What is the best MMORPG experience on PC? Is it one with spell-slinging and demon-slaying? Working your way through the stars as a miner or a corporate bigwig? Solving ancient conspiracies and fighting Lovecraftian horrors? Maybe it is all of them.
But hey, let’s not get ahead of ourselves. What is an MMO, anyway? Well, those oft used letters represent the words Massively Multiplayer Online, and refer to games where hundreds, if not thousands of players come together in the same world. Online MMOs like World of Warcraft offer new lands for you to live in, exchanging your regular old life for one of adventure, profit, or danger.
It’s dangerous to go alone! That’s why you should team up and play the PC’s .
Here’s our list of the top MMORPG games on the PC, kicking off with a few of the top free PC MMOs. You're sure to find something that will swallow up entire days at a time, be that the most popular MMORPG in the world, or a smaller hidden gem with a dedicated community.

These are the best MMORPGs:

At some point in 2007, I become hopelessly addicted to World of Warcraft.
I was 24 years old, finishing art school, severely depressed and dealing with the fact that my life was just not going the way I expected. Somewhere around that time, during a drunken few hours in a restaurant in downtown Jerusalem, a friend and I created JarWow - a mod of World of Warcraft that translates the mechanics, races and areas of the game to early 21st century Jerusalem. Jerusalem seemed like a perfect stage for a complex MMO, with two culturally different factions in a bitter territory dispute. Conversely, World of Warcraft, which relies on simplification and stereotypes, cannot truly represent the complexity of modern Jerusalem.
I moved to Jerusalem in 1993, when I was nine years old; I left in 2009 when I was 26. The Oslo accords, a set of agreements made by Israel and Palestine which started the peace process, had just been signed in 1993, and while Jerusalem will never be entirely calm, there was a sense of hope in the air and some optimism - even if the question of the unification of the city continued to be a contentious issue. By 2007, the situation was completely different. The second intifada - the second Palestinian uprising against Israel and a period of intense violence - had ended, but its legacy lingered in the empty streets of downtown Jerusalem and the quiet tension between the different groups that share the city. This was a tension not just between the Jewish and Arab population, but also between the more traditional and more liberal forces in the city. While this tension would escalate again in the next few years (with Operation Cast Lead and the situation in Gaza just around the corner), at this point the status quo was maintained and the city was (at least on the surface) calm.

Uniqlo is no stranger to licencing designs from notable video game companies. You may remember, just under a year ago, the company launched its - well, now it's Blizzard's turn for the Uniqlo treatment.
The official Blizzard x Uniqlo collection includes a range of T-shirts featuring designs based on World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Hearthstone, Diablo, Starcraft and Heroes of the Storm and are available in-store and online .
As this is Uniqlo we're talking about - a company that prides itself on offering quality clothing at abnormally cheap prices - each of these shirts will only cost you £12.90 (shipping is £3.95, for what it's worth). As with most official Uniqlo crossover collections, the stock is limited and only available for a certain time, so if you happen to be a particularly Blizzard-tinged fanatic, you may want to get one of these sooner rather than later.

There are plenty of cancelled titles in Blizzard’s history, but Project Nomad is one we don’t often hear about. The squad-based sci-fi game was canned and the team behind it moved on to World of Warcraft - but it turns out WoW wasn’t the only game to swallow up Nomad’s developers.
As StarCraft development reached its most intense points, with developers lengthening their days and working into the weekends, the team started picking people off from other projects to assist in development. Former programmer Rob Hueber, for example, was hired to work on ‘Team 2,’ the group behind Nomad - until he was pulled to the StarCraft team.
Don't focus on what might have been - enjoy what was with the .
“As tends to happen at Blizzard,” Hueber says, “whatever project gets ahead starts to pull people from the other team, and other teams die from attrition and things like that. That's not a bad way to do things. It definitely hurts the project that gets resources stolen away from it, but it's for a good cause, obviously.”
That comes via an excerpt from David L Craddock’s upcoming Blizzard history, , which is currently seeking funds on . Craddock helped bring Project Nomad to light years ago, telling about internal struggles as the Blizzard team attempted to figure out exactly where to go with the game.
Several members of the team wanted to do something else entirely, so Kevin Beardslee and Bill Petras pitched a more accessible version of EverQuest. Nomad was scrapped and development on World of Warcraft began in a matter of days.