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How long have you played each mmo? And what caused you to switch to another mmo?
Aion- 1 month, left because just wasn't very fun combat.
WOW- 1 month, left because pre90 pvp was horrid balance.
Rift - 6 month, left because I was ready for something new
GW2- 6 month, left because I was ready for something new
League of Legends - 1 year, just got tired of playing it
Archeage- 1 month, PVP wasn't rewarding like I wanted.
SWTOR- 3 month, Just take a break every now and then come back
Atlantica-1 month, Got too grindy at top levels
Shaiya-1 month, Found out it was pay to win.
Mortal Online-1 month, Game created for Douche Bags Majorly
ESO-1 month, currently playing
Pirates of the Burning Sea-6 months, Left because ship combat was too unrealistic.
Warhammer Online-1 month, Left cuz game seemed to be dying.
Battle of Immortals-2 months, left cuz devs deceiving players.
What does your list look like?
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All guesstimates :
Warcraft: 4 years total. (off and on. Playing it currently.)
DCUO: 3 months
LotRo: 1 year
STO: 1 year
AoC: 1 month
SW:ToR : 1 year (maybe more)
GW2: 6 months
Age of Wushu: 3 days
Tera: 6 months (Thinking of going back to this as my main game. It or SW.)
Aion: 6 months
Rift: 9 months
Lineage 1 - 6 mo
DAOC - 2.25 yrs
DAOC freeshard - 9 mo.
Lineage 2 - 6 mo.
WOW - 1.75 yrs
EVE - 5+ years
Everything else, (too many to list) 3 mo or less.
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WoW: 2 years, approx. I grew out of it somewhere around the summer of 2007.
I've sampled many others, but none have I played religiously like I have the two above.
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MMOs I have played, in no particular order...
Ultima Online, Everquest, Everquest 2, World of Warcraft, Continent of the Ninth, Allods Online, Runes of Magic, DC Heroes, Champions Online, Silk Road, Path of Exile, Star Trek Online, Warhammer Online, Anarchy Online, Eve Online, City of Heroes, Cabal, RF Online, Pirates of the Burning Sea, Poxnora, Shaiya, Requiem, Hellgate: London, Ether Saga, Runes of Magic, Forsaken World, Aion, Tera, D&D Online, Vendetta Online, Priston Tale II, Perpetuum, Fallen Earth, Age of Conan, Star Wars the Old Republic, Guild Wars, Guild Wars 2, Secret World, Silk Road, Vanguard, War of the Immortals, Lord of the Rings Online, Pandora Saga, Elder Scrolls Online, Archeage, Wildstar, Dragon Nest Europe, Face of Mankind, Dragons Prophet, Neverwinter, Taikodom, Vanguard, Knight Online.
There may be a handful I've completely forgotten
I can't recall times played for them all. Ultima Online only briefly, since friends were playing Everquest and I went there. Everquest about 4 to 5 years, WoW a couple of years, then all the others vary between a week or a few months at most. I seem to get bored with mmorpgs very fast these days.
Neverland (browser) - a couple months till it shut down.
Atlantica Online - 4 years, my first full featured client MMO. Still playing this now. To be honest back when I started I don't even know there was a word called "MMO"...
Aion - 3 months. was not good with PvP so I decided to stop.
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Guild Wars 2 - 1 month, not including all closed / open beta period. Somehow things become stale 1 month into release.
Blade & Soul (China) - 1 month. Things also become stale after 1 month into play.
FF XIV - 1 month. It's a nice game, just something I don't like...
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and some in between not worth to mention as I only spent a couple days and got bored real quick.
Everquest, 5 years, left because most friends had moved to Star Wars Galaxies
Star Wars Galaxies, 2 years, left because of CU
WoW, 2 years, left because I didn't like Burning Crusade (back now for WoD)
Everquest 2, 3 years, left because of pressure to speed level when Sentinel's Fate expansion came
Vanguard, 2 years off and on, didn't have time to play it as much as other games at the time
EVE, 3 years, played off and on but didn't stay as I couldn't find the right corp for me
LotRO, 3 years off and on, never really found a guild so played with friends occasionally.
Aion, 2 months, left after reaching the PvEvP zone and getting ganked all day long while trying to quest
Age of Conan, 3 months, stopped when most of my guild quit
D&D Online, 3 months, was too hard to find groups of non-idiots
GW2, 3 months, left after getting to 80 and geared and having nothing to do
SWTOR, 6 months, left after my raiding guild quit the game
Age of Wushu, 3 months, got tired of the pvp and repetitive content
Neverwinter, 2 months, too low quality and cash-grabbing. Poor community
FF XIV ARR, 2 months, left because too grindy
ESO, 3 months, got bored with the solo questing
Wildstar, 1 month, got bored of levelling
Archeage, 2 months, left after guild split in two and a lot of friends left the game
...and various others not worth a mention.
Only listing MMO's with maxed characters:
DAOC -- started right when it came out.. What a blast!
