War hammer and Age of Conan were the only two mmo's I felt were good enough to take seriously for a little while. But I've played most of those on the list. WoW being the only one I still play
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What's your MMO RPG graveyard look like?
- Thread starter Jag
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Not many for me.
1. ESO
2. Neverwinter
3. Guild Wars 1 and 2
I played to about level 10 on WoW but didn't care to get sucked into it at release. Guild Wars 1 though was and remains my favourite MMO of all time.
The mission prior to ascension n in GW1 nearer the end of the game was a fucking nightmare without the exact right party. I remember completing it and trying to get a friend through it but never could.
Those were the days š„
1. ESO
2. Neverwinter
3. Guild Wars 1 and 2
I played to about level 10 on WoW but didn't care to get sucked into it at release. Guild Wars 1 though was and remains my favourite MMO of all time.
The mission prior to ascension n in GW1 nearer the end of the game was a fucking nightmare without the exact right party. I remember completing it and trying to get a friend through it but never could.
Those were the days š„
Oh RuneScape. I played that game from 2001 to 2019. I haven't touched it in about a year, and can't see myself going back. But nothings ever dead, not really.
- FF11 (so many hours, and they probably streamlined the game, but my memories of the slow slog of that game are both my favorite thing of that game and also why I wouldn't go back)
- WoW (gave up after a month way, waaay back when that game came out)
- Aion (think that was the name, or was it an acronym?)
- DAoC (another game that I don't really remember, but I know I bought it)
- Everquest 2
- DC Universe
- Planetside 2 (well, MMO FPS. I occasionally think of going back and playing it, think they're introducing some new thing now to try and boost the population back up)
- Planetside 1
- City of Heroes (this was a dead game now, right?)
- MAG (see Planetside 2, also a dead game)
- EVE Online (pretty sure I've played this, but it might have been like a 1 week trial)
I only currently play FFXIV, and I'm sure there are other, newer ones out there that are fine and good, but I just don't think I have enough time or interest to dive into another game.
I tried to get back into Tera a few months ago but felt lost on what to do. Plus the character names got reset at some point and I couldn't log in on any until I changed the names so that also put me off. Oh and it still runs like crap! I guess I'm done with that game.
I would like to return to Champions Online but all of my characters had customised archetypes that are only accessible when paying a subscription and I'm not going back to paying. You can convert them to the free-to-play archetypes but I don't want to!
World of Warcraft for the same reason (not going back to paying.)
Path of Exile, because I found it boring and its inventory system is frustrating.
Guild Wars 2 because it's not really Guild Wars 2.
I did these a couple of days ago with just henchmen and it's not too hard, though skill tweaks since you last played may have made things easier (the bonus for Dunes of Despair is a nightmare unless you resort to using the cutscene exploit though!)
I would like to return to Champions Online but all of my characters had customised archetypes that are only accessible when paying a subscription and I'm not going back to paying. You can convert them to the free-to-play archetypes but I don't want to!
World of Warcraft for the same reason (not going back to paying.)
Path of Exile, because I found it boring and its inventory system is frustrating.
Guild Wars 2 because it's not really Guild Wars 2.
Which one? There are three that can be completed in any order though I'm guessing Thirsty River because that can be pretty tricky if you can't kill the Forgotten priests fast enough.
I did these a couple of days ago with just henchmen and it's not too hard, though skill tweaks since you last played may have made things easier (the bonus for Dunes of Despair is a nightmare unless you resort to using the cutscene exploit though!)
I didn't play too many because I got into WoW when TBC came out.
I started with Runescape and then got into WoW from TBC and WotLK and partially through Cata. I played quite a bit of The Old Republic too but now I'm back into WoW with Classic. The one MMO I would love to play is Star Wars Galaxies. I wasn't really old enough to play online or sustain a subscription at the time so I missed the boat but it just sounds so awesome until apparently an update ruined it. If there was ever a Star Wars Galaxies Classic or a faithful successor, I'd be there day one.
I started with Runescape and then got into WoW from TBC and WotLK and partially through Cata. I played quite a bit of The Old Republic too but now I'm back into WoW with Classic. The one MMO I would love to play is Star Wars Galaxies. I wasn't really old enough to play online or sustain a subscription at the time so I missed the boat but it just sounds so awesome until apparently an update ruined it. If there was ever a Star Wars Galaxies Classic or a faithful successor, I'd be there day one.
- Dungeons & Dragons Online
- The Elder Scrolls Online
- FF XI
- FF XIV
- Flyff
- Guild Wars
- Guild Wars 2
- Dragon Nest
- Dragonica
- Black Desert Online
- Defiance
- Lord of the Rings Online
- Maplestory
- Maplestory 2
- Neverwinter
- PSO2
- Ragnarok Online
- Ragnarok Online 2
- Realm of the Mad God
- Runes of Magic
- Runescape
- Skyforge
- Spiral Knights
- TERA
- Vindictus
- World of Warcraft
Ragnarok Online
Mabinogi (granted I barely got into it)
Some steam game called "something Hearts"...... an action MMO from the looks of it but for the life of me can't remember it's name
FFXIV has my dedication and I don't think I'll ever play another MMO once I retire from it.
