How many mmo games did you play before eso?

Navras

Only WoW 2005 - April 2017 (rip)

Iluvrien

Discworld MUD
LOTRO
Uru
SWTOR
then ESO.

...probably in that order.

RavenSworn

played a few, started with WoW, then to LotRo, DDO, GW2, TSW, Aion, Cabal online... Really stuck with WoW (7years) and TSW (4years).

WaltherCarraway

none

WaltherCarraway

none

AndyMac

ESO is my first MMO - I actually avoided MOM's altogether because I could only imagine that playing with internet people would suck.

I was pretty much forced to play n MMO because that's what ESO was. I gave it about week before it went in the bin - that was more than 4 years ago now lol.

Playing with internet people does suck - but only very infrequently - a lot of the time it's great and a laugh too.

I'd go back to single players but I'd miss the cool AND ridiculous things internet people say and do

Creepsley

every single big mmo Since Ultima online and some less popular\known ones and a few Asian ones :P so alot XD

Animus-ESO

UO, DAoC, City of heroes (sobs uncontrollably), SWTOR, archage, then this. Since beta

Anysra

My first MMO: Lineage II Interlude until Lineage II Truly Free

Guild Wars 1
Guild Wars 2
Black Desert Online
WoW
Everquest II
Neverwinter
Final Fantasy XIV
Knight Online
Skyforge
RIFT
TERA
Blade & Soul
Revelation Online
Last Chaos

Last MMO is ESO. And will be the last too.

Bam_Bam

Neverwinter Nights was an obsession for 10 years. LOTRO, SWTOR and The Secret World were faves too.

Tera, BDO, GW2, Neverwinter and especially Wow = I despise them

All in all, been playing computer games since 1981-82 - my first 'console' was the mighty Hanimex TVG070C. Couple of years later I switched to computers, my first being the Spectrum 48k

Lysette

Madrax573 wrote: »

Lysette wrote: »

DieAlteHexe wrote: »

TarrNokk wrote: »

Ultima Online

...nuff said

^^^^ That. And we won't even get into MUDS or BBS games.

MUDs do not really fulfill the requirement of the first M in MMO though - I played a few, at most around 100 characters concurrently, but most of the time far less than that. A few of those are still going strong, even to this day.

But given the ability to play even with that many in the same 'world' at that time in gaming history most player would have said it was massive then... not by todays standards but still felt epic when playing

Yeah the concept of text-only is outdated, still, it was in some regards far more complex than most games nowadays with things to do, which are hard to visualize, but easily imagined - so yes, MUDs have their niche to this very day.

pod88kk

Duck eggs..... 0

DamenAJ

Runescape
Maplestory *Cough*
WoW

All played to excess....

Eso is my favourite though.

Mavloc

Guild Wars
WoW
City of Heroes/Villains
Cabal Online
Hellgate London
EVE
Perfect World
Forsaken World
Secret World
Aion
Darkfall
Runes of Magic
Blade and Soul
Lord of the Rings Online
Dungeons and Dragons Online
Rift
Tera
Black Desert Online
ArcheAge
Skyforge
Wildstar
Star Wars: The Old Republic
Neverwinter
Guild Wars 2
Final Fantasy 14


Just to name a few

Lysette

Mavloc wrote: »

Guild Wars
WoW
City of Heroes/Villains
Cabal Online
Hellgate London
EVE
Perfect World
Forsaken World
Secret World
Aion
Darkfall
Runes of Magic
Blade and Soul
Lord of the Rings Online
Dungeons and Dragons Online
Rift
Tera
Black Desert Online
ArcheAge
Skyforge
Wildstar
Star Wars: The Old Republic
Neverwinter
Guild Wars 2
Final Fantasy 14


Just to name a few

hahahaha - the last statement is just hilarious - rofl.

Banana

None

LadyDestiny

SWG
Wow
SWTOR
Lotro
I think that is pretty much it before Eso. Almost nine years was Swg alone. Three years on Swtor. Played Wow and Lotro off and on for the past eight years or so. I still log into Swtor and Lotro and the Swg emulator I play on.

Zagnut123Zagnut123

None I kept myself pure for eso

Tyhar

Shadowbane was about the only one I ever actually played. I tried quite a few but could never get into any of them.

Ratzkifal

I tested a f2p one to see if i would enjoy the genre at all.

Bonzodog01

PC -
Champions of Regnum (On Linux)
Planeshift (On Linux)
Rift
Aion

Console: -
Star Trek Online
Neverwinter
Tera
Elite:Dangerous

Armatesz

Mavloc wrote: »

Guild Wars
WoW
City of Heroes/Villains
Cabal Online
Hellgate London
EVE
Perfect World
Forsaken World
Secret World
Aion
Darkfall
Runes of Magic
Blade and Soul
Lord of the Rings Online
Dungeons and Dragons Online
Rift
Tera
Black Desert Online
ArcheAge
Skyforge
Wildstar
Star Wars: The Old Republic
Neverwinter
Guild Wars 2
Final Fantasy 14


Just to name a few

Ahh another person that played forsaken world, I wish I kept a list of all the mmo games I've played. I still remember there was a quest in that game you had to play with poop... it was a main quest one to boot lol.

