I’m glad it happened.Ĭhris Neal wolfyseyes, blog): I guess the oldest game I play right now is City of Heroes. It’s a blessing that Guild Wars is still around, but nothing will bring back the carefree days of playing Guild Wars all day and then hanging out with folks on Teamspeak. It really was the people I enjoyed playing with. Hanging out at Marhan’s Grotto after some tough missions is a fond memory of mine, but nobody goes there anymore, so there’s really to point to just sit back and hang out after I’m finished with a play session. The time I had with it was absolutely magical however, the more I look back, the more I realize how playing it today won’t bring back the folks I used to play with. But I don’t really plan to come back to it any time soon. And I do usually return to Ultima Online repeatedly as well, and I do intend to return again someday, but I haven’t played it heavily since last year, so it probably shouldn’t count for me, though it’s a good six years older than SWG.Ĭarlo Lacsina ( The closest thing I have to an old MMO is Guild Wars. Still waiting, though, and I feel like I still have to play other MMOs for my smashing-stuff fix because SWG doesn’t do much for me there.Ĭity of Heroes would be a close second, but it’s a little less than a year younger than SWG. If I ever find one that tops it, I’m sure I’ll be tempted away. Sure, it might be satisfying and make you feel better, but it’s not really effective in any meaningful way.) That’s the only old game I wander back to consistently, but in recent years I’ve gone so far back as diving into some MUDs for the depth and complexity they offer.Īs soon as Jason Epstein leaves Daybreak, I am looking forward to going back to Norrath in EverQuest II because I love the fae race (so much!) and the Illusionist class.īrianna Royce nbrianna, blog): For me, it turns out to be Star Wars Galaxies, though I had to start over on a rogue server, which is not an easy thing for a crafter, so I know I really wanted to be there and wasn’t just riding on the momentum of “10 years of stuff” since I had no stuff to fall back on! There just aren’t many MMOs out there offering the kind of economic sandbox that SWG had and has, full-stop. (An MP’s direct-damage abilities without a pet are something akin to hitting the baddie with a nerf dart. It also has one of my favorite classes: the Meta-physicist, which was about a support-y as you can get. Anarchy Online has one of my favorite “magic” systems, a really fun inter-class dependency system of buffs, and a sci-fi setting. So I’ve posed this question to our staff for this week’s Massively Overthinking: What’s the oldest MMORPG you still play, and what does it have that other games don’t that makes you keep going back? (With the caveat that “still play” means “in the last half year with intent to return.”)Īndy McAdams: I cut my MMO teeth on Anarchy Online, and I inevitably end up going back to play a few hours every year. And while some may argue that harms communities, it’s also helped keep alive a ton of older MMOs that might otherwise have died for lack of players. I personally played a sandbox or two on the side of most of the themeparks we traipsed through, but for the most part, my groups spent a decade playing one MMO and then another and then the next as they came out and caught our collective attention.īut in the more recent decade, we’re flush with choices, and people move around much more between MMOs as they get new content on shorter time-scales rather than stay ensconced in a single title for years.
When I was still a teenager in my earliest MMOs, the trend in the communities I ran in was to play MMOs sequentially, due in large part to the fact that there weren’t a whole lot of MMOs to begin with.
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