Maple Story is really fun! I haven't played in years because I switched from a Windows laptop to a Mac laptop, but it's something you can grind on and play by yourself.
I liked Maple Story. It was a pretty cute game, but it always seemed like it revolved a bit too much around the cash shop in certain aspects.
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I prefer subscription based 'pay to play' MMO's. In my opinion, you get what you pay for and with the exception of pre-order bonuses and 'special event' sort of items, it's nice knowing that you have access to all the games content and nothing is locked behind a 'pay wall'. Along with usually better maintained, more regular and (in my opinion) better updates.
Especially the fact that usually, an MMO will take up most of your gaming time. When I was still playing MMO's I was paying around ?15 a month (which is pretty much a universal average across games) and would usually only play that MMO, which is cheaper than the ?40-?50 per game of which I usually buy 2 or 3 a month.
I played WoW. It's still popular for a reason. As a former veteran player of it, I could see in many ways how the game wasn't as good as it used to be but this was mostly the 1-level cap content which was stupidly easy. You could 1 shot enemies up to about level 60 in most cases and could hit the level cap in around 2days if you knew what you were doing.
It's still my favorite MMO for PvP though (though I only played a bit of Pandaria and non of the new one).
Final Fantasy A Realm Reborn was REALLY fun. It had a lot to do and it felt really good to play. Everything felt just right with that game with the bonus of being you could easily sit on a couch with a controller and still play as well as people with a mouse and keyboard. I thought it was a fantastic MMO.
This was the last MMO I played though and quit MMO's not long after I hit level cap, so I'm not the best guy to say how the endgame was for this.