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Title: What other MMO's have you played?
Post by: Axenar on October 10, 2008, 03:01:01 PM
It came up last night in our Sewers group and lead me to wondering, what other MMO's have folks played?

I myself have been on the following:

Star Wars Galaxies longest runner to date, over 2 years largely due to all my real life mates playing so we would all go one skype and laugh and chat while we played. In the end we all packed it in after they changed the entire game yet again. Having spent months working the path to Jedi they suddenly made it so anyone could play Jedi from level 1 and in disgust we all cancelled.

Eve, I got talked into this but never really saw the point. Nice enough game but seemed over the top you had to pay to play it. Especially as a lot of it could be done without even being at the machine. Maybe lasted 3 months here.

World of Warcraft, likely at the moment my second longest run on a MMO. Did a longish spell then quit for about a year, then re-subbed when the first expansion came out, lasted perhaps 6 months before I got annoyed with it again and quit for the second time. Stands as the only game I've quit twice.

Lord of the Rings Online, liked this one but got a bit bored of the same monsters and lack of the real epic feel lasted about 4 months. Was tempted to go back if Warhammer hadn't come out.

Pirates of the Burning Sea, oh what a mistake that was, pretty much did my 30 days. Enjoyed the game when it would work but chronic Lag during boarding actions put me off in the end as it was unplayable. Considering this was instanced solo fights with no other players too and yet WAR I can be at a keep with loads of folks on screen and still play. Nice concepts in the game though but in the end the poor coding put me off.

Outwith paid for I have been in a few Beta's too. Nice cos I'd get passed the novelty stage of the game to see if I liked it and in the end would find I wasn't that hooked so saved me wanting them.

Auto Assault, just didn't work for me.
City of Heroes, fun to start with but got repetitive
Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean, to be fair never actually planned to get this just got a chance to play in the beta so thought it would be fun (it wasn't).

Lastly and before all of the above I played on a rather unique NeverWinter Nights server. It was a persistent set of servers one run by a bank of machines in a guys garage in America, the world evolved and they even built a mod for crafting, long before I had even heard of MMO's (thought they were around). Designed for folks to roleplay but had some brilliant stories develop run by live guys acting as GM's and an ongoing war between 2 factions. They also added content on a hugely regular basis and had more species as playable than any MMO I've seen. Not bad for guys purely funded by non compulsory player donations.

Anyway that's the lot.
Title: Re: What other MMO's have you played?
Post by: Goatboy on October 10, 2008, 03:27:08 PM
NWN, WoW and Eve.

NWN was nice... but meh...

WoW got boring and guild changed direction when I was out of game due to housing and connection issues.

Eve was just too damn static. I hated the fact that you couldn't actually fly your vessel with AWSD... couldn't live with just point and click space travel.
Title: Re: What other MMO's have you played?
Post by: Torgal on October 10, 2008, 03:44:34 PM
Good read. I also like to see people's background, or 'gaming credentials' lol.

Sorry for the image spam that's coming up. I have a lot of really great memories of FFXI. So hmm let's see I've played.

- Ultima Online on several different shards. Mostly I played this while I was at uni, for maybe a 9 months - a year.

- Final Fantasy XI. Baptism of fire into the brave new world of online RPGs. Played for ~2 years on Fairy server. Level 75 MNK (and a smattering of other jobs). Notable acheivments: Camping Mee Deggi and getting my O.Kote at 41 at the height of the gilsellers reign. Farming Batallia Downs and Qufim Island until I was blue in the face for my 11 mil Cross Counters. Man was I ever pimp, I died a LOT. Tanks hated me, and healers even more and then when I hit 75 they expected me to put on a dress and start chi blasting stuff, and dutifully I did.

Here's the only picture of me in somewhat high level gear showing off my Shura Zunari Kabuto (the silly hat). I'm not sure if I ever did get the Shura Haidate that I so craved.
(http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b12/Leldoran/shrznrkbt.jpg)

CHI BLAAAASTTTU RECORD!
(http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b12/Leldoran/seiryuchi.jpg)

The classic FF GFs were amazing in FFXI. I'm not soloing Ifrit here, I've got help (really!)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v491/Lunameth/FFXI/Avatars/Eld051022133710a.jpg)

Here's my awesome LS killing Jormungand
(http://s16.photobucket.com/albums/b12/Leldoran/ThoseGuys/Lel051030204531a.jpg)

Here's a messy one of my LS killing Vrtra (server first!) my most proud accomplishment of any game to date. Eldrien in the foreground is my wife. I'm in the mess somewhere smacking a skeleton (Leldoran).
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v491/Lunameth/FFXI/ThoseGuys/Eld051218232114a1.jpg)(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v491/Lunameth/FFXI/ThoseGuys/Eld051218213050a1.jpg)
Happy days

- World of Warcraft. I played WoW and quit no less than... 3 times in the what was it, 3, 3.5 years since US open beta? I don't know. I've played rogue to 50ish, 3 priests (40, 50, 70), 2 warriors (40, 70), hunter to 70. This game was a f*cking drug. I'm certain I'll go back when WOTLK is out. My toon profiles are in my sig. I played mostly for PvP - best arena rating I managed was 1805 I think in S2, quit sometime during S3, being messed up by rogues with dual warglaives was no fun, not that it's the reason I quit.

- LOTRO. Curious ass game. Played very casually - Guardian and Champion to 35, Captain to 30.

