Just a thread about what other games you played or still play before making the switch.
Personally I played;
- WoW (Still dabble these days)
- FFXI
- SwtOR
- GW2
- Runescape (a long time ago :P)
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Just a thread about what other games you played or still play before making the switch.
Personally I played;
- WoW (Still dabble these days)
- FFXI
- SwtOR
- GW2
- Runescape (a long time ago :P)
I play Rift and Champions Online (which I fled to after City of Heroes shut down.) I have tried both version of Guild Wars, DC Universe Online, Star Trek Online (and man do I regret that one...) and a few others. I used to play Warcraft but while I liked the game, I despise Blizzard and eventually I made the choice to just stop giving them money.
I always considered Rift but never actually got it. I didn't enjoy Guild Wars 2 much, not sure why. Star Trek really that bad?
Blizzard have managed to snooker their players, they've made what some people call the best MMO out there which people thoroughly enjoy, but they charge extortionate amounts for just about everything.
RuneScape - went no-life on it until about 2009 when I started not caring for it at all. Still played it on and off until they released that EoC thing.
GW2 - no-lifed until level 80, couldn't be bothered to make another character.
Tried my hand at a game called Sword of the new world, also some game similar to it called Hero or something like that.
Well, it's a game of great ideas, but none of them have been put together very well, and the whole thing feels very, very clunky. I had high hopes for it because I love Star Trek and I loved City of Heroes, but it doesn't flow very well, it looks... not so good, and the constant 'OH HEY BUY THIS' messages really break any kind of game immersion. The most fun I had was designing my character. Everything from that point on went down hill fast.Quote:
Originally Posted by IamCipher
And I agree with you about Blizzard. I also had huge issues with their approach to customer complaints, but that's another long story, and ultimately comes down to 'they pissed me off and I'm still bitter about it'.
Real shame, love Star Trek. But a lot of games seem to fall over from rushing these days.Quote:
Originally Posted by Misguidance
I know a lot of people that feel the way you do about Blizzard, I'm just waiting for my turn to be honest.
I played WoW and Rift before I got bored and took a break from those. I've tried GW2 but didn't really get too into it. Tried Star Trek Online but I didn't like it either for reasons already mentioned. I still play Secret World which is my top MMO at the moment.
Ghost Recon online, also a third person tactical shooter mmo. (not really, but they call it one).
A couple F2P games
Atlantica Online and Dragon Nest
Runescape (when I was 13...)
Tibia
FlyFF
The Secret World
TERA: Rising
I'm waiting for Archeage... gah!
Ffxi for 7 years, 8 lv 85's. Quit couldn't stay the way they were taken the game, to WoW for me.
Tarutaru for life!
I'm an old schooler - my first MMO was UO for 6 years. I stayed away from mmo's for awhile then went back and got into Neverwinter Nights - not really an mmo but lots of fun with the mods people were creating.
Then Vanguard - been there for 6 years now, still there as well. Tried GW 1 didn't like it, did beta for Rift didn't like it either.
Played Eq 2 the free one, not really impressed with it.
Wow, is way too "cartoony" for my tastes.
Unfortunately, there isn't much more I'm interested in any more so here I am trying a new type of game.
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I've never played an MMO prior Defiance, nor any large scale MP games. Largest one I suppose was Homeworld way back in the mid to late 90's back when Sierra still owned them. Now I've heard that Gearbox bought the franchise and has planned on reduxing it and re-releasing it, which I'm very excited about. I still have a burned CD of the game, just need a key code for it. xD
I'm liking what I see of Defiance so far. Just wish there was more socializing. =/
Defiance popped my MMO cherry.
http://i.imgur.com/5exoxdK.gif
same, also waiting for Archeage, i hope they start alpha/beta this September or October and release it in January or something :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Kitty
other then waiting for that one i played **** load of MMO's before Defiance but ill only name a few that i recently played.
