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  1. #91
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    Grizzlebeard's Avatar
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    Fey Darkwalker
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rosy View Post
    UO, EQ, DAoC, Aion, LotRO, EQ2, WoW, Vanguard, Alganon, Lineage II, Asheron's Call, Warhammer, Guild Wars, Runes of Magic, Aerrevan, Dawntide, Rift, Runescape, FFXIV ARR.

    Alpha tested 3 of those and closed beta tested 6.
    /comfort

    Someone else shares the pain.
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  2. #92
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    Chione Tilaeris
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    Quote Originally Posted by Wadoka View Post
    ...DragonRealms
    Oho. A DR player huh. Been a long, long time since I left Elanthia. Some may think it doesn't qualify as an MMO but I think it counts based on the sub alone.

    My short list:

    Asheron's Call: My first "real" MMO. Some of the best emotes ever in that game. Still waiting on a /playdead and /ayotot here! Never played the 2nd one though.
    FFXI: I still log in on occasion, but I never end up getting anything done.
    FFXIV 1.0: I played from beta/launch until the end of the world.
    Guild Wars 2: This game had me hooked for a while after XIV servers went down. Sadly, I haven't really paid it much mind since ARR's release. I miss goofing around on my Asura, but the XIV controller scheme has spoiled me.

    That's about it for me. Unless you count the months or so I spent exploring NWN persistant worlds.
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    "Be EXCELLENT to each other!" ~ Bill S. Preston Esq.

  3. #93
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    Ikeda Komori
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rosy View Post
    XI seems to be mentioned a LOT in this thread...think I'll go take a look, it sounds great!
    It stopped being worth playing after the Abyssea update. Save your money.
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  4. #94
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    1997 - Ultima Online
    1999 - Asheron's Call, Everquest (very brief), Lineage (very brief)
    2001 - DAOC, Anarchy Online
    2002 - Asheron's Call 2
    2003 - Shadowbane, FFXI, EVE
    2004 - City of Heroes
    2005 - WoW, Guild Wars
    2008 - Warhammer Online, Age of Conan
    2010 - Star Trek Online
    2011 - Allods Online, Star Wars: The Old Republic
    2012 - Guild Wars 2, The Secret World,
    2013 - TERA, FFXIV:ARR


    There's also a whole slew of F2P MMO's I tried in a phase after WoW: Cataclysm trying to find something to fill the emptiness. lol
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    Last edited by Karnyboy; 06-23-2014 at 03:07 AM.

  5. #95
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    Jay'nes Alexander
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    Everquest for 9 years from launch day up until 4 or soeyears ago. I have tried playing other games like wow, aion, ect but could never get into them. Tried ffxi but the controls felt.. heavy? Only way I can describe it. Played star wars the old republic the longest after everquest for about 2 months on release and hit max level.. that was about all there was to do.
    Been playing ffxiv since beta and so far its the only one I've enjoyed this long.
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  6. #96
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    Daiza Auvec
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    White Mage Lv 80
    EQ; 2004: First MMO. I got it while my brother got Star Wars Galaxies. For whatever reason.
    World of Warcraft, 2004: Got it maybe a few months after launch. My first character, a mage, got up to Southshore before I grew I quit, citing boredom.
    Star Wars Galaxies; 2004-2005: Instead of going back to EQ, I instead took over my brothers account and started playing SWG. This was in my opinion, the best MMO have ever played to date. The fact that I could spend a full week, going out on no adventures, flying in space, doing anything of serious interset, but hang out in the cantina and talk to adventurers and dancers as they came and gone was just the godsdamned best. I stayed with that game through the CU, and the NGE, having to finally quit when the NGE decimated Ahazi so hard that most of the major cities were empty. I still weep for that game. /cry
    World of Warcraft, 2005-2011, 2012-2013 With the fall of SWG, I returned to WoW, where I made the first "Daiza", a Paladin for the Alliance. Played through TBC, WotLK, then when Cataclysm came, life started to get in the way. I took an extended break throughout most of the Cata expansion, then tried to get back into it for MoP, but by that point the magic was gone. Since then, I have been trying to find a new game that didn't remind me of WoW.
    Star Wars Galaxies; 2011 During one of my WoW breaks, I went back to SWG for a bit, just for lulz. Then it was announced the game would close and I wept once more.
    Star Wars: The Old Republic; 2011 After SWG was closed, I went to the next Star Wars game. Despite my high hopes, it was literally just WoW with Star Wars over it, and I couldn't justify playing it. When it went free to play, their deicision to make me have to pay for the option to hide the hideous head armor they gave you let me leave that game permanently.
    TERA; 2013 One of the many free to play games I've played between 2011-2013, but it's the only one I seriously played for months, hence why it gets a place on the list. Good game, no real complaints and it only sounds like it started going to hell after I quit.
    Guild Wars 2; 2013 This game continues to be a issue. I got it to play with a friend, whom never got it himself. When i did play, the action combat was...peh in my opinion. Don't know why it just didn't stick. I found no community in the game (when I was playing guilds were absolutely meaningless because you could join so many at once. Therefore, nobody ever spoke to each other. And to cap of off, the dynamic questing sounds great until you reach a point where you can't do anything alone because you are to weak, and there is nobody around to help with those quests. Quit after about a month of trying to enjoy the game. That said, I still have the game on my computer, and I make sure it is always patched, yet I don't play it.
    Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn; 2013- I wanted to play the original, but after hearing that it sucked, and my computer could never run it, I passed on it. Then it came back and I heard it didn't suck and here I am. The irony that I have spent the last three years trying to find an MMO that didn't play like WoW, then I main the game that is basically "WoW but with Final Fantasy over it." But eh. Details.

