What got you into playing PW first?

I don't remember how my friends convinced me to start playing, but...Yeah. Friends XD Ended up duo- and trio'ing nearly everything with my two friends (one was a veno, the other was a cleric, and I started my veno), and we played like that together for a while.

And, what keeps me playing are, again, friends, though they're different now - the friends that got me started quit playing long ago. If my in-game husband quit, I'd probably follow him, tbh.

ed MMO's before but they never really got my attention... The graphics weren't as nice, the characters all looked the same etc.

I used to check like.. every MMO I saw an advertisement for back then...and ended up at pwi ^^
The character customisation still amazes me, I love the landscape too. But most off all the reason I kept playing was the fact I joined an awesome faction back then ^^
I made quite some friends and even though quite some of them left a small group stayed and I still enjoy playing a lot ^^

I was playing offline rpg's before.. Final fantasy series mostly.. Then got a comp and started playing on another MMO I wont name way before PW (other one was out in 1997). Comp is still pretty bad, but a year ago, upgraded a bit and told myself "hey why not check if i can run a full 3d one with this ****" Seeked and found perfect world in top MMo's and tried since was free.. I mean...if i don't like, didn't cost anything to try right ? I do still a lot in arch and few other spots (the fissure) but still love it

I'd been complaining to a friend that I was ridiculously bored for like, a week, and finally she said "just play this game, it just came out, blah blah blah!" and so I checked it out. What caught my eye was how nice the website looked (yea... I judge books by their covers.) so I downloaded it, and found that it was pretty simple to play. I also had a friend playing with me, so that made it fun since we were both into it and kept each other going. It's kind of ridiculous looking back on it - lol. We would play for hours a day, and it still took us a month to get to 20 on our mains (venos) because we kept trying other classes, and naturally took ages because we had no idea what we were doing. haha.
As for what's kept me... it's hard to say. I just like it! xD

I started playing after i quit with an old girlfriend, who used to take me much free time. So pratically "to fill the gaps". I choosed pwi cause the territory wars feature amazed me when i read about it and no other free mmos in that moment had such feature.

If only i knew BEFORE that the time slot for tws isnt RANDOMLY PICKED like it was said in official website but it's always at 20:00 pm in america (wich is 5 am here in italy) i would NEVER STARTED playing pwi, since the gameplay bored me since the very first times (i was used to action-reflexes-and-skill based gameplay of World of W., while pwi its all about one/bishotting)

After i discovered that tws were all at insane time for me, i started hating this game.
I hated it way more the each patch they brought up.
I hated it each damn month more.
But i got many friends as well in here, so good kind of ppl wich i never met in world of ********.
So i stayed and still played, even if the only reason why i started playing was inexistent for me.

When they brought up the tideborn expansion, i laughed to not cry..

The reason why i quit long time ago with WoW was that there were stealth classes. I hated them. Stealth is the axiom of overpower for the simple fact that it allow you to decide to fight or not to fight in prior, and also let you have always the first shot.

With tideborns, they brought assassins, wich stole BOTH my fun in pvp with stealth and my role in pve with 5aps.

Why i still played till now? Well, i dont wanna start a new random mmorpg just to find new big delusions that i had from pwi. I just bought my rank8 and have some kind of fun in pvp while i wait for guild wars 2 wich will be awesome b:pleased

A friend kept bugging me to play this game that he had found. There's no harm in trying, so I gave it a shot. While installing I saw a picture of a lion, it caught my interest. Upon character creation I noticed a tiger, getting better. Choosing preset found wolf, adsgffh SOLD. (Gimme a game that I can be a wolf and I WILL play it.)

We were a few people in college that started to play this game. I always found the combat (and this is my first mmo) to be absolutely and horribly boring. However, having fun with friends is all that mattered. Blah blah fast forward, I made great friends blah blah level up a bit of drama, some laugh stuff stuff you get the idea.

Almost everyone is gone. I really don't play anymore, just a bit of this and that. While the majority of the people that now surround me is... meh at best, there are still a few that prevent me from leaving completely.

Nowadays I get more fun experimenting in private servers than logging in and seeing "BH? TT? FF? TW!". I see these and I get nausea.

