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What other MMO's have you played?

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Pashur:
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 I still subscribe but the only thing I do is sell stuff on AH that will be outdated when WotLK hits.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.

Nushka:
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:-)

Nabal:
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

Envicta:
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



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



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.

Macrune:
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.

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