well companys tend to ruin the old games. eq for an example. i've resubed to DAoC and EQ a couple times, and every time the changes they had made while i was gone ruined the game. so thats my only issue.
I am still fan of ac, but i dont wanne stick for 20 years in same game.
So only hope is Darkfall:)
Games played:AC1-Darktide'99-2000-AC2-Darktide/dawnsong2003-2005,Lineage2-2005-2006 and now Darkfall-2009..... In between WoW few months AoC few months and some f2p also all very short few weeks.
That is my whole issue with MMORPGs. I would love to go back to EQ the way it was but it doesn't exist anymore. It has been changed, modified till it is garbage. In single player rpgs I can still go back and I do relive the wonderful game it was when I played it such as Baldur's Gate.
Unfortunately we can't do this in MMORPGs because the developers of MMORPGs keep advancing their game into heaps of garbage. They should always keep a back up of the game in a classic state in my opinion for ten years down the road, a lot of people would love to come back ot the game they loved.
I miss me some DAoC Oooo those were the good old days---having to run from green grassy plains to the side-scale of snowy mountains just to get to the hot ganking spots Then going all the way down that glimmer canyon just to get that glimmering mace.
i wouldent mind playing redmoon again kinda liked the look and high leveling but since the real servers went down...
even prived server are fun to play but for some reson the last few months they dropping like flys and only 2 i could find are up and sadly enuff both hae donator crap.. i dont even bother playing there
Because of the dated engines/graphics and the fact that everyone and their dog is already top notch, so the journey up to endgame is Zzz.
If I didnt mind the oldschoolness I'd be playing bard's tale 1 to 3 heh. But that's like using a jet fighter to go to the corner store for cigarettes.
I had played AO for a few months last year, and had some fun with it.. but yeah. We can do better than that, if only some dev got their act together and stopped trying to make watered down mass-market crapfeast wowclones
I had a blast playing it. I guess it was the open beta times. I loved it - first virtual world I experienced, martial arts, soloable, beautiful scenery...
I tried going back but it seems to be all in Chinese now... Anyway, I'm more inclined to try other oldies like DAoC or AC when I take a break from my main MMOGs.
In the case of EQ and DAoC both games have changed their core gameplay, therefore, are no longer fun to play. Before both games changed directions they were extremely fun.
EQ was not a raid centric game until Luclin came about, and then with the release of PoP it was all she wrote. DAoC game out with ToA, which, turned the game into one giant nightmare.
yes, of course i will go back. my first mmo is Mage baby, it's so great. but there are too many roles in the game so that some players could be much stronger and much richer than ones who are trying to game seriously. it's unfair..so i quited. but if the company of it will do better in this field, i will go back without any hesitation! sorry for my poor english..
If they would roll back EQ1 to Velious, I would sub in less than a heartbeat. IMO the reason most people don't start again is in your topic in one word "WERE". They have changed those great games so much to appeal to the mass market that it just isn't the same anymore.
Just my opinion, but I think there are 2 major reasons why most people don't go back: 1) The old games have changed too much over the years...for the worse. 2) Populations are no where near what they use to be. Take and old MMO, roll it back to it's early state (with some fixes here and there), market the hell out of it, and you could probably bring in a decent number of players.
3) Account gets erased after 3 months and have to buy whole new key code and start all over with new character (Final Fantasy 11)
it's not quite sure for me..i play games always for some friends and other players, if my friends are all in the same game as me , i will go on...if just i come back ..and other players are not kind, maybe i won't go back..
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My first was ImagiNation. It was sold to either AOL or AT&T, and then the project was duped, so I can't go back to it even if I was dying to.
well companys tend to ruin the old games. eq for an example. i've resubed to DAoC and EQ a couple times, and every time the changes they had made while i was gone ruined the game. so thats my only issue.
I'm still playing Asheron's Call, and I still love it - I think it's still one of the all-time best MMOs out there.
When scary things get scared, that's bad...
I am still fan of ac, but i dont wanne stick for 20 years in same game.
So only hope is Darkfall:)
Games played:AC1-Darktide'99-2000-AC2-Darktide/dawnsong2003-2005,Lineage2-2005-2006 and now Darkfall-2009.....
In between WoW few months AoC few months and some f2p also all very short few weeks.
Everquest is EQ, not EQ1.
Thanks for setting the record straight oh wise sage...
That is my whole issue with MMORPGs. I would love to go back to EQ the way it was but it doesn't exist anymore. It has been changed, modified till it is garbage. In single player rpgs I can still go back and I do relive the wonderful game it was when I played it such as Baldur's Gate.
Unfortunately we can't do this in MMORPGs because the developers of MMORPGs keep advancing their game into heaps of garbage. They should always keep a back up of the game in a classic state in my opinion for ten years down the road, a lot of people would love to come back ot the game they loved.
Nostalgia is a strange thing.
Imagine people playing Pac Man 10 hours in a row.
Yes old MMORPG's were THAT bad.
I miss me some DAoC
Oooo those were the good old days---having to run from green grassy plains to the side-scale of snowy mountains just to get to the hot ganking spots 
Then going all the way down that glimmer canyon just to get that glimmering mace.
i wouldent mind playing redmoon again kinda liked the look and high leveling but since the real servers went down...
even prived server are fun to play but for some reson the last few months they dropping like flys and only 2 i could find are up
and sadly enuff both hae donator crap.. i dont even bother playing there
Umm because the only MMO's i have found to my taste no longer exist. EnB and SWG PREcu ,
Because of the dated engines/graphics and the fact that everyone and their dog is already top notch, so the journey up to endgame is Zzz.
If I didnt mind the oldschoolness I'd be playing bard's tale 1 to 3 heh. But that's like using a jet fighter to go to the corner store for cigarettes.
I had played AO for a few months last year, and had some fun with it.. but yeah. We can do better than that, if only some dev got their act together and stopped trying to make watered down mass-market crapfeast wowclones
Fung Wan Online.
I had a blast playing it. I guess it was the open beta times. I loved it - first virtual world I experienced, martial arts, soloable, beautiful scenery...
I tried going back but it seems to be all in Chinese now... Anyway, I'm more inclined to try other oldies like DAoC or AC when I take a break from my main MMOGs.
In the case of EQ and DAoC both games have changed their core gameplay, therefore, are no longer fun to play. Before both games changed directions they were extremely fun.
EQ was not a raid centric game until Luclin came about, and then with the release of PoP it was all she wrote. DAoC game out with ToA, which, turned the game into one giant nightmare.
yes, of course i will go back. my first mmo is Mage baby, it's so great. but there are too many roles in the game so that some players could be much stronger and much richer than ones who are trying to game seriously. it's unfair..so i quited. but if the company of it will do better in this field, i will go back without any hesitation! sorry for my poor english..
If they would roll back EQ1 to Velious, I would sub in less than a heartbeat. IMO the reason most people don't start again is in your topic in one word "WERE". They have changed those great games so much to appeal to the mass market that it just isn't the same anymore.
3) Account gets erased after 3 months and have to buy whole new key code and start all over with new character (Final Fantasy 11)
4) Hackers / multiboxers.
it's not quite sure for me..i play games always for some friends and other players, if my friends are all in the same game as me , i will go on...if just i come back ..and other players are not kind, maybe i won't go back..