What's your MMO history?

[HumsterMKX]

Lets see...

1) Ragarnok Online alpha till beta till lanuch

2) FFXI

3)Vanguard: Saga of Heroes. Man... this game set the mark for unfinished zerg rush lanuch. I rename it Vancrap: Suckers and Zeroes.

4) All sorts of mmo like Guild Wars and some korean and taiwanese mmos.

5) Warhammer online

6) Champions Online. Nice game in beta and early release.. then they bait and switch...

7) FFXIV 1.0

8) Defilence. Damn good gun play, but little gameplay.

9) Planetside 2

10) FFXIV 2.0

[Nep_Nep]

I played DCUO from when it came out to maybe a one or two months after it went F2P. I could never catch up on getting gear or any new content so I left it behind. Plus I met alot of rude people.
After that I tried out Mabinogi and I eventually ended up here. I really like it here.

Edit: Forgot about Ragnorok. That was my first ever MMO. When my friends stopped playing I did too.

[EllemEnopee]

Counting backwards, and too old to remember the exact years:

Currents:
FFXIV:ARR since launch
SW:TOR since early beta
War Thunder, still technically in beta
Defiance, since launch, big time off, but it's MMO Lite ... pure fluff.
(Wildstar ... maybe soon)

Recent stops:
Elder Scrolls Online from early access to about 1 week in (bleh, just bleh)
SWG Emu (the grind used to be fun ... 10 years ago when we didn't know better)

More distant stops with significant playtime:
EVE Online (played a few years ... Massively Multiplayer Online Spreadsheets)
Vanguard (many years subbed, a few years F2P but subbed anyway ... origins of our crafting system lie here)
Tabula Rasa (played start to finish, and will hate NCsoft forever for the game they gutted and destroyed the day it launched)

Short stops:
LOTRO (beta ... they should have put the game in the mid third age)
Aeon (anime meets my little pony)
Guild Wars (1 not 2)
Age of Conan (given the number of bugs, should have been name Age of Insects)
Everquest 2 (after about 10 minutes of grief-filled play, had enough .. yeah, I would have sucked at DAOC)

Long lost love:
Star Wars Galaxies (pre-CU craft = Best. SciFi. Crafting. Ever. [FFXIV:ARR = Best. Fantasy. Crafting. Ever.] 8 years, with a brief hiatus to EVE during the dark, early days of the NGE. Started on Ch.3, with the end of the Alderaan side story. Ended 1 week short of The End, when a game update irrevocably futzed my install and could not get the launcher to log me back in on any of my six [6] accounts)

MMO pre-history:
IGORMud, hosted by Chalmers Technical Institute in Goteburg, Sweden. Proud member of the Mauve Brigade. Stopped short of Wizard because I really wasn't interested in Unix shell scripting my own domain, but romanced the idea none the less. 2 crazy years of helping non-English speaking Europeans learn English and Unix at the same time.

Never, ever, even considered:
World of Warcraft (I mean, really ... Runequest 2 was the first MMO)

[Kuwagami]

1) Dofus (french turn based MMORPG), I came back a few times on it but it lost its spirit

2) in the same time, runescape. I stopped when my free access prevented me to go further in the game

3) a lot of Aeria games. I don't like the P2W model of these and their anti-hack program gives me BSOD with avast.

4) Metin2. Korean grindy game. Fun for a time, not enough players

5) a lot of flash MMOs. All are fun for a month, then the P2W become too important to bother continuing

6) FFxiv 2.0 beta and still continuing

[Alistaire]

I guess my first MMO would have to be Legend of the Red Dragon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_of_the_Red_Dragon

But the only multiplayer part of that was that you could pick players from a list and "duel" them, which basically pitted your stats against theirs even if they were offline.

Then played a MUD called Realms of Despair, also text-based. It's from that era you get the term "mob"...

Each place you could stand was called a room, it gave a description, exits east west up down etc, and enemies could roam between rooms; they were mobile.

Had always been a FF fan, originally wasn't going to play ffxi @ NA release because "an mmo couldn't be a true ff game"...caved in about a month later, played thru till Adoulin with about a year off before abyssea hit, swore I'd stay on ffxi till servers went down, got convinced to try 14 out @ 2.0 and have been here since.

Also played briefly a couple of f2p games, most notably Rappelz, but never really got into them.

[Najara]

For me it started with Neopets all those years ago, then word about Runescape spread.. The PvP in that game was so addicting that I had to quit. Gave my account to my best friend in middle school who also played runescape and graduated to my first official MMO Dark Age of Camelot. Word of a Final Fantasy MMO came (I am/was a hugee Final Fantasy fan, have played all the games) so I immediately switched to that a year after it's release. Got bored after a couple years and started playing all the popular f2p's that I won't even bother listing. You all know them though. But for the last 15 years(holy sh*t) I'd say I've mostly played DAoC private servers, and FFXI and, in recent times, some League of Legends.. And now this!

[Gormogon]

While I would like to put the following in a timeline and explain it will just get so complicated I doubt anyone would read through it.

MMORPGs
City of Heroes
Conquer Online
DC universe Online
Dofus
Everquest
Final Fantasy XI
Final Fantasy XIV
Flyff
Granado Espada Sword of the New World
MapleStory
Phantasy Star Online
Ragnarok Online
Ragnarok Online 2
Rift
Runescape
Star Wars the Old Republic
Tera Online
Terra
Tibia
World of Wacraft
Wakfu

Other
Counter Strike
Gunbound
Gunz Online
Halo Online
Heroes of Newerth
League of Angels
League of Legends
NeoPet
Smite

[AjoraUninspired]

Way too many to even remember hah. Big ones would be PSO, Anarchy Online, Eve Online, WoW, FFXI, The Secret World, FF14, and hopefully Shadowrun Online once its out because I'm a dork. Too much time spent on MMOs!

[EllemEnopee]

/*snip*/ Too much time spent on MMOs!

Sorry. No such thing. :P

[Dijana]

I began with Ragnarok Online in 2005? I think it was. Messed around on some private servers there then I went to WoW briefly.

After that played a bunch of free MMOs I dont quite remember what order, Perfect World, Dream of Mirror Online, Megaten were the main ones I think, until I went to FFXI. Stayed there until about 2 years ago, playing XIV 1.0 on and off from alpha, then went back to WoW. Now Im back on XIV, also playing some of the old mmos I mentioned again, as well as Wildstar and Archeage alpha.

Some others I remember playing briefly/on and off

Tera
Mabinogi
Dynasty Warriors Online
World of Kung Fu
Phantasy Star Universe
Guild Wars 2
Aion
Grand Fantasia
Shaiya
Various Aeria Games mmos

Im sure there's more but I dont remember them all