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What are some of the best free to play games on Steam?

Warframe. Think of Overwatch heroes shooting zombies in Left 4 Dead, on a massive spaceship. It’s a third person shooter that isn’t PvP. As someone who hates shooters, I love Warframe.Creativerse. It’s basically Minecraft with teleporters. If you love Minecraft, this will be a blast.Path of Exile. Many players consider this a Diablo clone, but I don’t. They are similar, but PoE has some unique features:Your skills are based on gems you socket into your equipment. This means any class can use any skill. See (c) for how this would work.There exist Support gems that modify skills it is linked to. Some of these summon a Totem that casts in your place. Some make the skill become a Trap.The passive tree is massive, and it is the same tree for all classes (you just start from a different part).There exist keystone nodes on the passive tree that can change your build entirely. E.g. You spend HP instead for your skills, but you no longer have any mana. You never miss an attack, but the attacks will never be critical. You cannot be stunned, but you cannot evade either.Tree of Savior. Remember Ragnarok Online 2? It was basically RO1 turned into a WoW-like RPG. Wish you could play the real RO2? This is the game for you. Trickster Online was a long-time favourite of mine that shut down. ToS is similar in terms of graphics and gameplay.

Is the  MMORPG Genre Dead?

Given the state of MMOs right now, I think it's a fair assessment that the genre is in an overall state of decline, at least in the US (as Feifei Wang notes, the international markets are an entirely different story).  There was a time, not so long ago, when it seemed like a new MMO was being launched every other month, if not every month, from AAA-level producers.  Now, there are a handful of really small MMO-ish games out there and one gigantic behemoth, World of Warcraft.  Even the Star Wars MMO has fallen by the wayside, which is probably why they're launching a new expansion soon -- expansions always up the subscriber/DAU count for a brief time after launch.MOBAs have largely taken the place that MMOs had for a long time -- everyone seems to be making one, there are two established "big" names, and there have been some spectacular failures (DCU's attempt, for example).  MOBAs are more attractive to developers and the business suits because they appear to be less expensive to build, maintain, and sustain.  I don't know if that's really the case - but it probably appears that way to the suits, who have seen massive burns where MMO costs have been concerned.  Even Blizzard is launching their own MOBA, rather than a new MMO -- that, I think, speaks volumes.Now, whether it's really "dying" or not is another story entirely -- I don't think the genre will ever "die", rather it will be a cyclical interest, and it will evolve and morph into new and interesting genres (such as DayZ, Minecraft, and others).  Game genres come and go all the time - people have declared RPGs "dead", 1st/3rd Person Shooters "dead", and adventure games "dead" in the past -- only to see someone or something reinvigorate the "dead" genre with a new and interesting take.

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