I talked a lot about the games I play today. Like for pretty much the whole walk.
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I’d recommend my own MMORPG, Lord of the Rings Online. At this point it is successful and has been around for a long time, and still provides new content regularly. Players can currently level to 130 (150 coming soon). You can explore Tolkien’s Middle-Earth to your heart’s content and see most of the places from the books. The crafting system is very robust, with player-crafted items (armor, weapons, jewelry, food, potions, etc.) being on a par (or better) than all but the best loot drops available from raiding. There is no non-consensual PVP or griefplay save in one small zone, and one is not required to ever enter that zone and receives no penalty for failing to do so. The developers made a particular point of making the landscape as beautiful as they could, in keeping with Tolkien’s own descriptions of a wondrous world.
Here are the crafting types available:
Armor crafting
Weapon crafting
Jewelry crafting
Woodcrafting – – weapons, furniture, musical instruments
Cooking (food and drink items to enhance player stats)
Farming (provides materials for cooks and scholars)
Scholar (makes potions/healing items, craft-enhancing items, player enhancing items, home deco items).
Prospector: mines ore nodes for metals.
Lumberjack: gathers wood resources for woodcrafting.
Tailor: makes clothing and non-metal armor.
Player-made items can be bought and sold in an “auction house” which is where most in-game wealth is created.
There is a very robust player music system in game. Players have a choice of a dozen or so different musical instruments (including a cowbell!) that can be played via keyboard or via stored notations. It is even possible for players to form bands and play music as an ensemble, with synchronized music notations. Bands regularly perform at seasonal in-game festivals and simply for entertainment.
As with most MMORPG’s there is a free-to-play option that allows someone to try the game out, but the full experience of all perquisites can only be accessed via subscribing to the game.
OH!
I remember LOTRO. I stopped playing for a while and they wanted me to repurchase all the expansions that I’d already paid for. 🙁
I think I went to Eve Online after that