Right now I'm playing Neverwinter mainly, but also have been playing Rift since launch. I only left WoW when Defiance launched because it was newer than WoW, and something different hehe. I play Defiance as well :P
I played WoW for about 5 years solid and then quit and came back a few different times. Since quitting WoW I have played Rift, GW, GW2, SWTOR, AoC, Warhammer, The secret world, Tera, Aion, EQ2 and a handful of other mmorpgs as well. All of these titles I either pre-ordered or paid for within days after release. I can honestly say after spending hundreds of dollars on every new mmo that comes out I am left with a feeling of blahhh... NOTHING seems so give me that feeling I once had with WoW! ( once being the key word). I find myself logging into games like Neverwinter and then log right back out after 20-30 minutes of play because I am bored out of my mind and just not having fun.
I'm not saying all these games I mentioned are bad games but rather maybe I have changed, maybe im just not into mmorpgs anymore... Maybe if they came out with the perfect game I still wouldn't like it or id be bored because im in a different place in my life right now... idk. Maybe WoW was just a fluke... something new to me that I fell in love with kinda like a first love sort of thing. One thing I can say for sure... I made a lot of friends and met a ton of really cool people back in the Vanilla WoW days some of whom I talk to on the phone on a regular basis. I had ALOT of Really really good times back in the day. I remember calling into work a few times WITH my boss so we could sit and Play WoW all day hahahaha... ya... those days are forever gone I think.
All this to say this... I'm going to give ESO a good try and if that game don't bring back that feeling or at least a feeling of wanting to play for longer than 30 minutes without getting bored to death than I can honestly say i'm throwing in the towel for good. I'll look back at this part of my life as just a chapter in a book and Ill find something different to do with my spare time when the whether is bad outside.
I will continue to play console games like CoD with my son but even that I find hard to get into these days.
Played from launch until Cata and then wandered away. I've played most everything and right now I split time between TSW, AoC, GW2 and RIFT depending upon what itch I'm looking to scratch.
I played Wow launch to about 6 months ago. I been playing EQ2 and LoL lately. Looking forward to F2P Rift and EQ Next. I played a ton of EQ and a little EQ 2 before WoW. EQ was my first I look fondly back at her.
I played WoW at launch when my tight knit guild of four years from Ultima Online decided to roll on an alliance PvP server. I hated it at first as the game play and style was so different. From using the left side of the keyboard to move rather than the mouse to having to quest and pick a class it was a learning curve from UO. Frustrated quickly I gave up when my gnome Mage hit level 6 or so.
A few months later I gave up on my deserted server from UO and rolled an undead priest on a PvP realm. That character and the guild I was in made the game a ton of fun for me. I thought I was o badass with the racial dot, lol. I loved wpvp and 40 mans and crafting. I still remember exactly where I was in Scholomance when I dinged 60. I played for awhile and took a break a few months before TBC. I try to play very now and then and have not found it nearly as captivating as it once was. I don't much love the dungeon finder and remember fondly reading "LFG Undead Strat, NEED heals, pst" in Org.
Now I play nothing too much, just WoW here and there and som games on the Xbox.
My job lends itself to summers off so I may try Neverwinter as I loved those books once upon a time. I'm 34 and definitely don't have the time to dedicate than I used to but still hope to find something fun and moderately addicting.
Not sure if the good memories in WoW 9 years ago should be considered "good memories" but they sure felt like it.
Right now mainly playing GW2 and TF2.
TF2 is awesome, it should have it's own MMO ;-)
Wildstar kinda reminds me to TF2 for some reason.
I'm not going to lie about it. I played almost all major MMO's after WoW and they were all meh.
It's probably the reason why the genre has transformed in coop action games. When something doesn't work out, it probably needs major changes. Well I don't agree, but apparently the mass does.
