after few months looking for a serious mmo...

A couple of months ago, i started looking for a serious/good mmo to play. i play a lot of other genres mainly RTS and FPS both on PC and Consoles, but its always good to have a character in training in some mmo, mmos gives you friends and clan mates that no other genre will ever give you.

Anyway, i started with Perfect world international (PWI), it was "free" to play, looked good and have a descent community, so i gave it a try, unfortunately, after about a month or so and after getting close to level 50, i found myself spending more money on the cash shop than on a paying mmo. not only that but basically just to do the same exact thing again and again... at level 10, i was killing level 10 mobs, and at level 40 im killing the same looking but lvl 40 mobs ! so, by doing basic math, its not worth it at all. the devs and some community members will tell you that the cash shop is not mandatory and that you can always make it through the game just by grinding and making in-game money... well that's bull $hit, will not happen... unless you wanna grind for the rest of your life... who ever made that game, made it in a way the YOU WILL use the cash shop sooner or later.

FINAL Verdict for PWI: stay away, its a waist of time and money.

So i decided to try a paying mmo instead, i was planing to get Age of conan (AOC), but a friend told me that it was useless, it gets boring very soon... so i got War Hammer On-line (WAR), it looked pretty good, smooth, descent community... however, when i registred and as soon as i logged in, the game prompted me to join a server, and so i did... jut to find out at lvl 10 that it was a desert oceanic server... at level 14, i gave up, that game was just anoter sword waving game... well it is actually a good mmo, have a lot of potential in PVP but somehow just felt empty... a very few selection of weapons and stuff made it look kind of dull...

FINAL VERDICT for WAR: good mmo, but not for me.

Then, i saw some posts about EVE on-line (EVE), i thought i would give it a shot, the 14 days trial was just in time, now i played it for about a week and it didnt stop to amaze me, the gfx are soo good that i forget im on an mmo... the interface is one of the best if not the best user interfaces ive ever seen, both clear and smooth, the game is honestly VERY difficult to learn, it is by no mean an easy game but its not because it was badly made but because it is a close to reality as you can get. the complexity and the ingenuity of the ships and personal attributes is just outstanding. skills can be trained even while you are offline, and the skill tree is very diversified, you can chose a Carree of making money by training trading and mining skills or a war carriers by training skills relevant to weaponry, war ships and command... i didn't get yet into any full scale PvP warfare, but only from looking at the ships variations and dependency upon each other, this game looks like a lot of fun...

Initial VERDICT for EVE: very good, but with a very high learning curve, and only for hardcore Sci-Fi fans.

if you are woundering why i didnt try WoW, its simply because its gfx are too old, its kind of an insult to any 2008 rig, i would love to buy it and play it, but Blizzard should invest some time in making a newer engine for it. because honestly for anyone who played a game like the Witcher, going back to WoW will hurt his eyes.

more to come...