Your First MMO?

[moostar]

My first mmo i played as a child was "toontown online",
it had a simple and quick turn based system,
a kind community filled with young players,
colorful bosses and enemies,
and tons and tons of mini games to play,

it was game that got me into the mmo world that im in today,

 

[Anti Nudist Cupcake]

World Of Warcraft.

I really enjoyed it at first, but then it descended into grind and boredom and I didn't feel like playing it anymore.

Still, it's a pretty damn good game.

My thoughts exactly, I hope cataclysm gets at least a "little" better, at least make the grind feel more meaningful so we don't mind it.

 

[Jasper Jeffs]

I can't remember the name, it was some shit free to play one that was all 2D, hardly anyone played it. I remember just sitting around in a cave somewhere with 10 other people with the best gear (I had no idea what stats meant then but I was told it was the best), and the game functioned more as a chat room with the occasional dragon boss spawn which we'd kill. I played a lot of them before playing Runescape, so if I had to pick something I know the name of, it would be Runescape.

 

[Weaver]

Do MUDs count as MMOs?
If not, then Tibia.

Same as me.

There was also that brief time I played FFXI. Anyone who says WoW is a grindfest...go and play that game.

lol I played FFXI as well. It was fun... for 3 weeks then I got bored. I agree, the grind was hilariously massive.

 

[gibboss28]

Do MUDs count as MMOs?
If not, then Tibia.

Same as me.

There was also that brief time I played FFXI. Anyone who says WoW is a grindfest...go and play that game.

lol I played FFXI as well. It was fun... for 3 weeks then I got bored. I agree, the grind was hilariously massive.

Yup, at least with most MMOs now they use a quest system that actually makes the grind seem less of a chore. I can remember it vividly, the annoying grind to level 10. When you were done with the grind between 1-10...you had the fun of finding a group for the Vulkrum Dunes to grind the next bunch of bloody levels.

And yet Tibia...I actually found fun in comparison.

 

[loc978]

Star Wars: Galaxies.

Yeah, that didn't last long, or leave a good impression. On the other hand, it did teach me what to expect from MMO communities.

 

[Pseudopod]

City of Heroes for a little while after it launched. I got bored of it after a while since it got repetitive after a certain level, but I loved my character and the customization in it.

 

[SimuLord]

I played Puzzle Pirates for about three months back in 2005 at the insistence of my then-wife (we'd been married maybe two months). She wanted us to have something to play together. I found it took way too much time away from games I liked a lot more (like, say, Rome: Total War, or Hearts of Iron 2, my 2005 GotY.)

Small wonder we're not married anymore..."we're both gamers" does not necessarily mean two people have a damn thing in common.

 

[Magnatek]

My first MMO (which I actually played online, offline was PSO Ep. 1/2) was called Bright Shadow. It was a pretty average MMO, I suppose, with multiple classes, instances, etc. I say "was" because it's US server support is already gone as of October of last year. It barely even made it out of the MMO starting gate, lasting only 7 months out of beta. Longer lasting than APB, but unlike that, chances are no one will pick up the dev work on this one.

 

[Andrew_Waltfeld]

Rune scape, Made about a million pieces of gold a day and had a trading network of people I met in game that made stuff for me to sell. Ah.. merchanting system... epic for it's time. Too bad it's all garbage now.

 

[APLovecraft]

guild wars - i thought it was alright tbh though i havent played wow so have no comparison

 

[Zeroghee]

RF Online. Don't know what drew me to it, just thought it was awesome.

Edit: Sorry it was FFXI but I only got to play for a week. totally forgot.

 

[Jester00]

flyff. i loved it.

 

[standokan]

Runescape and I thought it was brilliant, I still love it but that's partially nostalgia

 

[Jfswift]

Ultima Online was my first experience. I remember at the time I was running this beat up computer and I didn't think it'd even work but it did. It was pretty cool playing online with so many people and having all these places to explore, real estate you could buy and a working (somewhat) economy as well. I was pretty impressed although it took *forever* to save up for that first set of plate armor.

 

[Tahmoh]

Final Fantasy 11 was my first mmorpg and still hold a tiny little palce in my heart even now years after i gave it up for good.

 

[Tib088]

Does Dark Throne count? Because that wasn't just my first MMO but maybe my first online multiplayer game. Other than that I'd have to go with runescape, then I played WoW (which has been on and off ever since) which I just got back into with a freind (again). I find MMO's fun for a month or so then I tend to find them boring and samey. Their still great games mind.

 

[BENZOOKA]

I was about to say WoW in 2004, but I actually tried Runescape for a bit some years earlier. Didn't like Runescape. WoW got me addicted for couple months, but my interest dropped massively after I made another character with a friend. He was a veteran already then and although he didn't think we were moving fast, the power-leveling feel of it was horrible. It started feeling like a chore. And like I'd have to play for hours before I could really begin "playing".

 

[The Red Spy]

Runescape, it seems to be the entry level MMO around these parts.

 

[00slash00]

everquest. played it when i was in middle school and it turned me off of mmos for several years