    Honorable Mentions:
    Rubies of Eventide; 2004: I played this game for maybe a month, before moving back to a subscription game. To be honest, I have no substational memory of this game, but for some reason it always comes back to me when I think of the MMOs of old.
    Gates to Heaven; 2004: Another free to play game. This was the one that seriously started it all. Go to YouTube, do a search for A Desert Sun Gates to Heaven to hear the login theme. The game was not good by any new or old standard. Classes were gender locked, and it was very very bland. But for some reason, it clicked and the memory of running out of the starting city with dozens of other players is what got the MMO wheel turning.
    Ragnarok Online; 2004 As GoH was the one that started it, Ragnarok Online was the one that cemented it. Granted back in the day I played on a few Private Servers, and even then for less than a few weeks, but this game was the one that made the desire and turned it into a damned obsession.
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    Last edited by TheUltimate3; 06-23-2014 at 01:19 AM.

  7. #97
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ikeda View Post
    It stopped being worth playing after the Abyssea update. Save your money.
    While the game sure changed post-abyssea I still find it more enjoyable than the boring wow formula that most MMO's use nowadays.
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  8. #98
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    Quote Originally Posted by Canddi View Post
    While the game sure changed post-abyssea I still find it more enjoyable than the boring wow formula that most MMO's use nowadays.
    I hate the WoW formula too. The problem is abyssea specifically dumbed the game down for the WoW crowd. Which is why I was trying to point out to them that the reason so many people played FFXI in the past is mostly gone now thanks to every braindead company desperately trying to milk the same cow as WoW.
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  9. #99
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ikeda View Post
    I hate the WoW formula too. The problem is abyssea specifically dumbed the game down for the WoW crowd. Which is why I was trying to point out to them that the reason so many people played FFXI in the past is mostly gone now thanks to every braindead company desperately trying to milk the same cow as WoW.
    Funny. Last time I played XI, ppl there still loyal to it, even didn't wanna consider touching XIV. Few even mad with mention of XIV. lol

    BTW, you might wanna check Seekers of Adoulin expansion 1st. Abyssea already becoming old school by now. And there's the new Monstrosity, which are basically Pokemon-based PvP, and open world too.
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  10. #100
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    Quote Originally Posted by BobbinT View Post
    Funny. Last time I played XI, ppl there still loyal to it, even didn't wanna consider touching XIV. Few even mad with mention of XIV. lol

    BTW, you might wanna check Seekers of Adoulin expansion 1st. Abyssea already becoming old school by now. And there's the new Monstrosity, which are basically Pokemon-based PvP, and open world too.
    It's true what Ikeda said though, FFXI post-abyssea is very different than the old days. I still much prefer it to XIV though which is basically wow with pretty graphics and sound and minimal semblance of community.
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