Best MMORPG you've played?

[Killermandude]

I'd say for the most part this would be a heavily bias'd poll, while I don't know for sure, someone playing a game the company made before they saw this game, would unbalance the poll :P

I wish I could pick
GW had the best (in my experience) range of classes, you could really be good with anything.

WoW compeltely sucked me in, I dunno how good it was, or maybe it was just an addiction ::shrug::

Argue onwards!

[Spartan]

EQ for me, was playing from '99 till '06. Everything else sucked, with the exception of EvE.

For UO I tried it sometime in '98 but couldn't get in for some reason. Guess it was the isometric engine.

[Schuyler]

Anarchy Online, also my first mmo, the community was just awesome.

[Ganlit]

[Guild Wars my first mmo and also the best

[Kralle]

UO from the first days till the faccet split (at max)

[n0way]

UO for sure, great system, cool PvE and skill based PvP for the win

[Aragoni]

Dark Age of Camelot but that's probably because it was my first MMO.

[Targuil]

Guild wars is not MMOrpg, its COrpg. But i still picked it.

[zymos]

I would say AO due to the fact that they have awsome way of handling item twinking due to skills you have chosen and skills increased by other items/implants/clothes and so on. I enjoy putting time into calculating new ways to get into gear by raising stats with other items. I would love to see a new game incorporating a improved version of that.

/Zymos

[Olof Brickarp]

I am a pretty novice MMO player. I have tried a lot of them but I never find the time or patience to become any good. The one I think I've had most fun in overall is WoW, played to lvl39 I think. The Dungeon & Dragons Online Beta was a real blast as well.

City of Heroes have to get some space in here as well.

Anyhow, the BEST MMO I've played is another story though. I think that the best "casual" MMO I've played have to be WoW. It has a lot of flaws, yes, but it still does most of the fundamental things really, really good.

But I guess it have o go to EVE, I absolutely love EVE... in theory. I don't have the patience to become anything in it though.

[Dani]

I would have to say RuneScape, although the community is terrible! There's too much 10 year olds playing the game. I'm just playing it for something to do right now, until Mortal Online is released.

[Lairia]

I will say D&DO just coz there is not the FFXI and i spend really good times playing with IRL friends there

[Bulveigh]

give us the names, ot the 10 players who voted for WoW, so we can make plans how to grief them out :P

[Zoulz]

World of warcraft is not perfect, but it's still the best MMO out there today.

[Thargan]

Pre-CU SWG.

I was too young to have played UO.

[vintertor]

World of Warcraft. It's the ONLY MMO I've played. I enjoyed it, but got bored. I used to be a hardcore raider, but got tired of the same old story over and over again.

[semicycle]

I don't think any MMO ever grabbed me the way Lineage II did. (yes, I still play it). 30+ playable Classes, Drop dead gorgeous graphics (4 years old and still looks better then 95% of MMOs) and did I say PVP.

Once you get used to a grind like L2, everything else is cake.

I have a feeling this could be the game to make me finally quit L2.

[Killermandude]

Originally Posted by Bulveigh

give us the names, ot the 10 players who voted for WoW, so we can make plans how to grief them out :P

Here's one.
Fact of the matter is - hate it or love it, it's got the awards and fanbase to support it.
Yes - it's generic and carebeared out the ass, but that's apparently what 7 million gamers (I think that's their customer base, right?) want from a video game.

I still vote it the best - however, due to it's completely carebeared and generic base, I could not play it anymore and searched out much more skill based and difficult RPG's, here I am.

[admiralnlson]

Originally Posted by Killermandude

Yes - it's generic and carebeared out the ass, but that's apparently what 7 million gamers (I think that's their customer base, right?) want from a video game.

10 millions.

Yes, WoW is a good theme park MMO (got a lot of different attractions). But that does not necessarily mean carebearism(tm) or a theme park MMO is what those 10 millions of players really want.

I know some people who have never played an MMO other than WoW. When I discuss the game features with them, for each of those features, they end up saying "yes I know, that's something I don't like in WoW"... for like EVERY feature.
In the end, all that really makes them keep playing WoW is that they have so many friends playing it with them, and they don't expect them to go play another game. It's like social inertia .

I'm pretty sure many of those 10 million people would love to play a sandbox MMO.

[Abydos]

Definitively UO.

[dyter]

I voted WoW because i havn't really played any other MMORPG's but i mostley play RPG's

[Ondor]

Originally Posted by admiralnlson

I'm pretty sure many of those 10 million people would love to play a sandbox MMO.

Well, it's pretty evident from their forums, that people aren't satisfied...what makes you think, is that they don't quit the game. But hey, no alternatives! So instead they try to change the game...but they can't get into a dialogue with the devs, like we can here.

when AoC lands next month, Blizzard might notice a spike in their subscriptions. If the spike is too big, they'll hype their expansion, and highlight the PvP zone. The failure in that tactic depends on how clean AoC's launch will be.

Blizzard are getting predictable.

And oh yes...if a true sandbox MMO lands, they'll see massive spikes in their subscriptions. And seeing as it'll happen after they've released their expansion, they'll only have patch cards to play, and they can start shutting down a few servers.

Checkmate.

[iVex]

Lineage 2

Game is like crack. 4 years old and still the best choice imo.

[Grannus]

Shadowbane first. DAoC a close second, but before the ToA crapfest.

[Shinzon]

I had alot of fun and good memories from Ragnarok Online...

[Stump]

Ultima Online
*snip snip snip*

[Shurt]

Wish I could vote twice. Ultima Online and Asheron's Call (DT server)

[RatedR]

Lineage 2. Full free open pvp any day Faction PVP.

[Polyformist]

Shadow Bane -- For Character Skill Customization
Vanguard Saga of Heroes -- Best combat / Class seperation / Best Crafting System!
Ever Quest -- Because it was Ever Quest (World Size! and Content)