I think there's only two MMOs I've bought and not subbed to for at least two months. Those being Aion and APB. The latter I actually enjoyed, but it simply wasn't worth a sub.
Warhammer - Bought the day it came out played for about 2 weeks and didnt enjoy it so unistalled and now sat on my bookcase
Star Trek Online - Again bought the day it came out and had big hopes for this game played for the free month and did enjoy the space combat and the feel off space etc. But out of ship combat when you running around with phaser really let it down for me plus a few other things
FFxiv - played thought open beta even Pre-ordered the CE and really tryed to love this game but with the SP bug, lag, bad UI etc, etc, etc im losing the will to play it. Will keep an eye on this game tho and prob go back to it in 6month to a 1year coz ive still got faith in SE and believe they will fix it.
In fact the only MMO's ive played more then a month are a couple of free mmo's which imo are better quality, Sad really.
A ton of them for sure. Tabula Rasa, Lord of the Rings Online, Warhammer Online, Seed, APB, Aion, Star Trek Online, Fury, Fallen Earth, Eve, and I am sure a few dozen more.
Honestly the one three that I played past the free month are: EQ2, WoW and AoC.
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really I always get some info before i try to play it
This.
I do not play an MMO until there is a free trial so that I do not run into these situations. This means I also never preorder and I never do a lifetime sub.
Try before you buy instead of thinking each new MMO will be amazing and then ending up flushing money away.
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Im going to push it out little more then 5 years to cover EQ2 the first MMORPG I got into beta for. I really liked the game it was fun and really appealed to my play stile. Short of instances I was able to solo with effort just about everything I tried as an iksar healer. I know there are those that think a MMORP where you can solo is fail. I think if you can not go out and play and level solo but need to group for harder content then it is fail.
I did not get all caught up in the whole drama of the first wave of SWG NGE as I picked up EQ2 and was playing it when that whole debacle came down. I was one of the people who took the refund for trials because after going and trying it I did not care for the changes and was happy with EQ2.
EQ2 had major combat changes implemented just over a year after taking the game out of beta. Did not care for it but tried it until the sub ended and swore off Sony games, burn me once shame on me burn me twice shame on you. I begin to understand what Mark Twain meant when he said “the past does not repeat its self but it does rhyme” from personal experience and threw my lot in with the Sony Haters.
After EQ2 I tried CoV but only lasted 2-3 months with it as it to me was the same thing over and over again with its instance system.
Stayed away from MMORPGS for FPS for a while
Hate to admit it but I had free time for SWG and tried it… please do not tell any one as I feel dirty for doing it. I was able to make a 3rd toon and did. The lower level quests where amusing but if you where wanting to be an imp and not a reb it did not make as much sense. It was like being away from your hometown for more then 10 years. Some of it looked the way you remember but it did not feel the same and was not the same. I was amusing to make a spy and grief people in the combat zones but that got old also.
I got into War beta I did not buy that game as its PVE was lacking. Its failure to go beyond the myopic view of order vrs chaos was and would be game braking for PVP.
Did Stargate and was really looking forward to that but that DHD failed to connect (looks like its will never be finished and released)
Did beta in Fallen Earth was given a free account from here that I used and probably would not go back to it even if it were FTP. People like to think it’s a sandbox but it is really a theme park experience. The crafting system did something I did not thing was possible in that it was more space consuming then LotRO’s. That you can craft off line is cool but that you need to craft for quest and cant change what you’re crafting with out losing progress is fail. Higher end stuff can take hours to do but that is just for each component that also will take hours to assemble.
Tried DDO in its FTP it was amusing but nothing I would pay for it and did not play long as I did not like the steam punk type world they choose to go with.
P.S. I hate elocke’s avatar as the flashing eyes give me a head ache.
I usually have a fair idea of what's in store before I put money down on something. Once I've made an investment, I will give a game a fair shot at keeping me by resubbing for at least one month, usually two. After that, if it can't maintain my interest, I'm gone. However, there's at least a dozen times where I've signed up for an MMO's free trial and ended up uninstalling it before the limit was up. In many of those instances, it took longer to download and install the client than it did for me to decide that it isn't for me. I'm pretty ruthless when it comes to deciding how I'm going to blow my free time.
