OKY, Im not 100% sure I will play one very soon, but Im curious about MMOs in 2025. I used to play WoW around its release and up through Burning Crusade. Hows the MMO landscape in 2025? What are some good MMOs to try if I wanted to give one or two a shot?
I did play other MMOs than WOW here and there. Namely Aion, Guildwars 1 and other smaller ones.
I’m open to trying most types of MMOs and don’t mind subscribing monthly if it’s worth it. I’m especially curious about MMOs besides WoW (which would probably be the obvious choice), but I kind of want to try something different—even if WoW in 2025 is a completely different game compared to 2006
Oh btw. Doesnt need to be a MMORPG could be something like Foxhole or Ark as well. As long as its a game with servers and many players.
Thanks for any input 
How’s Elder Scrolls Online?
I just returned to it after 5 years away and I gotta say while it still has some of the jank I remember they've added a bunch of cool things to improve the game
The biggest downside is that ESO plus is still needed if you either want to get into crafting or just don't want to be bothered by inventory management, not that you can't get around it with alt accounts used for storage or starting guilds entirely to be your personal banks but that can be a pain in the ass to do
The biggest appeal of the game compared to other MMOs has to be the fact that everything is still fully voice acted and the voice acting tends to be of above average quality. Maybe FFXIV does have a good story when you get into it like others here have said but it's genuinely hard for me to get into when the voice acting is so sporadic that I don't even recognize any of the characters voices and the low quality of the voice acting just takes me out of the experience further.
The only time ESO makes me read is when I pick up an actual book just like in a regular Elder Scrolls game and that goes a long way in building immersion (something which the theme park like nature of modern MMOs is inherently corrosive to)
The world and the lore are really the best parts, normally we only get to explore a small part of it in the mainline Elder Scrolls games and the way Bethesda is going we'll never see most of the world of Elder Scrolls in the main games unless the modding community does something especially awesome so ESO is really the only chance to experience this for now