Going through the absolute shit on offer currently it really is remarkable to me how backwards this industry has gotten. Micro-transactions were one thing but it looks like any kind of co-op game is just some god awful grind fest if it's free to play yet that's what the majority of the cons00mer types seem to be playing now.
At least Stardew Valley and Helldivers 2 can be called video games but honestly I tried PoE and it bored me to death not to mention the obvious trash FPS issues it seems to have right at the beginning. I'm going to just check out the Warframe gameplay rather than play it myself.
Even without the enemies having 500000 hitpoints it seems that matchmaking is often garbage in these games at the best of time which immediately gets me having flashbacks to GTA V and I go into a fetal position over that because rockstars matchmaking is truly awful. I don't think I could ever play co-op with people if they just quit halfway through and inevitably the instance ends right there so you're fucked and have to immediately jump to a queue only to have another twat abandon a game right after. So unless you can keep playing with people even after they leave or solo it that means the game is effectively unplayable.
Yep, offline or solo play only for me.
The West hasn't made an MMORPG since 2006 as far as I know. That's probably why.
But man, Korean MMORPGs are just so trash. Grindy to a point that it's not even fun. Gambling systems to enhance gear that are just frustrating. And like 10,000 different bonuses and currencies in my inventory I just don't have the patience to try to figure out.
Just off the top of my head there's Warhammer Online, New World and The Old Republic. Everyone wanted to make a "WoW killer" to take a cut of Blizzard's pie, even if they haven't been successful in that goal.