- Eve. Played for a week or two. Not for me, but amazing concept. It's the kind of game I used to dream of back when I was a kid playing Frontier : Elite II.

- City of Heroes. Played an Emp Defender to... I'm not sure, about 2/3 to cap. Kind of fun, I like the way grouping is implemented in this game, because it's the only game IMO that has actually managed to make groups easy to make and find the whole way throughout the game. I'd say even WAR with it's much vaunted PQs has failed in that respect.

- AoC. Played a HoX to 50 or so, and a ToS to idk 40 or so, before I realised that there was no point. Nice game actually, a lot better than most people give it credit for. I actually prefer the PVE mechanics to WAR, but they just screwed up on the content front. Also waaaaay to few titties on show consider what it was marketed to be :D
Title: Re: What other MMO's have you played?
Post by: Keggi on October 10, 2008, 05:09:15 PM
guild wars for 2 hours

aoc for 3 weeks or so lvl 42 assasin

warcraft for 3 years

lotro lifetime sub so can always go back
Title: Re: What other MMO's have you played?
Post by: Mangala on October 10, 2008, 05:19:22 PM
Good thread, always good to see where people have been in the past regarding such community based games. Without further ado here are my previous;

Planetside: My first MMO. Started playing back in 2004, and I was totally blown away by it. Vast battles with futuristic tanks, aircraft and suited soldiers. Was a pure joy to log in, drop pod into a fight, or jump from a transport with the Outfit of which I was a member (I was on the Werner server, New Conglomerate side) and drop onto the roof of a base or a tower and take it over. Some of fights I had were very very intense, back and forths between various bases across the continents for entire afternoons and evenings at a time. Shame its an SOE game and well we all know what SOE do with the real shiners in their care...

Star Wars Galaxies: Did not play this much, but when I did, it was for the crafting - the system was really good and amazingly wide open. Couldnt buy into it too much, as I found the player cities cropping up at landmark places to be really annoying and at the time life was also in my way!

City Of Heroes: Fun for a couple of months, but really grindy.

World of Warcraft: As with most people here, this became my sole MMO for a couple of years. Played a dwarf warrior (how original!), and generally had a good time. There's a whole history with me and that game, but suffice to say I had fun, the pve content was great, the pvp lacklustre and inane (no point to it, no reason to do it really) and I came across some good people. Eventually turned myself off the game and thats that.

Lord of the Rings Online: Was in Closed Beta, and eventually moved into Live with it too. Great game set in a great world. Loving the high fantasy side of the genre as I do, this game really shines for me. I just went through a phase of being tired of leveling games and this suffered as a consequence. Still pick it up from time to time (Lifetime subscriber) and play about with my characters in it.

Tabula Rasa: Bad. Seriously bad. Such a good idea too, yet executed horribly.

EVE Online: My on-off-on again relationship with this game has lasted since 2004. Its a good game to load up and go make someone cry in. Be it stealing their stuff or "pvping" via the market and undercutting their profits. My playstyle has evolved from total carebear to border lands inhabitant who likes to fly bait battleships and let me alt accounts warp in and kill the foolish. Currently I am logging my accounts to skill train, until I have the time to go back and enjoy it some more.

So there we have it.
Title: Re: What other MMO's have you played?
Post by: Pashur on October 11, 2008, 12:26:51 PM
WoW: I played for 2.5 years. Pretty hard core raiding until my wow-burnout some months ago. I still subscribe but the only thing I do is sell stuff on AH that will be outdated when WotLK hits. I will probably check out the death knights but as it feels now I do not see myself going back.
LotRO: The game was ok I guess. I played a bard but couldn't accept the instant switch between lute and sword. Too illogical even for a fantasy game.
Tabula Rasa: I so much wanted it to be good but what a failure.
AoC: I happily played a bear shaman to lvl 24 and then realized the amazing lack of content. No incentive to team up etc. I do like the melee system.
Title: Re: What other MMO's have you played?
Post by: Nushka on October 11, 2008, 10:48:21 PM
My First MMO was Asherons call many years ago, I was very very noobie, but I still loved the monthly content patches with the changeing seasons that it brought to the game, plus we got snowmen! I also learnt the very very wise mantra, NEVER do ANYTHING IMPORTANT on PATCH DAY!!

I am not sure what I played next, erm think it might have been AC2, bit of Horizons, beta tested Saga of Rhyzom. Over the years I have also dabbled in CoH, LotRO. Oh I played the heck out of Phantasy star online on the dreamcast too!

My big MMo love was DAoC, to me that was a perfect place and I can still mentally walk from one end of Hibernia to the other. I think that place will stay with me forever. it tought me about socialising in game, and how great people can be. I was an officer in the guild Iron Wolves, I still keep our guild foprums open, but sadly, over the years people have diverged somewhat, and its a shame.I also learnt how to set a mean Ground target under fire:-) Sadly there were several BIG mistakes made by GOA and also by Requiel (Yes I am still bitter hehe)and after those we lost a lot of people, and an RvR game needs a certain population. Last I heard my old server had 5 people on it.

So I played WoW... I mean who hasn't? I was asked to help start a friendly casual guild at lvl 3, so nabs and I helped out and .... we ended up as senior officers in the second highest advanced raiding guild on the server. Big change from DAoC and after a couple of years I had burnt out completely. Being healing officer in raids plus healing, plus a lot of other things I am sure you are all aware of really killed any fun, and I turned into the bitch from hell, which I am not and I hated it:-) Nabs and I left when the expansion came out and never looked back.

