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[Poll] Have you consistantly played a game for more than a year?
Dominisi
Age of Conan CorrespondentMember Posts: 95
Pretty much like the title says, I'm curious as to how many people picked up an MMO and actually played it for over a year before going back to an old one or swapping to a new one.
I for one can't remember playing anything for more than a few months at a time before I was on to something else.
(Edit: and I jacked up the pole and didn't add a zero. hah)
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guild wars 1 and world of tanks....... yes i said world of tanks even though its instanced based hide and seek shooter. guild wars 1 for almost 3 years straight and world of tanks for over 2 years since i was in the closed beta.
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SWG and Darkfall..
EQ2 came close as well as AOC..
More than a year : EQ - GW1 - WoW - EvE
6 months or less : RIFT - WAR - TERA - GW2 - SWTOR
Guild Wars 1 & WoW, Rift (was close to a year)
now GW2 will be my 3rd MMO i´ll play for over a year.
As of right now, 2: FFXI and WoW. FFXI was my first, and I played it for a little over a year after launch. I overlapped that with WoW for a short while after WoW released, but I eventually made the full transition and never looked back. I played that for...a little over 5 years I guess (January 2005-Aprilish 2010, shortly after the Lich King encounter was released).
I certainly didn't play for 5 and a half years straight though, which raises a question of clarification about your poll. Are you asking if we've played non-stop for a full year (for example, logging in at least a few times a week every single week for 52 weeks), or are you asking if we've just generally belonged to a particular MMO for a time span that exceeds 1 year regardless of how frequently we've played? In my time with WoW, I took, I believe, 3 separate 5-6 month breaks for various reasons.
I'm also at 8 months with GW2 now, and I foresee myself playing that long into the future. I did spend about 2 months away from it, however, which returns me to my above question.
WoW, Age of Conan, and Fallen Earth
And WAR, which I was glued to at release for well over a year- loved it in spite of its then flaws, it still had the population to keep it entertaining across all tiers for the majority of that time
EQ1
EQ2
WOW
I played WoW for multiple years. That was pretty much it. I think that was more than enough. I've been playing TSW off and on for awhile now. That game might stretch out into a year's time.
I can not remember winning or losing a single debate on the internet.
Coh, war, wow & planetside for over a year
Over a year in gw1 too, but played that as a side game
Shortest would be swtor - less than a month
I used to play MMO's for years and years, but latley it seems I have game ADD and burn through them in months.
EQ - 6 years, WOW - 5 years, AION - year, RIFT - Year
WoW, LOTRO and TSW. I expect to play Rift for more than a year as well.
My record is "more than ten". Second place, six or so (two installments). Fourth, three or so.
GW1...every time a new expansion released, picked it back up for a bit, but probably never as much as a year contiguously.
The last of these was several years ago. If you plot the curve, time-to-quit has been constantly decreasing, for as long as MMOs have existed.
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Nonstop: WoW (vanilla through BC)
Bursts with long breaks: GW1, Shaiya
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Sadly only one...WoW