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First MMORPG you ever played?
Tahamtan
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What was the first MMORPG you ever played? What did you think about it back then? Brings back some good memories hah!? 
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Everquest 1 when I was 12 years old. I hated it for the first week, but kept playing it because it took me like a month to convince my mother that paying $9.99 per month for a game was ok.
I went on to play it for 8 years. Best game/MMORPG I've played. They just don't make em like they used to.
EQ1 all the way.
Ultima Online.
I remember first logging into that game in 1997 and thinking that my goal of playing a rpg where every character was ran by a living person was finally a reality.
Of course that wasn't true and that dream still has yet to be realized.
I would also like to mention Phantasy Star Online. It released in 2000 and while it wasn't my first it has a place dear to my heart as my very first console online video game addiction.
It was more diablo than ultima but at that time it was awesome!
Playing: Rift, LotRO
Waiting on: GW2, BP
Tibia about 7 or 8 years ago...
"It has potential"
-Second most used phrase on existence
"It sucks"
-Most used phrase on existence
Toontown :-)
Ultima Online, which I stopped when EQ came out in 99. I still think EQ was the best I've played. There's just no real challenge in the newer MMO's.
I think my first was Fiesta but i didnt really do anything with it i logged in played ten minteus called it gay.. Then i quit thinking about games and a friend talked me into PWE . I played it for a year on end still login somtimes to keep it up. Then I got atlatnica online and started getting deeperi into my mmo world. Ever since i have always had am mo on my computer , right now im trying to find a new one tho. vindcitus bombed me lol stiinkin error code.
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The first Warcraft on AOL for 1.10$ an hour, lol
Dark Age of Camelot. Ended up playing it straight for 6 years.
No required quests! And if I decide I want to be an assassin-cartographer-dancer-pastry chef who lives only to stalk and kill interior decorators, then that's who I want to be, even if it takes me four years to max all the skills and everyone else thinks I'm freaking nuts. -Madimorga-
warcraft 1 or wow vanilla?
Because this thread is about mmo's only
"It has potential"
-Second most used phrase on existence
"It sucks"
-Most used phrase on existence
Also Dark Age Of Camelot
Asheron's Call back in 99. If the Darktide population was anything like what it was back then i'd still be playing!
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Final Fantasy 7
Everquest.
God I used to be so addicted to that game.
1. For god's sake mmo gamers, enough with the analogies. They're unnecessary and your comparisons are terrible, dissimilar, and illogical.
2. To posters feeling the need to state how f2p really isn't f2p: Players understand the concept. You aren't privy to some secret the rest are missing. You're embarrassing yourself.
3. Yes, Cpt. Obvious, we're not industry experts. Now run along and let the big people use the forums for their purpose.
Evgerquest. At some level it felt more real and compelling than my real life. After a few months I had to quit because it took over my life but I came back after a few months and I was a little more restrained
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My First was Ultima Online in 1998. Will always be my favourite! It wasn't about getting to maximum level or having the best gear. It was the thrill of adventure, and the fear of getting PK'd by reds... everyday was exciting and there was no such thing as an end game. UO will always remain in my heart as a TRUE mmorpg. Good times.
Runescape
City of Heroes, which I still enjoy. Great character customization, good devs, continual new content added. And Supers! Your first is often an unmatched exciting ride. I am also a bit tougher on the quality of fantasy backgrounds in games. I'd watched friends play Everquest and Ultima Online. That pretty much kept me from playing MMOs for years afterwards. And Wow's story never appealed to me.
If you are holding out for the perfect game, the only game you play will be the waiting one.
Tibia in Oct. of '01. I did not know I was even playing an MMO at the time. It was merely an online game I randomly found after getting a little bored of Counter-strike.
Everquest Online Adventures ,great communitee (on the Diren's Hold server atleast can say for the others)
before that i did play Phantasy Star Online for Dreamcast but not sure i consider that an MMO.
Runescape xD that was so addicting until they decided to mess up the hit points and attacks, good memories..
Playing: WoW
Waiting On: SWTOR, GW2, Rift, TERA.
Asheron's Call.
Was there for the release and have been addicted with MMOs ever since.
First? City of Heroes...
The very first Warcraft. I believe it was called Warcraft Humans vs Orcs or something like that. I started playing it when I first started dating my wife. We been together 17 years and I believe we were together about a year before I started bogarting her computer late at night, ,lol
Crap, I just noticed... guess that wasn't a mmo but rather a rts. My first real MMO was a game called Knight Online.
Now let me tell you something about Knight Online. It is HANDS DOWN the best MMO I have ever played. It is a heavy PVP game and lewtz drops off mobs... with the best stuff dropping off rare mobs on random respawn timers.
You gain something called National Points when you kill a member of the opposite faction in the PVP areas. If you are killed by a mob you lose 5% of your XP. If your PVP'ing and a NPC happens to deal the final blow.... you just got XP'ed, lol.
Items are also upgradeable on the MAgic Anvil which has a precent of pass or fail. When I quit in 2006 +8's were extreamly rare in the game... or was it 2005?? I forget. I quit to play WoW not because the game sucked... but because there was a crooked GM names Arestides who was the single biggest gold seller for KO. Some guildies of mine "Eternal Knights" cought Arestides farming the Troll King and when confronted he said the mob was bugged and he was getting rid of it.
Screenshots of Arestides hacked GM character showed TONS of gold bars.... cash and rare items he had been farming and selling on alts and suck. Soon after members of our Guild were logging on missing items... and coins and such. I finally quit when I logged in and found All my coins and gold gone from my character. I never duped or macroed so I knew it was Arestides.
I quickly sold my Char on Ebay for 500$.. my character was a battle priest/paper priest with.. among other things one of the rarest belts in the game (Glass Belt). Not to mention alot of other goodies. Shortly after selling my account the person who bought it said he logged in and his character was naked... go figure.
To this day I have never had as much fun in a game as I did in Knight Online. Today the game is full of cheaters and other undesirable types. Its a damn shame.
For the record, I also played UO (yeah I didnt play when it was the cats meow), Shadowbane, DarkFall, WoW, Daoc and AoC all after playing Knight Online and none of them hold a candle to what PVP was in KO back in 2004/2005
Here's a video of us nuking the human town in the old pvp area "Colony Zone"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3CQC8X7DsI
Lineage 2. Played it shortly after launch for about 4 and a half years or so.
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My first MMO was Meridian 59. I saw the potential but only played it a short while due to the fact that I and everyone I knew still used modems at the time, imagine the lag... It was a very basic game but a lot of the features you see today was already there in the worlds first 3D MMORPG.
It was the second one that hooked me to MMOs. Lineage, I got into the western beta early and really enjoyed it, I had a cable modem then and it was a lot faster than the old 33,6 Kb/s modem I had for Meridian, 0,512 Mb/s sounds really slow today but at the time (I think it was 2001 or was itt 2000 or 2002?) it was state of the art.
Lineage actually had it's good points, it was exciting with just hard death penalty enough and some of the dungeons were pretty nice. Problem was that all characters more or less looked the same, unlike Meridian that already used sliders a few years earlier.