How many mmo games did you play before eso?

Dolnor · May 2018

I've tested 65+ before testing ESO...and add another 10 that I bought but didn't test so about 80 games over the years.

The first online multiplayer game I tested/played was the game Yserbius for the folks over at The Sierra Network! -)

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PzTnT · May 2018

Quite a few myself, namely:

Eve online
City of Heroes
Champions online
Aion for about a month
Star trek online
The Secret World
Guildwars 2
Elder Scrolls Online

Itacira · May 2018

I've tried out quite a few MMORPG (GW2, LOTRO, the like) here and there but they didn't stick. The only other MMORPG I've played actively (very actively) was RappelZ, which you've probably never heard about x)

S_Ravenlock · May 2018

In no particular order: Guild Wars 1, Everquest 2, World of Warcraft, Runes of Magic, Perfect World, Aion, LOTRO, Rift, Guild Wars 2, SWtoR, Champions Online, DC Universe Online, Secret World, Final fantasy XIV, Wizard 101... and a bunch of Asian F2P MMOs that weren't worth sticking with.
I have a lifetime sub for LOTRO. WoW is probably my favorite and the one I've spent most money on.

I tend to hop between MMOs, playing them a few months in a row and then moving on, that way when I return the game is fresh and new again. Often either my husband or my daughter (or both) will join me in whatever my MMo of choice is, but I don't really join guilds anymore.

EsO is fun and set in my favorite gaming setting, I love the single player games. It does however have an unfortunate tendency to feel the need to reinvent the wheel, and then misses more often then hit in my opinion. One Tamriel is a brilliant change to the game though, and moved the game up high on my list of favorite MMOs.

RANKK7 · May 2018

Not a single one.
What brought me to ESO it's just the Elder Scrolls world.

aetherial_heavenn · May 2018

Came late to modern MMOs. Got hooked by LOTRO then later tried Path of Exile DDO and Neverwinter. Then ESO. Still here with occasional nostalgic annual return to LOTRO.

Aurie · May 2018

Final Fantasy XI
WoW
Vanguard
Aion
LotR
SWtOR
Rift
GW2
Final Fantasy XIV
Darkfall New Dawn
ArcheAge
BDO

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blueprudence · May 2018

Everquest
World of Warcraft
Everquest 2
Vanguard
Tera
Rift
The Secret World
Archeage
Black Desert Online
Guild Wars 2

Dabbled in LotR and NWO.

Most time in WoW - from 2005 to 2017. Think I've settled in Nirn now - ESO ticks the boxes WoW used to for me.

itsJylerTAG · May 2018

Forgot about warframe and aion as well.

So tera online, cabal online, conquer 2.0, aion online, warframe.

Madrax573 · May 2018

I started playing MUD's back in the 80's and probably most of them since!

DieAlteHexe · May 2018

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.

I'm aware. Hey, they were really cool and innovative at the time though.

Anyway the point I was trying to make, and apparently failed to, is that I have loved "multi-player" (from the small to the gigantic) games for a long, long time.

zaria · May 2018

Runescape very long ago, some F2P MMO I did not remember, WOW for a year then ESO.

Uviryth · May 2018

I play mmo`s almost exclusively for 22 years now.
Meridian 59
Ultima Online
Dark Age of Camelot
Star Wars Galaxies
WoW
Star Trek Online
RF Online
Aion
Rift
Neverwinter
Star Wars The Old Republic
Guild Wars 1
Guild Wars 2
ESO
.........

Pixel_Zealot · May 2018

Rift, Archeage, Wow, Neverwinter, Defiance, Trove, The secret world.

Wayshuba · May 2018

A few:

Lord of the Rings Online
Guild Wars 1
Rift
Star Wars - The Old Republic
Guild Wars 2
The Secret World

shadowwraith666 · May 2018

Star trek online
Neverwinter
Warframe

Asardes · May 2018

None. I had to learn everything from scratch. Even had to look up the more usual abbreviation and jargon to make sense of zone chat. Since I started playing ESO I haven't had time to play anything else, and most likely I never will, since I'm already in my 30s and my gaming time starts to dwindle. It's pretty exhausting holding a full time job, doing the house chores and playing enough to stay at a decent level over multiple characters & roles in both PvE and PvP.

