MMORPGs

Recently my friends and I have gotten into finding free MMORPGs online and playing them. We've found some pretty good ones, and one in particular is extremely addicting (even though it is technically just a MMO).

For those of you who don't know what a MMORPG is, it is short for Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, and it includes games such as EverQuest and the now infamous World of Warcraft.

But about that one MMO, it's called Ogame and the point of the game is to colonize planets and gather resources. In fact, I am logged into it right now, waiting for my colony ship to arrive at the next planet I want to colonize (so that I can have a stopover point to allow my warships to travel between my planets in Galaxy 1 and my planets in Galaxy 3).

Ogame, though, is very popular, as evidenced by their 33+ servers for the english version alone, and the fact that the server I am on has something like 7,000 accounts on it (of which I am ranked somewhere in the vicinity of 4,800th after starting a few weeks ago)

Two other games that have proven to be rather addicting as well are Metin 2, an asian-themed fighting game where you mostly run around in the middle of nowhere looking for that one more monster of whatever type you need to kill, and Rappelz, where you run around on similar hunts but the focus is less on finding the monsters as it is on killing them.

These 3 games are all very fun as well as completely free (the companies that run them get their money from having an option to pay real-world money for in-game advantages), and for me the only downside is that for a couple of them the installers are somewhat annoying to deal with (as with Rappelz how you need to run the updater BEFORE you double-click on the icon it puts on the desktop or it makes you reinstall the game), but Ogame in particular has proven to be so addicting that it is becoming an inside joke among my friends and I who also play it.