Hi everyone,

I'm looking for a free MMO to start with and it would be kinda nice if there were some anthro races included that you could choose from.
Any suggestions for me?

Have you tried Perfect World? It's like WoW only free and it has wolf, fox, bat, tiger, lion, cat, and bear characters (there are others too, but I can't remember them atm) you can play as. It also has something similar to the zora people in zelda you can also play as.

Or you could play Battle On in which you can play as a werewolf or werepyre (basically a werewolf with wings) but that one's not an MMO like Perfect World is.

cookiekangaroo said:
Have you tried Perfect World? It's like WoW only free and it has wolf, fox, bat, tiger, lion, cat, and bear characters (there are others too, but I can't remember them atm) you can play as. It also has something similar to the zora people in zelda you can also play as.

And it's also terrible.

There's Earth Eternal, but it won't be available outside of Japan for a while. It's a fun game though, if you have some friends to play it with.

ExplosiveBlaziken said:
And it's also terrible.

details. and it wasn't THAT bad...it was just simi-terrible.

cookiekangaroo said:
details. and it wasn't THAT bad...it was just simi-terrible.

I remember trying it and deciding that it had some good ideas in terms of setting and characters, but its gameplay was stone-aged grind-tastic rubbish circa 20th century. And I recall its tutorial seemed suspiciously written from the perspective of Asian net cafe culture, where you don't use tutorials since you can just ask the person sitting next to you.

I liked it. But my screen is too tiny for it... Tiny Screen + Tiny Lettering + Cramped view and menus + backlit screen = Continuous headaches and eye cancer in two weeks.

Furcadia springs to mind as a MMOSG, if you don't mind "retro-ish" graphics and an abysmal update "schedule". There's no campaign mode, so it's more like a glorified chat room with graphics, but you can make and upload your own mini-worlds for free so you can, depending on your skills, easily make your own mini-games or just design your own freeform role play environment (good luck finding other role players, though).

Still, all the defaults and many of the for-pay avatars are anthropomorphic animals. There's one set of gendered human avatars, but they're for-pay only. The rest are feral types and one fairy toaster.

ExplosiveBlaziken said:
And it's also terrible.

I think it looks nice at the first sight, but never tried it so what do I know...

ikdind said:
but its gameplay was stone-aged grind-tastic rubbish circa 20th century

Could you please explain what exactly you mean by that? Nothing new or innovative? No real story?
And I don't really mind if the game eats some of my time to reach a new level.

Clawstripe said:
Furcadia springs to mind as a MMOSG

I probably should've said I'm looking more for a MMORPG than just MMO.

Best thing about Perfect World were some of the ads it put out during its early stages, most of which are impossible to find now. Those characters were flat out sexy.

donttouchthatthing said:
Could you please explain what exactly you mean by that? Nothing new or innovative? No real story?
And I don't really mind if the game eats some of my time to reach a new level.

Are you ready to fight the same enemy for three or four hours to get five percent closer to a level?

ikdind said:
but its gameplay was stone-aged grind-tastic rubbish circa 20th century

donttouchthatthing said:
Could you please explain what exactly you mean by that? Nothing new or innovative? No real story?

I'm going to qualify all of this with "This was back in, like, '06 or something." There's every chance the game has evolved, but my hopes aren't high.

No real story that I can remember. I played a Venomancer, and as I recall the NPCs sent me on a variety of bog-standard kill, collect, and fedex quests as part of a standard process of becoming a full member of the local tribe. Or something. The monsters I fought were your typical squirrels, rabbits, and other harmless herbivorous varmints (except, of course, for the fact that I could only kill 2-3 before having to take a break to heal, myself).

Kill quest: Go kill X of monster Y.
Collect quest: Go kill monsters until you have X of item Y.
Fedex quest: Go to person X.

If memory serves, the very first mission my venomancer was given had her go slaughter something like 20 squirrels, and as I had to take healing breaks between every 2-3 of them, it took something like an hour. I think that got me to just shy of my first level up. Repeat the endless slaughtering of things and I think I could finally maintain a tempo after I hit level 4, some 8-9 hours in. Then I realized I wasn't having any fun, and I quit.

Edit: It's also entirely possible that my memories have exaggerated certain aspects of the experience. Then again, Blaz seems to confirm my basic impressions.

ippiki ookami said:
Best thing about Perfect World were some of the ads it put out during its early stages, most of which are impossible to find now. Those characters were flat out sexy.

I assume that's the stuff you'd have to pay real money for

ExplosiveBlaziken said:
Are you ready to fight the same enemy for three or four hours to get five percent closer to a level?

ikdind said:

All of this sounds exactly like the time when I played Silk Road Online years ago, with the difference that I somehow managed to reach level ~45.
But the worst thing wasn't the grinding itself; All servers were infested with farmbots that constantly stole your kills IF you were even lucky enough to connect to a server without the game crashing. I don't know how I could keep playing without going insane...
Anyhow, despite your destructive comments I will probably still give PW a try if I can't find any good online-RPG alternatives for free.