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fineflufffinefluff Member RarePosts: 561
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How old were you when you first experienced an MMORPG? I was 12 and my first was runescape. Back then it was a very, very small game with only three servers but it was incredible to me that I could play and fight with so many other people online at the same time. I used to go everyday to the library after school to play for 2 hours because we didn't have internet at home. I played that game for years.
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  • Shoko_LiedShoko_Lied Member UncommonPosts: 2,193
    I think about 10 years old with EverQuest back in 2000.
  • HomituHomitu Member UncommonPosts: 2,030

    19 with FFXI in 2003.  

    I imagine many kids start younger nowadays, but there was once a time when, for kiids looking to play games online, you had to make sure neither of your parents needed to use the phone line for the next few hours :p  Even if they didn't have any planned phone calls, they weren't always down with their kids sitting on the computer blocking potential incoming calls.  Online gaming wasn't ever really a possibility for me until I got to college.  

  • DamonVileDamonVile Member UncommonPosts: 4,818
    I was in my 20s when EQ came out, earth and beyond was my first ( I think )
  • ShortyBibleShortyBible Member UncommonPosts: 409

    I was over 30 and NWN on AOL was my first MMO.

    I think it was in 1990 or 1991 somewhere around that time.

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  • DistopiaDistopia Member EpicPosts: 21,183
    24 when I first tried daoc at the end of 02, still 24 when I jumped into SWG the following year.

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    12 When I started EQ at the release of Ruins of Kunark.

     

  • TheQuietGamerTheQuietGamer Member Posts: 317
    Originally posted by Distopia
    24 when I first tried daoc at the end of 02, still 24 when I jumped into SWG the following year.

    'What have I become my sweetest friend, everyone I know goes away in the end.  And you can have it all, my empire of dirt.  I will let you down, I will make you hurt, If I could start again, a million miles away...' anyway that was an extract from Hurt covered by Jonny Cash just before he died.  Makes you feel old eh?  

  • shohenshohen Member UncommonPosts: 61
    I think AC was my first real mmorpg in 2000 at age 27, but I did play a mud or two in '91....
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  • drtack1drtack1 Member UncommonPosts: 273
    Runescape was my first mmo, but The Silk Road was my first real mmo!
  • kb4blukb4blu Member UncommonPosts: 717

    I was 54 when I first played EQ 1 in 1999.  I am still going at 69. 

    I got my first home computer in 1978 and I paid $500 for a Hayes modem and $1500 for a 4K memory chip.  I also had a Mattel intellivision.

    Computers have gotten better and cheaper. However the quality of the MMOs have gone to crap.

     

  • PhryPhry Member LegendaryPosts: 11,004
    A long time ago, when Aol seemed like a good idea, i used to play Legends of Kesmai... i don't want to think about how long ago that was image
  • ShodanasShodanas Member RarePosts: 1,933

    Dark Age of Camelot was my first MMO when it was released in 2001. 

    I was 25.

  • AkulasAkulas Member RarePosts: 3,029

    In 2001, would have been 13-16. One of the first 100 players created in Runescape. Stopped when they introduced the GE pretty much and since thy became more interested in their investors than players around 2007ish by introducing monetization I stopped checking up on it forever otherwise I would still be playing it. Played UO, EQ etc etc and all that but a few years later after they were already out. MMORPGs back then were only played by pale basement kids.

     

    Oh wait I'm a moron it was Kingdom of Drakkor in 1994 and had to pay for internet by the hour so, I meant 10-12. Voted 10-12.

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  • VooDoo_PapaVooDoo_Papa Member UncommonPosts: 897

    was 26 and Ultima Online in 1997

    I beta tested it previously, we had to pay $5 for the CD to be shipped to us, there was no download option at the time.

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  • SovrathSovrath Member LegendaryPosts: 32,933
    Over 30.
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  • KruulKruul Member UncommonPosts: 482
    I was 27 in 1997 when I first played The Realm before switching to UO later on the same year.
  • KyleranKyleran Member LegendaryPosts: 44,057
    Originally posted by Sovrath
    Over 30.

    Over 40, I win!!

    Wait, what?  image

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  • zimboy69zimboy69 Member UncommonPosts: 395
    My son was 2.5 years old in warhammer

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  • Alcop0psAlcop0ps Member Posts: 18
    I was 10 when my first "mmo" was Wizard101, haha.

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  • centkincentkin Member RarePosts: 1,527

    It depends upon what you count as an MMO -- In 1999 I played Everquest when it first came out.  I was 30 at the time. 

    I played Valhalla MUD, an LP-MUD variant back in 1991.  Was that an MMO?  I tend to think so, but it was a text game, as were all MUDs at the time. 

     

  • LoktofeitLoktofeit Member RarePosts: 14,247
    Do we consider Legend of the Red Dragon an MMO? If not, then UO in my 20's.

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  • rodingorodingo Member RarePosts: 2,870
    I was 30 with Neocron being my first in 2002, followed by Earth and Beyond, EvE beta, then SWG.  I was a console kiddie from 1979 until 2000 though.

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  • delete5230delete5230 Member EpicPosts: 7,081
    94....Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat....Speak up !!!
  • ThaneThane Member EpicPosts: 3,534
    2000ish, 25 with AO & neocron beta

    "I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!"

  • bibensdbibensd Member UncommonPosts: 58
    13 years old with uo in 97.
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