So thats my gaming history:-) The members of my old DAoC guild are playing WAR on  8Peaks with a load of old prydwenites, We came here cos we got the wrong server hehe BUT we intend to stay here, as you can;t keep reliving the past!

edit:-) Knew I would forget one... Pirates of the burning sea, best thing about that was the ability to have guild sails, I designed one for our guild, Iron wolves, it looked nice, sadly the game was horrible:-)
Title: Re: What other MMO's have you played?
Post by: Nabal on October 12, 2008, 07:18:22 AM
My first MMO was DAoC.  Like Nush, I think that game was perfect (was in those days anyway  ;D)  Grinding to level, almost no quests.  Loads of downtime after each pull to regain power. The combination of them 2 made that we knew a lot of people very well, you need them to level and have time to chat between the pulls.  Also the place I met Nush  ;)

After DAoC we went to WoW,  See Nush for the story hehe,  I still remember that person asking us to make a casual guild ....

After WoW went to Phantasy Star, but was to laggy for me and no budget for an upgrade ...

Then cam LoTRO which we played for a while.

And finally to Pirates of the Burning Sea,  I liked the game but our old guild leader killed it for me I think ... Long story won't tell you more  :P

While we were waiting for Warhammer to come out we played Titan Quest.  It's a great game imo!

I think we'll play Warhammer for a very long time,  I emjoy every second so far that I'm online  :D
Title: Re: What other MMO's have you played?
Post by: Envicta on October 12, 2008, 07:56:45 AM
I could pretty much copy/paste Torgals post for myself..   although some differences..

My first MMORPG experience started before Uni (err..  1998)..     with Ultima Online..       After playing legit for 18 months,   I entered the world of UO Shards :)

I actually loved UO so much,   I worked on a project to create a UO-Emulator-Server called "SphereServer",  I was actually the lead developer for a while..        I then moved over to the RunUO development team when we hit some legal issues :)

PS.  I still have the full source code to 0.55i Sphere-server, if anyone with C-Script experience wants to see the best-written AI script on the planet!

On the side of this, I was the GM/Dev/Creator of 3 UO Shards called "Obsidian", "Eternal Myst" and "Letara"..         Loved it to pieces..        Nothing can ever hope to replace those memories..   

I would spend hours scripting new monsters..      with a ton of effects, special abilities and funky AI :)

My favourite creation was a red wisp called a "Revenant" that would track you down and when it got close would explode into 10 tiny wisps that showered you in a rain of fireballs..             

You were guaranteed that any new player would be curious and whack it :)

Leaving UO,    I joined Torgal on FFXI..        I played a RDM (Red Mage) to about 52..          However my experience consisted of logging in about 5pm and being LFG for next 3 hours,    only to get going and someone leave 15 minutes later......      Great game but you need patience...      However I missed of all the end-game, so I regret that...

Anyhow,  new things were on the horizon...        Unfortunately unlike Torgal I didnt get into the US Beta of WoW...    So I spent weeks listening to his daily reports with insane anticipation of EU Beta...     Unfortunately because Torgal had a US-copy of WoW,  he continued to play on the US Servers (You mad man!!!)  and I started on EU...

Started Alliance,     GNOME WARLOCK!!    Capped him...      Continued to cap a Night-Elf Restro Druid and Dwarf Tank...

Then I quit for 3 months,  came back Horde.... capped an Undead Warlock and did tons of Endgame..   

Coincidently,    I had taken a 9 month break from WoW since my wife (now ex) was pregnant..      and shortly after he was born,   Torgal saw the light and decided to come back to WoW (from FFXI) ..        Where we both played Horde..

This time I capped a Undead Warlock,   Tauren Feral Druid and by far my favourite...    Blood Elf Paladin (oh she was sexy!)

I did a ton of Arena with Torgal with Warlock,     really enjoyed it..    but between the games where I was shite,   or we got destroyed by combos that we just literally couldn't do anything against...      our motiveation died...

Anyhow,  my best achievement in WOW was getting the full set of Purple S&M Armour for my female Blood-Elf Paladin

(http://warcraft.fibergeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/224px-judgement_look_alike_1.jpg)

Which was impressive,  because in the Arena they turned my Paladin into a Power-ranger!

(http://i.thottbot.com/ss/s/12985.jpg)

So leaving WoW,    I took a long break..    Well I experienced life without MMORPGS..            and was amazed at how nice it was to have time in the evenings :)

I had a brief spell at Eve with Torgal,    that was interested and I think its got amazing potential.....    I grinded my arse-off for 8 weeks,   ended up with a big f-off Battlecruiser that looked the dogs-bollox..    but I lost it a routine mission to ship some letters thru 0.0 sector...          Sigh..

Also played "Age of Conan",  but even though I spent 2-3 months playing it..        Hitting Level 50 something with my Bear Shaman,        I eventually got fed up with the bugs,  lack of content and lack of...  everything..   

Sorry for long post..

Let me just summarise though..

Since starting my first MMORPG,   I have:

Gone through 1 wife,  5 girlfriends,    2 cars,    3 house-moves,   3 different jobs and over 10 new PC's..


