I don’t know about you guys, but I’m extremely excited about all the new free to play MMORPGs coming out in the next few months. gPotato’s PvP heavy Aika just entered closed beta a few days ago. For those that haven’t heard of Aika, it’s a PvP heavy MMORPG inspired by ‘Realm vs Realm’ games like Dark Age of Camelot and Warhammer Online. I’m excited about Aika because I was always a big fan of the large scale Realm vs Realm battles in Dark Age of Camelot. I played a level 50 Sorcerer in that game. Two more games I’m excited about are Kung Fuu and Battle of the Immortals. Kung Foo is a light hearted humorous MMORPG written by comic book writers. Even though the game is humorous, it’s still supposed to be an in-depth content rich MMORPG. The second game I mentioned is called Battle of the Immortals and it’s supposed to be a World of Warcraft / Runes of Magic ‘like’ fantasy MMORPG. The main reason I’m excited about these two games is that they’re both published by one of my favorite MMORPG publishers – Perfect World Co. In case you couldn’t connect the dots, Perfect World Co publishes ‘Perfect World’ as well as Jade Dynasty and Ether Saga Online.
Obviously gPotato and Perfect World Co aren’t the only publishers with some awesome new MMORPGs in the pipeline. Games like ‘Allods Online’ and ‘Mabinogi Heroes’ also look awesome. I’m looking forward to Allods because it’s apparently one of the highest budget ‘free to play’ MMORPGs ever. It cost well over $10M+ USD to develop it. Mabinogi Heroes is almost guaranteed to be awesome because it’s published by Nexon and they have a track record for putting out some of the highest quality games ever. Come to think of it, with all of these new games coming out, I may need to buy a bigger hard drive. My current one is starting to get full.