(Yep, quoting myself here)
Oh wow. How did I miss this one? APB. I quit playing well before my 50 hours had expired. I guess it was such a rotten experience that I managed to blank it from my consciousness.
WAR - canceled after free month - didn't like it wasn't smooth
AOC - liked the game, canceled after 2nd month launch was terrible but the game was good.
Aion - played beta - liked the game, played live for 2 months as an assassin. Couldn't stand the stupid air combat in the game and the fact that usually pvp consisted of either zergs or chasing someone in the abyss for like 10 mins till you gave up. Canceled.
Fallen Earth - i played the trial the game was beyond terrible, i'll never try an fps mmorpg again the quality just isn't good enough to justify playing it over the non-mmo fps.
Global Agenda same as fallen earth, i canceled before the game went live.
Really the only mmo's i've played for longer than a month or two were.
Lineage 2 - played for 2 years, game took to much of my life away.
WoW- played for 5 years, got burnt out on the game, still the best mmo imo to date.
EQ2 - played for 4 months, it was an ok game but compared to WoW it wasn't worth the bang for the buck.
EVE - played for about 3 months, I realized the flaw in the games leveling system is as a newer player you will never catch up to people who have been playing for a long time. After I realized this I stopped playing.
I currently play lineage 2 private servers, as I still like the game but can't commit to the live game since it is to much of a time drain + you need 2 accounts to level decently in the game.
Fallen Earth - Liked the ideas behind the game, just not the game sadly.
CO - Yes, Yes, sue me I wanted to play a fast paced super hero MMO and was willing to give CO a chance. But.... it sucked. Fun in small doses I guess.
AoC - I loved tortage, the rest of the game though broke down into the usually questing errand boy online style of play which doesn't really appeal to me. I could have over looked the rest of the flaws if the game play had more variety to it and I didn't feel like I was running errands all day while attempting to PvE.
EQ2 - tried it, but again heavy questing focus which just isn't my thing. I don't mind a quest here and there but an overt focus on them kills the fun for me. Makes me feel like I'm paying a monthly fee to have a virtual second job.
While I've played just about every pay to play MMO out I managed to try it for free before I made the plunge. Saved me a wad of cash lol.
A simple question when a mmo releases they sell clients at around 49.99 to 19.99. They offer a free month to go with that. How many mmos were you suckered into buying only to not sub after the free month In the last five years? I believe mine was around four, Lotro, TR, WAR and Aion I'n the last five years...
With the time needed to advance in most mmo's (which is a design I prefer to the arcade feel Cryptic pushes for) I tend to not sub to too many of them at once, I think only twice have I subbed to more than one at a time and that never lasted more than two months, having said that I've been lucky to only have gotten taken in by Cryptic with Star Trek Online. Most of the other games I would have been drawn to that performed poorly I knew my tatses well enough to avoid. Folks have tried to draw me into AOC,Vanguard,EQ2,FF,DF, and WAR and I avoided them all initially only to play them at later dates to find that had I bought them they all would have made the list. In my defense I had a very strong feeling that my STO experience would wind out the way it had because of prior experience with Cryptics style but the pull of playing a sci fi game was too strong for me to avoid it I bought the game and knew within the free month it was not something I could play for long but I gave them one more months sub to see what kind of updates they had, after seeing the c-store got more than the premium side I quit.
but yeah, to call this game Fantastic is like calling Twilight the Godfather of vampire movies....
EQ2- Hated the loading and small areas. The world/areas felt very thrown together and mismatched.
Saga of Ryzom- I really did like the game. Loved how the gameplay and world and creatures and resources changed depending on the cycle of day and night and the seasons. Loved how the animals interacted with each other. When I purchased and left the starter area, I saw one real person in 4 days of playing, just one and that was playing about 6 hours a day over the four.
Vanguard- Played, tried to play that at release, could only take about a week and a half of it.
Guild Wars- hated the point and click to move, and the lobby game feel because you really only played in a personal/private instance.
