It has been a while since I have been in a MMORPG that I actually respect: Dark Age of Camelot. In many ways I feel like I was driven from the genre by high maintenance cost, bad players, and no real incentive to not just recklessly run into every enemy I see. So, with so many MMOs out there, I have decided to play a little bit of the free market.
The first free MMO I played was called FlyFF or Fly For Fun. This game was a cute cartoon world that, about five minutes into the download, you could tell was Korean. This game had a lot of possibility; true you could only be a boy or a girl of one race, but you had four classes that had two prestige classes each, as well as a fast way to travel the world at level twenty: broomstick.
Izraq was the first to show me this MMO, mainly boasting how good it was solely because it was free. I personally believe that you get what you pay for in most things, sometimes you get more, sometimes you get less, and getting a game for free had me thinking “this might be a virus that will destroy my computer.” Well, aside from minor rage therapy on my keyboard from the grind-a-thon, my computer handles the game fine. The system requirements on this game are low which this makes it great for anyone to use.
Systems Requirements
As I started to play, I realized something this game was grind-tastic. Now, I know I am talking about an MMO, and they all are grind-tastic. MMOs that I have played make you run around an area with twenty monsters that you need to kill, who are all equipped with very low re-spawn times. FlyFF breaks the cycle by sending you to a small area with about fifty of the creatures you need to kill. One side-note is that, other than the fact that slaying quests are not that frequent, most of the quests require you to pickup quest items. Unfortunately, the way they hook people into the grind is to have very low drop rates .
Like most free MMOs, FlyFF has its own pay shop. This is filled with anything from outfits to transgender transformations. The most notable of the shop items are ones that level up your party; this allows for better loot for a period of time. Others include pets that will pick up items for you, event tickets, EXP boost, and cool boards to fly on, for fun.
I look back into the time I have spent on FlyFF, and I can say that it was an okay MMO. It didn’t give me the immersion that some games give me, but it is definitely a well-made time sink. As MMOs go, I am giving this (first actual rating) a B; it presents itself well, almost any computer can use it, and you can get lost in the daily grind. So if you have some time to kill i would try FlyFF i mean it is free.
You can find more information about the game at:
http://flyff.gpotato.com/community/
or the Wiki
http://flyff-wiki.gpotato.com/index.php/Main_Page
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