Ahem! UO was around before EQ1, however, it is not even the grandfather of the MMO. That title belongs to the original MUD games.
Yeah, you kinda got us there. If anyone here remembers old Multi User Dungeons (basically a chat room D&D style) then you're as old and seasoned as I am...
Everquest. Good memories of late nights, contested raid zones, being killed by a @#$%## fire beetle and having to do corpse runs in Nek forest with a whole group just to get your <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font> back.
Was my fav game of all time. Taught a person everything they need to know about mmorpgs and game mechanics. I was in Forsaken Realm and had a RL friend in Afterlife. I was a spoiled lil Halfling Druid (Lofun). Of course it started to go downhill with the plane of knowledge portals and all that. Raids where great though. Man did you have to grind in that game to get anywhere and was horrible if you died back in the beginning days of EQ. I recently went back to playing EQ last year and it is nowhere near the same. All these darn games just make things so easy anymore. I guess you can't blame them with what seems to be over half the population of gamers are somewhat adhd and cry when things get hard.
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Thanks for the info, but please be quick this time. I don't know if I will be able to handle doing something else. Finishing homework, cleaning the kitchen, and folding laundry was bad enough last night.
we'll you could always clean your room, and move onto the rest of the house and freak your parents out "oh god what happened! where is our child!" heheheh
Yeah, you kinda got us there. If anyone here remembers old Multi User Dungeons (basically a chat room D&D style) then you're as old and seasoned as I am...
I was a latecomer into the MMO scene. FFXI was my first taste of the addiction, and I haven't looked back. WoW, Rift, GW2, SWTOR, RoM, some Persona thing I don't remember the name of... Sample here, sample there, sample a bit of everything until I find the next thing to sap my life away. FFXI ate almost six years. WoW ate another five. Haven't found my next "thing" yet.
Was my fav game of all time. Taught a person everything they need to know about mmorpgs and game mechanics. I was in Forsaken Realm and had a RL friend in Afterlife. I was a spoiled lil Halfling Druid (Lofun). Of course it started to go downhill with the plane of knowledge portals and all that. Raids where great though. Man did you have to grind in that game to get anywhere and was horrible if you died back in the beginning days of EQ. I recently went back to playing EQ last year and it is nowhere near the same. All these darn games just make things so easy anymore. I guess you can't blame them with what seems to be over half the population of gamers are somewhat adhd and cry when things get hard.
I did the same about 2 years ago. It was really sad to see EQ go so carebear. People solo or bot farming PoT to get twink gear for alts, the new skill revamps that made zerkers practically unstoppable 1 man armies to a degree that a BL couldn't even fathom...it was almost like a somber eulogy.
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gordroMember, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian UsersPosts: 22Arc User
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Yawn, super prime time EU and the servers have been down for an hour.
You need to sort your act out instead of just bigging up the 12 year olds who would compliment you if you told them you had eleted all their characters
I do believe the guild Afterlife in EQ had a couple programmers that took jobs to help build wow. The whole guild Afterlife got free wow accounts. Of course 3 months later half of them came back to EQ lol. I chummed around with Sobe in-game a bit and on the druids grove forums. Thott used to help me a lot also . Man I miss the early EQ days
Good thing I have a copy of the .exe on my desktop, i've had to replace it EVERY single day because of the server crashes, updates, and all the other bs!
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I do believe the guild Afterlife in EQ had a couple programmers that took jobs to help build wow. The whole guild Afterlife got free wow accounts. Of course 3 months later half of them came back to EQ lol. I chummed around with Sobe in-game a bit and on the druids grove forums. Thott used to help me a lot also . Man I miss the early EQ days
They had more than a couple of programmers and devs. Ever wonder how they got so many server firsts?
