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What has been your MMO Career?

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DaReaper
Net 7
Cannon.Fodder
#41 - 2014-12-16 18:29:25 UTC
Violet Hurst wrote:
Wunderland (MUD)
PKmud (MUD)
Diablo 2 (ARPG)
Eternal Lands
Heroes of War and Money
Hellgate global (ARPG)
Space Pioneers (ogame clone)
Warpfire
Starfighter - Disputed Galaxy
Black Prophecy
Fallen Earth
Vorp! (MOBA)
Path of Exile (ARPG)
The last stand - dead zone (ogame clone)
Rift
Star Sonata 2
Defiance
Prime World (MOBA)
Astroflux
Wildstar Beta
Eve

Titles are not necessarily in chronological order.


How was Black Prophecy? I kinda wanted to check it out, then never heard anything, and found out it was very short lived last year lol

OMG Comet Mining idea!!! Comet Mining!

Eve For life.
Violet Hurst
Fedaya Recon
#42 - 2014-12-16 19:33:54 UTC
DaReaper wrote:

How was Black Prophecy? I kinda wanted to check it out, then never heard anything, and found out it was very short lived last year lol


I didn't play it for too long and also my memory is something i only have random access to, but here's what i remember:

The game was very well produced. Very polished graphics, great sound and music combined with an amazing storyline, which was extended beyond the game by a website called Stellarvox Veritas with little stories told in the style of news articles that enabled you to gradually put the pieces of the puzzle together. Iirc the f2p system had the usual advantages for paying customers, but wasn't too restrictive. It did have instances for pve grinders, but most of the game was happening in open world areas. Dogfighting was pretty intense and nothing short of a modern space shooter, you could also invest skillpoints to learn certain maneuvres (e.g. something like up,up,left, right for a barrel roll), but nobody did that since you could simply try to fly like that manually and save your skillpoints for other stuff, which brings us to the bad stuff.
The balancing had some major flaws, maybe even going beyond what you'd expect of such a young game. The crafting system was horrid, imagine timer-based crafting where you actually have to be logged on and sit idle in a station until the stuff is finished. It wasn't really worth it either until endgame, since the "meta 0"-modules you were able to use after a levelup were usually better than anything shiny you could use before that. So, the combat was great, but outside of that there was little to do.
When i left the game it was already in frail health, some weeks later i received a mail offering free stuff to returning players which made me feel like a scumbag ignoring a dying man's cry for help. However one can only play that many games in one's free time. Later on they did a major shift of focus towards player-controlled starbases and bigger, slower (multiplayer?) ships. I was sceptical about that and by the time i decided to see it with my own eyes, it was already too late.
Violet Hurst
Fedaya Recon
#43 - 2014-12-16 19:43:30 UTC  |  Edited by: Violet Hurst
Writing about Black Prophecy, listening to Sindel's new song, i just had an apicoectomy and it's winter ... now i haz a sad. Sad
Dersen Lowery
The Scope
#44 - 2014-12-16 21:24:46 UTC  |  Edited by: Dersen Lowery
In order:

Elendor (MUSH)
EVE (3 years plus)
WoW (<1 month)
GW2 (~1 month)
TESO (~3 months)
Wildstar (~1 month)
STO (2 months and counting)

Basically, I've found that I don't like MMOs per se. None of them, including EVE, has come close to matching the sort of freedom I enjoyed in Elendor. I like opportunities to do things with other people.

Proud founder and member of the Belligerent Desirables.

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Mijel Riak
Extensive Enterprises Space
#45 - 2014-12-17 00:26:28 UTC
Star Wars Galaxies - 8 years as a Chef on Valcyn, then server merged to Eclipse
SWTOR - 1 year
EVE - May 2014 to present
Gabriel Tosh
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#46 - 2014-12-20 00:21:12 UTC
Guild Wars 1: 6 months
WoW: 10 years off and on.
SWTOR: 1 year.
Assortment of F2P MMOs.
EvE: june to now!
Brujo Loco
Brujeria Teologica
#47 - 2014-12-20 22:09:49 UTC  |  Edited by: Brujo Loco
EleMud back in 1998-1999 (muds were proto-mmo´s back in the day, man this MUD ROCKED HARD back in the day! So much evil pvp!)
Everquest (2000-2004 , then short bursts throughout the years up to this year inclusive)
Everquest 2 (2004-2007)
Vanguard:Saga of Heroes (2007-2009, very short bursts until 2012, I still cry a bit over it ) :(
City of Heroes/City of Villains (2005-2007 and short bursts until it closed in 2012)
EVE Online (Been here since 2005, will probably be here until I die or server dies, whichever comes first)
Tabula Rasa (2007 until it closed down in 2009)
LOTRO (there since 2009, lifetime sub, still play occasionally)

