What made an MMO "click" for you?

Do you have any memories of what made your favorite MMO click for you? When did you realize, or why did you realize this was a game that you loved?

For me it was probably in WoW when me and a bunch of friends managed to siege an enemy city and hold it for an hour before slowly being overwhelmed one by one.

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Varkun

Vanilla wow was not my first MMO but it really clicked for me back in the early days when it took time to level, that first horse had to be scrimped and saved for, dungeons required attunments in some cases. Made some good friends in some great guilds but all good things come to an end and wow had changed too much for my taste by Cata.
My favourite game that had some of the best crafting and open world feel was Vanguard for me.

Edit.
AOC has by far the most potential to blow all of the games I have played before out of the water if the team are able to bring all of their concepts to reality.

George_Black

My fav mmorpg was Line][Age.
All the boys in my neighbourhood were playing it as well as many boys from many highschools in the city.

Real life friends adventuring for the first time virtually. Until then it was player 1 and player 2 on PS2, stage by stage only 2 boys would finish the game.

With L2 it was 10+ boys playing all together or against others. Open world, interaction with anything, freestyle exploring instead of being led by a questline.

AoC clicked to me because it promises to bring back open world, as opposed to the other mmorpgs that made the genre instanced 'stages' in the form of dungeon runs. Select from a screen while you are at a city, loading screen and there you are, inside a stage. Both PvE and PvP.

Plateau

darthaden

Greatest mmo memory took place playing classic wow (it was during the BC area but classic content) I was playing a Alliance Warlock and just hit 150 first aid so I traveled out to Arathi Highlands to get my first aid book. I got my book along with another player (I dont recall what his class was) we were both about to head out and suddenly we ran into a full 5 man group of horde players doing a quest there. Naturally they decided to gank us so we ran. 2 vs 5 and I was a total noob at the time we had no shot of survival......luckily there were elites in the area of the first aid book who were friendly to the alliance so we used them as a shield. We played a little cat and mouse for a solid 10 minutes or so when I got lucky with a fear. The path the fear spell made the horde player run pulled multiple of the elites. The other alliance member and myself took the opportunity to attack. With the help of the elites we managed to wipe the full party. I can only imagine how pissed the horde players were lol.

Ventharien

First taste was sneaking play time during school to play runescape in the computer labs. Then it locked in when i walked into Orgrimmar for the first time to see all the activity of actual players running about. Loved the genre ever since.

Arvandor

The land and people and forest and mountains.

Atama

I’ve played countless MMOs so I could have many examples but I think LotRO is the best one. Precisely because I had originally played it in beta, found it boring (and a huge disappointment since I was a big LotR fan) and wrote it off. I then tried it again later and loved it, and ended up playing for years.

What made the difference between love and boredom was the atmosphere. In beta I rolled a dwarf and started in the Blue Mountains. Everything was dour, bland, shades of brown and grey. There were few NPCs and they were uninteresting. I just got bored.

Later, when I gave it another chance I rolled a hobbit who starts in the Shire. It was like a totally different game. Everything was bright and green, there were NPCs just living their normal lives, it felt like a cozy and warm place. Quests involved things like delivering mail or helping a beekeeper fight off a bear. It was like a living world I would want to be in. Later, when I gained enough levels to go explore the world it felt so amazing to go from a quiet place with small problems to an epic adventure fighting horrors in exotic places, terrifying caves and forests, even blatant hellscapes.

If it wasn’t for trying another character on a whim I likely would never have gotten into that game. It’s amazing that what may seem like superficial and unimportant features in a game can mean the difference between a great time and a chore.

Tacualeon

Burning Crusade with a subtley blood elf rogue.
I learned that I could theoretically stunlock someone for more than minutes by handling all my stuns and incapacite abilities.

I spent most of my time in Wow outside of Ogrimmar dueling and pushing my technique to the limit.

-Cdr management.
-Disminishing return management.
-Depth in timing.
-Finesse in execution.
-Broad in quantity of skills.
-Moving around the enemy.

Every duel was a challenge of knowledge about skills, strategy, decision making and timing.
No other class could stunlock, and few rogues could shuffle cdrs and DR.
There was knowledge and finesse.

Noaani

Tacualeon wrote: »

There was knowledge and finesse.

If you thought WoW ever had a need for knowledge and/or finesse, then I'd love to see how you react to the 7 or so skill trees that each character has to make use of in EQ2.

That game required knowledge - WoW required being able to read a dozen tool tips.

Tacualeon

Luckily, quantity was never the synnonym of quality.

Noaani

Tacualeon wrote: »

Luckily, quantity was never the synnonym of quality.

While true, WoW had neither.

Shallowest, simplest MMO combat to date.

Tacualeon

20 years of domination and billons of dollars. Everything good has to come to an end.

Noaani

Tacualeon wrote: »

20 years of domination and billons of dollars. Everything good has to come to an end.

McDonalds has also dominated it's industry.

It's easy to find a better burger though.

Tacualeon

Better is subjetive until you dominate.

Noaani

Tacualeon wrote: »

Better is subjetive until you dominate.

Again true.

However, in the case of both above examples, the only people that would think they are the best are people that have never tried any other examples in their respective catagory.

Tacualeon

Luckily I never said Wow was the best.

Noaani

Tacualeon wrote: »

Luckily I never said Wow was the best.

If you know something is not better, and someone tells you of something in that same catagory that you have not tried, best you not make comments on it until you try it.

This is something you did do.

Ventharien

noaani wrote: »

Tacualeon wrote: »

Luckily I never said Wow was the best.

If you know something is not better, and someone tells you of something in that same catagory that you have not tried, best you not make comments on it until you try it.

This is something you did do.

Yes, yes we get it you don't like WoW.

Atama

I like WoW. I don’t think it’s the best game, I don’t even play it anymore. But I played it for years and I had a lot of fun.

Saying it has never required any sort of finesse or knowledge is elitist snobbery. It took me a crap ton of practice and work to get my Rogue DPS to be up to par in endgame WotLK. It was one of the hardest things I ever did in an MMO.

Frankly, I think that the person who puts words into other posters’ mouths that they never said is the one who should refrain from further comment.

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