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In your circle of real life friends, what MMORPGs are popular?

IGaveUpIGaveUp Member Posts: 273
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 I realize this won't be statistically meaningful, but I'm curious if there will be any surprises.

 

In your real life circle of friends, which MMORPGs are popular (still played regularly)?

 

For those I know, it's mostly LOTRO, Aion, and a couple private servers that I can't mention.

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  • RamanadjinnRamanadjinn Member UncommonPosts: 1,365

    WOW, Mortal Online, and Planetside 2.

    The folks I know play lots of MMOs but these are the ones that they didn't just play a month and drop forever.

     

     

  • waynejr2waynejr2 Member EpicPosts: 7,771
    Originally posted by RealmLordsKen

     I realize this won't be statistically meaningful, but I'm curious if there will be any surprises.

     

    In your real life circle of friends, which MMORPGs are popular (still played regularly)?

     

    For those I know, it's mostly LOTRO, Aion, and a couple private servers that I can't mention.

    Well:

    Wargame friends are playing:  Everquest classic server and LOTRO.  2 play world of tanks as well.

    Roleplayers:  Rift (they were playing warhammer online until it closed).  Also some world of tanks.

    one married couple still plays wow.

    one married couple plays GW2 with their 2 children.

     

     

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  • Cephus404Cephus404 Member CommonPosts: 3,675
    None.  Of all of my  friends, only one plays any MMOs at all and that's WoW.  Otherwise, the rest of them consider MMOs to be a waste of time.

    Played: UO, EQ, WoW, DDO, SWG, AO, CoH, EvE, TR, AoC, GW, GA, Aion, Allods, lots more
    Relatively Recently (Re)Played: HL2 (all), Halo (PC, all), Batman:AA; AC, ME, BS, DA, FO3, DS, Doom (all), LFD1&2, KOTOR, Portal 1&2, Blink, Elder Scrolls (all), lots more
    Now Playing: None
    Hope: None

  • SeariasSearias Member UncommonPosts: 743
    A lot of my friends play Wow.

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  • nbtscannbtscan Member UncommonPosts: 862
    I used to play FFXI with some RL friends.  One plays WoW, the other and his wife play FFXIV I think, the rest don't even play MMOs anymore.
  • APThugAPThug Member RarePosts: 543
    I've only got one friend who plays neverwinter, the rest are either playing call of duty or a real life sport lol.

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  • FalstaffFalstaff Member UncommonPosts: 78
    one in eve, rest in EQ2 still making new characters every couple months
  • rodingorodingo Member RarePosts: 2,870
    None of my real life friends play MMOs.   My wife used to very casually, but now I travel down that dusty road alone.

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  • AldersAlders Member RarePosts: 2,207
    I wouldn't have the slightest idea what it would be like to have real life friends that play MMO's.

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  • DamonVileDamonVile Member UncommonPosts: 4,818

    firefall

    warframe

    eqnL

    WoT

    For the people I actually play games with.

    In the community I'm part of SWTOR wins by a land slide. They normally have 50+ people a night on voice and I have no idea how many in game.

  • mistmakermistmaker Member UncommonPosts: 321
    Originally posted by Alders
    I wouldn't have the slightest idea what it would be like to have real life friends that play MMO's.

    must be cool. but dangerous. you would probably play too much and have no other hobbies :-)

  • sunandshadowsunandshadow Member RarePosts: 1,985
    I have friends that are or were recently playing Vindictus, Pirate 101, Terraria (not quite an MMO, but...), and WoW.  If I add my own data to that, I recently tried Istaria and Xsyon.
    I want to help design and develop a PvE-focused, solo-friendly, sandpark MMO which combines crafting, monster hunting, and story.  So PM me if you are starting one.
  • Vermillion_RaventhalVermillion_Raventhal Member EpicPosts: 4,198
    None.  Most won't even look at them and the rest have given up.  
  • AcceleratumAcceleratum Member Posts: 10

    some are still in wow, others in anarchy- online .. some are doing warframe and trying all the new ones, got a group planning to play ESO, but i honestly am tired of wow clones.. it gets so boring to keep playing the same game..

    I play rift sometimes because its one of the best wow clones and secret world because its really good and less clone, eso seems like a crappy wow/rift with lineage/GW2 pvp clone.

    ff xiv is nice if u havent played wow since its basically another clone, with some inovation on skills and professions plus the typical ff style single player story cinematics.

    so overall all my friends love mmos but we really cant find one that gathers us all because non are as good as the old ones we played: lineage, anarchy online and Wow.

  • nariusseldonnariusseldon Member EpicPosts: 27,775

    One of my kid plays LoL. One has moved passed video games.

    MMORPGs are not popular in my circle.

     

  • dreamscaperdreamscaper Member UncommonPosts: 1,592
    I only have one friend who plays MMORPGs, and he bounces back and forth between WoW and Eve.

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  • IlliusIllius Member UncommonPosts: 4,142

    Myself and a another buddy play Dark Age of Camelot, another comes and goes and keeps buying all kinds of games to play.  The other couple I know of keep hopping from beta to beta and never really settling on anything.  They just seem to be searching.

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  • QuirhidQuirhid Member UncommonPosts: 6,230

    A few playing Eve, but none of them are very active (who is, really?). Few peering towards Wildstar. The jury is still out.

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  • ArglebargleArglebargle Member EpicPosts: 3,465

    Everyone here played City of Heroes until it was so ungraciously murdered.

     

    One couple made a try at Lotro, but that played out.   A couple of folks are prepping for ESO.  Another group plays Warframe a bit, but that's about it.   An additional subset is trying out things like Pirate 101 and Starbound.

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  • KyleranKyleran Member LegendaryPosts: 43,975
    real life friends, haha as if.

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    Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm

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  • SovrathSovrath Member LegendaryPosts: 32,780

    I only have one friend who plays an mmo (a friend in my day to day life as opposed to friends who I have met online but only see a few times a year if that) and he plays WoW.

    and is is a relatively recent convert to that game (maybe a year or two.)

     

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  • simsalabim77simsalabim77 Member RarePosts: 1,607
    Of the few who still play video games regularly, I am the only one who still dabbles with MMO's, and I get razzed about it often enough to be annoying. 
  • PsYcHoGBRPsYcHoGBR Member UncommonPosts: 482
    Daoc, WoW and I and a few others are playing Planetside 2.
  • hallucigenocidehallucigenocide Member RarePosts: 1,015
    they're all pretending to be grown up at the moment so none of them are playing right now...

    I had fun once, it was terrible.

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