By: Bryan Turner
Not my wife, as a matter of fact she tried to make me feel embarrassed by time spent playing MMOS, I basically said it’s not my fault you changed your hobbies from doing something fun together to...
View ArticleBy: A Dad Supreme
Then throw in the pirate battles that popped up and left you dead when you stepped away from keyboard for a drink during the 15 minute <em>actual</em> boat ride and no one to rez you so you...
View ArticleBy: Mikey's Bored
FFXI as a kid, I tried attacking a “sheep” which was a mistake. It was more like a buffalo, and hit back really hard, so I tried running away, and it just kept chasing me forever and eventually killed...
View ArticleBy: vinicitur
The earliest memory I have of MMOS is visiting a friend and seeing him play Everquest. He started explaining to me how addictive Evercrack (he actually used that word) was, the amount of time he played...
View ArticleBy: rafael12104
Oh, I have to go way back. Way, way back. There was MUD I played back in highschool. I can’t remember the name of it exactly. But it was one with a pretty big following especially from the nerds at the...
View ArticleBy: Armsbend
Hot damn, no kidding. With the repeal of NN it won’t be long until we get to take that fun trip again!
View ArticleBy: Specus
Everquest II, for me. I was working for Sony at the time. They were giving away free trials to their employees around Christmas time. I’d never played an MMO before and I had some time to kill during...
View ArticleBy: thalendor
If only it would be that blatant. No, if we go without net neutrality for long, it will probably be much more insidious with ISPs charging added access fees to the online services you use, which then...
View ArticleBy: Melissa McDonald
the Station Pass was the best game deal in the entire industry. I miss it a lot. I miss SOE. Their games were all good quality, and varied enough that they had something to interest almost everyone.
View ArticleBy: Melissa McDonald
I had the Voodoo Banshee, one of the first ever graphics cards with (Gasp!) both 2D and 3D Acceleration!
View ArticleBy: Kevin Smith
I remember Ultima Online being one of the first MMO’s I played but nothing really stands out in my memory other than the PK groups hiding off the roads. The first memory that really stands out for me...
View ArticleBy: Castagere Shaikura
Wow man i must have just missed having to pay those rates. I had Prodigy Online DSL service Back in 99/2000. I forget what i payed monthly for it back then. kind of miss those old internet days with...
View ArticleBy: drgreenhoe
My first experience [seamed like hours] in my first MMO was in complete darkness as the voice on the headset was telling me to just follow the road and I would eventually get to them. All along the...
View ArticleBy: boredinBC
Killing King Bangladesh in Stranglethorn Vale and dinging 40 in the process. I was so excited to get my first mount, and then immediately realized I did not have the scratch. It’s not my earliest...
View ArticleBy: boredinBC
I don’t remember the exact enemy, but I was playing a Tarutaru BLM and I went outside the starting city to kill the easiest monster. It did not go well.
View ArticleBy: Skor
UO late night running up to a remote valley to hunt, log, and get away from PKs. I killed a hind next to someone who was working on a skill while sleeping (probably put something on the keyboard to...
View ArticleBy: starbuck1771
I have been playing games so long a lot of it is lost in my mind. I do remember flying around in Earth & Beyond with my guild Strength & Honor offering repair and jump start services for free...
View ArticleBy: Andrew Ross
I think my absolute earliest one was running down to this unused farm near Rithwic in Asheron’s Call to meet my patron (the person that recruited me into the guild who got an xp bonus as I played the...
View ArticleBy: mystwen
Play a game with housing and pets. Show her how to decorate. She’ll start buying shit online for the virtual house instead! ; )
View ArticleBy: Duane Does not check email
My memory is fuzzy. I will say fall 2003 or 2004. Too many people lingered around Butcherblock Mountains when camps were established for a grouping purpose…. I think dungeon exploring groups. These...
