How many mmo games did you play before eso?

Inhuman003

Guild Wars 2
Secret World now Secret World Legends
Tera Online
DC Universe

Minyassa

Just two, DDO and LOTRO. I like to fantasize about having the power to cherrypick what I like out of all three and combining them to make my ultimate dream game.

Aesthier

Ultima, EQ, EQ2, D2, D3, Anarchy Online, Arcane Online, AC, AC2, CoH, DDO, GW, Horizons, Hellgate London, Lineage, Lineage II, Rift, Tera, BDO, Scarlet Blade, PW, FW, WF, WoW, Last Chaos, Shaiya, Vindictus, Rappelz, Crusaders, PoE etc...

Those are the ones I can slightly recall; seems like there are one or two missing from that list that I can distinctly remember certain events or bosses but don't exist in any of the above.

neverwalk

played real life before ESO

Ley

Outwar
Runescape
Conquer Online
WoW
Shaiya
DC Universe Online
Rift
Warframe
Diablo 1-3
ESO

I tried a few others but didn't get into them.

Rain_Greyraven

Way way too many

I was a alpha tester and guide in EQ, beta tester in SWG.........and I have at least tried every MMO since 1998. ESO is the closest thing, I have been wanting in a MMO.

I would have gutted PVP, (Except in the case of vampirism and lycanthrophy they should be stupidly rare to get and full PVP and full loot once you do) worked on the AI quite a bit,(Gave NPC's routines and lives) allowed for the choice of public and instanced delves, and cut way back on the fantastical mounts.

Other than that it's the most fun I have had in a mmo yet.

profundidob16_ESO

Uviryth wrote: »

I started with Meridian 59.
So I have to say, all of them?

no mate, not quite. Seems you weren't around yet in Neverwinter Nights mmo (not to be confused with another game by BioWare which was also called "Neverwinter Nights" but not an mmo)



"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neverwinter_Nights_(1991_video_game)"

ps: do not click the link but copy paste the entire part between the caption to go to the correct page. click the link sends you to the other game by Bioware. kinda confusing

ithlia

Dragonrealms - for many years

WOW - for a very short time

LOTRO

edit woops , forgot Warframe

profundidob16_ESO

neverwalk wrote: »

played real life before ESO

I tried it too for a while but I got bored from it real fast and needed something more exciting and immersive

Turelus

A lot but didn't stick with many for a longer time. ESO ranks as the one I have stayed with second longest now.

Raganrok Online (private servers) was my into to the MMO world.
Dabbled with various games; FFXI, RF Online, DDO, Tree of Savior, Flyff, Ragnarok Online (official)
Spent a bit more investment in some; SWTOR & Guild Wars 1
Invested some years of my life into one: EVE Online

W0lf_z13

< Noob MMOer .... this is my first

socivL

i played Legend of Zelda on a gold cartridge

Kagukan

Everquest
LOTRO
Rift
ESO

driosketch

I had a friend invite me to play Champions Online while I was beta testing ESO. That's the extent of my MMO experience other than a couple F2P browser based games which had guild systems and allowed you to send attacks at other players 24/7.

Túrin_Vidsmidr

Lineage II
WoW Burning Crusade
Neverwinter
Pirates of the Caribbean Online
Escape From Tarkov (MMO wannabe)
The Lord of the Rings Online

personman_145

This is my first MMORPG. I avoided WoW because I thought it was like crack for nerds, but once the ESO thing happened, I HAD to play hehe. I left it for maybe a couple years because of the leveling system. I simply ran out of stuff at my level and got tired of dying.

My RPG history is Might n' Magic Clouds of Xeen, then Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim.

I'm spoiled with ESO. During downtime, I tried playing Skyrim again and was very "meh" about it.

Defilted

In no particular order

-Everquest 1
-WOW
DAOC (loved the PVP of this game) go Darkness Falls
-Starwars Galaxies
-Starwars- old republic.
-EVE
-Very brief Everquest 2
-I do not consider Diablo a true MMO but I played all 3.
-Short stay with Ultima Online.

Hluill

I played too much of EQ, EQ2, Vanguard, Conan, Warhammer, LotRO, Secret World and SWtOR.

I tried but couldn't get into Ultima, Dark Age of Camelot, Arch Age, Blade and Soul, DDO, Neverwinter, and Mortal Online.

I am still playing LotRO and EQ2 and am trying to play Secret-World Legends.

