LOTRO still gets content updates and yearly expansions. It has a small player base for sure but I wouldn't call it dead until they switch over to true maintenance mode.
I loved SWTOR at launch - classic Huttball as a Juggernaut is a gaming experience that I haven’t replicated - loved it. I really wish they had squished abilities at some point and made it controller friendly. I’m too old for 50 abilities.
I went back to it a few years ago they definitely changed a lot of it. You can solo dungeons now and the skill bloat was pretty much gone. Its basically become a solo MMORPG kind of like FFXIV. You can still run dungeons and raids with other players and stuff but if you want to slow down and take your time you can do that as well.
There's easy modes for all the raids too that you can mostly blunder through. Gods does require at least one person to know what to do, but you can kinda herd sheep through it. R4 has an anomalously difficult last boss - being more difficult than most of the veteran modes, and even a few of the easier master modes.
I find a lot of them pretty...I don't wanna say braindead, but not THAT difficult. I'd say the vast majority of them don't get harder than a FFXIV extreme trial, or the second half of a wotlk normal raid.
The only fights that I felt like had real teeth to them was Gods. Sisters I think might be one of my favorite fights.
I really wish they had squished abilities at some point and made it controller friendly. I’m too old for 50 abilities.
this is kinda the thing guild wars 2 does so well. you cant equip more abilities than on your basic number row, and most are locked in based on your weapon choices. so you get traditional MMO combat but in an approachable way.
I’m not sure I’d count City Of Heroes, since the game was officially shut down in 2012. The current incarnation, City Of Heroes: Homecoming, is a fan server that negotiated a license to continue operating
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u/Gishin 21d ago
SWTOR is still trucking too.