LotRo- Got it at release just to give it a try. For whatever reason it didnt hold my interest.
PotBS- Loved the beta, loved the "Boarding Party", loved the economy and how it worked. Played Pirate and left when they fucked stealth, which fucked my preferred choice of game play. To this day my single most intense PvP experience Ive ever had was in PotBS.
Fallen Earth- Liked this game. But I was sub'd to two other MMOs at the time (and still am) and just had to drop it.
Champions Online- Love the character ceator, love the powers and how you can mix them. Hate with a passion the boring and very grind-heavy questing system and lazy world design.
Played lots of other MMOs, most of those I sub'd 2-3 months. And a few I only played my free month and then quit, but those were older than the 5 year limit we were given.
As a matter of fact I think there has only been three MMO's that Ive sub'd longer than six months- EVE, WAR, WoW.
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As a matter of fact I think there has only been three MMO's that Ive sub'd longer than six months- EVE, WAR, WoW.
What are your thoughts on WAR? Many others ditched it. What did you like about it enough to stay?
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Matrix- My computer wouldn't handle it, so I could barely move, and it looked terrible.
Eve- Took too long to get anywhere in every sense of the word. But if I was in grad school right now, Eve would be my exclusive MMO. The way I played, there would be endless time for studying between hauling ore back to station or arriving to buy or sell items in another system.
Fallen Earth- I don't regret buying this, I think this game has lots of potential and a great community, and I want it to succeed, but forced questing is not for me.
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Mortal online and Champions Online.
Sticking with Darkfall.
I'm the opposite. I usually won't even try a game if I don't think I will play it for years and years. Single player games included.
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I think there's only two MMOs I've bought and not subbed to for at least two months. Those being Aion and APB. The latter I actually enjoyed, but it simply wasn't worth a sub.
The Only two I quit playing during/after the free month were:
STO - I uninstalled game after about three weeks of play.
APB - I uninstalled game the day before it closed - after I had used the original 50 hours that came with the game.
I gave everything else at least 2-3 months.
Warhammer - Bought the day it came out played for about 2 weeks and didnt enjoy it so unistalled and now sat on my bookcase
Star Trek Online - Again bought the day it came out and had big hopes for this game played for the free month and did enjoy the space combat and the feel off space etc. But out of ship combat when you running around with phaser really let it down for me plus a few other things
FFxiv - played thought open beta even Pre-ordered the CE and really tryed to love this game but with the SP bug, lag, bad UI etc, etc, etc im losing the will to play it. Will keep an eye on this game tho and prob go back to it in 6month to a 1year coz ive still got faith in SE and believe they will fix it.
In fact the only MMO's ive played more then a month are a couple of free mmo's which imo are better quality, Sad really.
Two. AOC and STO.
WOW isnt great because it has 12 million players. WOW has 12 million players because its great.
A ton of them for sure. Tabula Rasa, Lord of the Rings Online, Warhammer Online, Seed, APB, Aion, Star Trek Online, Fury, Fallen Earth, Eve, and I am sure a few dozen more.
Honestly the one three that I played past the free month are: EQ2, WoW and AoC.
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One...STO...I should have known better...I Beta tested and did not like it...But I thought I would give it a go anyway...I lasted maybe two weeks...
WAR and AION come to mind.
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Two
EQ2
DDO
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really I always get some info before i try to play it
these two.
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This.
I do not play an MMO until there is a free trial so that I do not run into these situations. This means I also never preorder and I never do a lifetime sub.
Try before you buy instead of thinking each new MMO will be amazing and then ending up flushing money away.
EQ 1 - video card incompatibilities made the game unplayable.
DDO - at launch, nothing but a waiting room of people standing outside the doors of instanced dungeons.
COH - Men in tights just didn't grab me. (I did play COV later for 3 months)
WAR - Such a disappointment that Mythic could churn out such a bad game.
RFO - one of my first F2P games, certainly not the last that didn't last a month.
Anarchy Online - seemed like the same old MMO in a space theme, was happy with whatever same old MMO I was currently playing back then.
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Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
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Why did it gave go?
Beta were month before release. So game went gold already.