I love Baldur's Gate, but I only ever liked the two-player one, and my brother was an occassional fan of it (I think because I always chose the Elf caster and he wanted to be her xD). Playing it alone was never fun and one day I was browsing a site and i saw an ad for PWI. I never actually played an MM0 before, mainly because I associated all MM0s with WoW, which looks like a 10 year old's game with horrible graphics and a bunch of fat 30-some odd people playing it. But i was curious so I looked at the site and the graphics were pretty nice. I don't know if anyone remembers it, but the site was basically very different from what it is now, and the only available classes were Elves and Untamed. The site told the story about the Elves and Untamed being enemies, bla bla, something about PanGu creating the world... anyway, I signed up and started downloading, when I realised how long it was gonna take. I thought I'd rather not so I stopped the download and 3 months later I came back and re-downloaded it and started playing.
I haven't really enjoyed any other MM0 as much as this one, although I do go play Baldur's gate once in awhile so I don't have to do deal with KSers and Pkers, and it's fun to watch that Elf bartender girl's **** bounce around. Nothing is quite as animated as a female's **** in any RPG.

What keeps me here? Hm... I guess I'm guilty of all the time and money I spent in my characters, that I feel if I completely left the game, I would be missing out. Also, I usually get on if Kritty asks me too, but currently I'm not wanting to actually play.

I was reading fanfiction awhile back, and saw one of the videos. I was like, "Wow, that looks amazing!" After refershing for ages to get the ad back up so I could see what game it was, I found it and started playing almost immediately. b:chuckle

One of my real life friends played so she got me to start playing. She now plays on a different server from me, but I still play because my brother plays and I've got some really good friends in game.

The game really is amazing visually, and just exploring it is fun. I remember logging on for the first time and messing with the controls and going "WHOA I JUMP SO HIGH!"

I was like a lot of you people, saw the add on some random site...thought to myself, the characters look cool. So I downloaded, got obsessed with it and played a cleric to level 16. Then for some reason I uninstalled. Then a few months later, I remembered playing some game that had awesome customisation, found it again and started playing. It took me about 1-2 months to then get to level 30. Seriously, that clerics build is so screwed up...more vit then magic? and dex so i would miss less? LOL nub days Then i filled up my character on LC, so i switched to HT. Got addicted to a BM(had my first ever PvP TW with Forgotten against Evo) first, then veno, then archer.

It was on my archer that I met probably the best faction I have ever been in. Immortal. This faction kept me playing for so so so long. Then, I got re addicted to my BM and found my second awesome faction. Heatwave. Possibly the equal best faction I have ever been in. Sadly, a lot of my friends from then have quit/rarely play.

And now? It's mostly TheEmpire that keeps me playing(or my various debts I have to pay off).

My cousin introduced me to the game, actually. He tried to get me to play Fiesta (hated it!) and then after a few months, he asked me to come here. I was iffy about it at first, since I was playing on Harshlands... Then I quit for a few months and got on Dreamweaver! I was hooked after that.

However, my in-game husband and I decided it was time to quit PWI and move onto a new game

When I first played PWI in mid 2009 a group of RL friends had introduced me to the game, and I was immediately sucked into the fact that quests were so numerous, so diverse, and that there were large swaths of people spread out into different cities. It was highly common to bump into long chats and huge groups inside the three starter cities. In there, you could also find a partner to quest with, or maybe even a higher level to help with a boss. I remember some rather fun times trying to kill quest mobs between levels 40 and 100, a lot of that had to do with so many other players being in the area. Pretty common to run into zhen squads at seasprays, or mothrans, or rockenwolves and that area, or spiders, or pythons, or nivastoks, hell, even saw the rare goothe zhen squads. Things being so spread out is really what made the game look populated and the content seem useful.

More than just that, there was more of a sense of community and diversity in dungeons and towns people would inhabit together. That was actually a time where things were more optimistic in terms of development.

In the last year'ish, people basically spent their days in FF or afking at any location in Archosaur. I was one of those, alas, even though out of boredom I'd still check quest areas on different toons and would see no green dots.

Haven't played the expansion yet, and don't see a reason to. I already know what I'm in store for, and really what's the point of leveling yet another character in a few days to 90+ when the powers that be have ensured most of the PWI map is desolate and there's no new content developed for the people they've obviously encouraged to get to triple digit levels at instant speed, with absolutely nothing new on the horizon that looks promising.