Tera (Now TERA:Rising)
Lineage 2
GW2
other then that nothing really, some BF3 and other shooters but not allot of MMO's
I wouldn't get too excited over Gearbox owning that IP to produce a game. They funneled Sega's money to make Aliens: Colonial Marines to build borderlands DLC and borderlands 2 then paid another company to make A:CM. What we got as a result of that was insulting to the cannon for Aliens. It became fairly obvious once we all got the game to play that something was amiss. The E3 Demo video of the game looked amazing. What we got as a finished product looked like a 5-6 year old game. Looking thru the config files I noticed that there wasn't a video card on the compatibility list that was newer than 5 years ago. Most people that bought it felt completely screwed by GB. Most will probably never buy another GB product. I know that I won't as long as Randy is in charge of that company.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dist0rt3d Hum0r
Phantasy Star Universe
Star Wars the Old Republic
Tera
Runescape
Star Trek Online
Guild Wars 2
There are more but I forget. D;
Rift 2 year and tried SWTOR, TSW. I would be still playing Rift but gotta say Elder Scroll Online is just too awesome. Hmm. I still play Planetside 2, probably 400 hour played, but not even nearly what Ive spent in Rift. Also Darkfall, but its something I play more casually.
a few MUD's before.
Runescape
Runes of Magic
a few other free MMO's the names I can't remember.
World of Warcrack
Rift
Star Wars the Old Republic
APB Reloaded.
more random free MMO's
that bout covers it.
Edit: APB.
WOW
Aion
DCUO
APB Reloaded
Hellgate Global
Swtor
(tried a few others in between)
currently playing GW2 (main MMO) and Defiance (casually).
totally forgot about APB, I played that too for a bit.Quote:
Originally Posted by skepticck
Pso
psu
swtor
blood for the blood god!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by kaospenguin
No one for The Matrix Online? :)
I've played lots of niche ones like Ragnarok Online (I tried 2 and it was so bad) and Neocron back in the day. Neocron was really awesome. Like Defiance, everything was aim and shoot but it was an FPS. Amazing PvP and atmosphere for its time.
Some more notable ones I've played would be SWG, TOR, and GW2. Never got into WoW (thank god).
Next MMO I'm looking forward to would be ESO.
WoW, Rift, Warhammer Online, SWtOR, GW2;
Perfect World International
Waiting for Neverwinter April 30th open beta release
Only going to list the MMOs that I played past the first month.
WoW (played 1.5 years, quit a little over 5 years ago)
LOTRO (played for 4 months when it released)
Guild Wars 2 (Still playing since release day)
I've played:
Asheron's Call 2
WoW
GW
GW2
SWTOR
Tera
and prolly some more i cant remember :)
FFXI (off and on for 2 or 3 years)
FFXIV (from it's earliest days til the servers went down)
DCUO (for like a week ... I hated it)
I've played way too many to count, propably around 30. But the only ones I've actually spent much time in are GW(3400h) and GW2(800h), others I quit within 200-400h.
I used to play:
DCUO
FFXI
Guild Wars
Phantasy Star Universe
Phantasy Star Online
Redmoon online - 1999 (went on to develop new database structure then quit)
Xiah Online - DBA
WISH (cancelled) DB Admin- 2005
Shot Online - Security Specialist - 2005
My projects since then have included a lot of private servers for various MMO games. Purely just to keep up with trends ...
WoW, Xiah, Lineage II, Guildwars 1 among others.
Then there's the ones I played : GW2, Lineage II, Raganarok, Redmoon, Diablo II, Diablo III
Runescape :)
Aion Ascension (stopped temporarily until v4 is released)
Fallen Earth (taking a breather from it)
Tried Onverse but then just said to myself......what is the point to this....."thing"....
There's way too many of the same thing over and over again. Kinda sick of all these games with elves running around.
WoW
CoH/CoV
Guild Wars
EVE
SWG
SWTOR
WoW, lineage 2, warhammer online, swtor, rift, tera, gw, gw2, lotro, eq2, ffxi, necron, swg, psu, a ton of free ones and a few more p2p that i cant remember.
-Phantasy Star Universe
-Phantasy Star Online
-Phantasy Star Online 2
-EverQuest
-EverQuest II
-Lord of the Rings Online
And soon I will be playing Elder Scrolls Online.
Wow
Swg
Eve
Anarchy Online (First and made lots of good friends)
World of Warcraft (made more good friends, but wish they would play something else now :p)
Aion (fun till my melee chr hit the PVP zones then not so fun)
Rift (lvling was fun)
Age of Conan (like but never made it past Tortuga lol)
Star Wars the Old Republic (really liked the Story but way to easy to lvl)
The Secret World (Still playing this one Love the Story)