Guess listened to "its beta" bu*****.
Just going to do them all...that I remember.
UO - played for a long time.
AO - played for a long time.
EQ - aha, did not even play the whole month. Went back later, and did not even play the whole month again.
AC - played for a long time.
SB - played for a long time.
CoH - beta, pre-order, then they came out with the boombox, I left but did eventually return off and on.
EnB - they cancelled the game on me.
AA - they cancelled the game on me.
DDO - not even play the whole month. Mucked around with the hybrid later, but just not my game.
EVE - was not a box sale, but played for a long time.
SWG - played for a long time.
WoW - played off and on for a long time.
There were some other non-box games where I did not quite make a month.
Have tried LOTRO a few times, but never get past a whole week each time if that.
I miss the MMORPG genre. Will a developer ever make one again?
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Im going to push it out little more then 5 years to cover EQ2 the first MMORPG I got into beta for. I really liked the game it was fun and really appealed to my play stile. Short of instances I was able to solo with effort just about everything I tried as an iksar healer. I know there are those that think a MMORP where you can solo is fail. I think if you can not go out and play and level solo but need to group for harder content then it is fail.
I did not get all caught up in the whole drama of the first wave of SWG NGE as I picked up EQ2 and was playing it when that whole debacle came down. I was one of the people who took the refund for trials because after going and trying it I did not care for the changes and was happy with EQ2.
EQ2 had major combat changes implemented just over a year after taking the game out of beta. Did not care for it but tried it until the sub ended and swore off Sony games, burn me once shame on me burn me twice shame on you. I begin to understand what Mark Twain meant when he said “the past does not repeat its self but it does rhyme” from personal experience and threw my lot in with the Sony Haters.
After EQ2 I tried CoV but only lasted 2-3 months with it as it to me was the same thing over and over again with its instance system.
Stayed away from MMORPGS for FPS for a while
Hate to admit it but I had free time for SWG and tried it… please do not tell any one as I feel dirty for doing it. I was able to make a 3rd toon and did. The lower level quests where amusing but if you where wanting to be an imp and not a reb it did not make as much sense. It was like being away from your hometown for more then 10 years. Some of it looked the way you remember but it did not feel the same and was not the same. I was amusing to make a spy and grief people in the combat zones but that got old also.
I got into War beta I did not buy that game as its PVE was lacking. Its failure to go beyond the myopic view of order vrs chaos was and would be game braking for PVP.
Did Stargate and was really looking forward to that but that DHD failed to connect (looks like its will never be finished and released)
Did beta in Fallen Earth was given a free account from here that I used and probably would not go back to it even if it were FTP. People like to think it’s a sandbox but it is really a theme park experience. The crafting system did something I did not thing was possible in that it was more space consuming then LotRO’s. That you can craft off line is cool but that you need to craft for quest and cant change what you’re crafting with out losing progress is fail. Higher end stuff can take hours to do but that is just for each component that also will take hours to assemble.
Tried DDO in its FTP it was amusing but nothing I would pay for it and did not play long as I did not like the steam punk type world they choose to go with.
P.S. I hate elocke’s avatar as the flashing eyes give me a head ache.
(Yep, quoting myself here)
Oh wow. How did I miss this one? APB. I quit playing well before my 50 hours had expired. I guess it was such a rotten experience that I managed to blank it from my consciousness.
I stand corrected.
WAR - canceled after free month - didn't like it wasn't smooth
AOC - liked the game, canceled after 2nd month launch was terrible but the game was good.
Aion - played beta - liked the game, played live for 2 months as an assassin. Couldn't stand the stupid air combat in the game and the fact that usually pvp consisted of either zergs or chasing someone in the abyss for like 10 mins till you gave up. Canceled.
Fallen Earth - i played the trial the game was beyond terrible, i'll never try an fps mmorpg again the quality just isn't good enough to justify playing it over the non-mmo fps.
Global Agenda same as fallen earth, i canceled before the game went live.
Really the only mmo's i've played for longer than a month or two were.
Lineage 2 - played for 2 years, game took to much of my life away.
WoW- played for 5 years, got burnt out on the game, still the best mmo imo to date.