What kept me playing it was seeing people enjoy content and seeing RL friends as well as my wife enjoy it too. Only one friend plays it anymore, and he mostly was doing other things. My wife doesn't play anymore either, even though she's quick to change her mind if she felt like it. In my case, I don't really see the point, and don't see there being any more content to enjoy. Never really played for the cash shop and e-peen so updates and sales exclusively pertaining to the boutique and not new lands/dungeons/fixes wasn't going to cut it anymore.

hmm char customization kept me here in the 1st place. i usually quitted games when it was to hard to level up. like get to lvl 20 and then suddenly u need 10 times more exp to level up. here i just quit char when i get to bored and make new char. now lvling have been made even more easier. its more fun for me.

Last MMO I had played with Phantasy Star Universe: Ambition of the Illuminus. The player population had utterly VANISHED (WTF?!) and I remember a friend telling me about her venomancer character on a Chinese MMO and how the character customization was the most detailed she had seen in ages. I was surprised to see a game with more customization that PSU had to offer. Coupled with the fact that the game looked very Chinese- themed (was going Kung- Fu at the time, so I was attracted to a lot of Chinese things), I gave the game a chance.

What made me addicted was the ability to fly. >_> I know I am a dork in that regard. I just wish PWI had PSU's/ Monster Hunter's ability to aim skills/ melee instead of just pointing and clicking. Point and click is just so brain dead.

I played Silk Road Online during 2006 until 2007 when the game filled up with gold botters and I had reached my goal as being the top level job of Trader so I left that and went to PW-MS run by Cubizone PTY LTD in Malaysia. I thought Cubizone would be a better caliber or company than Joymax, But I was wrong on that assumption.

I had heard about PWI but I didn't consider it. As time wore on in PW MS/PW MY the currency on the servers got worser. A GM left and that pretty much reminded me of how Silk Road Online (SRO) was run. I left in 2008 for a 4 month break and came back, lots of people had taken off to this version of Perfect World. But I stuck it out in Malaysia until I hit Rank 6 and a Level 100 Tank. By the end of 2009 the Malaysian version merged servers (cause both servers were practically -dead-) and this killed the economy it didn't solve the new problem that there were no NEW players. Cubizone created another server called Fantasia.

If anyone knows Silkroad Online, they'll know of Joymax's infamy to 'create a new server' every time it filled up with botters and all the players will try to do the legit thing and move servers cause its impossible to log in. So I saw history repeating it self.

The top guild from the 'Delphi server' took over "Utopia" and I thought, well Cubizone can't run a game, so what's the use in staying. With in-game coin being bought for 800 million per 4XX USD (from what I remember) the dominate guild of Oracle destroyed, the economy of the game falling a part at the seems, no packs in the cash shop and most of all NO CUBI (What you guys know as 'gold' or ZEN) in the Auction House. I finally said "Fark this bollocks"

During 2010 I swore off playing another version of Perfect World unless it was a good version. I went to 'other servers' to see how they were run. But I didn't consider PWI.

Then a friend said "Oh Kin you were good in MY you should come over to PWI we have people who level-up super fast but they don't know how to play their characters or the game." and I was like "Oh yeah, Ah ha" so I started here in August 2010 and here I am.

102 with Rank 8/9 and it is slightly more cost effective than the Malaysian version which is dying on its knees. 2000 USD versus 58? USD (Rank 8), which I'm very happy for. b:laugh

Anyway. Yeah, here I am. PWI which I think has more updates than PW MY and a slightly better monitored game environment.

That is my little piece of story I tell to everyone who wants to know where I've been.

The most enlightening thing about my story is a lot of it is true:

The AH part where people buy 'CUBI' not in the auction house (that is empty):
http://images-cdn.perfectworld.com/profile/7c/f2/7cf2e9e6994786423f19b32d9c56e93f1299018522.jpg

The Gold Spammers (Which also indicates lack of GM involvement
http://images-cdn.perfectworld.com/profile/7f/df/7fdfb292110cf9abf8c18220b4bb0c761299017515.jpg

The overpriced items:
http://images-cdn.perfectworld.com/profile/e8/79/e8792bbe7079924258fb6562a964ea621299017773.jpg

Even the fact that Cubizone don't care if you buy 'coin'
http://images-cdn.perfectworld.com/profile/3d/d3/3dd32d3f8f1b0345cd591757b3c6d7081299043144.jpg

Yes I know I've put black marks over the site. But for good reason. I'd be breaching the ToS if I was 'advertising'

P.S: Don't play on the Malaysian version. Its ****. Stay here. Trust me. ;=)