What Was Your First MMO Experience?
Hello all MMOHut readers! I will be publishing a new editorial every week asking you to name your best, worst experiences in online gaming and I will ask you to leave your experiences and views on the topic of the week. I am very interested to hear your stories, and please feel free to put forward an idea for the topic in next week’s editorial.
I thought a good start point would be: What was your first foray into an MMO? What was the game? Were you any good at it? Did you enjoy it? Did it put you off online gaming or spur you on to playing another game?
K.O.S. Secret Operations Gameplay Image. Basically a free version of Counter-Strike Source.
My first foray into the MMO genre was a mixture of two games. The first was ‘Counter-Strike’. Quite possibly the greatest MMOFPS ever created. While I was terrible at it, (think suicide nading in 3/5 throwing attempts and you see what skill level I was at) it was a great game for me to atleast enjoy as a young kid. It also showed me how competitive I could get while playing. I distinctly remember the jubilation I felt after fluking an across the map headshot against a player leading the game. I still get that feeling even now, after each and every kill. And ‘Counter-Strike’ probably single handily created my love for the first person shooter genre.
Cross Fire Gameplay Image. One of the many free to play Counter-Strike clones out there.
My second foray into the genre was the MMORPG ‘Dark Age Of Camelot’. This brought me to realise the sense of pride and accomplishment I could get from these games. I had a ‘Valkyn Berserker’ named Tkarr (named that after I hit the keys at random with my eyes closed – as a ten year old kid that is a good system to create a name) and I have never felt as much achievement as I did when I managed to get him to level 10. To most players this would probably not even take 3 hours of game play, but to me it was my own personal achievement. The community was also incredibly friendly, and after joining a clan I really felt a part of the game. I thoroughly enjoyed playing it.
Dark Age of Camelot Gameplay Image. It was originally released October 10, 2001
So, there are my first experiences. What about yours?
Write down your first experiences of online gaming, and also suggest a new topic for next week’s editorial.
By, Alexander Webber
March 7, 2010
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My first experience was with Metin2 i still play it
March 7, 2010
#1
Probably Runescape and tales of pirates until I moved on to the ones I currently play today.
March 7, 2010
#2
My first MMO was Ultima Online. I started playing it in 1999 and absolutely love it. I’ve been playing it on and off for years now on private servers. After Ultima Online I played EverQuest which was also great. I used to play 14 hours a day back then. Ah. the good ol’ days =].
March 7, 2010
#3
Maple story. Jeez i played it too much but couldnt stay with one char so i quit and found better mmo’s.
March 7, 2010
#4
I think that my first online gaming experience was with Orbit, a TCG based off cartoon network shows. Then, I played for a couple of months Ogame, quite boring, and finally shifted into Mu.
March 7, 2010
#5
i started with a fighting game called rumble fighter (still play occasionally) and ive tried many games after that, some of my favorite games are: atlantica, dragonica, exteel
March 7, 2010
#6
My first experience with an mmofps was Wolfenstein Enemy Territory…it didnt entertain me for long but it perked my interest in the genre and got me to start playing others like America’s Army(which i loathe) and Gunz(lagfest! havent played since it originally launched years ago…maybe its better now?) As for my first taste of the mmorpg life…that goes to Flyff…id never played a point and click rpg before…it was nothing like the japanese rpgs i so love…so i hated it and quit playing after like level 8…i played a few more titles like cabal and tales of pirates but i didnt really get hooked until i started playing Dream of Mirror. I dont know what was so special about that game but ive been playing mmorpgs ever since…RELIGIOUSLY. Now i’m that guy who participates in every new beta for a new game.
March 7, 2010
#7
flyff
such a great game back then 
March 7, 2010
#8
the first game i discovered was a browser based game aq worlds until i got bored then started downloading client based mmos
March 7, 2010
#9
Ragnarok online was my first MMO.
March 7, 2010
#10
Mine was everquest lol
March 7, 2010
#11
mine was ragnarok, still love it x)
March 8, 2010
#12
Lineage 2 a private server (around Chronicle 3 i think). All i used to do was grind, no one really played cause the server was LAN only in the local internet cafe. After that i played a PvP server. The first time i killed a guy felt so good! The only servers i played since was private PvP servers. Also i found it kinda easy and i became really good. I stopped playing Lineage though cause of the lack of servers and irresponsibility of the server owners.