View ArticleBy: Utakata
Still waiting for Blizz to give us Gnomes a shot at the Druid class. Rolling a pink nekomata with twin tails would be a dream come true for me. /nyaa <3
View ArticleBy: Mark Jacobs
Hah, $10 per hour, that’s for tourists! GEnie, $36 per hour during the day in the 80s!!!! In today’s dollars, $81 per hour. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEnie The other old man walks off his own lawn :)
View ArticleBy: wratts
I think my first memory is the first time I started up EQ1, rolled a halfling rogue and then accidentally attacked a guard (hotkey was ‘A’ iirc) and got dropped like a rock. I still have no idea how I...
View ArticleBy: squidgod2000
Trying to play UO at launch. The installation files on my CD were screwed up, so I played on the live servers with the Beta client. This game me some semi-GM powers. The one I remember the best was...
View ArticleBy: Bryan Turner
Nobody would pay for that, as it is Mobile companies are moving in the exact other direction with their data, my provider for example AT&T sells its self on unlimited data, having reported for...
View ArticleBy: flyingltj
Running through the desert between Yaraq and Tufa. Oh wait, we’re not supposed to talk about anything pre-wow or pre 2004. I forgot internet etiquette.
View ArticleBy: Cyclone Jack
I believe Legends of Kesmai was my first graphical MUD, though I did play what might be considered MUDs on some old BBSs back in the day. I don’t recall much except that when you died you went into the...
View ArticleBy: connor_jones
Star Trek Online maybe a year after launch; the old Federation tutorial where you got the Andorian tac officer and fought off the Borg. The interesting thing about STO as my first MMO, however, was...
View ArticleBy: Eliandal
Ugh…I definitely remember that! Thank heavens for “comps” and friendly fellow gamers willing to try and hook you up with RT’s you might be interested in :D!
View ArticleBy: kjempff
Killing snakes outside Kaladim entrance in everquest 1999, and training the guards a lot. I had played a bit of UO and mud before that, but I have no clear memory of those apart from getting lost in a...
View ArticleBy: Diane Bradley
August 30, 2000. I finally got up the nerve to log into Asheron’s Call, having let it sit on the shelf for three weeks. My character found herself in a little training hall in Holtburg, where I learned...
View ArticleBy: Diane Bradley
Are you the guy who borrowed gold from me for your mount? The interest is really adding up…
View ArticleBy: matt gourley
1998 Ultima online… Jst started minging and was in the Minax mine .. with a full ox and inventory a red named “Joxx” said “pay me $$$ as this is my mine” Of Course I didn’t listen and my ox and me bit...
View ArticleBy: NeoWolf
Opening my Ultima Online bx, pulling out the cloth map and a shiny coin and thinking it was the coolest thing ever. I was such an Ultima fanbois lol
View ArticleBy: Mark Jacobs
Yep. There was good justification for it since GEnie was paying GE for the use of its computers, network, etc. but it was still quite expensive. At night, when nobody was using their services, GEnie...
View ArticleBy: Mark Jacobs
Yep, getting and giving out those accounts were a big deal back in the day.
View ArticleBy: matt gourley
THis is also how i felt when i saw a friend play it.. t that time to play a game with other ppl you couldnt see from around the world was just amazing.. the game was soo free, it was another life… wow,...
View ArticleBy: Jay Madison
Repeatedly falling off of Kelethin in pitch black nighttime, 5 minutes after creating my first character on my Uncle’s EQ1 account.
View ArticleBy: CasualSlacks
Running up the coast at sunrise on the way Freeport on my Dark Elf rogue in EQOA in 2002.
View ArticleBy: Swifty
Logging into Anarchy Online for the first time, 2001. An amazing experience never to be repeated.
View ArticleBy: Nathan Aldana
the first day i tried ff11 at a friends house. and was awed by the whole thing
View ArticleBy: Rolan Storm
There are first and first I guess. Meridian 59 with dial-up connection was not something I was interested in. And that’s the first I remember. Nothing special, just run-of-the-mill ‘let’s try it – meh...
View ArticleBy: Chris B
Final Fantasy XI – My first day playing my first MMO. I went out doing some exploring and got myself killed in Ghelsba Outpost. A high level group happened to be passing through and the leader found my...
View ArticleBy: A Dad Supreme
When you couple that with computers costing a mint and people like me not knowing anything about them, how to fix them or how to use them… it was exponentially worse. Back then, the cheapest thing of...
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