CoH -- started this when it first came out, still miss it
Ryzom -- started in 2005, still play now and then
Vanguard -- Fun, wish it was still running.
PoTBS -- lots of fun in this one.
Not really playing an MMO now, don't have the time it takes. None of the newer games grabbed my attention.
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2025: 48 years on the Net.
in order.
DAoC - 2 years. OK game but the PvE was not cutting it. Shared sub with AC2 and EQ2.
AC2 - 1 year until servers were shut off.
WOW - 1 month. Just preferred EQ2 background and graphics.
EQ2 - 10 years 1 month and still playing because it's the best game out there.
Shared subscriptions with EQ2.
GW1 - 1 month. Just Bah.
Rubies of Evertide - 2 months.:FTP
Planeshift - Still drop in once in awhile (8 years): FTP
AoC - 8 months.
Requiem - 9 months paid sub.
EVE - 10 day trial. Not enough content to warrant a sub.
Vindictus - 1 year. my email changed and account was locked. CS sucks.
Alantica - 1 month. Good RTS just not my interest.
Forsaken World - 7 months still log in once in awhile OK as FTP.
SW:TOR - 1 year. Still play it as paid sub.
There are others I have forgotten because they were not interesting enough.
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EQ 8 years ........................the good developers left and multiboxing killed the community
Vanguard 1 year.................game got shut down, reminded me of EQ in some ways
Street Gears 1 year............game got shut down, really fun cute game
GW1, a few months............lack of community
Vindictus, a few months......too much Pay2Win
FFXIV, since launch
I've tried other MMO but didn't play any of them more than a day or 2.
I can't exactly say how long but why.
Asherons Call: years, no real realm vs realm pvp.
Daoc: years. first beta testing while still playing AC. Joined the PvP server, left because we(the clan) killed the population. The population tried to grow but then we killed it off again. Guess the "PvP" players weren't ready to PvP.
WoW: months. It was nice to play a solid game but the focus on PvE made me leave.
Warhammer Online: months, too many bugs (new class release, max at first day(5h)) and the map was too narrow
Rift: months, played beta and live. liked the class system but the WoWish gear grind turned me off (that dungeon then this dungeon aso)
Daoc freeshard: years but hopping from one to another because they tend to close down quickly(some)
Planet Entropia/Entropia Universe: a year + some, even it is kind of PvE centric the whole eco system was fun. But after a while I had everything I wanted and the question was if I played it as a 2nd job or quit. At least I got a new PC out of it.
From then on I was jumping around and had 2-3 games at a time. Funny thing the game that I keep playing from time to time over years is a MOBA. And somewhere in between one of the best PvP games I ever played...
Fury: months, it shut down(so much to lifetime access). Not sure if you could call it a MMO because it was more of deathmatch but it was fun and the mechanics of attack -> counter were the best I have ever seen but not sure if you want to count that.
edit: oh, in between there was AoC, GW 1 and some others.... THERE ARE JUST TOO MANY!!!
My Game List:
I think this is about it.
EQ2 - 7 years
WoW - 1 hour
Vanquard - 1 month
SWG - 1 day
LOTRO - from launch with breaks - lifetime sub - stopped playing when SWTOR launched.
AoC - 2 months
Aion - 3 weeks
Rift - 3 weeks
TSW - from launch with breaks - 2years or so - my backup MMO .
SWTOR - from launch - 3 years with NO breaks - my main MMO - LOVE IT
EVE - 1 week
GW2 - 1 week
TESO - 1 week
FFIV - 1 day
Tera - 30 minutes
Age of Wushu - 1 hour
Archage - 30 minutes
That's all I can think off.... plenty of single player games in addition...
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wayyyyy to many to list, ive been playing video games in general since the dawn of video games, and mmo's since their dawn too, i'll list the ones i spent more than a year in.
- Ultima Online - 3 years, still to this day my favourite.
- Dark Age of Camelot - 3 years, a very close 2nd fav
- WoW - 3 years, alot of people bash WoW but it was still a cool game.
-Warhammer Online - 1 year, was good, but was expecting more.
- LoTRO - 1.5 years, quite enjoyed this game, cant really remember why i stopped playing.
- SWToR - 1.5 years, again was good, but was expecting more.
Ive basically played every major release with exception of EVE, i dunno why i never played it, thats a mystery for the ages, but as you can see by years played, i was more of an old school gamer, im lucky if im not bored within a month these days, let alone trying to get years of game play out of something.
Ultima Online : 5 years First mmo I've ever played.
Dark Age of Camelot : 3 years
Star Wars Galaxies : 1 year
Knight Online : 4 years
World of Warcraft : 6 years
Warhammer Online : 5 years My second favorite mmo of all time.
Guild Wars : 9 years, 'still playing' Best mmo I've ever played.
Guild Wars 2 : 2 years
Eve Online : 3 years
FFXIV ARR : 4 months, 'still playing'
Destiny : 3,5 months, 'still playing'
These are the mmos I've played most.
