What is a good/decent non-monthly MMORPG to play?

[Ahura]

I can afford to pay the one time charge of blah blah, but I just cannot handle the monthly fee, even if it liek 5 cents. Ok meybe 5 cents, but any higher is just ridiculous.

I liek both the small style, RO huh, and 3rd person, wow, so either is fine. I absolutely hate the 2D story, mapplestory, so I will avoid that.

[Silvers24]

I play World of Warcraft, as you most likely know, it's $15 a month.
Course, I haven't bought another gamecard to play, so I been out of the game for couple of months.

One of my WoW friend suggested Guild Wars, buy the game & it's free online.
Never played it, but it seems like WoW, and what I know some people who left blizz. went to work on this.
Really, the only ones I know of.

[RazR]

i personally have played guild wars and i can say that it is a very very good MMORPG
the gameplay is very easy to get into and within a couple hours you can get up to speed
the graphics in the game are phenomenal, i was just recently playing on my older computer that has a GeForce MX440 gpu and surprisingly it still looked good
there is a level cap of level 20 which isn't so bad...but the game does take a lot of strategy (as most RPG's do)
i would definitely recommend the game to anyone looking for a free MMORPG

[Ahura]

I'm thinking about GW too, but I think I might want to wait for GW 2 instead. I can play on private serve if the game has available server.

Tried WOW private server, but got a bit discouraged from it.

[Jaggannath]

Guild Wars and all the extension packs are worth playing... I've had it since it came out, and though I don't play it much I reckon it's better than WoW

[Kasturi]

I have been playing

Americas Army - free download & no monthy charge
Voyage Century Online - free download & no monthly charge (decent game for the price)
Waiting for Pirates of the Burning Sea to come out. - will have about a $15 monthly charge.

[Jester]

Hellgate:London comes out on the 31st and will only have a monthly charge if you want elite status. Its from the guys that did Daiblo II and is very similar to guild wars.

[Ahura]

Hm......*stroking invisible beard"
Wait, what is elite status?
On siden ot, Diablo 3 anyone?

[Jester]

it has been called the sequal to DII, but i dont think flag ship owned the name just the rights to diablo II so they couldnt use the name diablo III

[Jaggannath]

Originally Posted by Ahura Hm......*stroking invisible beard" Wait, what is elite status? On siden ot, Diablo 3 anyone?

I've read somewhere that if you download it from their website, you can get lifetime elite status for a one-off payment, rather than paying a monthly fee for it