
If you want a really good MMO that costs 20 bucks and no more money ever, try the secret world. The combat is meh, but the "quests" are rarely kill or collect shit. Most of them are puzzles and exploration. Some of them are crazy too. There was one were they name dropped someone in a piece of text, which I had to google the name out to realise who it was. The person was a painter, so I realised I was looking for a painting, which had a clue that involved me looking up a bit in the bible to find out what I had to next. It's crazy!
Also, it has a fun story set in the modern day about the illuminati and templars and ghosts and vampires and shit. It's also well written and kinda funny.
Guild Wars 2 is one of my favourite games of all time, but if the first is anything like it, the story is shit. In 2, it's the actual gameplay I like, and visiting my friends. It's like coming here to talk to people but inside an actual game.