What got you interested in MMO's?

[Welsper59]

I think it was mostly my imagination that got me to try MMOs. I was never an RP sort of person, but that doesn't stop me from imagining content, similar to how one would envision the characters and situations while reading a book. The idea of being able to play a video game online was unique to most people back then. I mean at the time, a lot of us heard of Yahoo Games and such, and that was groundbreaking to be able to play cards against other people online. Showing my age there.

While I did dab in some MMOs back then, the one that really got me invested in the genre was FFXI. I'm very glad that that game was essentially my first MMORPG. It pretty much set the bar for how you can start from scratch (besides just the name), and make people feel like they're part of this virtual world. The story, the music, the people, everything was set to keep you wanting to be there... for better or worse lol.

The want to be that loner that solos his way up in a genre designed for groups quickly became a thing for me. I get a lot of satisfaction defying the odds, when the game allows me to. Obviously, XIV isn't exactly the best example of this, but we're talking about the genre here, so whatever.