Your First MMO?
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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.
Small wonder we're not married anymore..."we're both gamers" does not necessarily mean two people have a damn thing in common.
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.
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.
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. 
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.
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".
I played Adventurequest untill I got my first computer, then I started playing Runescape with friends. Now I don't really play MMO's anymore.
Final Fantasy 11. Got into it... I wanna say like 6 months after it was released, so I was a bit behind my friends who had gotten it when it first came out. My computer could barely handle it at times, but I still loved playing it as a Black Mage.
Unfortunately I was kind of forced to quit when everyone stopped taking Black Mages into their parties around level 35, at the peak of the Red Mage hype, and I didn't feel like investing another 100 hours of my life just to level up another job out of necessity.
Unfortunately I was kind of forced to quit when everyone stopped taking Black Mages into their parties around level 35, at the peak of the Red Mage hype, and I didn't feel like investing another 100 hours of my life just to level up another job out of necessity.
Huh. No One else here claiming Gemstones or Dragonrealms?
I thought they were more popular back in the day. Doesn't take pictures to be Massive Multiplyer Online, or a Role Playing game.
I thought they were more popular back in the day. Doesn't take pictures to be Massive Multiplyer Online, or a Role Playing game.
Ultima Online , still the best MMO when it comes to real roleplaying.Then there was Black Moon Chronicles (or was it dark moon?) i enjoyed that one pretty much, liked the comic style it had it suddenly dissappeared dunno what happened. I still got D&D Online , LotrO and WoW and play them sometimes a lil bit. D&D till i get frustrated by the limited exploration, LotrO to roleplay, and WoW to check out the Changes in Cataclysm. But i dont play them that much anymore. Perhaps twice a week.