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Maplestory and Ragnarok come to mind

XI

DC Universe Online

For me def WoW.

I also really enjoyed FF11 but mostly the community, the game itself was rough even back then.

Runescape is the only MMORPG I've ever played, so I guess it's that one by default

Maplestory. Started Day 2 of Bera. Also my favorite overall time on GFAQs by a wide margin

@SaLUEtes

WoW

I wish I could get back into it tbh, it's such a good background game.

Guild Wars 2.

And this one super niche Korean grindfest that I can't remember the name of. It was basically akin to FFVIII where it had a super addictive card game that I spent 10x the amount on it instead of the actual game.

The Realm Online, EverQuest, and WoW(TBC was peak)

City of Heroes/Villains

That game was so good

A Tale in the Desert

It might be stretching the term massive, but I did enjoy it during Tale 6.

Everquest on the PS2
Made some lifelong friends on that game and banged several girls from my guild.

My top 5 would be

Asheron's Call (my first...you never forget your first)
XIV
WoW
Star Wars Galaxies
Dungeons and Dragons Online

Definitely City of Heroes/Villains. No MMO has come close to being that good since.

11 is my favorite game of all time i think. Problem was you kind of had to almost live in that world for it to be that good

solosnake posted...

11 is my favorite game of all time i think. Problem was you kind of had to almost live in that world for it to be that good

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if you were in, nothing else compares
the community, the game, etc.
it was literally magical and i have spent like 20 years chasing that high again

Definitely City of Heroes/Villains. Played a good chunk on the revival servers as well.

WoW. I started playing the last week of November 2008. It was just after Wrath released so the player count was still pretty high. It took me months to reach max level for the first time because I spent so much time exploring, joining guilds, doing dungeons and collecting mounts.

Maple Story. I still have this game installed and play sometimes. I started during beta. I remember times like when a GM had their account hacked and someone spawned a bunch of high level monsters in popular spots. I remember the account Vivi who was the highest level character in the game. I remember doing PQ every day after school, with both friends from school and people on GameFAQs.

It's a tie between those two. I was more social in Maple Story but WoW is technically the better game.

final fantasy 11 and anarchy online

I really enjoyed playing private servers of Ragnarok Online. Regular Ragnarok was so slow to level, but private servers made it bearable. Outside of that, Wow, and I think I played a bit of Allods Online? its been a while so I don't remember if that was the name of the game, but it was in a very early stage of development.

EverQuest. Nothing will ever beat 'Evercrack'

I played FFXI after EverQuest, and I played through the FFXIV expansions like a year ago.

FF11 by far.

Jiek_Fafn posted...

Everquest on the PS2
Made some lifelong friends on that game and banged several girls from my guild.

I played it too. What server?

MapleStory was my jam back in the beta. Game sucks now but the music is still top tier.

Phantasy Star Online 2 (Base game) when episode 6 was finished and was in its prime. Once NGS was released all the casual content/mission passes/etc was axed. The JP version of PSO2 had more features tho

Maple story and I guess FFXIV if it counts. Sadly didn't play enough MMOs

PSO, because I didn't ever have to actually play it online.

Wow and swg.

Ragnarok Online.

Have you heard of the critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV whose free trial includes the entirety of A Realm Reborn, the award winning Heavensward expansion, and even the Stormblood expansion now, up to level 70 with no restrictions on playtime?

Caelthus posted...

Have you heard of the critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV whose free trial includes the entirety of A Realm Reborn, the award winning Heavensward expansion, and even the Stormblood expansion now, up to level 70 with no restrictions on playtime?

Why was that shit so boring tho

like how many stupid bugs and and trees do i have to faceroll before something else happens

Maplestory. Enjoyed it so much that I got nostalgic and started playing it again lol

I also really enjoyed Cabal Online in it's prime. It had a nation war that happened at set times throughout the day. Basically a 100 vs 100 moba like takeover map. It was chaos, but it was so much fun.

WoW during Vanilla and the Burning Crusade easily. It was the perfect time for such a game. The game was large, but server population were fairly stable and small enough for you to get to know the people in the world. Social media wasn't really a major thing and datamining was much more primitive, and theorycraft wasn't really done by most people.

All that changed and we will never be able to experience such a game like that again. Classic tried to recreate it but social media, datamining and theorycraft ruined it.

I enjoyed Star Wars Galaxies for a while until the second complete overhaul of the combat system.

i think the only mmos i played were maplestory (beta) and graal online

WoW undoubtedly.

Kudos to FF14 for giving me good memories too and helping me cope during the worst period of my life.

Runescape 1
Final Fantasy 11
WoW Burning Crusade

Played FF 11 years back.

Ragnarok Online and Final Fantasy XIV

man i was in this linkshell called rosen ritten on sylph. leader was obelstain. he was a super good dude. took time for literally everyone in the LS b/c he genuinely cared and would help with anything

i got too big for my britches and joined this super exclusive LS and one of the RR officers, braden, broke my pearl

i was tbh kinda heartbroken b/c i really did like that LS

i remember those MFs better than anyone i went to school with
kinda fucked up but w/e

TheMikh posted...

i think the only mmos i played were maplestory (beta) and graal online

@TheMikh who were you on graal online? Did you ever play Unholy Nation?

DCUO and FFXIV. FFXIV peaked 2016-2019 for me. The period after patch 3.1 of Heavensward to the end of Stormblood patch 4.58, but before Shadowbringers released and ruined everything. The content was great, the combat was great, jobs were great, armoring choices were still around, PvP was good, and the game wasn't braindead easy

Zikten posted...

City of Heroes/Villains

That game was so good

Still is, the free servers are great.

SomeLikeItHoth posted...

@TheMikh who were you on graal online? Did you ever play Unholy Nation?

don't recall my handle, as didn't maintain a persistent identity. i only played in delteria, having a couple irl friends in that world.

World of warcraft in the early days. Trecking through opposite faction territory to get to the various dungeons with the crew was fun stuff.

RuneScape and WoW

i place the expansion where siege of orgrimmar as peak WoW because it also had the endless proving grounds and dear god both of those were great tank content

vengeance used to exist and was a really fun mechanic to manipulate, great tanks could pull massive damage

ffxiv's peak was probably shadowbringers and the story and characters were neat but the actual gameplay isn't that strong

Tales of Pirates / Pirate King Online
Phantasy Star Online Blue Burst

Ultima Online. There's just something special about that game and how it chose to be an MMO that feels like it's lost to time because nobody ever tries to emulate it.