Proberbly like the rest of you I've had my fingers burnt by a few mmos ToR and Vanguard spring to mind but others have been worth the price paid .

For me they are

WoW even though its trash now I had 4 years solid playing it and have since returned for maybe a month or two each year . Those orginal 4 years were proberbly the best I've spent in any mmo . I just wish it had kept up the quality and challenge it once offered .

Lotro brought a couple of months after release and got a life times subscription for half price about a year later on a welcome back week

Rift which has proven to be a lot of fun for me . I guess not everyones cup of tea but for me its mmo Nirvana.

Guild Wars 2 great value given its buy to play can see myself playing this one casually for years to come .

EverQuest for sure. Played from 00-04 and was easily the best time I've had in any MMO to date.

Rift would be a second because I bought it for $4.99 on a promotion after the ascend a friend trial I got.

Guild Wars 2 probably. Put in about 60 hours so far and can see myself playing casually for quite a while.

Pretty much all of them.

It's rare that I didn't get to the end of the free month... I didn't in WAR, but even that gave me 30-40 hours.

I have played more single player games that I felt ripped me off then MMOs tbh.

I got a lot of fun from uo but asheronscall also was a great game i wish more games gave me that much of fun from just sub and the box

And daoc was good for pvp fun but the mileage wasn't from the grinding because that suck and is why its a wow clone in many way..... like eq but very different this time .  Of the best woild be eve because of the games worth my money it really did keep fun all day night long over and over again. even yesterday was fun and Ive been playing since 2003. 

right now i'm playing GW2 and its keeping me the entertain alot. a whole lot but i forgot my password yesterday so I have to wait for support replies to get it fixed because lol cant candycorn without account! lol

Ultima Online

Asheron's Call

Dark Age of Camelot

World of Warcraft

Those all gave me years of entertainment, and were well worth the price of the box/expansion/subscription fees.

Games that I wish I'd never spent money on.

SWTOR

Warhammer

GW1

I would say all of them were worth the money. If I was able to play a game for a few weeks or months, then the fifty dollars or so was well worth it. I would say UO,EQ,EQ2,DOAC  were a steal for me, years of 15 dollars a month for 100's of hour of entertainment.

Oddly GW2 was the closest to a waste of money for me, but I got a warrior to 37 and just couldn't find the motivation to play anymore. Making it 30ish hours in the game made it worth the money.  I had pre-purchased and kind of knew in beta it wasn't my thing, but I'm not one of those people who chase after a refund when I made the buying decision. It is still on my comp though, just in case.

It's the single player games that make me feel ripped off.......50-60 dollars for 10 hours? I've actually pulled back from alot of single player titles. I wait 6 months and get them for cheap, then they are worth it.

Guild Wars 1 (no argument please over whether this is a TRUE MMO)

LotRO (through Isengard; lore-breaking by raiding IN ISENGARD sent me packing)

TSW

MMO - Value for money, Top being most value, and bottom least.

Rift

Lineage 2

LOTRO (Before f2p)

Vanguard (obv before f2p)

TSW

EQ2 (obv before f2p)

Hellgate (even after f2p)

SWTOR

GW2

WOW

WAR

Conan

DAOC

GW1 (Bought every box, never like anything about it past the original)

That is my 2cents

Originally posted by Loktofeit

And daoc was good for pvp fun but the mileage wasn't from the grinding because that suck and is why its a wow clone in many way..... like eq but very different this time .  Of the best woild be eve because of the games worth my money it really did keep fun all day night long over and over again. even yesterday was fun and Ive been playing since 2003. 

 

DAOC a WoW clone? It was released years before Wow and it was nothing like WoW.

Originally posted by Tayah

Originally posted by Loktofeit

And daoc was good for pvp fun but the mileage wasn't from the grinding because that suck and is why its a wow clone in many way..... like eq but very different this time .  Of the best woild be eve because of the games worth my money it really did keep fun all day night long over and over again. even yesterday was fun and Ive been playing since 2003. 

DAOC a WoW clone? It was released years before Wow and it was nothing like WoW.

too easy :)

EQ, EQ2, GW2.

All were worth the $$ I Spent on them. Had/having a great time, met some great people, still friends with most of them many many years later.

Every now & then we remember some of the great times we had in the older games, I guess it does say something about how important the journey and the community are rather than the end game. 

Honnestly, all MMOs i've bought were worth the 50 odd Euro i've spent for them. If i get 50 -100 hours of gameplay out of a game i usually see my money as well spent, even if i dropped the game afterwards or did not resub.

Nowadays there's single player titles charging you 50 bucks for 5 hours of gameplay.

the only games that had kept me playing for more than a week were WAR, eq2, and runescape (5+ years subbing at one point) and ive bought alot of mmos such as wow, aion, eve, aoc, rift, and even gw2.  For some reason i only find random games entertaining even though they are the same themepark style game.

Lucky you, OP, to get a LOTRO lifetime! I'd buy it today if it was available.

To answer the question, they all were worth it except Aion.

Worth the money: EQ, EQ2, DAOC, GW2, AoC after the Godslayer Expansion

Not worth the money: WoW, Rift, TSW, DCUO, WAR, LOTRO, SWTOR (it was ok for a month, not for a sub)

Had promise but ultimately not worth the money: SWG, Vanguard, FFIV

Hope they will be worth the money: Neverwinter, DF:UW, Archeage

Kingdom of Drakkor........beta and beyond......before they made it easy to level.  By todays standards it's trash, but it was my first , had a great community and open gameplay. I loved the fact in early game that you could solo just about anywhere if you could get big enough.  Leveling took months but you really saw the results of making a level, that gave me years of fun.

UO......finally lured me away.  The pvp was unmatched.   Builds were unique and aloting points was critical to a good build.  Only game I ever played that gave me that sense of danger as soon as I left town.  Great game.

Everquest....The grapics drew me away from UO.....I know they don't look like much now, but in the day they were amazing!

Loved the way they made classes dependant on each other.  Made tons of friends some of which I still keep up with today.

World of tanks......ftp, but not really if you compete, you buy gold :)............Was great fun for a short time, but repetition got old fast.

That's about it for me, but I am still looking for that next special one.  On secret world now, but it's not it. maybe the next will grab me :).