I joined WoW in the TBC era so never caught vanilla but still had a good time initially, ended up running a small guild for 6 or so months which was fun and stressful at the same time but a great experience I look back on fondly. This though ended quite abruptly as real life caught up with a few members and it sort of imploded and I could not be bothered to start building again from scratch. It was at that time I realised the basic WoW experience was shallow and lackluster and was boring the pants off of me and the only reason I'd been logging in was the social aspect with my guildies.
That lead me to try out other MMO's first Guild Wars and then EQ2 and that showed me what I'd been feeling all along that WoW just wasn't that great. I fell in love with EQ2 and then discovered Lineage 2 and that was my WoW days definitely over in late 2008 just after WotLK launched, I never went back until last year when they offered me 7 days free. I was bored out of my head 30 mins in and left again.
I now play mainly Asian f2p games Tera, Jade Dynasty, Atlantica and SW:TOR I prefer their game design ethic more than western games on the whole but love the story in TOR so I've just resubbed after a 6 month break while it went f2p. I did for a few years bounce around many games from EQ to EVE to Darkfall with loads of f2p games inbetween but I've learned what I like and I'm now thinning MMO's down to a few that I play regularly. I don't think I could stick to just one but you never know, there's so much variety out there I don't see the point of playing only one MMO at a time personally.
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I played WoW in 2003 for 3 months. I hit lvl 60 and then I realized the rest of the game was an endless grind to get better gear to raid better dungeons to get better gear to get better dungeons. So I quit.
My first real love was Diablo 2 hardcore server, not an MMO, but you know, i got hooked a bit on lineage 2 for 6 months, and EVE for 2 years. EVE was best I played.
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Considering I was never particularly happy with WoW, as soon as the RP community changed I lost my only reason to stay with the game.
Just wasn't the game I wanted to play. The action wasn't there and the activities weren't there.
Where I am now is for the most part work. Would like to get back into gaming more, but I have things to design and make.
I'll occasionally hop into Planetside 2 once a week or poke at a game for a couple hours to see how it works, but haven't played anything just for fun in a while.
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I quit during Season 5 and don't have much experience of the game past that era except for trying out the new expansions for a month or two at their release (and the occasional one month sub to see what's up). Started 2 months after the launch, anyway.
Looking at what I've been playing for the past few years, well, I've tried a lot of MMORPGs: Darkfall, Mortal Online, EQ on Project 1999, Rift, AOC... well, most of the popular ones. Haven't found a new home.
In the end, I think I've spent more time looking for a new game to invest my time on than actually playing games. And guess what after quitting WoW on retail servers has kept my interest the longest? Private servers (some of the better ones, which are rare). I just loved Vanilla and TBC. Even now I am anticipating the release of a certain new TBC server. And playing on another.
I don't want to promote private server usage, I wish Blizzard released a server similar to Project 1999 for WoW (and I'd pay good money for it for sure). But playing the old expansions on these servers is in fact able to satisfy my and many other people's gaming needs, unlike the game today, and that I think says something about how much the game has changed, even if the private server experience isn't always 100 % on par with the retail experience.
I'm a 31 year old guy who played World of Warcraft heavily from launch until shortly before Wrath of the Lich King came out.
My question is pretty simple: Where did everyone go? Now that WoW's numbers are in noticeable decline and there really doesn't seem to be a "major" mmo out that dominates like WoW once did - What are you playing?
As I look around the market as it stands now...I'm not sure which game to get into or if something that almost everyone is waiting on will be coming out in the next year or so.
So all of you who used to live in Blackrock Mountain back in the day: Where are you now?
I'm around your age, played WoW at launch .. and intermittently over the years, but haven't touched it for the past two years.
I'm playing a couple of f2pers, but nothing I did with the same intensity that I did WoW at launch; I had even been playing on a 56k connection.
I guess, I'm nowhere, because nothing of the same caliber has been released. I still think WoW has the best gameplay; the fluidity and "depth" (at least to PvP) has yet to be matched for me.
Perhaps when Rift goes f2p, I'll give it a real shot (I tried it in OB and it didn't interest me). It's sad how after all of these years, nobody has made any major strides in the gameplay/combat department. Sure, Age of Conan, Tera etc. tried new things, but they didn't do what WoW did for tab-targeting.