My total ingame played in WoW was over a year ...      which according to popular statistics is more time then i'll ever spend on the tiolet for the rest of my life :)

Envicta.



Title: Re: What other MMO's have you played?
Post by: Macrune on October 12, 2008, 02:51:27 PM
Hmmm, a total list of mmo's ive played over the years.

Well lets see. I started with a Little one that was produced by one guy on his own. The game was Xenimus and the guy was E.J. Thayer.
 :o scarey that i can remember that after all this time. My main character was called Gaspode (cleric) and he was in the top 10 high level characters on the game for quite some time.  I eventually got fed up with him and gave him away to an online friend and i think he got passed around a number of people who used and abused his poor little lizard body. Ive no idea if the game or the character even exist any more.
Then i moved on to DAoC where my main was a bard.  Loved the game and still have lots of fond memorys of running around with my group of mates.
After that i took a small break though i still continued to play a game called planetarion (or similar). manys the night i set my alarm clock to 2 or 3 am just so i could get up and either start an attack or see the results of one i had set off earlier.
Then i managed to get a Beta place in WoW where i leveled an elf hunter.When the game went live i leveled a number of characters and played the game up until about 8 months ago. At the end I had level 70's of Rogue, Ferral Druid (elf) - hunter, warrior (dwarf) - warlock, paladin (human) and  shaman, warrior (orc). I played over two servers  (Balnazar & Dunemall) and had two WoW accounts.
I gave those accounts to my niece (whom still plays them i believe) and moved to LoTRo.
I stayed with that for about 3 months until i got bored then purchased AoC when that came out.
AoC = bug city and on the full PvP servers i played on it was a complete gankfest. needless to say i jumped at the chance to get in Warhammer Beta.
Ive played the Warhammer tabletop game on and off for 15 years or more ( i still have a 12000 point fully painted dwarf army and 7000 point fully painted dark elf army in my loft somewhere).
So far so good.  Yes there are teething issues with Warhammer but I work on the premise of giving it 12 months for a game i like the look of.  And so far so good.
Title: Re: What other MMO's have you played?
Post by: Kurtt on October 13, 2008, 12:42:00 AM
My first ever MMO was Star Wars Galaxies. Started pre-CU. Had a Master Bounty Hunter/Master Carbineer on the Farstar server. And it was goood :D

Then NGE hit. One week before I was due to unlock :( That changed it for me really. Played for a couple of weeks, but couldn't get in to it, and the great guild I was in fell apart as a result of it. My toons are still alive, and every now and then I resub for about a week, then get bored and stop playing :D

Then I played WoW for about 3 years, meeting Beo, Keggi, Caradir and Goatboy, along with many others. I've only just cancelled my sub. Had/have 2x 70 Pallies, 70 Shammy, 70 Hunter and 65 Mage, as well as some other alts in the 20-40 range. I'll play until my sub runs out at the end of the month, as I want to see the new content patch, but I broke my WoW addiction a while back, so am not shackled to it.

Then I did Lotro for a bit, with the above crew :D And now I'm here in WAR :D

Oh, and I played City of Heroes and Planetside in small doses amongst that lot also!

Now I mostly play a MMOW (Massively Multiplayer Offline Wargame), Warhammer 40k :D
Title: Re: What other MMO's have you played?
Post by: Gunnarr on October 13, 2008, 11:09:36 AM
My first MMO...wasn't. :) It was actually a MUD, called Midnight sun (http://midnight-sun.ludd.luth.se:3328/). (Yes, it's still around, and according to a RL friend who still logs in from work there's still around 20 people regularly online, that defy the pull of animations. :)
I played that for -years- I think about 4 years, switching classes regularly, at one point (illegally) creating a second character, and finally, after having seen all of the game multiple times, becoming "wizard". I've never been very big at coding, and the area that I had in mind is still half-finished on the harddisk of a pentium-1 somewhere. It would have had skaven in it though! ;)

After experiencing that addiction, I've stayed away for years from anything like it. Only when I almost finished my studies I tried out WoW, and, justas I expected, it grabbed me like the digital heroine it is. My sub is still ongoing, though I haven't logged on for a couple of weeks now. In the end I played two "mains" (one switching between all priest specs, but mainly holy for raiding, the other a feral druid) in a BT guild (together with Angelor, Desi, Preds, Pythias and Vigil). I also have a couple of alts at level 70: a gnome warrior and warlock. Then there's a shaman at 64 and a rogue somewhere mid 30s - like many, I had been a bit bored in WoW, and levelling alts until Warhammer comes out.
Oh, and I used to play horde in WoW-Vanilla. Got a level 60 rogue in part Bloodfang, and a level 60 mage in nub-60 gear. :)
Title: Re: What other MMO's have you played?
Post by: Debaser on October 13, 2008, 08:58:09 PM
My first, good ole Magestorm (an ole mythic classic infact) Myth of Soma and Legend of Mir where I played the feild and was never really hardcore, still a youngen at the time but I made some fantastic freinds many of whom I followed into Anarchy Online.

Anarchy Online is where I started my first guild "Rage" we where the surge of the low level pvp twinks a small guild dedicated to tower taking at the bottom end. We made some very VERY bad as toons together. I had one of the first level 30 Enfs with a Stygion(sp) and that Guardian tank armor? been a long time. Either way we kicked ass and took names all over the shop. The problem was that all my freinds where americans and staying awake until 4am to keep towers defended was getting a little much.

