I was playing a lot of **World of Warcraft **up until about a month or so ago, but then the weather got nice so I stopped. If I allow myself to get back into it, I’ll never go outside and do stuff. still log on every so often, if only to keep up with the patches. When summer ends I’ll probably play more than I should.
City of Heroes is still installed on my computer, too. I haven’t played in a few months, though. I enjoy the game, but it can be repetitive…more so than most other games…so I burn out on it and have to take time off from it.
I read recently that **Age of Conan **has been updated. I quit that game shortly after launch and uninstalled it. It was waaaaay to buggy and the player base made the WoW forum look like Paradise. I probably will never play it again unless its done a complete 180 from what it was like.
I still have an unopened Warhammer disc on my shelf. I haven’t heard much about it since launch though. Anyone playing it?
**EVE online **sounds interesting, but not exactly something I’d play a lot so I’ve not tried it yet. **Lord of the Rings Online **was fun during my trial account, but I just never got into it as much as I thought I would. I’m not sure if DnD online is still up.
I play World of Warcraft, I have an 80 DK on Medivh, alliance side. Sonnenschein
I play Runes of Magic, American Govinda Server. Aruvqan
I play EVE Online, only 1 server live [and the test servers I almost never play on] as Aruvqan.
I beta test also, most recently Aion. I prefer the ‘demons’ to the ‘angels’ They just finished ‘closed’ beta 3 [not very closed, you can get keys off a couple of game sites, IIRC Fileplanet is one of them] and waiting for beta 4 to kick in. I will try to get Aruvqan for the ‘demons’ next beta as well.
I have too much going on in my real life to stick to one game, I have fatigue issues and concentration problems so I play whatever won’t stress me, and whatever game servers are up at any given time. I really like EVE the best but I really miss having a body instead of a pod which is why sometimes I default to WOW or RoM … i need to have a body that doesnt hurt =)
I play (well, in general… my laptop has some serious hardware problems and I’m still wrangling with Dell to get them to help me fix it) EVE Online, the single most awesome, hardcore, strategically deep MMO ever invented where the entire world plays on one single server with no sharding, persistent content, and 95% of the content (that matters) is purely player created.
It is, actually, and apparently going free-to-play soon. My friend discovered it this week and has been having a blast on it.
Let’s see, all the games I’ve played for longer than a trial period…
Never Going Back
Auto Assault (dead)
Tabula Rasa (dead)
Guild Wars (don’t care)
Star Wars: Galaxies (damn you SOE)
Planetside (damn you again)
Final Fantasy XI (too repetitious)
Ultima Online (personal issues)
Currently Inactive
EVE Online (probably won’t go back, but might be persuaded to in the future)
City of Heroes (social circle collapsed)
Currently Active
World of Warcraft (and damn if I’m not seriously addicted)
I’ve basically played all of them at one point or another, at the moment i’m not playing any of them. The longest i’ve played any of them has been World of Warcraft for about five years, a lot of it very heavily. I still think its the best game out there, but you can only play the same game for so long so i’ve moved on. If you wanna know a bit about a few of those other games i can help:
Warhammer: not worth playing, their engine/servers simply does not support the kind of game they built, no matter what they do they will always be limited in what they can fix (for example they just launched a new zone, but had to limit the population that could be on it at the same time.)
Age of Conan: best combat of any game ever. It just feels FUN to fight stuff in this game, specially as a melee character. The first 20 levels in tortage showed a lot of promise but they don’t keep up the same quality of content through the rest of the game. It also had a really stupid loot system that they seem to have fixed. Worth giving it a shot if only for the incredible combat system and the amazing newbie experience.
City of heroes/villains: i would just wait for champions online coming out this september, its basically a much better version of the game.
Lord of the rings: IMO the best wow-like mmo out there at this time. There’s really nothing bad i can say about it, other that it didn’t really grab my interest like other games. Its like the vanilla of mmos, good but nothing special.
EVE online: couldn’t get into it, it felt like playing a graphical version of a spreadsheet.
That remains to be seen. My suspicion based on what little news I’ve heard is that other than theme, they’re substantially different enough that they won’t really be in competition (aside from everybody and their mother thinking they’re in competition, anyway). That’s assuming CO actually turns out to be a good game.
“Just” WoW these days. (Quotation marks because that’s more than enough.)
Played, not going back and/or defunct games: EQ, Dark Age of Camelot, D&D Online, Lord of the Rings Online, City of Heroes/City of Villains, Asheron’s Call 2.
Did you ever engage in PvP?
It’s very hard to credit EVE as being a “spreadsheet” if you’ve fought against real live people. Sure, market trading is a spreadsheet, but beyond that?
I’m a serial monogamous gamer. I can’t play more than one at a time.
My first MMO was Anarchy Online. Got really tired of grinding for XP and the crappy graphics, but that had me for about a year.
I played Guild Wars for two years solid. Had a blast with that.