My best memories from playing MMOs stem from the time I spent as horde in the crossroads assembling a raid into dark shore. We were all underleveled and obviously undergeared, but the journey there felt like an adventure.
Both player mentalities, i.e. rush to endgame and simply the lack of desire to explore has really created the mess of MMO today, where people regard the world as nothing more than a lobby; the whole world/immersion aspect is simply gone.
I am 27 these days, I played Vanilla WoW fanatically for a year when it released and enjoyed it a lot. I was very much into world PvP and WoW just had a lot of things going for it. Everything seemed right at the time, there was also a strong community and you knew a lot of the people on your server.
This was in the time where there were no BG's, no dungeon finders or anything like that, it was a real MMO back then, it does not really feel like an MMO to me anymore now.
I am not really playing anything at the moment, I tried a lot (i think almost all) AAA mmo's that where released since then but nothing really captures that magic anymore. I am waiting on a few games though, Archeage and Wildstar being two of them. Maybe Wildstar will be able to recapture the old feeling that me and I think many other players used to have in the Vanilla WoW good old times.
35 years old and played from 2004 till 2011. Nothing has kept me interested like WoW until I found GW2. WvW reminds of old school AV, which I loved. Working on my second legendary right now and I love the lore and look of the game.
I miss old WoW. Lots of friends have come and gone during my time playing there. Lots of great memories.
Still around myself, though not as much, I jump in once in a while catch up in a month and then bail, just use it for something to do whilst looking for something new and actually decent to play. Thus far not much has been released (game creators need to start thinking better) not how quick can we make and throw out that that and this to bring in a lot of $/£ very quickly.
Quit WoW a long time ago but I kept the character names I developed there. Went chasing after f2p games. I don't like paying a monthly fee, I have bills and I'm on an old man's budget. Even if I won the lotto I couldn't go back. It's just boring quest chasing and zone restrictions.
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Vanilla to early Cata. Phased, instanced & shallow is how the evolution kept going in my eyes.
I guess you can never go home they say...
Personally, I'm optimistically waiting on EQnext, TESO & FFXIV to release.
One of these days, someone is gonna bust the genre wide open again & blow some minds. Or maybe I just like to think so
I played WoW for about 5 years solid and then quit and came back a few different times. Since quitting WoW I have played Rift, GW, GW2, SWTOR, AoC, Warhammer, The secret world, Tera, Aion, EQ2 and a handful of other mmorpgs as well. All of these titles I either pre-ordered or paid for within days after release. I can honestly say after spending hundreds of dollars on every new mmo that comes out I am left with a feeling of blahhh... NOTHING seems so give me that feeling I once had with WoW! ( once being the key word). I find myself logging into games like Neverwinter and then log right back out after 20-30 minutes of play because I am bored out of my mind and just not having fun.
I'm not saying all these games I mentioned are bad games but rather maybe I have changed, maybe im just not into mmorpgs anymore... Maybe if they came out with the perfect game I still wouldn't like it or id be bored because im in a different place in my life right now... idk. Maybe WoW was just a fluke... something new to me that I fell in love with kinda like a first love sort of thing. One thing I can say for sure... I made a lot of friends and met a ton of really cool people back in the Vanilla WoW days some of whom I talk to on the phone on a regular basis. I had ALOT of Really really good times back in the day. I remember calling into work a few times WITH my boss so we could sit and Play WoW all day hahahaha... ya... those days are forever gone I think.
All this to say this... I'm going to give ESO a good try and if that game don't bring back that feeling or at least a feeling of wanting to play for longer than 30 minutes without getting bored to death than I can honestly say i'm throwing in the towel for good. I'll look back at this part of my life as just a chapter in a book and Ill find something different to do with my spare time when the whether is bad outside.
I will continue to play console games like CoD with my son but even that I find hard to get into these days.
Good Luck and cya on the flipside!
Playing LoTRO and TSW.