I buggerd off to Wow for the longest time. I played NOTHING but druid for the god knows how many years and guilds I played that game, when I say nothing but druid I mean I had level 60-70 druids for each tree. I was druid class leader and even if I do say so myself prerhaps the most comprehensive druid expert and pvper in existance (yea I'm sorry, I was pretty good though). My main, debase was unbeatable after the feral buff. Happy times.

Several guilds and many freinds later I got bored and when looking for pastures green. a Breif and confusing stint on Eve left me with Lotro where I went hunter and enjoyed middle earth for a while. However theres just somthing not quite right about that game. It dosn't seem to achieve what Anarchy Online and WoW did for me. Despite enjoying it after exploring all the content once around and having a good bash at the pvp I quickly buggerd off.

Then, WAR!!
Title: Re: What other MMO's have you played?
Post by: Taith on October 20, 2008, 09:13:05 AM
If we're counting NWN, then I suppose I started with that, though the Australian internet what in a sufficiently primitive state back then that I only ever played it at LAN parties. And even then that was if you could get the right crowd, because mostly what people played in LAN parties back then was Half Life.

I started playing World of Warcraft one week after EU release and only waited that long because we were switching ISPs. I began with an undead mage but when my guild disbanded six months later I created a night elf druid and joined Beosvir's guild, and I've stayed with the guilds that grew out of it ever since.

I tried City of Villains and played it for all of two sessions. It just didn't measure up.

Though it's mainly the Warhammer 40K universe I like, I always planned to try Warhammer Online when it came out. Having run out of things to do in WoW, and what with Warhammer Online being out, I figured now was the time.

So far I like it a lot, though I'm aware I'm not participating much in the main point of it (the RvR stuff) and I suspect it will get better. Unfortunately my 4 year old PC is really struggling to run it.

I have a warrior priest, which is probably a good class to play in scenarios when your PC can render more than one frame per three seconds in a fight. I've also created a Chaos Marauder and I have to tell you, the first time I clicked on the button and mutated my arm, my mouth fell open in wonder.
Title: Re: What other MMO's have you played?
Post by: vacuum on October 20, 2008, 10:02:54 AM
Well there let's see ...

I started with text MUDS - Nanvaent, Perilous Realms etc. Did quite well in PR but the main wizard (Death - how goth that was) found a new game called 'Everquest'.

EQ and I had an on-off affair for about 3 years. I capped multiple characters, 60 War, 60 Shm, then 70 Monk & Necro. I stopped playing after finishing up Planes of Power. I still think the original EQ + RoK was one of the genre defining games and had a lot of fun. Much of which involved playing with American guilds till 4am. This wasn't especially good for my sanity.

Moved onto EQ2, but it never stuck. I still have a sub there, and log on every so often, but never capped a character and it's just really an opportunity to have a wander around and see how the UI has evolved. It's pretty slick - integrated voice chat, ToK like companion book, a lot of bells and whistles and runs pretty smoothly as well. As always next to no useful PVP in EQ.

Then came EvE. I loved EvE, it took the economist in me and said , here you go modelboy fly a spacefleet. A few of us were the first people to create player stations in 0.0 space as part of the ISS group. We flew pirate for a while after that and then joined one of the larger 0.0 alliances and held a chunk of the south. This really lit my RVR fire. I loved the cooperation, team work and organisation required to start an effective corporation and be an alliance member. I still occasionally wonder about going back to EVE (but all that training I've missed in the 4 years I've been away!!) , and it makes me happy that it's still going and that guildies here are into it.

After this I had a little WoW fixation. TBC came out about three months or so after I started playing, so I got a shaman to 70 and a shadow priest to 70. I've got to say, after a while I started to get really really bored - I'm not a PVE guy and the idea of 'daily quests' or grinding for hours just to get a certain mount really turned me off. I played on a US server (bloodscalp) because the friend who brought me into WOW works for JPL in California, and it was more a useful way of keeping in touch with him than anything else. I think my total time in WOW was 6 months, maybe 8.

And here's Warhammer AOR. A bit like EQ, a bit like EVE, a lot like the Warhammer 40K and WFRP I grew up with (actually it was 'Rogue Trader' back then). How could I resist?
Title: Re: What other MMO's have you played?
Post by: Jarkko on October 20, 2008, 11:52:41 AM
Compared to the others in this thread, my experiences are very limited.

For me it began with WoW. Back in February 2005 Dehn announced on a strat-game forum he has begun to play WoW, asking if anybody else have. Eventually I bought it too, and I seem to have registered my game on 5th of March in 2005.

With my short attention span and tendency of losing interest (until it suddenly bursts back) in tasks I regard dull, I did during "classic" game play on several different servers (Alliance on PvP server Deatwhing from where we transfered to Tarren Mill, Horde on PvP servers Sunstrider and later on Dentarg, RPing on Argent Dawn). I got in all two hunters and a warlock to 60, plus a few toons to 40-50 range.

With TBC I noticed how Gorillas got screwed as hunter pets, so I basically stopped playing them, altough I did get my horde hunter to 66 before I realised it is a no go with a Gorilla pet. Why play a hunter if you can't properly use your Gorilla? Instead I leveled up the warlock to 70, and also a druid and rogue to 70, plus a paladin to IIRC 64 (and a plethora of other toons to around 50). During my last couple months in WoW I didn't level much about anything, only joined for PvP sessions and played my RP toons on AD.

