Steam Summer Sale is over - what did you buy? (and what do you regret buying?)

I bought Elder Scrolls Online. It's ok so far. Weird to have such a small ability bar and only being able to use things I've slotted.

I've been looking for a good MMORPG experience. I've been playing SWTOR for a few months. I like that but it's so similar to my memories of WoW that I'm expecting to get sick of it any minute. I refuse to ever go back to WoW because I hate cartoon style graphics in general, and I played it so much that I'm just sick of it besides. It seems like a ton of other MMORPGs are also doing either cartoon or anime inspired graphics or they don't have an end game.

My ideal MMO would have

  1. progression raid content
  2. heroics style repeatable smaller group content with some sort of match making system built in.
  3. Realism style graphics
  4. Ability for richer players to pay for the subscriptions of poorer players similar to the EVE PLEX system
  5. Isn't pay-to-win
  6. non-combat skills are fun... somehow and
  7. there's an economy like EVE (i.e. that fun to do harvesting drives fun crafting, and crafting remains relevant to the end game item market because there is some sort of sink for items either because armor breaks and has to be replaced or because repairing armor requires harvested or crafted components instead of gold). I haven't found anything like this yet.

If you can think of an MMO that fits this description, I want to know about it.

/r/patientgamers Thread