The game was free, but at the time you had to pay an hourly fee to use the Compuserve service. If you weren't careful, it could run up to $2000 a month -- IIRC, it was around $5-$10 an hour based on your baud.
Anyway, it was a blast for the 10-15 minutes I could afford to play each day.
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Until then, I played Drift City on Ijji and suck with it. I completed the story part of it and thought, forget the rest and deleted my account. Next thing I knew, Ijji blocked non US players so I was unable to get access to the game. I got lucky completing the story part of the game.
Ultima Online was the first mmo i ever played at 7 years old. I remember talking shit to random ppl and in turn getting killed and robbing someones unlocked boat of a rediculous amount of loot haha good times
The Realm is the first MMO in my opinion so I would start there and it was purely social.
Then Meridian. . great game. . loved the PvP and 3D world!
Before that though: NWN on AOL, Darksun Online etc. I do not consider these the same thing as you had to have an account with the company and then pay for the game apart from that. . NWN by the hour etc.
Left the Realm for UO which I loved but my biggest love was Dark Age of Camelot.
First graphical mmorpg for me was Meridian ~ However I played pen& paper d&d and a ton of forum games~Before actual forums we had some boards and such nothing all that Hot really before then.
A man or "gamer" should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
The 4th Coming. It was an Ultima-esque 2d-ish game with 200 levels with 10 levels or reincarnate, called seraphs. I think there was only a handful of seraph 10s in the entire history of the game. I quit when I got sick of dying by stupid high level griefers and loosing all my gear and xp for my current level. It was a really rough death penalty, complemented by full open pvp no matter where you were, except in cities.
Lineage 1, and no I didn't love it. Played for about 6 months and got pissed at the nerfs (and lack of respecs) and gave DAOC a try and promptly fell in love with the world of Camelot.
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
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1st MMORPG for me was UO bbut for years before that on the old BBS systems before the internet was available to the general public, we played tradewars and several other titles where people took turns logging in to send their time/turns trading goods, upgrading ships, taking over planets and such, of course it was all text. Land of Devestation actually had a client to download so yuo could get all of 16 color graphics but both games you could encounter the other players characters and interact with them.
I loved TradeWars on the single line BBS's, but when we had it real-time on a multi-line MajorBBS, that rocked. There were a couple of those big MajorBBS systems that also had local MUD-like games. (I ran a Telegard BBS with TradeWars and Usurper being the most popular door games among my users.) AAAAAH! NOSTALGIA ATTACK!
With that said, UO in 1997 was my first "real" MMO. And EQ was my first MMO addiction.
Still haven't found an MMO that balanced PvE/Crafting/and epic scale (and small scale) PvP so perfectly and tied it all together so that they all interact.
I got FFXI on the hard drive that they sold for the PS2 in the 90's. I originally bought it under the assumption that they were going to release new maps for SOCOM 2. They never did, so when I got bored of SOCOM one day I decided to install FFXI.
Why I loved it? I always liked playing RPG's and played FF all the way back to nintendo. I was in awe the first time I logged in and entered San d'orian auction house area and saw all these people running around with little shells over their heads.
Sadly it was the only MMO I've ever really enjoyed. I'm not playing any MMOs currently btw.. just sticking around hoping for something innovative... big let down.
Whats the first MMO you played and why you loved it !
First MMO I played? Horizons.
Why did I love it? Well actually I didn't love it, it was pretty bad. But the experience of playing a CRPG online, with all these other people running around, was compelling enough that it made me check out other MMOs, and find ones that I did love. I'd been playing single-player CRPGs for, oh, about fifteen years prior to that, so the step into massively multiplayer was a pretty exciting development for me.
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Island of Kesmai on Compuserve.
The game was free, but at the time you had to pay an hourly fee to use the Compuserve service. If you weren't careful, it could run up to $2000 a month -- IIRC, it was around $5-$10 an hour based on your baud.
Anyway, it was a blast for the 10-15 minutes I could afford to play each day.
Maplestory, however I didn't stick with it.
Until then, I played Drift City on Ijji and suck with it. I completed the story part of it and thought, forget the rest and deleted my account. Next thing I knew, Ijji blocked non US players so I was unable to get access to the game. I got lucky completing the story part of the game.