I thought I would be super interested in WotLK. I did follow the beta intensively. But somehow the burn is not there anymore. I don't like the PvP in WoW. I don't like how warlocks got nerfed. I don't like the fact that Gorillas are now the "Gorilladins" and every hunter apparently are running with one (goddammit, Gorillas are *my* pets, seen on all servers over the past years only *twice* some othe hunter using gorillas, and now everybody have them :( ).


I've played LOTRO on and off. I did like a lot how the game was playing until about level 20 or so, then it suddenly lost much of its shine. I got a burglar to ~30 and the other classes to various levels between 12-20. What I did like in LOTRO was the MPvP concept, and I spent most of my time in LOTRO in the MPvP area on my spider. I guess it takes a very special sort of person to dig themselves down a hole and sit there for minutes waiting for an un-suspecting "freep" to wander by, but I did love it. I could do that for hours on, running the game in windowed mode and reading forums or chatting in IRC while my Lukki was waiting for prey (or, as it often ended up, running back to the hunting ground after the prey had refused to be prey and became the hunter instead :p).

Possibly the reason why I got eventually bored with LOTRO was the fact that I seemed to always end playing alone. There always seemed to be too many burglars around to get to do instance runs, and all my guild-mates seemed to level so much faster (as I was spending so much time in MPvP), and in MPvP I happened to fall in love with a class that is at its best when hunting alone (altough I did love to take part in the keep fights after the server-reset every week).


Been playin Anarchy Online as a froob quite a bit. Again, I like the starter areas, but the importance of grinding gear to have any chance to be successfull in PvP is quite frustrating. Instead I end up rolling new characters every now and then and play them until I get bored to death.


I became a beta-tester for Age of Conan last year, and it was pretty clear for me from the start the game was in serious time-schedule problems. The launch date was pushed back, but it was still launched way too early. Yet I did buy the game, in the hopes that the money would allow FunCom to make AoC the superb game it has the potential for, but sadly that seems to not happen. Still, I am not sad for the ~40 euro spent on the game, Tortage is by far the most excellent starting area I have seen in any game: Good stories, marvelous music, very thematic. I played Tortage through with all arche-types and leveled a Tempest to IIRC 42, seeing the first "proper" instance etc. I indend to re-activate my AoC account eventually.


I became a beta tester for WAR last February. Spent a lot of my time doing quests on my witch-hunter, trying all the possible professions etc. For PvP I joined with my DoK (early on) and Ironbreaker (for the T4 battles later on). I like the PvP system a lot. I like the general "maturity" of the players on Order side (have you tried Destro on live? I have, and it reminds me soooo much of how WoW is on Alliance side...), where people in general co-operate for a common goal. I also like the poeple and the spirit in HoJ a lot :)


I've been a tester for for a couple months for another MMO game. Can't tell much about it because of the NDA, but it is very different from what I have played so far.


Other than MMO's I am strategy-game geek. I play only MP games, and only *real* strategy games (so don't come and tell me about your experiences with "Total War" series or "Red Alert" or whatever those are told; if you do I shall just snort in your general direction). Which is odd, because the games need heavy thinking, and usually I am quite light in that department. Then again, I like to be in the company of smart people, it makes me too feel a bit smarter (and when I don't open my mouth, others might believe I am quite smart too!) :)
Title: Re: What other MMO's have you played?
Post by: Torgal on October 20, 2008, 12:07:32 PM
Tortage really was excellent. I appreciated how the experience was the same, but different for each of the archetypes - slightly differing storylines that still wound up in the same overall thread of the storyline. Shame the rest of the game couldn't hold up to that promise, as soon as you cleared that area you were back to hunting boar asses for faceless npcs.
Title: Re: What other MMO's have you played?
Post by: Taith on October 20, 2008, 01:28:04 PM
Why play a hunter if you can't properly use your Gorilla?

This question should be a Zen meditation aid, like "What's the sound of one hand clapping?" and "If a tree falls in the forest etc"
Title: Re: What other MMO's have you played?
Post by: Mangala on February 24, 2009, 08:03:36 PM
Bump for our newer forum members to see and post if they wish :)

(Note my post refers to me barely playing eve - that has obviously changed :D)
Title: Re: What other MMO's have you played?
Post by: Macrune on February 25, 2009, 06:49:10 AM
Bump for our newer forum members to see and post if they wish :)

(Note my post refers to me barely playing eve - that has obviously changed :D)

Hmm my post doesnt even mention EvE.  Which is kind of strange as i now have four accounts  :P and if i could justify it and if my poor old PC could take the strain of running more than 4 clients on two 22" screens at 1600 x 900 with everything maxed  :o then i probably would play even more  ::).
Title: Re: What other MMO's have you played?
Post by: Darkstirm on March 15, 2009, 01:42:36 PM
ok - just to res this topic  ;)

My first MMO was playing the US servers on CoH.  Had a great time playing a gravity/kinetics controller and to this day I keep popping back to this game - only thing is that I'm now on the Euro servers. I still think it has the best WHAM POW feel to it in group play. Plus I think the sidekick system should be made compulsory for any MMO - it's ideal for very casual players who struggle to stay in line (level wise) with people they like grouping with.

