Does anyone miss their previous MMO?

mumok

For me the game that will always carry the most nostalgia is Lineage 2.

Smaller servers meant that you always ran into people that you met before. For good or for bad. Open PvP everywhere with a karma system. So everywhere you went there was a possibility someone might want to kill you. I loved the thrill.

Clans(guilds)were also smaller, more intimate, you could only be in one so it meant something to be part of it. I actually met and played with people I call friends now.

Politics was huge. You knew who the dominant clan/players was and either you tried to join them or de-throne them.

Castle sieges, Clan halls, crafting that actually required you to obtain key components to make armor and weapons, raids with epic drops, classes with specific jobs, some with buffs that actually matter(I was a Doom Cryer). I could go on.

Having said that ESO is much better in some areas. just some things I miss.

traigusb14_ESO2

Food4Thought wrote: »

I miss vanilla SWG. The crafting system was one of the best if not the best of any MMO I have ever played.

I found it to be 2nd best, but still awesome

Vanguard probably had the most interactive and parts based crafting system ever. It was also a minigame that got more complex as you got higher leveled in it and made more complex stuff. The subcomponent system was awesome as well.

SWG was good, but so bounded by random resources, and things that had weird caps on them...sorry all aluminum has 50 or less conductivity, so it makes bad guns. .even ones that require aluminum... err. Not to say a good pass or 2 couldn't have done wonders for it. it was also way too easy to do massive harvests, and stockpile the best materials pretty much forever(at least until the next awesome one showed up) making the best gear pretty much baseline.

Daethz

I miss being able to be compete with a melee weapon.
Something you cannot achieve on ESO.

RIP Dual Wield 2014

Synfaer

Every year or so I get nostalgic and I install and log into UO.
20 minutes later its uninstalled again; why do those memories lie to me...

Istyar

I played RuneScape for almost 11 years and I miss a lot of things from it.
I think is perfectly valid miss something that you are used to live together for such a long time.

Bookwyrm

In a word: No.

AlexDougherty

Bookwyrm wrote: »

In a word: No.

Same here, I enjoyed my last MMO, but I've moved on, if I miss it I will resubscribe.

Sindala

I'd say I miss my old guild, building my plot and flying around as an Ancient Dragon (Istaria is still the only MMO that lets you play as a Dragon race) but I have always loved ES and i'm hooked on ESO now for better or worse so i'd say it's a trade off i'm happy with for now

Razour

I played Shaiya - it was a money pit (FTP-P2W).

Sure, we've had teething problems with ESO but things seem to be broadly on track now so no regrets in coming to ESO at this time.

Logan9a

Audigy wrote: »

Not so much the game, but the community. There is so much hate and intolerance among ESO players, its just sad. PVE players hate on PVP, solo gamers on group and everyone hates Roleplayers ...

Of course everyone hates roleplayers.

But seriously, this is one of the nicer communities.

Really.

Most of the bitter people come on the boards. My clever friends refuse to come to the boards.

The people you meet within the game itself, generally nice.

If you ever want to begin to think a gaming community is bad, go to their boards. This is where all of the entitled whiners go to vent their crap.

MercyKilling

City of Heroes. RIP. The greatest MMO and community I ever had the pleasure of encountering.

Nothing compares to it. Nothing.

Edit:

I could literally spend hours just building or adding to any one of several bases I had/was a member of the owning SG.
I could spend hours just in the character creator(and often did) tinkering with different looks.
I played for six years, and it took me almost two to get my first max level character. So much altitis.
Cape Radio. You're not super until you put on the Cape. An internet radio station broadcast by the players of the game, for the players of the game. They're still going, but they've sold out to Craptic(Cryptic) titles.

Winnower

I miss EQ1 through Luclin a lot, especially Firiona Vie

I miss original SWG, one of the best sandbox games I've played

I miss LoTRO because I love Lord of the Rings, but they ran it into the ground so badly by making everything easy-mode - it is essentially just a social network frame now, but I'm not bitter at all, no no.