Rest is the usual crap I tried for a couple months and got jaded/bored

Anarchy Online
DAOC
WAR (man I miss that game, it had so much potential)
RIFT
Defiance
The Secret World
Guild Wars
Guild Wars 2
Path of Exile
Fallen Earth (I miss this one, but it went downhill fast)
DDO
STO
DC Universe Online
Age of Conan
APB Reloaded (ugh)
Pirates of the Burning Sea (damn you Thalidar for making me waste money on this one lol)
SWTOR (I was bored and was already F2P, even more UGH)
Requiem: Memento Mori (this one was actually pretty interesting, haven´t checked it in ages, might still be worth a look these days, I remember it having a unique way of gore back in the day)
World of Tanks (played it a lot, then uninstalled, couldnt keep me hooked, it was a nice stone to anchor myself when EVE was truly depressing, man EVE was really dying back in the day, lots of other eve players there too, gudfites! but then EVE turned out for the better)
Realm of The Mad God (I blame STEAM)

And after that the stuff I probably choosed at random off MMORPG or STEAM and installed and then uninstalled a couple hours later or a few days later :)

On an extra note I will check out ELITE: Dangerous next year when I get a better puter, there´s so much lack of real interesting Space MMO´s or games whatsoever plus I kickstarted Star Citizen, so waiting on that too.

Cheers!

o/

Inner Sayings of BrujoLoco: http://eve-files.com/sig/brujoloco
Something Random
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#48 - 2014-12-20 23:17:06 UTC  |  Edited by: Something Random
Mr Epeen wrote:
In a previous incarnation, I was an ace WW2 Eastern Front pilot protecting Россия-Матушка from the Luftwaffe dogs.

While not strictly MMOs, combat flight simulators are one of the most immersive and heart pounding adrenaline rushes you can get in online play. Like nothing you'll get in a click the ship and watch what happens game like this one.

I'd still be playing but I needed a dedicated rig for it. What with having to hook up a head tracker, joystick, throttle, rudder pedals, USB headset and 5.1 surround sound, it just became too much effort after a while. To start EVE I need to log in. To start up IL-2 Sturmovik took about 20 minutes. Then find who's on TeamSpeak. Then find another squad to battle. Then set up a server, sort out the rules for that battle, wait for the guy who's decided to go make a peanut butter sandwich, and finally line up on the airfield.

I still miss it though.

Mr Epeen Cool


I have a Flight Simulator - and even started in Elite background.
There was a 'sim' which was simply a blast in loosely modeled flying WW1 aircraft, called Flying Circus i believe that i truly started in MMO (it was claimed the first truly Massively Multiplayer Online Game - many are adding RPG to that as the first here, not so)
I then move dinto Warbirds and loved Dawn of Aces (WW1 sim - from the warbirds production team)
I moved back then and worked MUDS for a while - i was still stuck until Mid 2k on 56k modem here so had to choose wisely.
Then Eve...... which didnt work for ages and i lost my free 2 weeks but here i am, sorry about that.
Since then you name it - sandbox first, Arena second, random 1 level FPS next.

Nothing like taking you on and realising im pretty poor, then trying again anyway :)

In the flight sims (many go your way Mr Peen) id always have to wait for the guy that just got in and rmembered he had a cheesecake in the fridge..... eve has even gone this way once. Recurring theme.

In the first game - Flying Circus i managed to get a Blue Max several times - 50 kills without dying. Thus it was perpetual MMO.

"caught on fire a little bit, just a little."

"Delinquents, check, weirdos, check, hippies, check, pillheads, check, freaks, check, potheads, check .....gangs all here!"

I love Science, it gives me a Hadron.
Pix Severus
Empty You
#49 - 2014-12-21 03:11:06 UTC
In loose order:

Ragnarok Online (2 weeks)
World of Warcraft (3 years)
Silkroad Online (2 weeks)
Granado Espada (1 week)
Warhammer Online (1 year)
Eve Online (4 years, on and off)
Star Wars: The Old Republic (2 months)
Neverwinter (9 months)
TERA (3 months)

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Debora Tsung
Perkone
Caldari State
#50 - 2014-12-23 08:10:37 UTC
DAOC, WOW, SWG, EVE.

I hated WOW, and I never want to play anything like it ever again.

SWG had an abyssmal combat and skill system, plain horrible from the start. BUT, the initial crafting system was absolutely superior to anything I aver saw before or after that. You didn't have to collect the frigging shadow leather of doom to craft your cool new leather vest/armor, you just could use any material with the name leather in it in that one crafting material slot and every crafting material had it's own stats and those stats would influence the final result.. It was AWESOME!

Riprock Industries produced some of the best Leather Armors on the server. Cool

Stupidity should be a bannable offense.

Fighting back is more fun than not.