WoW - played 6 years without a break, burned out
LOTRO - 2 years
TSW - 9 months (cabal imploded)
Rift - 2 years and counting
Have tried/played lots of others including Aion, Trove, Landmark, ESO, Wildstar, ArcheAge but the top four are still up to date on my desktop.
Below are all the games I remember. i am sure there are more but I can't remember them all.
These games couldn't keep my interest past one month, they either had issues or just weren't the games for me:
Aion, Atlantica, Shaiya, APB, Angels Online, Age of Conan, WOW, Rift, Wildstar, Archage, Battlestar Galactica Online, STO, Defiance, ESO, Neverwind, TERA, Waren Story, Runescape
These games I liked and played for about 3 months, but left and maybe went back but have no further interest in:
Wizard 101, Pirate 101, SWTOR, DCUO, Final Fantasy XIV(may consider coming back to this game)
These games I liked and played but they shut down and I could no longer play them.
SWG, Troy, Mytheon
These games I have played for extended time and come back to regularly
GW1, GW2, TSW
-WoW| (2006-2007)4-6 months
Lotro| Played beta (Feb 2007) for 2 months and realized I didn't like it because it was too WoW like.
-Age of Conan|(Beta April 2008) -(May 17, 2008- August 2008) 4-5 months. Was fun with my clan Murderherd.
-Uo Shard| (2009)Didn't appeal to me because I've become accustom to 3d graphics and modern mmos.
-Darkfall online| 4 years off and on. (Beta) Started Jan 1 2009 played until (EU Launch) Jan 25 2009- May 2009. Quit. Rejoined for 2nd expansion on Jan 2010-June 2010. Rejoined September 2010-Jan 14, 2011. Rejoined June 2011-October 2012. Best mmorpg ive played and upset we got that horrible trash Unholy wars.
I'd just be guessing to tell you honestly. There are too many MMOs I've played and not all of them have been in a single period of time but I can't even really remember how long those single periods of time went for let alone add the times I went back to them.
I can tell you that it's rare I will play a game for 40 hours and up for more than months and more often than not I will only play a game long enough to confirm I don't think it's worthy of committing time to. That said I played alot of wurm online and uncharted waters online. I kept coming back to those games rather than stick to them though.
I've always been more interested in the potential of the genre than appreciative of the genre that already exist.
T4C : 1 hours. I got killed by a rat i don't understand ... first mmo experience xD
UO : 4-5 years. My first mmo, even it was a non official shard. Really cool experience.
GW1 : 5-6 years on and off. Simply the best online game i played. PvE was fun, PvP was excellent.
RF Online : something around 2 year. Played on codemaster server and private server when it closed. Intensive cash shop game with interesting 3 factions war. PvPing in this game was cool and a good experience.
Aion : 9 month to 1 year total. The pve was ok, the combat was cool and got my epic moment in this game. But there was also alot of frustrating one. I played 4month on official server and tried a private server with more update later.
GW2 : Played it for one year. Quite a fun game with interesting combat. However friend left the game and well, we play together before playing a game so i follow !
TSW : 2 Years and still playing time to time ... well could say i left the game with the time i play it now. The game is interesting pve and quest are awesome. Dungeon and raid while relatively simple are really fun when you tryhard and set your own objective (time, or with less ppl than required).
+ Alot of F2P mmo. None of them are noticeable.
WOW = 4 years ( Needed a change)
LOTRO = 7 years ( my go to game. play it off and on. Great world . just feels like Middle Earth to me. The combat is Meh though)
SWTOR = 1 year ( Unbalanced PVP with to much CC)
TSW = 3 months ( slow combat )
GW2 = 6 months ( No trinity. did not like having no defined roles(imho)
WAR = Shut Down
LOL = 1 year (worst community in the history of gaming)
Xsyon = 3 months ( lack of players)
Wildstar = 3 months ( hit end game "hardcore" wall)
Marvel Heroes = my current game of choice.
Games tried but just not for me: Archage, Rift, ESO, STO, AOC, FFXIV and others.......
seal online - since 2005 - never quit until now just vacum for sometimes.
rf online - since 2007 - never quit until now just vacum for sometimes.
perfect world - 2 years - left because having other things to do. (work outside town)
pandora saga online - 4 years, left because server closed (we still missing this game up until now and wish other publisher release it again once for all )
uncharted waters online - since 2011 - never quit until now just vacum for sometimes.
hawken - since 2012 - never quit until now just vacum for sometimes.
world of tanks - since 2012 - never quit until now just vacum for sometimes.
swtor - since 2013 - never quit until now just vacum for sometimes.
archeage - 3 month - left because the routine in the game is killing me and make the game really suck. (got lvl cap, gha set, hasla weapon, a farm and a house)
and other mmo's that i can't mention here bcause i even forgot the name of the mmo since only played 10-30mins after installed then uninstall.