[quote=JoshuaBojangles]Now i’m that guy who participates in every new beta for a new game.[/quote] QFT man.. You’re not alone
Also for next week’s editorial i suggest best experience in an MMO.
March 8, 2010
#13
My very first one was a text based mmorpg, more of a MUD really, called Legends of Future Past. LoFP was a lesser known alternative to Gemstone before Everquest came out.
My first “modern” mmo was Dark Age of Camelot. I loved that game.
March 8, 2010
#14
Mine was club penguin if that counts as a mmo; if now, then probaly dofus’
I enjoyed my time at both, but sadly; years past, you get bored and quit ><
March 8, 2010
#15
Mine was Gunbound… then I tried Rakion and finally started downloading MMORPGS…. but every MMO I played is either unbalanced or boring.
March 8, 2010
#16
Hello! My first mmorpg was Metin2 but i’m bored with it and i play now Cabal online and Allods online. Metin2 was very interesting in the beginning, but the slow levelling was bad for me :S But i liked the PvP, i have uploaded some videos of my dagger ninja, lvl 57. He’s not so strong but i liked the pvp with him
March 8, 2010
#17
I started with Silkroad Online. then after a friend in real life brought me to WoW.
March 8, 2010
#18
my first one was Dungeon keepers and then the game that really got me into mmos Diablo2 also played dark age of camelot
March 8, 2010
#19
I got to say my first was wow and ive been playin every mmo i can find right now im playin ether saga and la tale
March 8, 2010
#20
My fist game was Runescape.
The first FPS I got for pc was Combat Arms.
Good times.
March 10, 2010
#21
My first MMO was Trickster Online…. Best game ever….. too bad the cash shop and bad provider (Ntreev) service ruined the game…. (they banned sooo many players that was on top lvl150+ and their Q&A was a source of people hacking other accounts)
March 10, 2010
#22
I played Ragnarok Online for recomendation… and I did not like it. The reason was simple, I only had a 56k modem and it takes a whole month to download and after three days of play around one hour I had to download the new version, so I skipt it.
March 10, 2010
#23
My first MMO was Runescape- back in the ancient times of me thinking that was THE BEST graphic experience EVER. Next was Endless Online, which killed me with “beta bugs” and lack of a patcher. Lastly, I found out MMOs can be GOOD with Nexon- Maplestory, and then Mabinogi. My currents are BattleForge and Exteel.
March 10, 2010
#24
Maple Story was my first ;P
But I played like 2 mins of Ragnarok Online on my friends computer before playing Maple LOL
I love Maple cuz its my first game ;P I still play from time to time.
March 10, 2010
#25
Runescape. I’ve been playing it on and off since the RSC days..it’s been really ruined over the years, sad to say. It was a great game, but with weekly updates, the game just gets dumber and dumber, and becoming like another wow clone to me. That’s why im here, on the lookout for another mmorpg to play. Sad coz i was really loyal to it, and never played another game beside it..but i guess im ready to move on now.
March 11, 2010
#26
My frist mmo was Knight Online, waaay before the utrks came in, boy was I a newb, kept asking ppl how we attacked and went up the npc like “Hey, id like to buy 5 potions please”
Aaaahhh the good ole days.!
March 11, 2010
#27
Hmmmm first “MMO” was runescape, but my frist 3D mmorpg was deicide, man that game was great back then.
My 2nd game was Silkroad, i miss that game alot it died cause of botter flooding.
My favorite MMO i have ever played…. hmm….. all of them all have very good memories i cant pick one. Im currently playing S4 league now.
March 12, 2010
#28
first time i played was 1995 or something like that
i didnt know english well… i was 7… i put my fathers charecter
in jail for 3 years
i quit playing 5 times but i am playing now
March 13, 2010
#29
my first time online game was, RYL2!! ahahahaha
i think that time around 199+ something
damn that game on hits. but now they introduced new one
ROW so called Return Of Warriors which mainly focused on newbie players
zzzzz not to mention got a lots of foreigner
March 13, 2010
#30
rune scape
and maplestory still play maple to this day
March 16, 2010
#31
My first was Runescape, then I played a bunch of downloadable ones, then I played City of Heroes, but now I play WoW and some free MMOs
March 17, 2010
#32
my first mmo i played was kart rider but the servers got down :/
now i play ray city and drift city (i also played maple story the game sucks XD)
March 20, 2010
#33
my first p2p was TF2 first f2p 4story ,,alot of ppl understemate it but when yu get it to play it more u will know that its awesome
March 21, 2010
#34
My first mmorpg is tibia.I still play it ;D
March 25, 2010
#35
My first MMO was TIBIA!!! Second i played Runescape and Metin2
March 27, 2010
#36
R.O.S.E online. still play it today and i love it.
