia is a 3D Multiplayer Online Role-play Game (MORPG) which is to be a testing ground for a scaleable multiplayer game network library. The current client (Alpha 2.5) uses DirectPlay, this will change as of Alpha 3. Keep checking back as this game progresses.
Oberin
Oberin is an online fantasy role-playing game and virtual community, available exclusively for Macintosh. Oberin takes place in a persistent, ever evolving world -- your character may come and go, but the world continuously runs. While there are many separate quests that can be completed in Oberin, there is no ultimate goal when playing. The journey is the reward. It's an online fantasy world where the fun comes from interacting with other real players. You can join a group of fellow players to hunt for dragons, spend a quiet day fishing, meet a friend at the pub for a game of chess, or spend some time refining your chosen skills.
Planeshift
The objective of the PlaneShift Team was to create a virtual fantasy world in which a player can start as a peasant in search of fame and become a hero. They focus their efforts in the reproduction of a real world with politics, economy, many non-player-characters controlled by the server that bring life to world even without players connected!
Race War Kingdoms
Race War Kingdoms is an unique web browser based MMORPG. Appealing to nearly all types of players because it encompasses many different kinds of game play. Those who enjoy peaceful solitude can turn off all chat messages and easily hide themselves in a desolate corner of any of the 5 immense maps. Those who enjoy intense player vs. player action can gain experience slaying other players as well as the hundreds of unique monsters indigenous to each map. And for those who enjoy strategic warfare, Race War Kingdoms offers an intricate kingdom development and war waging system and nearly half a million inhabitable kingdom squares.
Runescape
Runescape is a massive multiplayer adventure, with monsters to kill, quests to complete, and treasure to win. You control your own character who will improve and become more powerful the more you play. This isn't a game where everything that happens is pre-determined. What you do in the world is up to you!
Starport
In a time that would be known as the golden age of space frontier, personal fortunes are won and lost in the far-off reaches of the galaxy. Corporate empires are forged and destroyed amidst the booming industry of colonization, and the only laws are those made by the captain with the most shields, guns, and warp fuel. What will be your legacy?
Tibia
Tibia is an online role-playing game where many thousands of players from all over the world meet everyday. Enter a medieval fantasy scenery world and choose the path of adventures you prefer. Train your skills as a knight or become a magician to fight successfully against the dangerous monsters that terrorize the inhabitants of Tibia.
Westfalen
Westfalen is a game is a turn based strategy game for 19 human players. Each human player has his own nation to rule. Westfalen consists of a user client program and an independent server program. The user client program is for the users (players). The client program allows the users to give orders for the game and send messages to the other players.
Has anyone heard of Neocron? Im telling you, it might not have the biggest playerbase and it might not be that bug free but this game wipes the floor with any FPS online and is the best MMORPG out by a long way. Unless of course you like being on a leveling trademill for 12 months just to get high level then this MMO isnt for you.
Ill give a back story why it isnt popular at all. When the game was released the publisher for the game was CDV and they didnt advertise it what-so-ever...the game slowly died because less and less people knew about it because the publisher was'nt doing their job...CDV are no longer the publisher and have'nt been for a while because they simply cannot be worked with. I know you cant put the entire blame on the publisher but 85% is their fault, Have you heard of neocron? thats that settled.
Anyway the game is set for a massive expansion in September of this year (private beta testing is happening right now, i know, my m8 is in the beta) and although this expansion has been delayed for over a year it really is coming this time and it isnt just an expansion, its a re-release of the game alongside new publisher BigBen who published DAOC (so i believe) and is being re-named to Neocron "2" : Beyond Dome of York. The expansion add's lots of new content including an all new city to the game (it will be DoY vs Neocron, factions lie between the two empires) but add's a whole new engine massive upgrade from its DX7.0 counterpart atm to DX9.0 (DX7.0 relied a lot on CPU and this game needs a fast CPU more than anything atm, my X800pro does'nt make a difference to it) which will make the game not only look nicer (from 256x256 textures to 512x512 textures) but will make it alot less reliant on cpu and make the gfx card do the work like games should do.
www.neocron.com is the place to go to get a free trial, it isnt expensive and if you can afford an internet connection to look at this then whats £4 a month? :/
If anyone should download this and try it then if you get stuck with PATCHING (which you will with #166 patch to be exact) be sure to PM here for a very fast solution and fix. Ill post some pictures of it from a players aspect because most media of this game bar the DoY new trailer is quite confusing as it isnt the real game as you would see it.
As you can see the graphics are'nt bad anyway for an MMO. Anyway i think your missing out on a really good game, believe me you dont need to be an MMORPG maniac to like this game. This was my first one and i came from CS to this and now i have'nt even got CS installed anymore and ive been playing for 1.5 years so far. When DoY (Dome of York) comes this game _might_ get really popular, i mean its got massive potential but no one has heard of it. Try it and ask me for help how to get it patched if you come accross problems and i play Uranus server.
Edit/ I know i said its a FPS (which it is) but i prefer 3rd person view over 1st person view for PvP and this game works around PvP (Player vs Player) for the best part, you are free to do whatever you want outside safe zones (copbot [coppers] zones) to whoever you want whenever you want except LE runners (LE = Law Enforcer) which makes them un-able to be shot and they are un-able to shoot anyone else as well (much reccomended for new players).
I play Graal Online, it aint exactly free, you can get a trial for free, but you cant save. Its a lot like Zelda, because it was originally based off of Zelda, Anyways its a one time fee for it pretty much, if you like the trial. Graal Homepage