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anyone ever played everquest??

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jetto:
anyone?

Numsgil:
I played Ultima Online for a while.  Never touched Everquest.

PurpleYouko:
I don't play anything tht I have to pay for every month. Don't mind a one off fee for membership but not Monthly or a time card or that kind of stuff.

Something like Guild Wars is OK.

Yossarian:
I felt like that, that why would I want to pay for a game that I've already paid for? However, I know a lot of guys at work who play World of Warcraft, and that's all they talk about. WoW this, WoW that, you get the idea. So when PCGamer included a 2-week trial a couple of months ago, I checked it out, and I have to admit it was pretty fun. The world was MASSIVE compared with other computer RPG's. Plus there were several patches released in just the two weeks I played it, including a huge one that added new zones to the world. I was impressed.

Thing is, I'm not much for sword and scorcery stuff anymore (stopped playing D&D in jr. high, thank you). But I started to warm up to the idea that a huge game that is heavily supported could be worth the $15/month, at least for a few months. Fate heard me say that, and the next month in PCGamer, they included a 3-week free trial of City of Heroes. I checked it out, and now I subscribe. I can't say I'm going to stick with it for the long term, but for now it's pretty fun.

So I guess the moral of the story is I suggest you search out a free trial of whatever game interests you. MMO's are better than I thought they were. Besides, the way I figure it, I got 3 weeks free, then I bought the game for $30, which comes with 30 days free. So it seems that even at $15/month, I'll be getting 3.75 months of playtime out of the same money that would buy a normal $50 game (which sometimes lose my interest in less than 3.75 months).

Numsgil:
MMOs are two things in my mind:

1.  Really fun

2.  Really dangerous.

The two are even interrelated.  The fun comes from always having goals you can work to attain.  The danger comes in forgetting life exists outside that little virtual world.

I learned a long time ago: if I want to have any interaction with reality, I have to stay away from MMOs.

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