Mabinogi (granted I barely got into it)
Some steam game called "something Hearts"...... an action MMO from the looks of it but for the life of me can't remember it's name
FFXIV has my dedication and I don't think I'll ever play another MMO once I retire from it.
I played EverQuest 1 from launch, for about 5.5 years. I have been playing World of Warcraft since launch and my account has never lapsed once.
Beyond that, I dipped my toes into City of Heroes, Star Wars Galaxies, Guild Wars, EverQuest 2, Warhammer, FF14, Black Desert Online, and likely a couple more I can't think of at the moment. These were just a couple of weeks or even days of playing before I gave up.
Beyond that, I dipped my toes into City of Heroes, Star Wars Galaxies, Guild Wars, EverQuest 2, Warhammer, FF14, Black Desert Online, and likely a couple more I can't think of at the moment. These were just a couple of weeks or even days of playing before I gave up.
City of Heroes/Villains is no longer going, so guess they don't count. And I assume the PSO2 characters I created during the JP beta don't actually count, either.
- World of Warcraft
- FFXI
- Granado Espada (I might have only played during the beta)
- EVE Online
- TERA
- Guild Wars 2
- FFXIV
- Blade & Soul (I did dip back in for a second a few months back.)
In order:
- R.O.S.E Online
- WoW
- The Old Republic
- Guild Wars 2
- Black Desert
- FF 14
From favorite to least:
1: WoW
2: LOTRO
3: Galaxies
4: Conan
5: Old Republic
6: Rift
7: Guild Wars 2
8: Elder Scrolls online
Lot of great memories with friends and family on late nights and weekends.
1: WoW
2: LOTRO
3: Galaxies
4: Conan
5: Old Republic
6: Rift
7: Guild Wars 2
8: Elder Scrolls online
Lot of great memories with friends and family on late nights and weekends.
Of all the MMOs I've played throughout the years (more than I can remember), the one I miss the most is Asheron's Call.
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That's what got me thinking about it. I have a couple of games where I made a ton of cash from early broken economies and wondering whether they are still loaded in game or if inflation made them worthless.
- World of Warcraft
- Elder Scrolls Online
- Guild Wars 2
Probably only Tibia and Mu Online.
I should probably play some more Tibia this year. One of the finest games I've played.
I should probably play some more Tibia this year. One of the finest games I've played.
SWTOR is the only one I really spent time playing. Seven fucking years, man. I don't know if I can say I have truly stopped playing... we'll see...
1: WoW (played the longest over the years. Been out of it since Cataclysm but but played since Vanilla before that.
2: Guild Wars 2. Total waste of money. Did not enjoy the lack of role based combat at all
3: Star Wars: The Old Republic - Not bad but never resubbed after trial ended. Just didn't have enough time and wasn't enough there to hold me. Wasn't a fan of how gear worked
4: FFXIV - I actually really enjoyed this game and would have played it longer if we hadn't had our first kid. Just realized we didn't have the time or motivation to play an mmo game anymore.
5: Wild Arms: Was very hyped for this before release. Seemed like it was doing all the right things. Enjoyed the beta. Never bought it but did create an account when it went free to play. After a few hours, it just didn't hook me.
2: Guild Wars 2. Total waste of money. Did not enjoy the lack of role based combat at all
3: Star Wars: The Old Republic - Not bad but never resubbed after trial ended. Just didn't have enough time and wasn't enough there to hold me. Wasn't a fan of how gear worked
4: FFXIV - I actually really enjoyed this game and would have played it longer if we hadn't had our first kid. Just realized we didn't have the time or motivation to play an mmo game anymore.
5: Wild Arms: Was very hyped for this before release. Seemed like it was doing all the right things. Enjoyed the beta. Never bought it but did create an account when it went free to play. After a few hours, it just didn't hook me.
neverwinter and elder scrolls online for me and maybe tera i keep going back to that though and guild wars 2 is on thin ice
-Final Fantasy XI
Played it for nearly a year and had a dark knight. I stopped when WoW was released. I hated trying to find groups and how the entire game at the time was practically kiting monsters, and if the party wiped, everyone dispersed only for you to spend another hour waiting for a party.
-World of Warcraft.
I played during both the closed and open beta, and then got the game at release. I stopped in 2006 before Burning Crusade released. My level 60 Night Elf hunter and level 60 Gnome mage have been sitting there for... damn... nearly 14 years!