Next was WoW. That was fun, especially during the HoJ glory days. But the disintegration of the guild still leaves a nasty taste in my mouth and I've never found that sense of fun since. I've quit a few times and I don't think I'll be back.

LoTRO has grabbed me again - i think it's the world and the storyline aspect of it. Plus the Loremaster is a nice non-button-bashing class to play (I think). Plus I got it running on the Mac!

Tried RFOnline (grindorama), D&D Online (WHAT a disspointment) and also subbed to WAR. I like the game and love the Warrior Priest class but I've been suffering from Billy No-mates syndrome so haven't logged on for a while. I'm sitting on the fence about whether I'm going to continue. My sub runs out in May.

And I'm trying Eve again. I love large space opera type SciFi (Polity books by Neal Asher is a good example) and I think Eve grabs that feel a bit.

So here I am - a couple of hours a week to play and three games I want to play.... sigh

Title: Re: What other MMO's have you played?
Post by: Mangala on March 15, 2009, 05:11:45 PM
<3 DS :)

Say hi in EVE, drop by  Red Mars Open and we'll drag you into our other channel to answer your questions.

In WAR, we arent really there, I'll be recreating the guild this week on Karak Azgal just so we dont lose the ranks and bonuses after all the work we put in.

In Lotro - Garry's in The Last Aliance as I rarely crop up there in the guild there, but when I do I love it :D (uhm I may visit my alts this evening....)
Title: Re: What other MMO's have you played?
Post by: Gorphin on June 14, 2009, 01:08:37 PM
Started off in MUD2, for about 6 months on dialup, then moved to Diskworld still on dialup for about 2 years, then WoW on the american servers for about 3 months when I got my broadband, then WoW on the european servers Aszune, Argent Dawn, Wildhammer, my brother plays on Wildhammer as he travels all over the world with his job seeing him on WoW is sometimes the only times when I see him for a couple of months. Then Eve for a couple of months, stopped because I went into mining and salvaging, and kept getting followed around by this weird other player who used to park there mining ship in front of mine so I couldn't mine, tried to restart as another player but due to some bug couldn't so stopped. Then Lotro.
Still play wow and lotro, dont see anyone from the old hoj guilds in wow, according to a GM if they all have me on ignore and this new phase engine blizzard are using, then the ignore function means that the ignored can't see each other.
Title: Re: What other MMO's have you played?
Post by: Keggi on June 14, 2009, 01:17:31 PM
i have seen you every now and again when your on gorphin (backdraft from hoj)

amulas does not play anymore
valismar is on a gap year travelling the world
fian is horde side i think
alaras hmmm other games most of the time i think
elviott horde side i think

a few have left the guild(synchronicity) to see more of endgame as the guild does not get the numbers it used to.

and i only log on now and  again on un-guilded alts till my game cards run out.


Title: Re: What other MMO's have you played?
Post by: Kurtt on June 16, 2009, 11:56:04 AM
i have seen you every now and again when your on gorphin (backdraft from hoj)

amulas does not play anymore
valismar is on a gap year travelling the world
fian is horde side i think
alaras hmmm other games most of the time i think
elviott horde side i think

a few have left the guild(synchronicity) to see more of endgame as the guild does not get the numbers it used to.

and i only log on now and  again on un-guilded alts till my game cards run out.




Me and Yyan bunked off Horde side ages ago, though we're both not playing WoW currently.
Title: Re: What other MMO's have you played?
Post by: Taith on June 19, 2009, 04:06:40 PM
Me and Yyan bunked off Horde side ages ago, though we're both not playing WoW currently.

Ha! As I suspected.
Title: Re: What other MMO's have you played?
Post by: Kurtt on June 19, 2009, 04:43:24 PM
Me and Yyan bunked off Horde side ages ago, though we're both not playing WoW currently.

Ha! As I suspected.

Sorry old bean :P

Come say hi in CoH. I am enjoying swooshing about in a flashy cape.
Title: Re: What other MMO's have you played?
Post by: Mangala on June 19, 2009, 04:55:55 PM
Dan is really:

(http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d115/frohickey/Nefaria1.jpg?t=1245430533)
Title: Re: What other MMO's have you played?
Post by: Taith on June 19, 2009, 07:26:41 PM
Surely there's a Stormtrooper outfit with a cape.
Title: Re: What other MMO's have you played?
Post by: elv on June 20, 2009, 09:56:10 PM
well as for me I have little MMO history to speak of i was dare i say it in such company...a  console gamer !!!

started playing wow a few months after uk release enjoyed many happy days in hoj and stayed in a few of its consequent guilds before switching hordeside, where I have enjoyed that too but like many others, ive had spells in and out of wow and am currently feeling its time for another out of wow spell as I am back to work again in 3 weeks (after 6 months off) noeeeeeeeeeesssssssssss......!!!!111!!!

i have tried coh and i like the concept (bit of a closet comics nerd), i found the game clunky and uncompareable to wow.

i tried guild wars for all of 10 seconds its pants.

I played lotro which i liked but it was mostly just a nice game it gave u no desire to keep playing and the instances were poo

played war which i quite enjoyed but the game was so buggy... and intensive on my machine for no apparent rerason that i got pisssed off with it.

and essentially i love playing mmos but feel all have failed to match up to wow which is a great shame (does anyone else think wow is vastly superior graphically, playability and even technically, or is this a myth induced by my drug addicted state to the game..)

