WoW is my 1st and probably my last mmo.
2 Likes
Final Fantasy XI was my first.
2 Likes
FFXI was my first. I put my soul into that game and still miss it. Was on Gilgamesh
2 Likes
Secrets of Mirage, which I’m not sure is well known at all.
1 Like
Wow, January 2004… with a dial in modem…
2 Likes
World of Warcraft, Baby!
2 Likes
runescape iirc
4 Likes
Eve Online, though freed myself after many years of self inflicting it on myself.
Even so, Bob yet whispers sweet words to me…
1 Like
I would argue that it was never an MMO, but you do you.
1 Like
World of Warcraft. Played mostly rts and console games before that.
2 Likes
Furcadia? Was more of a chat hub than a game though. Pretty sure it’s where all furries came from.
I played a bunch of free ones in the very early 2000s, late 90s. I played this one that had a Mentor system. When you first joined the game would pick someone to guide you, you could ask them questions for a short time, then they would poof. I think WoW needs something like that badly.
I also played this Korean MMO, it reminded me of Diablo, but if you died someone had to rez you. If you died too much it sent you to Hell or something, then you would have to just run around and rez people in order to get out of it, it was so weird.
2 Likes
Dark Age of Camelot
8 Likes
Guild Wars 1
2 Likes
I want to say MapleStory in 2008 or 2009, and I played until around 2011 when I got super invested in TF2.
1 Like
Everquest Online Adventures on PS2. I didnt have a PC of my own that I could
play games on. So until i bought a PC so I could play WoW (in jan 2007).
I was stuck playing EQOA.
1 Like
Started my journey in MMOs when my mother accidentally bought me Dark age of Camelot not realizing it was an MMO that you needed to subscribe to. Love it. PvP was so much fun in that game. Sieging castle from low levels to fighting massive realm vs realm vs realm wars.
Played basically every MMO that has come out since then. Enjoyed bits and pieces of them all but the big PvP ones will always have a special place in my heart. Like the Warhammer MMO as well.
4 Likes
Runescape (Pre - Grand Exchange, back when I was 10). It’s basically where I learned to type and probably why I don’t quite use home row most of the time. Because spamming in the bank was just how you bought and sold things and the faster the better because everyone else was also doing it.
Only really played for probably a year and a half or so? It stuck with me though.
I still go back and poke at it now and again. I want to get a Fire Cape in OSRS eventually. Not a huge achievement by OSRS standards but by god is it a time sink to get to the recommended levels for doing that without being someone who’s just memorized every spawn pattern and prayer flicks without thinking.
I was mostly playing Halo back then, so I didn’t really touch many MMOs after that for a bit. Maybe I would’ve stuck around longer but I was a kid and got scammed for my password and wasn’t thinking it would be possible to recover it after that. I did make a new account but I’m sure having to start over killed a bit of my excitement for playing.
Eventually (like 4 years later) I played WoW for like 3 months with my parents paying the sub. CRAZY difference from F2P Runescape (I was only ever a member for 1 month). The world was just massive, and you have to consider that when I played Runescape, on F2P, which was smaller back then than it is now, I would get lost. In that tiny map. WoW was insanity. Not to mention the massive graphical leap and combat being more than point and click. Easily Hooked.
But I was 14 and couldn’t pay the sub and parents didn’t want to pay it indefinitely, so that stopped. I started saving holiday/birthday gift money and used it to pay my sub starting like a year and a half later and that’s the account I’m on these days (starting mid 2010).
I also played a load of F2P MMOs between those first months of WoW and me making this account. Perfect World International, Runes of Magic, Knight Online, Planeshift 3D, Shaia (or something like that), Requiem, Aion, and almost definitely a good couple handfuls more that I just don’t remember because I didn’t stick with them at all.
Knight Online is the one that stuck with me from that time. Bad game. Very PvP-Centric on the upper end, so you just run out of quests to level with a bit before level 40 and then it turns into mob grind to finish it out and then PvP. Exp Loss on Death and all of that. But I played it a LOT and had a lot of fun. I still really like the aesthetic the game had (It reminds me of Baldur’s Gate Dark Alliance on the Gamecube for some reason) and the Music was a vibe. I still remember being able to just run circles around larger mobs and they couldn’t turn fast enough to hit you and it made me laugh. When I played it also was just like 90% Turkish Players? I didn’t realize there was an unofficial English Realm until way later so at the time I just knew a handful of common phrases in Turkish for when I needed them.
2 Likes
Wow is my first, I took a 10 year break before coming back earlier this year and everything I fell in love with I still love.
5 Likes
Mario 64 was my first
1 Like
This one.
I had only ever played CD type games, such as Civilization and Railway Tycoon etc until the day I was evilly tempted into WoW by friends.
1 Like