EQ2 - played for 4 months, it was an ok game but compared to WoW it wasn't worth the bang for the buck.
EVE - played for about 3 months, I realized the flaw in the games leveling system is as a newer player you will never catch up to people who have been playing for a long time. After I realized this I stopped playing.
I currently play lineage 2 private servers, as I still like the game but can't commit to the live game since it is to much of a time drain + you need 2 accounts to level decently in the game.
Fallen Earth - Liked the ideas behind the game, just not the game sadly.
CO - Yes, Yes, sue me I wanted to play a fast paced super hero MMO and was willing to give CO a chance. But.... it sucked. Fun in small doses I guess.
AoC - I loved tortage, the rest of the game though broke down into the usually questing errand boy online style of play which doesn't really appeal to me. I could have over looked the rest of the flaws if the game play had more variety to it and I didn't feel like I was running errands all day while attempting to PvE.
EQ2 - tried it, but again heavy questing focus which just isn't my thing. I don't mind a quest here and there but an overt focus on them kills the fun for me. Makes me feel like I'm paying a monthly fee to have a virtual second job.
While I've played just about every pay to play MMO out I managed to try it for free before I made the plunge. Saved me a wad of cash lol.
With the time needed to advance in most mmo's (which is a design I prefer to the arcade feel Cryptic pushes for) I tend to not sub to too many of them at once, I think only twice have I subbed to more than one at a time and that never lasted more than two months, having said that I've been lucky to only have gotten taken in by Cryptic with Star Trek Online. Most of the other games I would have been drawn to that performed poorly I knew my tatses well enough to avoid. Folks have tried to draw me into AOC,Vanguard,EQ2,FF,DF, and WAR and I avoided them all initially only to play them at later dates to find that had I bought them they all would have made the list. In my defense I had a very strong feeling that my STO experience would wind out the way it had because of prior experience with Cryptics style but the pull of playing a sci fi game was too strong for me to avoid it I bought the game and knew within the free month it was not something I could play for long but I gave them one more months sub to see what kind of updates they had, after seeing the c-store got more than the premium side I quit.
but yeah, to call this game Fantastic is like calling Twilight the Godfather of vampire movies....
EQ2- Hated the loading and small areas. The world/areas felt very thrown together and mismatched.
Saga of Ryzom- I really did like the game. Loved how the gameplay and world and creatures and resources changed depending on the cycle of day and night and the seasons. Loved how the animals interacted with each other. When I purchased and left the starter area, I saw one real person in 4 days of playing, just one and that was playing about 6 hours a day over the four.
Vanguard- Played, tried to play that at release, could only take about a week and a half of it.
Guild Wars- hated the point and click to move, and the lobby game feel because you really only played in a personal/private instance.
LotRo- Got it at release just to give it a try. For whatever reason it didnt hold my interest.
PotBS- Loved the beta, loved the "Boarding Party", loved the economy and how it worked. Played Pirate and left when they fucked stealth, which fucked my preferred choice of game play. To this day my single most intense PvP experience Ive ever had was in PotBS.
Fallen Earth- Liked this game. But I was sub'd to two other MMOs at the time (and still am) and just had to drop it.
Champions Online- Love the character ceator, love the powers and how you can mix them. Hate with a passion the boring and very grind-heavy questing system and lazy world design.
Played lots of other MMOs, most of those I sub'd 2-3 months. And a few I only played my free month and then quit, but those were older than the 5 year limit we were given.
As a matter of fact I think there has only been three MMO's that Ive sub'd longer than six months- EVE, WAR, WoW.
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What are your thoughts on WAR? Many others ditched it. What did you like about it enough to stay?
Matrix- My computer wouldn't handle it, so I could barely move, and it looked terrible.
Eve- Took too long to get anywhere in every sense of the word. But if I was in grad school right now, Eve would be my exclusive MMO. The way I played, there would be endless time for studying between hauling ore back to station or arriving to buy or sell items in another system.
Fallen Earth- I don't regret buying this, I think this game has lots of potential and a great community, and I want it to succeed, but forced questing is not for me.
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