I havent tried eve i fear it may be a step too far for the consoler inside me :P

hope to see u guys soon in a fun playable mmo!! heres hoping kotor lives up to expectations
im currently rocking street fighter 4 (how awesome that they kept it 2d and its all the same moves, just jazzed it up. Its like having the street fighter 2 arcade u always deramed of all those years ago.  Kicking ass online  xbox 360 if anyone wants a beating!

laters elv hadouken !!!
Title: Re: What other MMO's have you played?
Post by: Mangala on June 20, 2009, 10:02:11 PM
For a PVE experience Wow is grand (or was till the TBC heroic nerf that made them easy (or as popular opinion goes fixed the bugs)), i'll give it that elv.  For ease of use - in that it runs on just about anything - its grand again.  But for its ability to really get into a players head, even if they are an hour a week person, its bloody scary :D  Still givng where its due, Blizzard created a great product in it and I can only look forward to whatever the old core team of wow is working on now (this is why wow has that ghostcrawler muppet as one of its leads, all the people with talent left after tbc launched to make the new blizz mmo :D).

And you may have a point about eve, its one of the most unforgiving games in the genre - but worth it if a person really gets into it and over the fact that you are a starship captain in a sense, not a pilot per se :)
Title: Re: What other MMO's have you played?
Post by: Kurtt on June 21, 2009, 10:42:08 PM
Come on Elv, tights and capes, you know you want to  :-*
Title: Re: What other MMO's have you played?
Post by: Taith on June 22, 2009, 01:53:06 PM
i have tried coh and i like the concept (bit of a closet comics nerd)

Had an awful lot of X-Men conversations with you on Teamspeak to believe you're merely that.
Title: Re: What other MMO's have you played?
Post by: Thuggy on June 26, 2009, 11:34:07 AM
Really, only the one - WoW. Started that in August 2005 and still playing on and off. As most of you know, I have never and will never be hardcore at it - by that I mean, I never have time to raid in an evening (my woman doesn't really like that!) therefore I am stuck with soloing and grabbing some instances when I can. Never really been fussed though.
Started with my Paladin, Thugwar, hes sat in Outland somewhere still at level 66 - (Pala class sucks big time), moved on to my mage Smallbloke and then finally my BELF Huntard, Foirroo (Hunters - easy mode completely - target, auto shot, go and make a brew, come back and loot, rinse and repeat)

I have tried Star Wars Galaxies - never got on with it - although, technically that was my first real MMO.

City of Heroes - this seemed to be a good effort for an MMO and if hadn't been for WoW it could have been quite good, but it actually is quite dated now and the quests seem very samey.

LOTRO - Never go on with it. The issue is with, ther are stuck with LOTRO lore and therefore are limited to the realms of that.

EVE - this is the sort of game I should love and maybe should revisit sometime.... Do they still do a free trial?

Got high hopes for the new Star Wars game at the moment, I really do hope they make it something special but a part of me suspects that it won't compete with WoW. And if it doesn't I think I might as well quit with MMOs completely.
Title: Re: What other MMO's have you played?
Post by: Mangala on June 26, 2009, 04:08:49 PM
EVE - this is the sort of game I should love and maybe should revisit sometime.... Do they still do a free trial?

Got high hopes for the new Star Wars game at the moment, I really do hope they make it something special but a part of me suspects that it won't compete with WoW. And if it doesn't I think I might as well quit with MMOs completely.

EVE - always got a free trieal going on.  Buddy program offers a 21 day free trial over the regular 14 :) I can send youa  buddy program invite if you want?

As for swtor - EA pisses me off, but I love bioware enough to willingly have their babies. I do hope it goes beyond being kotor with a chat window, but thats an early impression based on lack of info for you :D
Title: Re: What other MMO's have you played?
Post by: Gunnarr on June 26, 2009, 11:49:26 PM
Really, only the one - WoW. Started that in August 2005 and still playing on and off. As most of you know, I have never and will never be hardcore at it - by that I mean, I never have time to raid in an evening (my woman doesn't really like that!) therefore I am stuck with soloing and grabbing some instances when I can. Never really been fussed though.
Started with my Paladin, Thugwar, hes sat in Outland somewhere still at level 66 - (Pala class sucks big time), moved on to my mage Smallbloke and then finally my BELF Huntard, Foirroo (Hunters - easy mode completely - target, auto shot, go and make a brew, come back and loot, rinse and repeat)

I have tried Star Wars Galaxies - never got on with it - although, technically that was my first real MMO.

City of Heroes - this seemed to be a good effort for an MMO and if hadn't been for WoW it could have been quite good, but it actually is quite dated now and the quests seem very samey.

LOTRO - Never go on with it. The issue is with, ther are stuck with LOTRO lore and therefore are limited to the realms of that.

EVE - this is the sort of game I should love and maybe should revisit sometime.... Do they still do a free trial?

Got high hopes for the new Star Wars game at the moment, I really do hope they make it something special but a part of me suspects that it won't compete with WoW. And if it doesn't I think I might as well quit with MMOs completely.

The most wonderful class in wow for solo'ing would be a druid imho. And play it feral - kitty to grind mobs down quickly, bear when shit hits the fan, then human and full heal after the fight  - or stun, shift out, heal up, back into bear when you wouldn't make it otherwise. Huntards are as easy, but not as much fun, imho. :) - Just a little suggestion! :)