What is your MMO longevity?

ArchivedUser

While WoW would be the current winner due to it's own longevity, I've been an mmo junkie since a friend got me started on Ultima Online back in 97-98 era. Between 99 through 2010 I had been a part of every major mmorpg to hit the market either at their start or beta testing phases.

After 2010 everything started to go F2P and all that and it just got too hard to juggle or care about every single thing that released. WoW aside, the average amount of time I've spent in an mmorpg is around 3.5 years off and on.

ArchivedUser

Archeage for 1.5 years, before RNGesus and P2W ruined my sanity and in a lucid moment i did what i had to do to get banned for me to never returns.

ArchivedUser

FFXI 13 years, WoW - 10 years...

ArchivedUser

The longest was in ESO since the beginning.I still like the game but guild controversy can take much of the fun out plus i just always feel like somthing is missing in ESO and i hope i find it in AoC

ArchivedUser

Been playing WoW off and on since vanilla, while also trying other mmos along the way. None of which i felt were worth long term commitment unfortunately. Seeing the goals and the commitment to the community that Ashes has, I believe it will revitalize the genre.

ArchivedUser

I unfortunately have never played an MMO for longer than a year. It usually is because I dislike a large portion of the game's core mechanics, the playerbase is too toxic/young/fanboyish(World of Warcraft, for example), the combat gets repetitive with little dynamic to make it interesting, and so on... Another huge problem is end-games. I always have to deal with MMOs that have either great PvE end-games with almost no PvP end-game, which for me would be fine... IF CLASSES IN THOSE GAMES WEREN'T GENDERLOCKED or racelocked. or locked in general. locks, man. gotta break em. ;-; Or like most of the MMOs out today they have PvP end games but virtually no PvE end game or it sucks real bad like in riders of icarus where the end-game is literally nothing but gold-grinding and gearing up to max and... then what? Nothing, really, except bragging rights, and those don't usually come with titles. Obviously, there are games with exceptions to this, but they usually have their own problems. Right now I play FF14 and I can EASILY see myself leaving it for AoC if it succeeds. Gw2 I play on and off, I've gotten tired of its "PvP end-game" or "Mindlessly do these fractals over and over- why, you ask? dunno just do it for gear". Don't get me wrong. I love FF14. But if AoC succeeds, it'll be catering to my preferred combat system, a lack of an end-game(In the good way! Not the riders of icarus way!), it'll have better visuals and improved combat(I was one of the ones who liked the timed system for the basic attack, though I do believe the bar should be done away with and replaced with something visual), and basically, it'll be  the kind of game I've been wanting. Which is great.

ArchivedUser

Fiesta Online and still logging in from time to time. First and only MMO until now :x

ArchivedUser

it was my first one...  
with a bit of a break in between

ArchivedUser

I plan on being with ashes for the long haul. 

ArchivedUser

10+ years on WoW, played it since launch after watching my friend at his house. It was my first introduction to MMOs. Played several others over the years, Warhammer online, Aion, BDO. None of them could scratch the itch that long compared to WoW, even in its current state. Looking forward to saying that about AoC in the future, or at least its offspring. 

ArchivedUser

Quite some time on TERA

ArchivedUser

10+ on wow and still going. Roughly 6 years on FFXI (stopped playing somewhere around abyssea) 5 years on ffxiv and still playing.

ArchivedUser

Eq2 solid for many years, though I only pop in ever so often these days. Tried soo many mmos over the years and they have just gone downhill. AoC is my current last hope for the genre...

ArchivedUser

I never set any time limits. I quit a game when I lose interest or the devs stuff up the game. But usually I play a game for about 2 - 5 years then stop and maybe come back to it later.

ArchivedUser

Im going into Ashes with a hope for at least 10 years + .(i clicked the wrong vote on the list) The older i get the more settled i want to get into a game and community. I'm turning 50 next year and i am honestly hoping that Ashes will take me into my retirement. Im guessing i'll be 52 when the game comes out and that gives me 13 years until retirement and i really hope to be part of the community and the Ashes world that long. 

ArchivedUser

• Mostly EQ1, EQ2,
• Short Time in Vanguard it got released to early and most people did not have computer systems to support the graphics for the game at the time. Very unfortunate had real promise.
• WOW short time under 3 months, for some reason it just did not appeal to me at launch and went to EQ2 instead. If I had tried it a few years later maybe but the initial game I just did not like.
• SWTOR 2 years had a fun go but it became all about Ken and Barbie CossPlay with cosmetic cash shop. They would just keep pumping out cosmetics over fixing and developing game play.

Patiently waiting for the next best MMORPG that will last for a long time. 

Ashes of Creation is a strong possibility of having a very long lasting value and play time. Some concern over cosmetic cash shop micro-transactions, other than that it shows good promise of being my go to MMORPG for a long time.