Well..I've played many MMOs, as that's basically what I do.

The first MMO that I ever played was, you guessed it, RuneScape. My account has been around in there for years...

I also admit to playing Neopets at one time. I mean c'mon, who hasn't played those two games when they were young and wanted to play a PC game?

After that, I think the next game I played was Grand Chase. It's totally broken now, and I feel bad for wasting so much time and even some money on it. They demolished the game, and I quit without remorse, even with the time I devoted to it. Many of my characters were very high leveled, but games come and go. By demolished, I mean UTTERLY ruined it, not took it offline.

Somewhere in that area I also played Atlantica for a while. Fairly fun, a nice strategic game, but the balance between the classes is meh. Each class has a nice unique ability, but certain ones (Like the Axe Knight) are simply better. Not to mention the game is fairly old, and there's a class for a Powersaw which you can get once any other class hits Level 100. But in PvP you basically fight all Powersaws since they are obviously one of the best classes.

I quit Atlantica when I was around Level 78. It was kinda fun, but I never got too attached to that game. Storyline is also lacking a bit. It's more of an excuse to kill things.

So let's see...then I tried out Aion Online, which is more or less a mock-up of WoW with some differences. The game is pretty bad compared to WoW though...I didn't play it long. The artwork is astounding, and the costume sets for the gear are really awesome...but the gameplay is just...urgh. You have to be two levels above everything you fight if you want to kill more than 1 of them.

I didn't play Aion very long. Aside from that, the Cash Shop was really overpriced and the inconvenience of not using a cash shop is pretty severe. I was level 24 I think when I quit, and the cap is 60. Storyline was good, artwork was amazing, but the playability wasn't neat at all...not to mention the company that owned it were shutting down some of their other games (Gpotatoes) due to not getting enough funding from them. I didn't want to continue playing the game and take that risk.

I also played SAGA Online. SAGA was an amazing game, with great art, great players, I wish I could've played it forever. Unfortunately, the game had a server problem which lasted about a month. The entire month the game was practically unplayable. They lost at least 75% of their playerbase...people found better things to do. After that, funding basically stopped for the company (Silverlode). They keep it online, but only for those few who still play it. I have uninstalled it since it's so dead....but I hope someday it becomes popular again. It was a truly awesome game...

So let's see, what else...I beta tested SWTOR, but I got very little time to play. Due to limitations on the number of E-mails they can send out, my beta invitation arrived late, and I got mere minutes (literally) to play. It looked great, but I never got in to it because the time I got to play was so small.

Shortly after Grand Chase released Season Chaos (The main thing that destroyed the game, as it basically made everyone have HUGE STATS and MAX LEVEL IN DAYS...it was like playing a private server (Which I haven't done by the way, only heard of it...I haven't taken part in illegal action)), I heard of another game by the same company. Both games are from KoG (Korean company), and KoG puts up several different games. This other game is called Elsword. I played it in the Korean version (You could play up to level 20 without having a KSSN, I.E Legally), but could understand very little lol. The class change mission requires you to play until you're about level 22 so you can't get it. It was released in NA probably about a year ago.

It's a great game, a button masher and a side scroller; though annoying at times. Enemy AIs are really annoying...they even premeditate your attacks. It can be very frustrating when you solo that the enemy knows what you're going to do. It's kinda the opposite of Spiral Knights...the Devs at KoG don't pay attention to nerf threads, only "this game is not hard enough!" threads. This game and RuneScape I'll log-in from time to time, to check up on things. I regret that I got some membership on RuneScape at Christmas, yet haven't hardly played it (I'm mostly F2P there). But, by the time I have the time to play it again it'll probably be next Christmas anyway.

Let's see...

World of Warcraft. I do actually play this game. Around Jan. 1st, my brother got it for me (Otherwise I'd never pay for it; I'm an F2P gamer all the way lol). He had been playing for years; I think since the first expansion (Not sure if he was in the vanilla game). It's all he does besides work, and since my other brother had stopped playing (Got a girlfriend and a job, that's a 24/7 predicament), he's basically been playing alone. So I started playing with him around January, and currently have an 85 and another to-be 85 (Only 70 now, but 1-70 is probably harder than 70-85; or if anything, 1-70 is less entertaining than 70-85). It's a pretty fun game, I don't honestly see why people bash it so much. Much of the artwork is very nice, the PvE system is original (It was when it first came out...the first of its kind, I believe), though I haven't actually tried PvP yet. The new "Dungeon Finder" system some people call "Too convenient", since you used to have to find a group of people on your server that wanted to do a dungeon. Now you just click on the Dungeon Finder, wait 5~20 minutes for a party (Across all servers), and boom you're in.

Not sure why you'd want it to be less convenient, maybe they're just angry they used to have to waste hours getting a party together prior to the Finder.

WoW gets a lot of heat from non-WoW players, from what I've seen. I don't honestly know why...it's not a bad game at all (You could argue that it's overpriced/expensive...but that's what brothers are for), so besides the prices (Which, by the way, avoid P2Pers dominating the game or F2Pers complaining) I don't see what's wrong with it.

I believe that's all the PC games I've played...at least all the ones I played long enough to remember. I mean I played some like Alteil (I think that's what it was..) for a short time, but the playerbase there was mostly Asian, so that was a bit annoying. The majority of that playerbase was P2P too, so I was like...the only F2P player online. I quit playing within days..

All that said, RuneScape, WoW, This game, and Elsword are the only ones that are good enough and/or have lived long enough for me to play and enjoy it. I would much like to play SWTOR to try it out (Big fan of Star Wars and related games; honestly a huge let-down that SWTOR came out instead of a KoTOR III...), and play SAGA again. I still say SAGA was one of my all-time favorite games. It's still pretty fun to play solo, but there are so few people to trade with when you need something...or to play with when you can't solo a Heroic mission...

EDIT: Oh yes, I also played LOTRO (Lord of the Rings Online). It was fun and all, but it gave me a few bad first impressions (I played the free trial version). First of all I didn't honestly feel like I was playing Lord of The Rings. It felt more like..I dunno...any other medieval game. There was a lot of improv-lore it seemed, or lore I wasn't aware of, that gave you a whole new feel for it.

Not that that's necessarily a bad thing, but it just...I dunno, didn't seem like LoTR to me. The other bad impression was that the population of the game was really low in the first cities. This is pretty common, but there isn't a huge amount of direction. You're essentially by yourself out in the middle of nowhere left to your own means to put two and two together. Since nobody I know plays LOTRO, and the low population of the "Starter"-Cities is as such, I was sort of lost for a bit. It felt like a ghost town.

Finally, I guess I had the fear of an Endgame. Many games, like WoW, have an Endgame for a time, then have an expansion (Or a patch, like in SK's case), with a new boss or some new content. SWTOR has the same effect, since there are unlimited numbers of Sith Lords you can put anywhere. LOTOR, on the other hand, has a strict endgame. Once you can go in a party of buddies, and beat Sauron (Not sure if you can in LOTRO, this was just my guess), what else is there to do? There's not really any hope of doing anything besides using a different class to beat him. It loses the MMO effect when there's an endgame that gets no expansion.

Of course, I speak out of ignorance, that's all conjecture. I stopped playing around level 20 (Trial ends).

~Sev