1. Everquest

2. Guild Wars 1  (yes i know its not a mmo but for me it was as much a mmo as DDO)

3. Everquest 2

4. Guild Wars 2

5. DAOC

1. EVE Online

2. World Of Warcraft

3. Guild Wars

4. -

5. -

1- EQ (Original through GoD)

2- Vanilla WoW (I'll include through Lich King)

3- EQ2 (Original through Kunark was great)

4- FFXI

5- Age of Conan

1. DAOC

2. City of Heroes

3. Pirates of the Burning Sea

4. Ryzom

5. Vanguard

1. EQ

2. Daoc

3. EQ2

4. Shadowbane

5. World of Warcraft ,vanilla......And Lich King

1.  City of Heroes.

2.  EQ

3. DAOC

4. WOW

5. LOTRO

1) Warcraft - shallow themepark with gear grind and some sort of magic that keeps pulling me back for 8 years

2) Lineage II

3) Knight Online

4) DAOC

5) SWG

1. WoW (Vanilla through LK) - Was my first mmo, stayed 6 years
2. LOTRO - Huge world, awesome environmental art and excellent story
3. The Secret World - Bought the lifetime on this one, no regrets
4. Rift - Dimensions (housing). Only real reason I play the game and I love it.
Nothing else makes this list

- EQ

- EVE Online

- Vanguard: SoH

- LotRo

- Vanilla WoW

It was tough to come up with 5 for an "all time" list honestly.

Originally posted by hyllstarter

1) Pre-cu SWG

2) Cu SWG

3) NGE SWG

4) everything else tied.

Ditto!

Since you only said MMO and not MMORPG my list is this:

1. Planetside (The Original)

2. WoW - Only because it was my 2nd most played game (You did say all time)

3. Rift - Is currently my #1 MMORPG

4. Planetside 2

5. Tie between TSW, GW2, and Aion.

1. Eve Online

2.  Asheron's Call

3.  SWG - before it was screwed up

4.  LOTRO

5.  Nothing else comes to mind, too many games that were too similar...

My Best,

Ezra Steel

1. Asherons Call 1

2. Ultima Online

3. Meridian 59

4. The Realm

5. Star Wars Galaxies

Just about everything else had crap PvE grinding for gear to replace skill in PvP in their themepark carrot on a stick format to cover its bland gameplay that has become modern MMOs.

1-WOW (first 4 years only)

2-GW2

3-Eve online

4 Rift

The rest is a bit generic/dull and only caught my imagination for a small amount of time.

1. EQ
2. DAoC
3. WoW
4. Rift
5. GW2

Originally posted by Aeonblades
This thread is pleasantly surprising, I didn't know there were so many DAoC fans still out there!

 I'd pay to play DAoC pre ToA.

My top 3 (I don't have any other tops)-

1) EQ

2) DAoC

3) WoW

1. AC

2. SWG (pre CU, NGE)

3. TSW

4. WoW

5. EVE Online

1) Pirates Of  The Burning Sea

2) GW1

3) EveOnline

1.) Ultima Online

2.) Rift

3.) World of Warcraft (Vanilla / Pre-BG's)

4.) Star Wars Galaxies (Pre-CU)

5.) City of Heroes / Villains

1.  Everquest -  I started on MUDs and even did UO before it, but this game just got me hooked.  I played it obsessively for over 5 years.  Not much more needs to be said.  For it's time it was the well deserved reigning king of MMOs.

2.  Guild Wars 2 - Guild Wars 2 is a fantastic game and I'm currently playing it and plan to play it for at least another year.  The WvW is a lot of fun (unlike other MMO PvP which typically feels boring) and I love the combat system.  There are some things that could certainly use a lot of work here and there though.

3.  WoW (particularly Vanilla - TBC) - WoW was a great game.  It's still a decent game, but for the most part they kinda went in the wrong direction with content starting mid TBC with a series of nerfs to heroic dungeons and catering more to the casual coward, still I always felt this was a fantastic MMO and probably easily the most polished of the lists here.

4.  Rift - Like WoW, it's very polished.  I feel like the content in Rift was slightly superior to WoW's but it did come later than WoW so I can't feasibly put it above WoW.  It also shares many similarilities with WoW.

5.  Age of Conan - Honestly, my #5 came really close to a lot of MMOs.  Age of Conan had a massive amount of problems, especially when it launched that wasn't fixed in a timely matter that ultimately made me quit playing the game (and a lack of good content updates after release), but for the most part my AoC experience was a lot of fun, and that's what is important.  It truely is a very different MMO in a lot of aspects and I feel it never gets the credit it deserves.

Honorable Mentions:  The Secret World, Warhammer Online, and Final Fantasy XI.