Your first MMO - Kid's first MMO, your first MMo exprince

Ragnarok Online, found it through an ad in magazine and was interested because I was reading the manga which will never be completed. (:_(
 
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Some Korean crap called Last Chaos.

I've played like a million different morepigs back in the day but the only ones I spent any significant time on were Allods Online and Perfect World.
 
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Mine was Guild Wars. Since I didn't want to pay monthly subscription that was the game for me. Even bough all the Add-Ons. It's successor didn't pull me in though
 
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Neopets may count as my first. I didn't know about the marketplace so I just wandered around poor. Then Adventure Quest.
Getting into proper MMO style, Runescape with and AQ worlds. The former taught me lots of neat material and food production stuff and the latter was eh but I have a great memory of playing the Beast of Pirate's Bay event featuring Voltaire songs.
Stuff like maidmarion, flyff, wow, maplestory, and wizard 101 seemed nice but I didn't know how to think well and didn't know how to make friends so I started and left a bunch of 'em after a few weeks each.
 
Mu Online (some shitty, generic Korean MMORPG) at the internet café. Now those were the days. The gimmick in Mu Online is that after you hit the level cap you can reset back to the first level while keeping your previous stats and gear, so after a new server was made you and your buddies would rush to become the strongest in that server.
 
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I played the original World of Warcraft with a free 2-week voucher I had received from somewhere, thought "well this is garbage", and went back to playing Warcraft 3.
 
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The only MMO I tried was The Secret World in 2012, I had no idea what I was doing, would get killed by almost anything I attacked, so I just tried running away from all the enemies just so I could see as much of the environments as I could.

There was a huge amount of potential in that ip, but it really should have been a single player Skyrim esque RPG, not an MMO, just a massive waste of potential.
 
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I was in the Ultima online beta when I was in Jr high iirc. Id run down the driveway to get the mail for like a week and would be extremely disappointed the disc hadn't arrived yet

I remember sitting at the dinner table with my family and having to ask to be excused bc I had to attend a clan meeting on irc. My dad has always been extremely tech savvy but he looked at me like I was talking nonsense and was like ok whatever
 
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My first MMO was Ultima Online, it was a purchase I'd gotten unexpectedly because I'd been very polite and quiet during a trip out to a store. I spent all of my time listening to the music as it installed, marveling at that 80s as hell art it had in the installer. I'd read a few sites while I waited reading 'ways to start' and spent a huge amount of time after getting out of its incredibly dogshit intro just exploring the cities.

Eventually someone pointed me to training dummies to start getting my weapon skills up.. and I sat there beating the hell out of it. I was enthralled by how I was making actual progress and went hunting out in the woods afterward. I ended up stumbling onto the Britain Graveyard which had a lot of undead including some that could very easily blast your ass off with actually impressive magic. Died and ended up a ghost, struggled to run back but didn't make it fast enough for people to not loot anything worth a damn off my body because it decayed into a skeleton.

So I ran around like a hobo fighting skeletons and zombies to make money, I logged out in town eventually and was hooked.
 
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There was a game that got somewhat popular back in the early 2000s called Galaxseeds. It was only really played by people in commonwealth countries because it was TV shows in those countries advertising the game. It was basically just a collection of mini games with some customization stuff.

The game looked pretty good for a browser game and it had a pretty damn good community. The game tried to keep older people from playing it and I think they might have actually succeeded. It was a strange gardening simulator so it's pretty surprising that kids really liked it.
 
I can't remember which was first but I had tried Runescape and the World of Warcraft demo around the same time.
After that I probably attempted to play a million of the f2p Korean MMOs that flooded the market in the 2000s, the only one ever sticking for any time at all being Maplestory for me.

Turns out the only MMOs I've ever really whole heartedly enjoyed are the Phantasy Star Online games, and I played both of those way later down the line.
 
Spent ten minutes in Tibia, fifteen in a private Ragnarok server and twenty in Lineage II before MapleStory became my dedicated time sink for a few years. I remember the markets, and a few maps that were awful for kill stealing, lagging the fuck out on my ex's 2006 top-tier laptop.
 
FFXI...still regard it as the best 'multiplayer' experience in an online game because of the absolute need to in game communication. This was also prior to the mass use of ventrillo (it was there but not the only way folks communicated) so chats were fairly heavily used.

There developed 'in game player economies' such as White Mages having access to various location teleport spells so they would charge folks / parties and essentially were in game Taxi's for other players. It also was a game that made folks go through 'journeys' to get job classes/game unlocks that gave people a sense of community too. Everything being 'easy' and 'accessible' in modern MMOs kills the vibe.
 
At launch it was Ultima Online but found it be terrible, then went on to play Lineage for a bit (also a bad launch) before I settled on Ashron's Call for a few years.
 
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My first MMO was Ultima Online, it was a purchase I'd gotten unexpectedly because I'd been very polite and quiet during a trip out to a store. I spent all of my time listening to the music as it installed, marveling at that 80s as hell art it had in the installer. I'd read a few sites while I waited reading 'ways to start' and spent a huge amount of time after getting out of its incredibly dogshit intro just exploring the cities.

Eventually someone pointed me to training dummies to start getting my weapon skills up.. and I sat there beating the hell out of it. I was enthralled by how I was making actual progress and went hunting out in the woods afterward. I ended up stumbling onto the Britain Graveyard which had a lot of undead including some that could very easily blast your ass off with actually impressive magic. Died and ended up a ghost, struggled to run back but didn't make it fast enough for people to not loot anything worth a damn off my body because it decayed into a skeleton.

So I ran around like a hobo fighting skeletons and zombies to make money, I logged out in town eventually and was hooked.
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Stones/UO theme is still the by far themost nostalgic piece of bideogame music for me.

Best is since because I of course disabled music later, the whole soundtrack is still tied to the early innocent days of playing UO, discovering things and so on.
 
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I Wanted to play WoW ever since i was around 12.
Mom and Dad said they will not buy me a subscription.
Research ways to pirate WoW and figure out private servers exist.
I go on a private classic server and make a warlock.
Meet a Tauren warrior I saved with my voidwalker, afterwards guy offers me some armor pads.
Eventually get tired of the server and left.
4 years later finally got enough money to pay a sub for a month.
what the fuck, theres flying?
Wait I have to buy Legion?
Why is nobody socializing?

Thats when I left WoW and my friend reccomended me FFXIV which im still having a blast with.
 
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