I don't miss SW:TOR at all. They destroyed that game with their F2P2P2W conversion (that's "free to pay to play to win", for all you noobs) and it should have been renamed "Cartel Market: The Final Cash-Grab". It amazes me that people still play it, but you know what P.T. Barnum said about the american people. I'm a HUGE Star Wars fan, but I'm not bitter at all, no no.

None of the games I miss are still around. ESO was going to be my stopping point while I waited for WoD to come out, oops. And I like the place, so unless it gets *worse* I'll probably stay a long time.

Sotha_Sil

I miss forums where people talk about builds and how to have the best character, theory crafting, best practices, class enhancement. That's the only thing I miss.

infraction2008b16_ESO

You know what you're all right, so I've updated my post to reflect my point of view.

I'm off to enjoy MMO's again now.

rsciw

inf.toniceb17_ESO wrote: »

I miss Star Trek Online...well not the game itself but my fleetmates. We had a lot of fun over 2 years but everything in this game is grind now so most of us left and we we went our separate paths. Still ESO is great in my opinion and i couldn't think of better game to move to.

Just prior to the availability of the beta I mentioned to my fleet mates I'll be more in ESO over the time period, especially once it goes live, but will still log back into STO now and then. Since the first day of ESO's early access became available I however haven't touched the STO launcher... Even though I have an LTS on my account I do still wish STO would not have gone the F2P path. I do miss my ships/characters (especially my Romulans, always have been my favourite faction) and my fleet which I heard doesn't exist anymore (website's gone completely and there was talk of the two admins of selling it off ingame, which is one of the reasons I'm not inclined to log back in at the moment). S9 had some crap changes from what I read pre-S9 deployment, and the instanced little PvP arenas (5v5) really bored the heck out of me too, prever RvR (or AvAvA in ESO's case).

The only other upcoming game I can see myself spending a lot of time in will be Star Alliance.

AngryNord

Ultima Online - don't particularly miss it, the way it ended upp a***** the existing Ultima lore.
LoTRO - miss it somewhat, the style and lore of it, but the F2P mechanisms and the eternal spam about the in-game store eventually put me off

Eirikur

My previous MMORPG was Shadowbane, from well over 10 years ago. I miss city building.

Hilgara

Theres a few I keep going back to. EvE onlne, Fire Fall....I play them till I burn out then try something different. The thing those two games have in common is replay value. I now have 3 classes in vet so just a Templar left. Whether I stay will depend on what theres is to do in the game once I've levelled all classes.

Tabbycat

I do miss that wonder and excitement of playing an MMO for the first time.

kitsinni

I miss parts of a lot of them. I miss crafting in SWG there was nothing like it. I also miss the idea of being able to loot a truly epic item. I miss identifying a weapon in Diablo II and seeing perfect stats on it. I miss epic PvP battles in DAoC, miss stealth groups and Darkness Falls. I miss how fun Vanilla WoW was. I miss the actual balance of PvP in GW1 on release it was one of the few games where PvP skill was actually fun. I even miss some of the PvP in SWTOR that is about all I miss in that game .. I even liked huttball. Warhammer had some fun PvP moments but I can't say I really miss the game as a whole.

jambam817_ESO

Yes...

Everquest 12+ years ago...

Eirikur

jambam817_ESO wrote: »

Yes...

Everquest 12+ years ago...

My most memorable moment from Everquest happened early on, when I was trying to make my way from Qeynos to Freeport as a very low-level character. There was no way to teleport, so I had to journey through multiple huge zones in order to get there, filled with high level beasts and narrow paths through steep mountains. Constantly having to dodge or outrun monsters while avoiding deadly falls was intense... and of course if I died I'd have to start all over again as I was bound to Qeynos.

rbenkepub19_ESO

I don't miss any of my previous MMO's. I enjoyed them for a while (in some cases, years), but eventually burned out on them. That's why I play ESO now. I'll burn out on ESO eventually, but hopefully not for a long time.

Thechemicals

Dc universe is still a good game but I like eso.