Sticky: AFK Cloaking Thread It's not pretty, but it's there.
Laken Starr
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#51 - 2014-12-23 09:09:05 UTC  |  Edited by: Laken Starr
I'm a bit of an MMO fanatic, I've played several dozen different MMORPGs over the past decade. Below are the games I've played for a year or more:
  • City of Heroes
  • World of Warcraft
  • Eve Online
  • Lord of the Rings Online
  • Aion
  • Everquest 2
  • The Secret World
  • Guild Wars 2
  • Final Fantasy XIV

Below are games that I spent far less time in but feel are fairly good games in their own way:
  • Saga of Ryzom
  • Wakfu
  • Wizard101

Every game listed above is fantastic in some manner. If I had to narrow it down to my top 3, it would consist of City of Heroes, The Secret World, and Final Fantasy XIV. However, if I continue to enjoy Eve this time around as much as I have been recently, it will probably replace FFXIV in that list.
Teinyhr
Ourumur
#52 - 2014-12-23 10:07:43 UTC
Started with EVE, tried it first around 2004 ( this character finally stuck around in 2006). Then tried WoW, STO and SWTOR. That's for the "traditional" MMO's. Intermittently play all of these whenever, but mostly EVE and WoW - both subscribed at least once per year, others I haven't played in years.
Elena Morin'staal
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#53 - 2014-12-23 12:52:04 UTC
baltec1 wrote:
SWG (pre-NGE), EVE.

EVE has ruined me when it comes to MMOs.


Same here. Everytime I try another MMO, all I can think is that its not EVE.

They all feel lame compared to this masterpiece.

Have played GW, GW2, TESO, STO, SWTOR, Defiance, never WoW,

All got boring, Eve is the only one that even when it gets boring, it brings me back again to try something new.
Laken Starr
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#54 - 2014-12-24 05:36:05 UTC  |  Edited by: Laken Starr
Elena Morin'staal wrote:
baltec1 wrote:
SWG (pre-NGE), EVE.

EVE has ruined me when it comes to MMOs.


Same here. Everytime I try another MMO, all I can think is that its not EVE.

They all feel lame compared to this masterpiece.

Have played GW, GW2, TESO, STO, SWTOR, Defiance, never WoW,

All got boring, Eve is the only one that even when it gets boring, it brings me back again to try something new.


The issue with most other MMORPGs is that I'm not really sure Eve should be in the same genre. All of those games are heavily themepark: what ride do I want to ride today to get the next (vegetable) hanging from a stick? Eve is quintessential sandbox: what do I want to do today? Eve is closer to Minecraft than it is most MMORPGs.

I'm not sure it's been mentioned in this thread so far, but I agree with the oft-mentioned notion that it's easier to consider Eve a hobby than a game.
Tinja Soikutsu
Perkone
Caldari State
#55 - 2014-12-24 05:45:42 UTC
Jeez... This is well done the block a bit for this I guess. Probably the biggest one I've played time wise is WoW (Launch-BC, then a break, back for WotLK but left when Citadel was launched) I've bounced around a lot of stuff, Runescape (free account) Anarchy Online, LOTR:O, The Secret World (wrecked by unrealistic expectations) and I'm sure other things that I've only played for a short time before quitting and forgetting.

This is my second run at EVE, last time was about 3 months... but that was a couple of years ago, in a lot of was a different, more streamlined and "not playing as a job" friendly so giving it another go.
Dena Esil
Spearfishing
#56 - 2014-12-24 07:00:59 UTC
haven't played many MMOs.

Elder Scrolls Online ,Eve, and if you're open minded about what MMO means, Destiny.
Miko Valentine
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#57 - 2014-12-24 13:17:50 UTC
the very first has been Age of Conan than i tried Fallen Earth and played it for 3 years :3 Guild Wars 2 was the next but i was sick of how they sold it as New inovative but in reality it was just that the missions are acceptet automaticly and that you dont have to share loot ... than i have seen JonnyPew Vids on YT Watched the ScottManly Jita Burn Vid ... downloaded EVE did the Aurora toturial in 1 night and subscribed the next day ^^ that was 3 months ago xD
ISD Supogo
ISD BH
ISD Alliance
#58 - 2014-12-24 17:04:57 UTC  |  Edited by: ISD BH Supogo
Let's see...

MUDs & MUSHes of various codebases (prefer MUSHes, more about the RP than the code)
AO
WoW
EVE
Face of Mankind
LOTRO
STO
VATSIM
San Andreas Multiplayer
SW:TOR

ISD BH Supogo

Bughunter

Equipment Certification and Anomaly Investigations Division (ECAID)

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Sabriz Adoudel
Move along there is nothing here
#59 - 2014-12-24 21:49:39 UTC
DDO brought me to the co-op MMO genre, I was a huge fan of that game for a long time. It was ruined by pay-to-cheat and extreme grind alongside 'buy this item to skip this boring part of the grind'.

I then tried WOW and found it an inferior version of DDO with a worse community. Tried LOTRO, same response. Tried EVE, started out feeling the same way until I got out of the cooperative mindset, then I got hooked.

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Themanfromdalmontee
EVE RADIO ARMY
#60 - 2014-12-25 21:39:01 UTC
Lets see:

Muds lots of muds (was an imm on one - head of RP and quests, those were the days)

Neocron, Eve, wow, lotro, gw, warhammer, perpetum, umm, rift, that one done by the ultima game, + half a ton of others...EVE I've always come back to. must I play concurrently for different wants needs etc.