Later edit: I forgot to mention it, but I actually tried one before ESO but I found it unbearably boring, due to bad graphics, game-play and general feeling of emptiness, probably because it was F2P. It was called Runes of Magic or something like that. I gave up after 3 days and never looked back.

I picked up ESO because I played other TES games before, and I liked it since I joined the Beta. I didn't buy the game until much later though, until it became B2P since I didn't consider it worth playing enough to be worth a monthly subscription. I played for almost 2 years without subscription, until it became advantageous enough to have it. I think it was double bank space that swung the scales.

Lady_of_Tamarah · May 2018

ESO is the first and only one I play

I have always loved The Elder Scrolls so decided dip my toes (so to speak) into this MMO and are loving it

Not sure if I want to try others though !

Dwalgrimnar · May 2018

I'm glad to see some Dark Age of Camelot players. Best MMO I ever played in my youth. Apart from DAoC and ESO, I didn't play that many and not for long. I guess it never clicked again until this one.

Dofus was enjoyable. Conquer Online was okay (but both were more like a pastime than a unforgettable experience). I almost got into Rift but gave up after some time.

Dithieon · May 2018

My first and only game was Rift,played for 3 years then started looking for a new game when I got fed up with cash shop antics. One of the reg streamers i watched left to come to ESO so I figured I would check it out,that was a year and a half ago. There are some things I miss from Rift, mainly the auction house and you could sell mounts from lockbox to other players for platinum. Rift's lockbox are way worse than ESO's,most times you only got 1 item. ESO is my first Elder Scrolls game,and I am enjoying it,warts and all,but their cash shop game is starting to resemble Rift's.

Gythral · May 2018

MMOs and ESO surely you are confused:)

A few more than there have been years since MMOs first appeared, including a few Korean ones (one or two in Korean) & several have been played for more than a few months
AO, Everquest, EvE, Rift, TSW as some of the longer lasting

Joker99 · May 2018

Played a ton of them but none as much as ESO
Some of them include: WoW, 4Story, PWI, Metin2, Jade Dynasty, FFXIV, GW2, BDO, Tera, Blade & Soul, Neverwinter, Aura Kingdom

DieAlteHexe · May 2018

Dwalgrimnar wrote: »

I'm glad to see some Dark Age of Camelot players. Best MMO I ever played in my youth. Apart from DAoC and ESO, I didn't play that many and not for long. I guess it never clicked again until this one.

Dofus was enjoyable. Conquer Online was okay (but both were more like a pastime than a unforgettable experience). I almost got into Rift but gave up after some time.

I loved DAoC. The lore, the setting and I still miss it.

Wildcopper · May 2018

I starting gaming in the 80s before even MMORPGs existed, with games like the Ultima series.
I've played all the big MMORPGs and most of the small ones too.

srfrogg23 · May 2018

The first mmo I played was Ultima Online. Then EverQuest. I got really into WoW when that released and I’ve played that off and on for 14 years now. I’ve also played a lot of GW2, TSW, and Wildstar. Dabbled in about 10 others over the years. ESO has pretty much become my main MMO since WoW’s WoD expansion.

Bruccius · May 2018

Only one MMO on my list, aside from ESO, and that's Runescape.

Katahdin · May 2018

Guild Wars 1 - loved the deep, detailed story, lore and NPC characters

Guild Wars 2 - story was lackluster in comparison to 1 and they destroyed it with HoT

ESO characters, story, lore detail and complexity reminds me of GW1

Rawkan · May 2018

Lotro
FFXIV
Rift (mostly before f2p)
Guild Wars 2

Are the ones I've put the most hours into. There's been many more that I didn't really get invested in.

ssorgatem · May 2018

Espai8
OGame
Lineage II
Travian
WoW

Anotherone773 · May 2018

i have been playing mmos literally since they were invented. if you only count ones that i played more than 40 hours, its in the low hundreds.