EVE-Online

Path of Exile

Ragnarok Online

Why yes, I am an excel wizard.

I'm an oldhead that stopped playing mmos around the time WOW got popular... so:

1. Pristontale
2. Ragnarok Online
3. Runescape (classic)

The only mmo I've ever played was Toontown

Unfortunately the only traditional MMO I've put any significant time into is SWTOR - which I did enjoy playing as a singleplayer experience, or going through storylines in coop with a friend. The voice acting and storylines for the classes could be great, though there was a lot of variance in quality between them. Too bad it was held up by pretty mediocre gameplay.

I've played a little bit of FFXIV and while I believe what the fans tell me about it, going through early A Realm Reborn stuff was a boring slog which didn't compel me to play more.

If Warframe counts as an MMO then it's my favorite, ez.

1. FFXIV. While it's been awhile, due to life circumstances, it will always hold a place in my heart.

2. Rift. I only started after it went F2P, but I had an absolute blast running around in that game. I still adore the Chloromancer/Stormblade as a class concept, running around whacking shit with my electric sword to heal back health.

3. Florensia. This one is probably a bit obscure, these days. It was a F2P MMO with an added focus on ship building and combat alongside your standard dungeon crawling and such. Cartoony graphics, grindy as hell, and where some early cracks probably started forming in my egg.

It's high up on my list, but I have to admit, it wasn't for the game itself. There was a community there like no other, one that I really felt like myself in. Every day, the same names, the same faces, most of us doing more chatting than anything else.

FFXIV: As a complete work, from the exceptionally great and varied music to the extended Valentine that the game is to the entire prior run of the series, it's hard to top.

Elder Scrolls Online: This one has unique vibes among MMOs, and has a special sort of "wander any direction and something will happen, voice acted and all" immersiveness to it, even if the game can sometimes feel too compact to feel like a world and more like a theme park instead.

I'm having a hard time narrowing down on a third.

I've only played a handful. Let's see if I can rank them accurately by fondest memories:

1. World of Warcraft
2. Everquest
3. Ultima online

Guild wars and the old Republic are the runner ups

LOTRO? Anyone at all?

• Guild Wars 2
• Dofus (retro) / Wakfu (basically the same)
• Path of Exile

Any other French/Spanish zoomer who skipped WoW because everyone played the Ankama MMOs?

I'm totally a casual tho I don't think I spent more than 60 hours on GW and PoE each

I dont think ive played 3 mmos total

Ff14

2007scape

in a few months i will have put 20 years of my life into world of warcraft, starting at age 7.

so idk what the best mmo is, but i can say with absolute certainty that its not WoW

1. Star Wars Galaxies (pre-CU/NGE)
2. ???
3. ???

Classic EverQuest (pre Luclin)

Classic FFXI

Classic WoW

Tibia??!

• Star Wars Galaxies

A sandbox sim that was far from perfect, but was the most enjoyable blend of "hang out in a chatroom" and "play this computer game" that I've ever gotten involved with. In particular I remember rolling with a big group of much higher-level players because the game didn't really penalize you for having lower-level people in your group - like the XP they would get would be prorated but it was still more than you could get solo. It's a shame they mangled it so bad the only remaining option was to kill it.

• Planetside

Hell yeah brother this game was the game that Battlefield wishes it could be. I loved rolling around in the Max suits, I loved getting a platoon together and doing Galaxy drops, and probably my favorite trick was knowing which parts of the map all of the would-be snipers liked to hang out at and go strafe them to death with an aircraft. I don't often say this but this game was ruined by the addition of giant mechs.

• City of Heroes

Had the benefit of existing before the Marvel movies completely ruined cape slop for me, this game still has one of the benchmark character creators but my favorite thing about it by far was the "movement power" you unlocked at level fourteen - speed, jumping, flight or teleportation. Mounts suck and they're boring, but having my character portal around never got old. There have been spiritual successors since it died but none that properly captured the vibe.

I loved FFXIV although I last played it during Shadowbringers and I only got a touch through the MSQ there.

As a dad I just have zero time for daily login bonuses. If China ever bans them and it ripples through the industry in a way that makes MMOs quit doing that toxic shit I'd consider coming back, but these days I just don't have the time or energy.

The quests/story were very cool though, and all three roles were pretty fun to play, in the more casual content at least, never touched the really hard stuff, even back in the day I didn't have that amount of time to commit.

the only MMO I play regularly these days is OSRS, but I did like WoW when I used to play it. I tried playing it again a while ago but every public chat is just a giant klan rally so I had to turn it off.

1. Guild Wars
2. Guild Wars 2
3. Guild Wars Nightfall

1. Old school RuneScape (or RuneScape 2)
2. RuneScape (classic)
3. RuneScape 3

Phantasy Star Online. I really wanna' try FF11 some day since I seem to like that era of MMORPG more than what's happened since. Would also like to try the SMT Imagine MMO someday if the private servers ever come back.

1. Tibia
2. Monster Hunter Frontier
3. Dragon's Dogma Online

Anyone who has played Ultima would probably like Tibia. Very similar vibes but Tibia is a game well past its prime.

Honorable mention to Dragon Quest X

FFXIV, Guild Wars 1 and 2.

FFXIV the only one I still play. I own GW2 Secrets of the Obscure, but I dunno if I'll ever bother to play it.