James Roancrest
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Star Wars: The Old Republic was the first MMO that I played for an appreciable amount of time... Actually, it's the only one (Destiny doesn't count, imho).
Your first MMO - Kid's first MMO, your first MMo exprince
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Grand Chase before it shut down, but now there's a classic release on Steam. Can't wait to get demolished by Brazilians in PvP like the good old days 
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Flyff, unfortunately. Super grindy MMO, and while I never made it past level 70~ on any character because of how fucked the grind was and bevause I never bought EXP scrolls, it helped babby me get through rough times and the OST is still great.
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Coke Studios
it was a Habbo reskin (a licensed one) except with some cool extra shit in the game, like a music creator that you could play in other peoples rooms, and for every thumbs up you'd get in game currency to buy shit with. There were crossovers with Batman Begins, American Idol, Star Wars Episode 3, really cool stuff
Shut down in 2007 or so, but it was one of my favorite things in the world back then
it was a Habbo reskin (a licensed one) except with some cool extra shit in the game, like a music creator that you could play in other peoples rooms, and for every thumbs up you'd get in game currency to buy shit with. There were crossovers with Batman Begins, American Idol, Star Wars Episode 3, really cool stuff
Shut down in 2007 or so, but it was one of my favorite things in the world back then
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I thought Flyff was pretty cool when I played it but I only got up to level 20. My first MMO was Phantasy Star online for GameCube but since we only had one land line connection I could almost never play.
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Thats how they get you, the ability to fly (which was novel back then) unlocked at level 20 and the levelling speed was pretty fast from 1-26, but once you get to the middle of Saint Morning with the Jackolantern dudes, the EXP gain slows to a crawl and there aren't enough quests to make up for it, with most of the "get X amount of monster drop" quests only giving you 20% of a level at the level the quest unlocks. Plus when you get to level 60 and change classes, the penguin buffer NPC says to piss off, and unless you had contact with a Ringmaster (healer/buffer/EXP gain boost) class you were pretty much fucked.
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They addressed this by saying that if there are restrictions to the mounts, people won't use them so they said "fuck it, if anyone asks, it's magic".
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Bobbobson
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Played a few MMOs in internet cafes in early 2000s. MU online, Ragnarok, Runescape and Tibia. Don't remember which one was first but I played Tibia the most as it was pretty big in Poland. It was even all over the news when some autist beat his mother with a chair for switching off his PC when he was playing. I jumped to WoW around 2006.
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World of Warships.
Decent when I started playing it, but I can't imagine starting from scrap now since the lower level game balance is so fucked nowadays.
Decent when I started playing it, but I can't imagine starting from scrap now since the lower level game balance is so fucked nowadays.
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For me I believe Maple Story was the first MMO I dipped my toes into when I was in high school or middle school. The first MMO I took "seriously" was World of Warcraft and that was kind of near the end of high school or a little while after I graduated.
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First online "game" with lots of people in one server? OuterWorlds, a spinoff of ActiveWorlds in the late 90s.
First legitimate MMO? Asheron's Call, then EverQuest, then City of Heroes. Anarchy Online in 2007, and I still occasionally reactivate my account because it's just the most amazing MMO.
Anyone remember an ugly Korean MMO called "Space Cowboy Online" then called "Air Rivals" and now called "Ace Online"? It was grindy and hideous like a lot of Asian MMOs, but it was an interesting concept as you were in planetary combat ships the whole time, so instead of gearing up a character, you were gearing up a ship.
First legitimate MMO? Asheron's Call, then EverQuest, then City of Heroes. Anarchy Online in 2007, and I still occasionally reactivate my account because it's just the most amazing MMO.
Anyone remember an ugly Korean MMO called "Space Cowboy Online" then called "Air Rivals" and now called "Ace Online"? It was grindy and hideous like a lot of Asian MMOs, but it was an interesting concept as you were in planetary combat ships the whole time, so instead of gearing up a character, you were gearing up a ship.
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Honestly at least for me, DarkOrbit was really popular in the 2000s. I took a look at what state it's at now and I'm not jealous. Imagine paying in order to be slightly better off than everyone else.
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i fucking hate cuckcuckgo.
i was going to mention how it's still alive but honestly there is a ton of korean shooters/mmo's being alive with official servers from back in teh 2000's due to their third world populations or some heavy consolidated korean public, SUNOnline comes to mind, it was kept alive for eons in korea after the global died but webzen brought it back, they will probably kill it again unless the chinks keep feeding it money.
it's bot infested now, chinks bought bigpoint long time ago too, i still remember their mummy and battlestar galactica mmo's, also deepolis and shards of war, real good shit.
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bango skank
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Things like WoW and Dark Age of Camelot were the big ones I would see people playing at the lan cafe, but they had subscription costs, so the first MMOs I actually played were f2p.
The first was Xenimus, an opaque, weird MMO all developed by one guy. Amazingly this is still up and running. I only played briefly because of how obtuse and brutal the gameplay was, but my friends were into it pretty hardcore so I watched quite a bit over their shoulders.
Then, they introduced me to Runescape. At the time there was Runescape Classic and RS2/Runescape(what would now be called Old School Runescape.) We played both but mainly RS2, and that was the first time I played the fuck out of an MMO. I had to spend the summer at my grandparents’ house that year, and halfway through my dad called screaming at me because he didn't tell me the dial-up modem he gave me to bring along and the associated GTE account had a limit to how much time you could spend online and I ended up blowing past that limit and racked up a bill of a couple hundred dollars. I played heavily with my friends during middle school, but got bored of it in high school and ended up giving the account away to another kid at my school who played.
I dabbled a bit with MapleStory, the platforming was fun and I actually liked the grinding, but I chose a shit class for my 2nd class when I got high enough level for it and quit instead of rerolling.
Then in late ‘06/early ‘07 I got a job and bought WoW and spent the next decade playing that to the exclusion of pretty much every other game until Blizzard completely shit the bed.
The first was Xenimus, an opaque, weird MMO all developed by one guy. Amazingly this is still up and running. I only played briefly because of how obtuse and brutal the gameplay was, but my friends were into it pretty hardcore so I watched quite a bit over their shoulders.
Then, they introduced me to Runescape. At the time there was Runescape Classic and RS2/Runescape(what would now be called Old School Runescape.) We played both but mainly RS2, and that was the first time I played the fuck out of an MMO. I had to spend the summer at my grandparents’ house that year, and halfway through my dad called screaming at me because he didn't tell me the dial-up modem he gave me to bring along and the associated GTE account had a limit to how much time you could spend online and I ended up blowing past that limit and racked up a bill of a couple hundred dollars. I played heavily with my friends during middle school, but got bored of it in high school and ended up giving the account away to another kid at my school who played.
I dabbled a bit with MapleStory, the platforming was fun and I actually liked the grinding, but I chose a shit class for my 2nd class when I got high enough level for it and quit instead of rerolling.
Then in late ‘06/early ‘07 I got a job and bought WoW and spent the next decade playing that to the exclusion of pretty much every other game until Blizzard completely shit the bed.
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Gunbound was my bread and butter as a kid, and also my very first online experience like... ever. It's basically a Worms clone, but you drive a cartoony vehicle with 3 other people, and use them to destroy the enemy team.
Kids talk about "No items, Fox only, Final destination", but clearly they haven't experienced the intense matches of "Dual Shots, Aduka only, Metamine" rooms.
Game is so ingrained into my brain that even after 2 decades later, this setpiece still triggers my fight or flight response:
Kids talk about "No items, Fox only, Final destination", but clearly they haven't experienced the intense matches of "Dual Shots, Aduka only, Metamine" rooms.
Game is so ingrained into my brain that even after 2 decades later, this setpiece still triggers my fight or flight response:
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My first graphical MMO is so old and so obscure that even admitting I played it would be a soft dox. I think a couple thousand people in the entire world have ever played it. It hasn't been mentioned in this thread.
My first MUD is basically the same story. Not even sure MUDs count as MMOs but either way, the answer is "something I'd be surprised if anyone on this forum has played".
YES I AM A CASUAL HOW DID YOU KNOW
-drives up to you and unloads an SS point blank, killing us both-
My first MUD is basically the same story. Not even sure MUDs count as MMOs but either way, the answer is "something I'd be surprised if anyone on this forum has played".
BIGFOOT GANG BIGFOOT GANG BIGFOOT GANG
YES I AM A CASUAL HOW DID YOU KNOW
-drives up to you and unloads an SS point blank, killing us both-