Played it for nearly a year and had a dark knight. I stopped when WoW was released. I hated trying to find groups and how the entire game at the time was practically kiting monsters, and if the party wiped, everyone dispersed only for you to spend another hour waiting for a party.
-World of Warcraft.
I played during both the closed and open beta, and then got the game at release. I stopped in 2006 before Burning Crusade released. My level 60 Night Elf hunter and level 60 Gnome mage have been sitting there for... damn... nearly 14 years!
Graveyard implying I never go back so not many tbh, as I go back to WoW every xpac (and sometimes in between for a bit), I go back to ESO for a bit sometimes since it has no sub and I just did like 600 hours of FF14 recently and I stopped but im sure ill be back. So I guess taking those 3 out we have:
Rift
Blade & Soul
Tera
The Old Republic (even raided in this one)
Guild Wars 2
Warhammer Online (rip I loved it)
Wildstar I barely played
The Secret World I only finished the vanilla story not any of the million dlcs
I think youll find most mmo players will have very similar lists, we tend to give them all a shot. A lot like arpg (the diablo-style) or fighting games I suppose.
Rift
Blade & Soul
Tera
The Old Republic (even raided in this one)
Guild Wars 2
Warhammer Online (rip I loved it)
Wildstar I barely played
The Secret World I only finished the vanilla story not any of the million dlcs
I think youll find most mmo players will have very similar lists, we tend to give them all a shot. A lot like arpg (the diablo-style) or fighting games I suppose.
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WoW is the only one I am still actively playing, even though I take breaks. I sometimes get the itch to revisit others, but I don't think I ever will.
- Ragnarok Online
- Guild Wars
- Guild Wars 2
- Latale
- Tera
- Blade and Soul
- FF14
- World of Warcraft
- Dungeon Fighter Online
- PSO2
No point in listing the dozens I've tried briefly and put down, so just the ones I've put significant time into on official servers:
World of Warcraft - played off and on from launch into Burning Crusade, then quit due to being burned out on raiding and guild drama. My old account is long since inaccessible, but I returned a few years ago during Warlords when the game was on sale. Found the whole thing to be far inferior to what it used to be, but did get one character up to max level. Quit the guild I had joined due to transphobic behavior from a leader. Guild hopped for a bit, then quit playing.
Everquest 2 - played from Echoes of Faydwer into Skyshrine. Absolutely loved the game, but the quality trended downward for my entire time with it until it wasn't worth playing anymore. By the time I gave up on it I was the only regular left in my small guild.
Rift - didn't like it during beta, but picked it up later on and played here and there into the first expansion. Some EQ2 guildies joined in half-heartedly but I never really had a solid group to play with. Left after the extremely tacky and insulting f2p conversion.
FF14 - played ARR until level 30-40 or so. Never found a decent guild or made any friends, got bored of soloing.
The common thread here is not having people to play with. MMOs are generally not worth playing alone, but I've learned to hate pickups and I am sick of the guild cycle.
World of Warcraft - played off and on from launch into Burning Crusade, then quit due to being burned out on raiding and guild drama. My old account is long since inaccessible, but I returned a few years ago during Warlords when the game was on sale. Found the whole thing to be far inferior to what it used to be, but did get one character up to max level. Quit the guild I had joined due to transphobic behavior from a leader. Guild hopped for a bit, then quit playing.
Everquest 2 - played from Echoes of Faydwer into Skyshrine. Absolutely loved the game, but the quality trended downward for my entire time with it until it wasn't worth playing anymore. By the time I gave up on it I was the only regular left in my small guild.
Rift - didn't like it during beta, but picked it up later on and played here and there into the first expansion. Some EQ2 guildies joined in half-heartedly but I never really had a solid group to play with. Left after the extremely tacky and insulting f2p conversion.
FF14 - played ARR until level 30-40 or so. Never found a decent guild or made any friends, got bored of soloing.
The common thread here is not having people to play with. MMOs are generally not worth playing alone, but I've learned to hate pickups and I am sick of the guild cycle.
Ragnarok Online - 5 years
Maplestory - 1 year
Ragnarok Online 2 (original) - 2 years
TERA - 1 year
Blade and Soul - 1 month
WoW - 3 hours
Diablo 3(?) - 3 hours
You would think I'd have played more MMOs, but I'm picky and tend to stick to one if I like it. Been playing FFXIV since ARR began beta testing in 2013 so it's nearing 7 years to the date of March iirc
There was also a Chinese mmo where you use wuxia and fly around with umbrellas that I played for a few days, forgot the name.
Maplestory - 1 year
Ragnarok Online 2 (original) - 2 years
TERA - 1 year
Blade and Soul - 1 month
WoW - 3 hours
Diablo 3(?) - 3 hours
You would think I'd have played more MMOs, but I'm picky and tend to stick to one if I like it. Been playing FFXIV since ARR began beta testing in 2013 so it's nearing 7 years to the date of March iirc
There was also a Chinese mmo where you use wuxia and fly around with umbrellas that I played for a few days, forgot the name.