KingofAnnwn

RuneScape was my first one.
2 Moons/Dekaron
Had a quick stint on Anarchy Online
WoW on and off.
Guildwars
Eve now and then (need to get back in to it)

Morgul667

UO

Anotherone773

Lysette wrote: »

DieAlteHexe wrote: »

TarrNokk wrote: »

Ultima Online

...nuff said

^^^^ That. And we won't even get into MUDS or BBS games.

MUDs do not really fulfill the requirement of the first M in MMO though - I played a few, at most around 100 characters concurrently, but most of the time far less than that. A few of those are still going strong, even to this day.

While its implied that massive means number of players, it likely doesnt. Back when the term came into existence, game were mostly single player. Some games had limited multiplayer functionality where you could log into a server and do certain tasks with a small group of people. Most multiplayer games of the time were single player with a multiplayer feature in which you could battle other players, do group content together, or play against each other on the same map from different locations in the world. They were very limited in play and max players.

MMOs came out before the term was coined. Text based games of the late 90s, now often referred to as MUDs, were never called MUDs. They were called multiplayer online. Ultima online was the first to use the term in late 90s and it caught on as both a genre and "catchphrase". MMO likely either/or/both refers to a large amount of players ( with large being another loose term) and the fact that before MMOs multiplayer had extremely limited functionality for group play. While MMOS allow grouping for everything and thus allowed multiplayer abilities on a totally different level than traditional multiplayer.

I played, what is now called a MUD, in the late 90s, with over 1500 players on a server i could interact with. At the time that was pretty massive in size. But it was cooperative play more than group play. I would still consider games of that type to be a true MMO.

Ive also played many browser based games that are smaller in size with only a few hundred people logged in at a time. I would also consider those to be MMOs. They have the group functionality but not the size per server mainly because browser games are limited in capability. If a game has a single player mode, I dont consider it a MMO no matter how many players you put on a server or how much of it can be played multiplayer. True MMOs are designed to only be played in multiplayer mode.

WarMasterCyp

I played Runes of Magic, Pristontale 2, Neverwinter, Star Trek Online, Champions Online, DCUO


PS: I got banned on DCUO on my alt account cause apparently the GM was Turkish and me and my friend was talking negatively about Turkish government taking down freedom of speech xD

It was freaking funny af

DanteYoda

Strange no one said RF online, Champions Online, Defiance.. Ace Online.

Allods Online lol

God i've wasted my life..

Geekgirl

I started RPGs on tabletop, moved to online forum-based gaming (AOL Arena, anyone?) then moved to DragonRealms which I played for years and years (MUD).

EQ was my first graphical MMO, purchased for me for a friend and I hated it. LOL
Neverwinter Nights (player built online worlds)
Then WoW - I was given entry into the initial beta testing from the same friend who gifted me EQ and I played that constantly until three months after the release of ESO.
Rift
SWTOR
The Secret World
Final Fantasy
Diablo 2&3
GW
GW2
BDO

And now I am here.
For now.

Eyro

Anotherone773 wrote: »

Lysette wrote: »

DieAlteHexe wrote: »

TarrNokk wrote: »

Ultima Online

...nuff said

^^^^ That. And we won't even get into MUDS or BBS games.

MUDs do not really fulfill the requirement of the first M in MMO though - I played a few, at most around 100 characters concurrently, but most of the time far less than that. A few of those are still going strong, even to this day.

While its implied that massive means number of players, it likely doesnt. Back when the term came into existence, game were mostly single player. Some games had limited multiplayer functionality where you could log into a server and do certain tasks with a small group of people. Most multiplayer games of the time were single player with a multiplayer feature in which you could battle other players, do group content together, or play against each other on the same map from different locations in the world. They were very limited in play and max players.

MMOs came out before the term was coined. Text based games of the late 90s, now often referred to as MUDs, were never called MUDs. They were called multiplayer online. Ultima online was the first to use the term in late 90s and it caught on as both a genre and "catchphrase". MMO likely either/or/both refers to a large amount of players ( with large being another loose term) and the fact that before MMOs multiplayer had extremely limited functionality for group play. While MMOS allow grouping for everything and thus allowed multiplayer abilities on a totally different level than traditional multiplayer.

I played, what is now called a MUD, in the late 90s, with over 1500 players on a server i could interact with. At the time that was pretty massive in size. But it was cooperative play more than group play. I would still consider games of that type to be a true MMO.

Ive also played many browser based games that are smaller in size with only a few hundred people logged in at a time. I would also consider those to be MMOs. They have the group functionality but not the size per server mainly because browser games are limited in capability. If a game has a single player mode, I dont consider it a MMO no matter how many players you put on a server or how much of it can be played multiplayer. True MMOs are designed to only be played in multiplayer mode.

Im not sure what you are thinking of, but MUDS were certainly called MUDS back then. Several of the ones I played actually had MUD in the name. MUSH was another type of text based game similar in nature and yes they too were called MUSH.

Perhaps you are thinking of something else. For example you mention playing something that would be called a MUD that had 1500 players per server... most of the MUDs I ever played or saw were lucky if they got over 200 players online at once and were coded by some guy in a basement in his free time or as a pet project while in school.

Edits Muds were also the first time I notice that not everyone in the world was me. Shout out to the Estonia army that made up a lot of the MUD world at 3 am.

FakeFox

World of Warcraft
Guildwars 2
Starwars: The Old Republic
Lord Of The Rings Online
Warframe
EVE
Last Chaos
Elite: Dangerous
Defiance
Diablo 3