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Please name them , cause i would agree on the original post. All open beta
Forgive me, as its been a while since I played most of these. These are the ones I can remember playing:
Allods
Atlantica Online
Cabal Online
Dragon Nest
Dragonica
Rusty Hearts
Dungeon Fighter Online
Battle of Immortals
DDO
LotRO free to play
Fiesta Online
Granado Espada
LaTale
ROSE Online
Runes of Magic
Vindictus
Rift
Grand Fantasia
Mindflayer Shard - @direcrow
The Dire Crow - Tiefling TR
Alice L'ddell - Human GF
Ludovique - Tiefling DC
I did the same about 2 years ago. It was really sad to see EQ go so carebear. People solo or bot farming PoT to get twink gear for alts, the new skill revamps that made zerkers practically unstoppable 1 man armies to a degree that a BL couldn't even fathom...it was almost like a somber eulogy.
Could not have said it better. So true
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Yawn, super prime time EU and the servers have been down for an hour.
You need to sort your act out instead of just bigging up the 12 year olds who would compliment you if you told them you had eleted all their characters
Not sure what "bigging" or "eleted" is, but I'll assume that you're insulting everyone who is putting this whole ordeal in the proper context; that the game is in open beta and that issues are to be expected.
This is all well and good but what are we doing to fight the infiltration of the highest levels of government by the lizard people?
What every country does during an infestation. Bring in something that eats it into our Ecosystem and after they eat the lizard people we are left with a bigger problem, rinse and repeat.
Lizard people? Clearly, sir, your intelligence updates have slipped. Crab people are the newest threat. Subterranean crustaceans are the latest threat to the country and they are a force to be reckoned with.
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Yeah, you kinda got us there. If anyone here remembers old Multi User Dungeons (basically a chat room D&D style) then you're as old and seasoned as I am...
Was my fav game of all time. Taught a person everything they need to know about mmorpgs and game mechanics. I was in Forsaken Realm and had a RL friend in Afterlife. I was a spoiled lil Halfling Druid (Lofun). Of course it started to go downhill with the plane of knowledge portals and all that. Raids where great though. Man did you have to grind in that game to get anywhere and was horrible if you died back in the beginning days of EQ. I recently went back to playing EQ last year and it is nowhere near the same. All these darn games just make things so easy anymore. I guess you can't blame them with what seems to be over half the population of gamers are somewhat adhd and cry when things get hard.
we'll you could always clean your room, and move onto the rest of the house and freak your parents out "oh god what happened! where is our child!" heheheh
I miss those!
It could be worse. I paid $15.99 a month for WoW from 2004-2012. That's over $1500 and they didn't even give me one mount for that.
But on the other side horses are here much cheaper. Dont forget that!
I did the same about 2 years ago. It was really sad to see EQ go so carebear. People solo or bot farming PoT to get twink gear for alts, the new skill revamps that made zerkers practically unstoppable 1 man armies to a degree that a BL couldn't even fathom...it was almost like a somber eulogy.
You need to sort your act out instead of just bigging up the 12 year olds who would compliment you if you told them you had eleted all their characters
try Forsaken world?
not sure I can spell the name here trade mark and **** you know
Keep kissin that ***..
They had more than a couple of programmers and devs. Ever wonder how they got so many server firsts?
Forgive me, as its been a while since I played most of these. These are the ones I can remember playing:
Allods
Atlantica Online
Cabal Online
Dragon Nest
Dragonica
Rusty Hearts
Dungeon Fighter Online
Battle of Immortals
DDO
LotRO free to play
Fiesta Online
Granado Espada
LaTale
ROSE Online
Runes of Magic
Vindictus
Rift
Grand Fantasia
The Dire Crow - Tiefling TR
Alice L'ddell - Human GF
Ludovique - Tiefling DC
Cats. Just get a bunch of cats and by tomorrow you'll have a bunch of half eaten lizard people on your front door step.
Buying more zen.
Nepht and Dr Deflecto on primus
Could not have said it better. So true
OMG, I peed a little.
Not sure what "bigging" or "eleted" is, but I'll assume that you're insulting everyone who is putting this whole ordeal in the proper context; that the game is in open beta and that issues are to be expected.
What every country does during an infestation. Bring in something that eats it into our Ecosystem and after they eat the lizard people we are left with a bigger problem, rinse and repeat.