Linaleah

started with WoW, played that one the longest - still come back to it from time to time.

in between that and ESO, I have also played Lotro, dungeons and dragons online, both guild wars (more so for 2 then 1 though if I'm perfectly honest), secret world (didn't get far there, eventually legends was released - finished the story there), swtor, a LOT of Neverwinter for a few months, tried star trek online, couldn't get into it, same with several super hero mmo's, SWTOR since its original early acess and for 5 years without breaks until I couldn't enjoy their current direction anymore but... it was my housing gateway drug if you will, played some wild star - enough to mess around with their housing system and learn to appreciate free form building options vs hooks. I have a feeling I'm forgetting something but then again, if i'm forgetting it, i probably didn't play it long enough. oh yeah! warhammer online and rift, though I would probably say I tried them rather then actualy played them.

if MMO-light shooters count, I'm also actively playing Division with my SO and occasionally hop into Destiny 2.

the only MMO's I haven't participated in group content but played for some time were LOTRO and wildstar. I was going to add GW2 to that list, but I did actualy join some formal world boss groups, so it depends on your definitions. haven't done any instanced 4 man things or new raids so there's that?

after playing WoW and nothing but wow for a few years, I realized that I just prefer to spread my attention between variety of games, so i never play just one thing. which btw is also indicative of just how badly bioware has been handing updates. becasue even while spreading my content consumption, I still ran out of things to do very quickly in their last few "expansions" edited to add... my god, how could i have forgotten Allods... was my first MMO after playing WoW and only WoW and first genuine step into playing multple games again. it was... interesting. but also very similar to Lotro in that eventually you hit the pay or grind severely gate.

but anyways, ESO is just another mmo in a long line of mmos I dabbled in. the only MMO whose combat came I found to be more frustrating rather then enjoyable, was original secret world and that was mainly becasue it had this old school thing where if you specced wrong early on, you had big BIG trouble getting through story without grinding to fix your unfortunate choices.

VaxtinTheWolf

In no spefic order, other than LOTRO probably being the first;

Lotro, Continent of the ninth seal(C9), Tera, Aura Kingdom, Riders of Icarus(When I was taking a break from ESO), Skyforge, Defiance(If that counts) and I believe there is one more that I've forgotten.

oXI_Viper_IXo

Just one: Final Fantasy XI. Took a loooong (12+ years) break from MMO's after that.

Danikat

My first was Ultima Online, in about 1998. At the time (graphical) MMOs were a new concept so just the idea of sharing the world with other players was exciting. There was also much less hand-holding than modern MMOs - you had your character and a world to play it and it was up to you what you did, there was no overall story or quest chains to lead you through, just activities to do.

Unfortunately that type of game takes a lot of time, especially playing with other people. After a few years I found my life getting a lot busier and less routine and I just couldn't commit the time it needed, which made the subscription seem like a bit of a waste of money (especially as growing up meant I was more independent and had more options for how I spent my money). So I quit.

For a few years I thought MMOs just weren't for me. Then one day I saw my brother playing a game I didn't recognise. I asked him about it and he said it was called Guild Wars and it was an MMO which didn't need a subscription and told me a bit about the story, quests and missions and I got to see the charr (who were enemies in the first game) and I decided to give it a go. That got me back into MMOs and made me realise they'd moved on a lot from Ultima Online.

I bought Guild Wars 2 when it went up for pre-order and still play it regularly and I signed up for the betas for Elder Scrolls Online and obviously kept playing that (well, I didn't buy it until they dropped the sub because my life has only gotten busier and less predictable since I quit UO but I've been here ever since).

Those are the only ones I've really stuck with but I've tried several others. I briefly tried Runescape but found it far too grindy (even back in the early 2000s), tried a free trial of World of Warcraft but had a horrible experience which convinced me I'd made the right choice in not getting it, in spite of being a Warcraft RTS fan. I also tried Lord of the Rings Online and City of Heroes but didn't really get into them.

billp_ESO

DAOC, City of Heroes, Ryzom, Vanguard, Pirates of the Burning Sea, LoTRO, FFXIV, SWTOR.

Cronopoly

DAoC
WoW
Everquest
MxO
City Of Heroes
Horizon's
Guild Wars
Guild Wars II
Warhammer [edit I forgot this one]
Shadowbane
Neocron
Age of Conan
Rift
Aion
SWG
SW TOR
BDO
Tera
ESO

Just a couple...

Zardayne

Started MMOs second day of Ultima Online's release. Friend bought it the first and told me it was like online D&D. That's all it took for me..

I've played just about all of them since then.

Serjustin19

1. Destiny
2. Skyrim

GrigorijMalahevich

Ultima Online - I still remember my first player kill and the adrenaline that was just over the moon. Music in UO was just perfect and the whole idea of walking to some very far away places, uh... immersion was real!

Dark_Lord_Kuro

Only one
Dcuo

Since the i tried
Ff14
Tera ps4
Skyforge
Neverwinter

Uviryth

profundidob16_ESO wrote: »

Uviryth wrote: »

I started with Meridian 59.
So I have to say, all of them?

no mate, not quite. Seems you weren't around yet in Neverwinter Nights mmo (not to be confused with another game by BioWare which was also called "Neverwinter Nights" but not an mmo)



"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neverwinter_Nights_(1991_video_game)&quot;

ps: do not click the link but copy paste the entire part between the caption to go to the correct page. click the link sends you to the other game by Bioware. kinda confusing

Jup, that was even before my time I knew about it, I just didnt have Internet at that time, or a computer besides an Atari.

Demra

MU Online
Dark Eden
Knight Online

Those are some old ones. Haven't really played nothing since until ESO as of recently.