Ultima Online was the first mmo i ever played at 7 years old. I remember talking shit to random ppl and in turn getting killed and robbing someones unlocked boat of a rediculous amount of loot haha good times
Depends what you consider an MMO
The Realm is the first MMO in my opinion so I would start there and it was purely social.
Then Meridian. . great game. . loved the PvP and 3D world!
Before that though: NWN on AOL, Darksun Online etc. I do not consider these the same thing as you had to have an account with the company and then pay for the game apart from that. . NWN by the hour etc.
Left the Realm for UO which I loved but my biggest love was Dark Age of Camelot.
EDIT: heh BBSs. . yeah Legend of the Red Dragon!
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I think 10six was the first MMOish game I played.
First graphical mmorpg for me was Meridian ~ However I played pen& paper d&d and a ton of forum games~Before actual forums we had some boards and such nothing all that Hot really before then.
A man or "gamer" should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
The 4th Coming. It was an Ultima-esque 2d-ish game with 200 levels with 10 levels or reincarnate, called seraphs. I think there was only a handful of seraph 10s in the entire history of the game. I quit when I got sick of dying by stupid high level griefers and loosing all my gear and xp for my current level. It was a really rough death penalty, complemented by full open pvp no matter where you were, except in cities.
Lineage 1, and no I didn't love it. Played for about 6 months and got pissed at the nerfs (and lack of respecs) and gave DAOC a try and promptly fell in love with the world of Camelot.
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Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
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"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
I loved TradeWars on the single line BBS's, but when we had it real-time on a multi-line MajorBBS, that rocked. There were a couple of those big MajorBBS systems that also had local MUD-like games. (I ran a Telegard BBS with TradeWars and Usurper being the most popular door games among my users.) AAAAAH! NOSTALGIA ATTACK!
With that said, UO in 1997 was my first "real" MMO. And EQ was my first MMO addiction.
Horizons was my first and I still enjoy it
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Dark Age of Camelot.
Still haven't found an MMO that balanced PvE/Crafting/and epic scale (and small scale) PvP so perfectly and tied it all together so that they all interact.
Ever Quest~ wish i could go back to the good o~ days of Ultima Online!
E.Q.- 70 Cleric, 65 Shammy
A.O.- 66 MA
FF Xi- 75WHM,70THF,66BLM,54NIN
EvE- 2 chars w/ +22 Mil SP
Runescape lol
Meridian59
Everquest
UO
Started M59 first - beta's all 3
tons of mmo's after this
Archlinux ftw
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Everquest 1 started before RoK expansion. Played that game with my friends for a very long time.. Best MMO ever!
I got FFXI on the hard drive that they sold for the PS2 in the 90's. I originally bought it under the assumption that they were going to release new maps for SOCOM 2. They never did, so when I got bored of SOCOM one day I decided to install FFXI.
Why I loved it? I always liked playing RPG's and played FF all the way back to nintendo. I was in awe the first time I logged in and entered San d'orian auction house area and saw all these people running around with little shells over their heads.
The rest is history.
Meridian 59...loved it!
Faldon. All I remember is playing it with my best friend a long time ago. He ended up failing out of college. I wonder if that game still exists.
Star Wars Galaxies.
Started on: December 25th 2004 (or sometime near the end of december).
I had alot of fun doing the theme park quests.
And the community was awesome.
Star Wars Galaxies
Sadly it was the only MMO I've ever really enjoyed. I'm not playing any MMOs currently btw.. just sticking around hoping for something innovative... big let down.
First MMO I played? Horizons.
Why did I love it? Well actually I didn't love it, it was pretty bad.
But the experience of playing a CRPG online, with all these other people running around, was compelling enough that it made me check out other MMOs, and find ones that I did love. I'd been playing single-player CRPGs for, oh, about fifteen years prior to that, so the step into massively multiplayer was a pretty exciting development for me.
Everquest. When Ruins of Kunark came out in april of 2000.
Meridian 59.
That was a long time ago.
The First MMO's i played weree,
Runescape
Ferentus
Rappelz
Then from there i went to guild wars
and now im just kinda jumping around i cant find one that is interesting enough for me to stick with at the moment .