I've been playing MMO's since I was a kid back in 2000-ish, starting with Ultima Online. I have played every major MMO release in the US - many for no longer than a few weeks, though:
- Ultima Online
- Star Wars Galaxies
- Dark Age of Camelot
- Earth and Beyond
- Final Fantasy XI
- Eve Online
- Maple Story
- City of Heroes
- World of Warcraft*
- Dungeons & Dragons Online*
- The Lord of the Rings Online*
- Age of Conan
- Aion
- Warhammer Online
- DC Universe
- Champions Online
- Rift
- Star Wars: The Old Republic
- Guild Wars 2
- Wild Star
- Final Fantasy XIV*
- Albion
* I came back to this after the release of at least one expansion / major update
- Ultima Online
- Star Wars Galaxies
- Dark Age of Camelot
- Earth and Beyond
- Final Fantasy XI
- Eve Online
- Maple Story
- City of Heroes
- World of Warcraft*
- Dungeons & Dragons Online*
- The Lord of the Rings Online*
- Age of Conan
- Aion
- Warhammer Online
- DC Universe
- Champions Online
- Rift
- Star Wars: The Old Republic
- Guild Wars 2
- Wild Star
- Final Fantasy XIV*
- Albion
* I came back to this after the release of at least one expansion / major update
Guild Wars 2. I sunk 1000+ hours into it, got myself a legendary. Tried to get back into it after Living Story season something but at this point I have no idea what's going on anymore. Still have great memories though and I'd be day one for a third game.
Everything, all of them.
FFXIV I'd like to play again, but I can't justify paying a monthly fee for any of them anymore.
FFXIV I'd like to play again, but I can't justify paying a monthly fee for any of them anymore.
FFXI - Played at US launch, quit during CoP and came back briefly for WotG.
Mistigris - a Mithra BLM, my main.
Prettierboy - a Tarutaru mule, made to poke fun of my friend Prettyboy.
Dreadcelery - a Galka mule, made because the character creator's random names for Galka are hilarious.
FFXIV - Played for 6 hours when 1.0 released. My brand new PC could not run that game at 30 FPS, bleh.
Mistigris - a Miqote, um.... alchemist? I think I mostly tried to craft and then went out to punch rabbits.
Mistigris - a Mithra BLM, my main.
Prettierboy - a Tarutaru mule, made to poke fun of my friend Prettyboy.
Dreadcelery - a Galka mule, made because the character creator's random names for Galka are hilarious.
FFXIV - Played for 6 hours when 1.0 released. My brand new PC could not run that game at 30 FPS, bleh.
Mistigris - a Miqote, um.... alchemist? I think I mostly tried to craft and then went out to punch rabbits.
Wow
Rift
Lord of the Rings Online
Neverwinter
The Secret World
Runescape Classic/Old/New
The Elder Scrolls Online
Alternatively:
Rift
Lord of the Rings Online
Neverwinter
The Secret World
Runescape Classic/Old/New
The Elder Scrolls Online
Alternatively:
Am I really the only person who played A Tale in the Desert? Such a strange little game that still seems to persist to this day. If there were ever a game that followed up on some of its ideas, I'd probably be all over it.
I've played a loooot of MMOs over the years, but the only ones I really stuck with beyond a month are:
I very much wish for another game in AC's style; it had a strong emphasis on free form exploration and character building in a wildly original setting. Going back to it today is rough because it wasn't a particularly good looking game even back in the 90s, and the game world got weirder and more disjointed over the 15 years (!) of live updates when the game was still officially running. It also has a lot less to "do" from a modern gamer's perspective. There's a huge open world with hundreds of dungeons and landmarks to go see, but no narrative thread or explicit quest system to lead players to them. The game relied heavily on the community going out and finding things to share with each other, so it doesn't hold up super well on a custom server with only a few hundred players and nothing really new to find anymore.
- Asheron's Call (officially dead, but custom servers live on...)
- World of Warcraft
- Final Fantasy 14
I very much wish for another game in AC's style; it had a strong emphasis on free form exploration and character building in a wildly original setting. Going back to it today is rough because it wasn't a particularly good looking game even back in the 90s, and the game world got weirder and more disjointed over the 15 years (!) of live updates when the game was still officially running. It also has a lot less to "do" from a modern gamer's perspective. There's a huge open world with hundreds of dungeons and landmarks to go see, but no narrative thread or explicit quest system to lead players to them. The game relied heavily on the community going out and finding things to share with each other, so it doesn't hold up super well on a custom server with only a few hundred players and nothing really new to find anymore.