Waiting for Wildstar, ArcheAge and World of Darkness.
edit:
almost forgot, waiting on EQ Next
Played: MCO - EQ/EQ2 - WoW - VG - WAR - AoC - LoTRO - DDO - GW/GW2 - Eve - Rift - FE - TSW - TSO - WS - ESO - AA - BD
Playing: Sims 3 & 4, Diablo3 and PoE
Waiting on: Lost Ark
Who's going to make a Cyberpunk MMO?
I played WoW at launch when my tight knit guild of four years from Ultima Online decided to roll on an alliance PvP server. I hated it at first as the game play and style was so different. From using the left side of the keyboard to move rather than the mouse to having to quest and pick a class it was a learning curve from UO. Frustrated quickly I gave up when my gnome Mage hit level 6 or so.
A few months later I gave up on my deserted server from UO and rolled an undead priest on a PvP realm. That character and the guild I was in made the game a ton of fun for me. I thought I was o badass with the racial dot, lol. I loved wpvp and 40 mans and crafting. I still remember exactly where I was in Scholomance when I dinged 60. I played for awhile and took a break a few months before TBC. I try to play very now and then and have not found it nearly as captivating as it once was. I don't much love the dungeon finder and remember fondly reading "LFG Undead Strat, NEED heals, pst" in Org.
Now I play nothing too much, just WoW here and there and som games on the Xbox.
My job lends itself to summers off so I may try Neverwinter as I loved those books once upon a time. I'm 34 and definitely don't have the time to dedicate than I used to but still hope to find something fun and moderately addicting.
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Not sure if the good memories in WoW 9 years ago should be considered "good memories" but they sure felt like it.
Right now mainly playing GW2 and TF2.
TF2 is awesome, it should have it's own MMO ;-)
Wildstar kinda reminds me to TF2 for some reason.
I'm not going to lie about it. I played almost all major MMO's after WoW and they were all meh.
It's probably the reason why the genre has transformed in coop action games. When something doesn't work out, it probably needs major changes. Well I don't agree, but apparently the mass does.
I joined WoW in the TBC era so never caught vanilla but still had a good time initially, ended up running a small guild for 6 or so months which was fun and stressful at the same time but a great experience I look back on fondly. This though ended quite abruptly as real life caught up with a few members and it sort of imploded and I could not be bothered to start building again from scratch. It was at that time I realised the basic WoW experience was shallow and lackluster and was boring the pants off of me and the only reason I'd been logging in was the social aspect with my guildies.
That lead me to try out other MMO's first Guild Wars and then EQ2 and that showed me what I'd been feeling all along that WoW just wasn't that great. I fell in love with EQ2 and then discovered Lineage 2 and that was my WoW days definitely over in late 2008 just after WotLK launched, I never went back until last year when they offered me 7 days free. I was bored out of my head 30 mins in and left again.
I now play mainly Asian f2p games Tera, Jade Dynasty, Atlantica and SW:TOR I prefer their game design ethic more than western games on the whole but love the story in TOR so I've just resubbed after a 6 month break while it went f2p. I did for a few years bounce around many games from EQ to EVE to Darkfall with loads of f2p games inbetween but I've learned what I like and I'm now thinning MMO's down to a few that I play regularly. I don't think I could stick to just one but you never know, there's so much variety out there I don't see the point of playing only one MMO at a time personally.
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Currently playing Neverwinter but its not a long term MMO at all, not even close.
Will be returning to WoW for 5.3.
There are no MMOs out now to WoW for extended periods of time. Wildstar looks promising but thats about it.
I played WoW in 2003 for 3 months. I hit lvl 60 and then I realized the rest of the game was an endless grind to get better gear to raid better dungeons to get better gear to get better dungeons. So I quit.
My first real love was Diablo 2 hardcore server, not an MMO, but you know, i got hooked a bit on lineage 2 for 6 months, and EVE for 2 years. EVE was best I played.
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My most active time period in WoW was in vanilla WoW. City of Heroes was my first true MMORPG love, however.