Exarch

It occurred to me that one of the things I have always missed is from my first MMO, Asheron's Call 2, and that was the ability to play music; you could equip different instruments, and then /1 - /10 played different tunes. XP groups would turn into jam sessions during down times, it really was quite awesome. I wish ESO had different tunes you could mix and match, but kudos to them for the instrument emotes.

Jack-0

I still miss Ultima Online (which people are bound to notice I make frequent reference to), but what I miss doesn't exist any more (damn EA running it into the ground and making a complete mess of it). I really strongly do NOT miss WoW, in fact I really hate it at the moment. I never liked Blizzard anyway, nor their grindy, carebear games, but I do miss my stubborn friends that won't even give ESO a shot because of their time investment in WoW to date.

ESO is ticking almost every single box for me, it's the best MMO since UO. ZOS need to sort out player housing and world pvp (I have high hopes for the justice system, though don't actually know a lot about it yet).

kieso

Sometimes I miss GW2; which was my last MMO but I really like the ES world and I think Cyrodil PVP has much more promise than GW2's WvW scene.

Armitas

wenxue2222b16_ESO wrote: »

I played LOTRO for six years. Don't miss the game. Miss my characters and all the people I knew in game.

It had just got to such a state of milking the players for every single penny possible. It became less of a game than an intensive pocket squeezing excercise.

I have sort of recreated two of my characters in ESO though. My dwarf Rosiebelle has become Rosiebelle the orc and one of my other dwarfs Hodorf is now the shortest Nord I could make. I got the face pretty near with him though, apart from the nose.

@Wenxue2222b16_ESO
I played for 5 or so years, and that is exactly why I don't miss it either. I miss the people and my character but not the current gamestore focus. I am deeply nostalgic about the old game though. It's still a good game for what it is but it is no longer what it was.

My DK is a remake of my Captain. When I join a raid I go all buff/heals and I feel like I'm back to Captaining.

Nhines

I kinda miss DDO, the first MMO I was nagged into playing. Explorer areas, instanced quests, the loot system, 12 player raids, a real LFM system, a ton of build variety, and guilds that actually mattered. No real pvp but that didn't matter to me, pvp to me was always a fps. Eventually it just turned into soloing raids to see if you can do it, and creating builds that made no sense to see if you could survive with them, and it got boring.

I don't miss SWTOR. Having each class have it's own story was nice, and the daily pvp was fine, but it's instancing was worse the ESO's, and there was just way too much driving in that game.

PF1901

infraction2008b16_ESO wrote: »

I miss class balance...

I miss having tons of viable specs from all classes suitable for raiding, as well as melee actually viable...

I miss the game rewarding you for the effort you put in...

I miss access to a basic mount not being an insane grind unless you pay extra...

I miss replayability of the content where endgame is just the beginning....

I miss bosses that actually require following tight mechanics to beat...

I miss having that one instance where you can chill out socialize with people...

I miss there being tons of things to do outside raiding or dungeon content...

I miss regular reoccurring events...

I miss I can make my character look how I want...

I miss dungeon queues actually popping...

I miss regular loyalty rewards given to subscribers rather than giving them the shaft...

There's probably a lot more I don't have time to add I probably miss too, in fact I'm having a hard time finding something that would keep me gripped to this game.

Edit: You know what you're all right, why should I keep playing if I'm missing those things? Why should I even attempt to get my point of view across that this game is generally lacking the things that made previous MMO's I played enjoyable to play when everyone else would rather eat out of the same old trough and not strive for any change? I should I myself push to make this game something it quite frankly is not?

Therefore I am going to follow everyone's advice and vote with my wallet, I had hoped for this thread to be a feedback thread rather than un subbing one but there's nothing keeping me here...

I am now going to go and enjoy a real MMO.

Huh? Not getting your post at all. Anyway:

Miss neocron for the great city atmosphere.

Miss city of hero's / villains for the great power sets and concept of no gear and for all the really great pug's I had the pleasure being part of.

Miss aoc for the great community on (hold your breath) whitesands before it got out of hand for several reasons.

Miss eve online for the "in space no one can hear you scream" feeling.

Probably other stuff but I forgot