Bored? Interested in checking out a piece of MMORPG history? Check out the Realm Online, the first ever MMORPG released in the mid 90's which still has a small community online everyday.

DAoC, EQ and such will come and go but how many games will have players still l left after 15 years? The Realm Online will.

The graphics and such may be a little lax and the combat is more like final fantasy turn based but it is still a very interesting play. I had my first taste as a 9 year old and I am now 20. The game has about 150-200 subscribers left who play, and I would love to see some people check out the free trial.

www.realmserver.com

Atleast you can say you tried the first ever MMORPG? Start off in newbie gear that has remained the same for over a decade and end up in armor released last year off of dragons with 50,000+ HP.

I have played almost every MMORPG released, and I still come back to The Realm for the close knit community.

I hope maybe a few will be interested, please bump.

Indestructible - the Realm Online

No offense, but you would get more people there if the game was free. I really cant see many people paying $6.99 per month for it

Sorry the first MMO was UO, none of the others was a commercial product.

Actually, The Realm wasn't the first mmorpg. The very first graphical MMORPG was an AOL game called Never Winter Nights (not to be confused with the NWN made by Bioware many years later).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neverwinter_Nights_(AOL_game)

And Ozmodan, even if we go by your criteria Ultima Online still wasn't the first.

For one yes realm was commercial its was sierras online baby at one time went too codemasters now its norsemans and the game was out before uo.Its not the first mmo however its just the longest running mmo.However the playerbase are pretty much just us old school realmers who are pretty loyal too the game the game has lots of history for many of us.

If it was free, I'd play it for a day, probably an hour. AO and Shadowbane and Runscape... all free, not paying for a game this old.

Originally posted by Gameloading

Actually, The Realm wasn't the first mmorpg. The very first graphical MMORPG was an AOL game called Never Winter Nights (not to be confused with the NWN made by Bioware many years later).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neverwinter_Nights_(AOL_game)

And Ozmodan, even if we go by your criteria Ultima Online still wasn't the first.

Dang i look up more on it and found this archive site for it hehe

http://www.bladekeep.com/nwn/

"The game originally cost USD$6.00 per hour to play. As the years progressed, Internet connection costs dropped, AOL and NWN membership grew, the servers became faster and the hourly player charge declined. As a result of these upgrades, the capacity of each server grew from 50 players in 1991 to 500 players by 1995. Ultimately the game became a free part of the AOL subscriber service.

Near the end of its run in 1997 the game had 115,000 players and typically hosted 2,000 adventurers during prime evening hours, a 4000% increase over 1991.[2]"

Freaking aye we got it made today, people payed 6 dollars an hour to play! O.o at first.

Neverwinter Nights AOL ran from 1991 to 1997

Meridian 59 First launched online in an early form on December 15, 1995 and released commercially in September 1996 with a flat-rate monthly subscription

Furcadia December 16, 1996

The Realm Online December 31 1996

Ultima Online September 25, 1997

There ya go.

Originally posted by Scalebane

Originally posted by Gameloading

Actually, The Realm wasn't the first mmorpg. The very first graphical MMORPG was an AOL game called Never Winter Nights (not to be confused with the NWN made by Bioware many years later).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neverwinter_Nights_(AOL_game)

And Ozmodan, even if we go by your criteria Ultima Online still wasn't the first.

Dang i look up more on it and found this archive site for it hehe

http://www.bladekeep.com/nwn/

"The game originally cost USD$6.00 per hour to play. As the years progressed, Internet connection costs dropped, AOL and NWN membership grew, the servers became faster and the hourly player charge declined. As a result of these upgrades, the capacity of each server grew from 50 players in 1991 to 500 players by 1995. Ultimately the game became a free part of the AOL subscriber service.

Near the end of its run in 1997 the game had 115,000 players and typically hosted 2,000 adventurers during prime evening hours, a 4000% increase over 1991.[2]"

Freaking aye we got it made today, people payed 6 dollars an hour to play! O.o at first.

Yes  you do.  The per hour price was crazy yet fun.  Also, there was a game called the shadows of yserbius.

Just to add:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_MMORPGs

The first "MMO's" were called MUDs (Multi-Use Dungeons) that were text-only games in the late 1980's - early 1990's.

Nevrewinter Nights on AOL came next, followed by the others mentioned above in this thread.

Yserbius was a dungeon MMO and part of a subscription gaming site known as Sierra On Line's INN - I remember playing closed beta for Yserbius in the early 1990's.

And yes, costs back then were outrageous.  I remember Sierra On Line's INN costing more that $125 a month for unlimited service.

Originally posted by Lizante

The first "MMO's" were called MUDs (Multi-Use Dungeons) that were text-only games in the late 1980's - early 1990's.

Nevrewinter Nights on AOL came next, followed by the others mentioned above in this thread.

Yserbius was a dungeon MMO and part of a subscription gaming site known as Sierra On Line's INN - I remember playing closed beta for Yserbius in the early 1990's.

And yes, costs back then were outrageous.  I remember Sierra On Line's INN costing more that $125 a month for unlimited service.

 

History101

Look at those days, i can't imagine we were experiencing some state of the art technology and thinking we cnt live without them...

Originally posted by Ozmodan

Sorry the first MMO was UO, none of the others was a commercial product.

Wrong.  Meridian 59 was commercial through 3DO before UO was born. 

Talk about what you don't know more.  It's entertaining.

Originally posted by Ozmodan

Sorry the first MMO was UO, none of the others was a commercial product.

Meridian 59 was the first MMO and it was in true 3D.

Sorry, I didn't see the post above before I made my post.

Originally posted by WisebutCruel

Neverwinter Nights AOL ran from 1991 to 1997

Meridian 59 First launched online in an early form on December 15, 1995 and released commercially in September 1996 with a flat-rate monthly subscription

Furcadia December 16, 1996

The Realm Online December 31 1996

Ultima Online September 25, 1997 

Brings back memories... I played all those games back in their heydays, especially NWN on AOL for a long time. Imagine not only paying for AOL/NWN but a long distance phone bill to dial up. Good times... Then I played UO from 1998 until, err 2006? I can't remember when I quit finally. MMOG players definitely have it good now compared to back then...

Originally posted by Darkholme

Originally posted by WisebutCruel

Neverwinter Nights AOL ran from 1991 to 1997

Meridian 59 First launched online in an early form on December 15, 1995 and released commercially in September 1996 with a flat-rate monthly subscription

Furcadia December 16, 1996

The Realm Online December 31 1996

Ultima Online September 25, 1997 

Brings back memories... I played all those games back in their heydays, especially NWN on AOL for a long time. Imagine not only paying for AOL/NWN but a long distance phone bill to dial up. Good times... Then I played UO from 1998 until, err 2006? I can't remember when I quit finally. MMOG players definitely have it good now compared to back then...

 

We should link this thread evertime some kid cries about $15 a month being overpriced.

my first mmo doesn't live more lol  but i still play the games which are not free..as for the free games, i never play for a long time..i don't know why..

 Furcadia December 16, 1996

I thought furries were a more recent phenomenon.

Originally posted by Revenant007

 Furcadia December 16, 1996

 

I thought furries were a more recent phenomenon.

Furries are not remotely new they were just a way to add character personality/alignment/whatever without actually having to tell the readers/watchers.   The media just decided to cover the freaky extremes which attracts well more freaky scary people.

May be the first mmo, but the first GOOD mmo, was ultima online :). Realm never immersed me like UO did.