That being said, these days I find myself bouncing back and forth between The Secret World and Guild Wars 2.
Considering I was never particularly happy with WoW, as soon as the RP community changed I lost my only reason to stay with the game.
Just wasn't the game I wanted to play. The action wasn't there and the activities weren't there.
Where I am now is for the most part work. Would like to get back into gaming more, but I have things to design and make.
I'll occasionally hop into Planetside 2 once a week or poke at a game for a couple hours to see how it works, but haven't played anything just for fun in a while.
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"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." - Daniel J. Boorstin
I quit during Season 5 and don't have much experience of the game past that era except for trying out the new expansions for a month or two at their release (and the occasional one month sub to see what's up). Started 2 months after the launch, anyway.
Looking at what I've been playing for the past few years, well, I've tried a lot of MMORPGs: Darkfall, Mortal Online, EQ on Project 1999, Rift, AOC... well, most of the popular ones. Haven't found a new home.
In the end, I think I've spent more time looking for a new game to invest my time on than actually playing games. And guess what after quitting WoW on retail servers has kept my interest the longest? Private servers (some of the better ones, which are rare). I just loved Vanilla and TBC. Even now I am anticipating the release of a certain new TBC server. And playing on another.
I don't want to promote private server usage, I wish Blizzard released a server similar to Project 1999 for WoW (and I'd pay good money for it for sure). But playing the old expansions on these servers is in fact able to satisfy my and many other people's gaming needs, unlike the game today, and that I think says something about how much the game has changed, even if the private server experience isn't always 100 % on par with the retail experience.
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OP, you are a mirror of me if that original post is correct lmao. I'm 31 and all the other facts line up too...meh. LOL.
I'm now on AOW (just a bit) and DCUO as main game.
I will never support freeloaders, no more subsidized gaming.
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Oh and the two games I'm waiting for now, are ESO and Wildstar. I plan on flingin' magic in Wildstar while doing everything (of course) in ESO.
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playing nothing these days. More non-mmos. Steam is good.
I'm around your age, played WoW at launch .. and intermittently over the years, but haven't touched it for the past two years.
I'm playing a couple of f2pers, but nothing I did with the same intensity that I did WoW at launch; I had even been playing on a 56k connection.
I guess, I'm nowhere, because nothing of the same caliber has been released. I still think WoW has the best gameplay; the fluidity and "depth" (at least to PvP) has yet to be matched for me.
Perhaps when Rift goes f2p, I'll give it a real shot (I tried it in OB and it didn't interest me). It's sad how after all of these years, nobody has made any major strides in the gameplay/combat department. Sure, Age of Conan, Tera etc. tried new things, but they didn't do what WoW did for tab-targeting.
My best memories from playing MMOs stem from the time I spent as horde in the crossroads assembling a raid into dark shore. We were all underleveled and obviously undergeared, but the journey there felt like an adventure.
Both player mentalities, i.e. rush to endgame and simply the lack of desire to explore has really created the mess of MMO today, where people regard the world as nothing more than a lobby; the whole world/immersion aspect is simply gone.
I am 27 these days, I played Vanilla WoW fanatically for a year when it released and enjoyed it a lot. I was very much into world PvP and WoW just had a lot of things going for it. Everything seemed right at the time, there was also a strong community and you knew a lot of the people on your server.
This was in the time where there were no BG's, no dungeon finders or anything like that, it was a real MMO back then, it does not really feel like an MMO to me anymore now.
I am not really playing anything at the moment, I tried a lot (i think almost all) AAA mmo's that where released since then but nothing really captures that magic anymore. I am waiting on a few games though, Archeage and Wildstar being two of them. Maybe Wildstar will be able to recapture the old feeling that me and I think many other players used to have in the Vanilla WoW good old times.
35 years old and played from 2004 till 2011. Nothing has kept me interested like WoW until I found GW2. WvW reminds of old school AV, which I loved. Working on my second legendary right now and I love the lore and look of the game.
I miss old WoW. Lots of friends have come and gone during my time playing there. Lots of great memories.