June 1, 2010
#37
My first mmo was Runescape.i still play it,but i mainly play RoM
June 30, 2010
#38
Maple story. Then I went on to play pirate kings(Tales of pirates)
Me and an old friend tried most mmorpgs until we found one we liked.
After we both grew tired of slaying nothing but 5 eye’d dragons with 6 arms and 1 tooth. We moved to counter strike and ripped that apart
July 8, 2010
#39
My first was actually Shin Megami Tensei Imagine since before then i played consoles only, so i heard of a MMORPG in the series, so i said “Cool” I quit when it was very early since there were many broken things and tons of gold spammers..etc. So i quit it and have come back now.
July 17, 2010
#40
My first experience was Tales Of Pirates. I was bad at it, but then IGG got greedy. Just before Tales of Pirates II, a bunch of pixels costed $22,500!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Tales of Pirates II wasn’t that great either. I played BattleField Heroes, but got bored because bad stuff always happened to me. Once in a while, I tried Runescape, but I didn’t like the controls. Then MMOHut showed me some games to play. Sadly, my computer was absolutely ANCIENT! Luckily, in two months, I’m getting a new one. I can’t play on my dad’s laptops either. Now, thanks to MMOHut, I play FusionFall again. I was in the testing, but quit when I learned about the P2P model. Now that it’s free, though, I can play on my dad’s laptop, since it’s a browser game and we’ve had the Unity plug-in for a long time.
July 26, 2010
#41
Ah. Runescape “Classic” was my first real mmo. Of course it was just Runescape at the time. Those were its golden years :> of course now that i look at it i cant believe i ever played such a horrible looking game. Now everything is controlled thanks to Jagex turning fascist.
August 7, 2010
#42
My first Mmorpg was silkroad online still playing but i stop from time to time itis one of the best but itis ruined by bots
August 9, 2010
#43
my first mmo was runescape i didnt really know what to do i sucked at it but all my friend where playing it and i loved it to death
still play it once in a while just becuz of its awesome factor to me :3
August 24, 2010
#44
My first mmo was grand fantasia,i liked it but i stopped it cause of its slow lv up .now i play lost saga maple (Maple n lost saga roxs!!!)
October 3, 2010
#45
…..Club Penguin.
November 13, 2010
#46
Flyff was my first mmorpg,got to lvl 28 and then quit
January 15, 2011
#47
My first MMORPG was probobly Knights online..played one day then quit..then i got into silkraod online and was hooked for i think 2 1/2 years until now where i jsut game hop and hopefully ill find something else to get into
(atm its runes of magic but i left because the pvp isnt good)
March 3, 2011
#48
My first, Very first ,VERY VERY first ,was a game called NosTale i sucked SO SO MUCH i remebered i spending an hour staring at the games loading screen (a girl with big bewbs) and not knowing that i got disconnected when i logged in i didnt know how to move (i thought the arrow keys were the only way) so yea i sucked. i only played for a day 2 years later (i was 8 back then) when i was 10 i actually played an MMO that blew me away grand fantasia (back than i didnt know how much other mmo’s were truly better than this one) i spent 2 years on that game i had 99 friends on my friend list 3 charactars at end-game the leader of great guild.
but that same month i found this site… i read about other games and said “OMG i wasted the last 2 years of my life….i coulve played that one…or maybe that one…no that…OMG”…..and now i cant stick to a game for more than 3 weeks…without switching
March 12, 2011
#49
Mu Online (a pirate server hehe)
April 10, 2011
#50
My first MMORPG experience was with Metin2
I started playing it in 2005 on the korean server and I still play it on the US one.Even if the graphics are quite dated this game is AWESOME , because is unique ! The combat is really fun because you do not select a monster and wait till it dies , you hit space and skills to beat it …
June 29, 2011
#51
my first mmo experience was eudemons online. now i think it was a really crappy game.
August 15, 2011
#52
browser
1.runescape
download
1.everquest still play i have all the expanions
2. dragon raja still play got lvl cap but still do dungons with firends
3. maple story got to lvl cap to this day on all my charchters