Your First MMORPG?
First, please forgive me if this has been posted before. The search doesn't work (it couldn't even find anything for "Ashes") and I didn't see a discussion that answered my question.
So my question is... What was your very first MMORPG? Was it EQ? SWG? WoW? Or did you play something completely different before you found any of those?
For me, while I was aware of all the above, I was not completely sold on the idea of paying a monthly subscription for a game. I remember some co-workers talking about SWG back in 2004-ish and thinking they were just crazy for paying $15 a month to play a game. My prior gaming experience had all been with single player games that only had a box price. One time purchase and it's yours.
Then, in 2006, I was living with a roommate who was into WoW. I got interested in the idea of MMORPGs, but I still didn't want to pay a sub. So I did some searching and I found a game called "PlaneShift". Not a "AAA" title, by any stretch of the imagination. But it was free and there was plenty of RP happening there.
In late 2006, I got curious about WoW (I had watched the Burning Crusade cinematic reveal with my roommate). My roommate wasn't actively playing at the time, as WoW players often unsub/resub with the expansion cycle, so he let me try it on his account. I got hooked on the vastness of the world. I'm an explorer at heart. When BC launched, he was active again and I had to get my own account.
That decision literally changed my life, as I met @Isende in WoW. But that's a story for another time.
How about you? What was your initial experience with MMORPGs?
So my question is... What was your very first MMORPG? Was it EQ? SWG? WoW? Or did you play something completely different before you found any of those?
For me, while I was aware of all the above, I was not completely sold on the idea of paying a monthly subscription for a game. I remember some co-workers talking about SWG back in 2004-ish and thinking they were just crazy for paying $15 a month to play a game. My prior gaming experience had all been with single player games that only had a box price. One time purchase and it's yours.
Then, in 2006, I was living with a roommate who was into WoW. I got interested in the idea of MMORPGs, but I still didn't want to pay a sub. So I did some searching and I found a game called "PlaneShift". Not a "AAA" title, by any stretch of the imagination. But it was free and there was plenty of RP happening there.
In late 2006, I got curious about WoW (I had watched the Burning Crusade cinematic reveal with my roommate). My roommate wasn't actively playing at the time, as WoW players often unsub/resub with the expansion cycle, so he let me try it on his account. I got hooked on the vastness of the world. I'm an explorer at heart. When BC launched, he was active again and I had to get my own account.
That decision literally changed my life, as I met @Isende in WoW. But that's a story for another time.
How about you? What was your initial experience with MMORPGs?
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I bought my first gaming laptop for the occasion. Left it running on top of my mattress one night and it blew the cooling and died. Thanks Blizzard.
I played a few mmos before. DarkAges and Ultima online and eq being my first few (I was pretty young then). But the mmo that I first learnt to play properly, with optimization, high level play etc was Anarchy online.
That vanilla expirience got me hooked forever. Then they broke wow and I'm still searching for something like that.
Star Wars Galaxies - loved that game. Played it from almost day 1. It's biggest flaw, at the start, was that it lacked content. But being able to play with others from around the world was so amazing to me, that I didn't really care. I was in a great guild and met wonderful people.
I went to the first 2 SWG Fanfaires (well, the only 2 Fanfaire) and had so much fun meeting guildies, developers, other players.
Then, of course, the game imploded. Seemed like everyone blamed John Smedley and thought he was the devil lol I live in San Diego and went to a couple of the SOE block parties where I met Mr. Smedley. Gotta say, he was genuinely the nicest guy.
Never gave wow more then a quick look as it seemed like a boring grind fest
At the moment, i'm just a casual player, still playing GW2 time to time and BlackDesert Online (love the combat), when you study and work there isnt much time to play
It's really weird to imagine that if it wasn't for those Matrix films, I would have never gotten into the MMORPG genre.
Eventually I moved onto vanguard, which to this very day is still my all time favourite MMORPG.
since then I've played afew MMO's, Aion, AoC (Age of Conan), SWTOR, GW2, FFXIV, BDO and a few other F2P MMO's that shall not be named (I really dislike the F2P model).
A bunch of stuff in-between, but I preferred AO.
I thought I was going to love EQ2 for the lore and was less than impressed by WoW.
But, all of my co-workers were playing WoW... and turned out it was just way easier and more comfortable to play than EQ2.
Years later I was introduced to GW2 by my brother in late 2012 and got my dad to join in.