Played WoW for a year or so, got bored and moved to LoTRO, but got bored with that even faster, went back to WoW and am still playing it. I had all Alliance toons but am now playing the Horde side just for a change of scenery.
Anarchy Online is due for a major graphics upgrade sometime this summer, so I might go back for a visit.
Everything I have heard from beta testers says that CO is pretty, but game play sucks. I will probably try it out with a free trial, to see what is there.
My current MMOs are COH/V and EVE Online. I will stay on them until my subscriptions run out next year, unless I find a job. (Thank goodness for annual subscriptions. :)) Technically, I am also on LOTRO, since I bought the lifetime membership pre-order, but my system can’t really handle it anymore and I can’t afford a new system.
I played Auto Assault, and enjoyed it, but I didn’t have enough time to justify playing it before it died.
I tried out Pirates of the Burning Sea, and it is another pretty fun game. But I had some technical issues and while I have lots of time right now, I can’t afford to pick up a monthly charge for it.
Eve Online is the only MMO that has ever even remotely interested me. I’ve been playing for a year and have no intention to stop any time soon. It’s a game of amazing depth that combines all the things I loved best about the old Mechwarrior Games with a Massively Multiplayer environment. Right now I am in a rut as most of the people I played with are on a different plan than I am, so I will probably just work on grinding for ridiculous amounts of money.
I’ve tried several others; the only one which didn’t give me instant eye-ache from the leetspeak and moronity levels was CoH/V, but I missed my guildies, the stupidity of being able to get the exact same mission two and even three times in a row got to me and I had a curious problem with their billing:
the CC you’re using to pay must be from the same country you’re trying to pay from. Note that since I started playing WoW I’ve lived in Costa Rica (where I never held a bank account or CC), Spain, Switzerland, France and the UK; I’ve also spent periods in Germany, and in France while I wasn’t living there. I’m not going to play a game for which I can’t pay from a hotel.
Tried Eve Online once, but I had a stupid problem and it ate my free trial. The game was automatically talking to me in Spanish, which I didn’t want, and in a tiny font. It took three weeks to get a response to “yo, how do I get this thing to speakee English and do it in a size that can be read on a 14” monitor?" They extended the trial but having such a bump at the start of what’s already a very sharp learning curve took the wind from my sails. The Spanish was good, but I find it easier to play when we’re all (or most) on the same language.
I might give it a try again at some point, but it would have to be after having made some contacts outside… jumping right into there with nobody you can bother for answers is more work than I want to go through. Take into account that having tons of money isn’t even a big motivator for me rl, so even less in a game.
I used to be a player, writer and “walker” (editor / writer’s trainer / customer service) in a MUD for eight years.
I was a FFXI addict for about 2 years, but have been clean for almost 2 years now.
7 jobs to lvl 70+, 100 cooking skills, 400+ days online recorded, etc.
I avoided WoW like the plague cause I know I’d get just as addicted to that as FFXI.
My SO’s son recently wanted to get Diablo II when we were at the video game store 2 weeks ago. I was addicted to that back around 2000-2001, and let me say it’s just as fun to play now as it was back then. AND IT’S FREE!
So I guess that’s my new MMORPG addiction, just $20 for the first fix, and no subscription.
I’m currently playing World of Warcraft (Turalyon, lvl 80 UD Rogue, lvl 70 UD Mage), I also have 3 active EVE Online accounts that I’m only using to train skills. I plan to get back to EVE one day and when I do I’ll have two pretty awesome Hulk pilots and an Orca pilot waiting for me.
In the past I’ve played:
Ultima Online (my favourite but it gradually got worse, I left after the AoS expansion).
Everquest (didn’t like the forced-grouping).
Star Wars: Galaxies (until ‘the change’).
Warhammer Online (my server population was decimated after the first few weeks, they didn’t merge it until long after I left).
My first and only foray into the world of MMORPGs is World of Warcraft. For someone like me, a solo gamer who plays games so she won’t have to interact with other people (:D), it’s a change. The only reason I tried it out was so the SO would stop nagging me to try it, but it turned out to be so much fun I kept at it.
City of Heroes.
(Nondisclosed game currently in very late beta, was planned to launch in July, was delayed several months.)
(Nondisclosed game currently in early alpha)
Waiting for: Star Wars: TOR. Jumpgate Evolution.
I’m not planning on quitting CoH when CO launches.
Warhammer: It was okay. I tried it, I got two 40/40s. I quit. Eh. Rich, pretty, good graphics, worth trying to cleanse the palette for a few months. Public Quests are to die for when they work right. So are the scenarios.
Tried and quit recently: Neo Steam, Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine Online, Free Realms. Was looking for something to keep my attention after Warhammer. They didn’t really work.
Though in all honesty it isn’t so much as a game as a synthesis of a world that involves tactics, politics and logistics and you can go to war without actually getting shot up if the negotiations fail
My brother logged in and decided it was too much like a real job :dubious:
