diablo 2-style MMORPG -- and its free

hey guys ive been trying free MMO's on this forum and the web generaly for a while and never found something i liked...

But then i stumbled apon this game called Global MU online. its a free to play game, by a Korean company. it reminds me allot of diablo2, which i loved, which is probably why i like it so much.

they also dont give you these little run-around quests to start off with: you create a character, run into the wild, kill monster, get stronger and better kit, then go kill bigger monsters. then as you progress into higher levels you can enter what they call "server events", which i gather are instance type battles with big monsters and bosses for xp and cool gear, but i havent got that far yet(i have a lvl31 character, the game goes up to lvl400 characters!!!).

I have to say though, theres no ingame tutorial so it took me a while to get the feel for the game and what to do, but if youve played D2 you'll get it pretty quick.

Bellow are some links of interest... if some of you dicide to try it out post your ingame nick so that we can add each other to friends lists. i would like to start a ZA guild if other ppl also interested but you can only register a guild once you reach lvl100 so i'll work on that.

screenshot i took in a town on the most populated server

official screenshot gallery

MU online wikipedia

give it a shot, its not a huge download(around 220mb) and you might just like it.

Thanks Ill give it a shot.. Enjoyed D2

This looks cool... Will download the client tonight and give it a try.

going to try it.just pondering how long it will stay free roseonline was free for months and then went to pay play service

there are free to play and pay to play packages.

Pay to play gets an XP gain rate of X3. free to play players can also get x3 xp rate on helheim server 6 until you reach lvl60, which is why im playing there(you can freely move characters between servers).

i had some problems registering an account on the site using firefox and opera, eventualy got it done using IE. i dont know if thats just my problem but just giving you guys a heads-up incase.

when you register a character, the first letter MUST be uppercase and all the rest lowercase, they dont say that anywhere(which is stupid ofcourse) but if you dont you will get an error when creating a character.

Also one last tip, make sure you talk to the elf gaurd who is at one of the exists at all towns every time before you go out to adventure, he gives you a blessing with a big offense and defense boost, without which you'll struggle to kill monsters.

MU is a real nice game, though the amount of hacks is unbelievable!
There are also a lot of illegal private servers out there, which offer some times better service than the official servers! I played this game during the release phase (think it was in 2005) and it does offer some fun, but the newer games like WoW and LOTR beat this hands down.

We even had a South African guild up and running on one of the servers, no idea if it is still up though...

Played this too, on the official servers...

The time it takes to level is insane, its not even funny... Its not like there are quests that give you experience (well i played a looonng time ago, so maybe there are now)

Then decided to try out this cracked server, and it was quite funny! It made all the monsters give about 10X as much experience, so levelling was very fast! Also at the time i played, there were only 3 or 4 things to play as and low variety in armour... Dont know though, could be fun i guess...

I still think 9 Dragons (also free) is better

BTW my nick ingame is "Zoidbergza"

add me to friends, "F" key