re: MMO that you wish you were in on day one and still played today

This why I faced comps on bgh. I didn't have to rush build and I didn't have to worry about resources.

Probably EverQuest. When I first started, I believe EverQuest was only on its 5th expansion (out of 22 as of this post). I would've liked to play through the Kunark and Velious content when it was new even if back in those days, the population was healthy enough where there were plenty of people at all levels to group with.

I'd still play it today if the game as it was back then still existed. These days, there's not much of anyone playing who isn't at least level 80+.

Outside of that, probably World of Warcraft. I played EverQuest II from launch through WoTLK era in WoW, so I missed vanilla and Burning Crusade. In particular, I wish I would've played WoW during the Burning Crusade zones. Artistically, those are my favorite zones in the game.

Lastly, Anarchy Online. I played it a few years ago after it went Free to Play and thought the old school sci-fi theme was fantastic for an old school MMORPG. I really enjoyed my time in the game but it was pretty much dead back then. Outside of that, it reminded me of a sci-fi EverQuest.

Gonna have to knight for UO pre trammel like I always do. Isn't it amazing how many mmos are generally remember by players as "pre" whatever? SWG comes to mind. Devs can't get out of their own way.

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Isn't it amazing how many mmos are generally remember by players as "pre" whatever? SWG comes to mind. Devs can't get out of their own way.

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Or maybe its just old to us by the time the dev's have to do something to stop subscription downturn.

I played WoW from opening day until TBC. I was in a guild that got top 10 world kills on bosses and stuff and was main tank so we would schedule raids in old dungeons just to get my toon a specific piece of gear so we could do better on newest content. Then TBC was going to come in and in an instant make all that time and investment sacraficed by like 50 people worthless.

So I sold my account to some guy in australia for 1500 dollars and bought a lvl 60 warrior that had shitty gear for 100 bucks and started over with new expansion, and quit soon after realizing the pointlessness of it all. Needless to say my guild was kinda mad.


ETA: I remember around black wing lair time or maybe a little before that, they had an instance where you could sneak in with rogues and open a chest and there was like a .1% chance that a certain sword would be in there that was the best for tanks at the time. We had like 12 people for 4 days resetting and running the instance for hours upon hours, finally got it and was probably one of the most exciting moments of my MMO career. We were all pumped as hell.

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I wish I had a PC to run the old Republic when it came out. By the time I did it was too late for that game and the hype.

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The Old Republic is fairly static for an MMO, meaning not a whole lot aside from quality of life changes is different from the way it was at launch. It's certainly not to the point of where you can quantify it in different eras like you can WoW or EQ. I guess you won't get to experience raiding areas like Eternity Vault as bleeding edge content, but those places are available on the raid finder and PUGs run them frequently.

Population is still strong, but it doesn't matter anyway as the story-based content is all done by yourself.

The overthere. You ever try Project 99?

I always think of EQ when i think of my first MMO, but in reality I played a tile-based game called Legends of Kesmai on the "Gamestorm" service that was technically my first. I spent so much time on that game, and I was of an age where i didn't fully understand how everything worked. The lack of understanding the "logic" made it such a magical experience to me. I actually still play that game every once in a while on a reproduced client by some avid fans/programmers. It's called Lands of Kes. They did an incredible job of recreating the game. Not a plug.

Ultima Online hands down. The first ever MMORPG.

Still play occasionally on free servers. Never played EQ but I hear its alot like UO.

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Isn't it amazing how many mmos are generally remember by players as "pre" whatever?

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Except for City of Heroes. GOAT MMORPG.

Still jump on Runescape every now and then.