It's so hard to believe that the best online experience I had was only updated with new content for about two years. Somehow it's still alive, but it's basically on life-support now.Īlso the original Guild Wars. Sadly it was always hampered by a really poor monetization scheme, and its target audience were basically people who wanted to play casual browser games but play them in a hardcore way, which I imagine is a pretty small market. In a way it feels like the game was way ahead of its time, as the concept could work great on phones. Not really a standard MMO, but I really enjoyed playing it - mostly because it put a huge emphasis on player skill, party content, and the community was incredibly friendly. Oddly, a lot of them are being re-released on Steam lately, somehow.Ī very unconventional opinion, but one game I do wish was still alive is Puzzle Pirates. I played a ton of crap Korean F2P MMOs back in the day, and don't miss them one bit (except for Pangya, which was great). I didn't play on these as much but they're definetely starting to gradually fade away.Īnyone else had similar experiences with the genre? Other ones I can think of are Age of Conan, Wizards 101, and. Most of the active playerbase at this point were older people who had nothing else going on in their life other than this game and would follow the same daily rituals of playing several hours a day, grinding for the same items and quests. I played it on and off until around 2015 and man, it was depressing. By the time I started playing it it was already losing many of its playerbase. The site is still up, and it's in a sad state of affairs.Ī MMO I played when I was around 10 was Asheron's Call, released in 1999. In the early 2010's they started adding micro-transactions and made it a lot more difficult to earn currency to feed your pets, so that got me and a lot of other people straying away. I played WebKinz a lot when I was younger. I decided to go back to see how some of these places were faring and was disappointing to see that they're either dying a prolonged death or closed entirely not with a bang, but a whimper. I was a huge MMO junkie when I was a kid and in my teens. I was inspired to make this thread after reading over the dying Youtubers one.