Simple poll, have you ever played Everquest, Ultima Online, or Asheron's Call, for at least 6 months of subscription?

Or, have you never played any of those, and your all your MMORPG experience starts with newer games?

Played UO for a couple of years.

EQ and AC no, not my kind of games.

My MMO experience started in Star Wars Galaxies, so I never played anything earlier. Quite unfortunately, nothing has come even close to topping that experience, and with current trends I don't think anything will. Sad.

Played AC for several years.  Best game I've ever played, and ruined most others for me.

UO was my first MMORPG, also it was my favorite of all time.  Nothing has come close IMO to what UO had as far as MMO experience.  Most MMOs I see today I get the same experience in console gaming.  If they continue making MMORPGs like this I predict that console gaming will start to steal some of their market, as consoles continue to diversify of course. 

Lineage was my first mmorpg, that came out in 98, so that poll does not apply to me i guess.

Played UO up until EQ was released, & Played AC casually alongside EQ for a while but lost interest in it, I stayed with EQ for around 8 years taking 12 months off in the middle & I stopped playing it to join WAR when it came out in Sept 08.

Planning to rejoin either EQ or EQ2 next year, & bumming around in F2P stuff in the meantime.

I started on AC, but I was pretty casual.

I played all 3 for over a year each, and liked each one for different reasons.

It's kind of funny how the first Big Three represented all styles of MMO gameplay..

You had UO - The Sandbox

EQ - The Themepark

AC - The Hybrid

Yet it's unfortunate that only one of those types really caught on.

Hybrid is coming back, stronger than ever.

Point me in the direction of one, because I have yet to see a true hybrid since AC.  :(

I played EQ1 for a month then me any my friends all went to FFXI .   I play AC for the free trial and never played UO . Sadly when my friends were playing it my computer sucked ass and I never thought of buying a graphics card. Computers were a new thing for me then and I was 15 at the time UO came out. Plus I usually spent all my money on herb or trying to keep up with my skateboarding habit anyways. lol

Originally posted by Sheista

Point me in the direction of one, because I have yet to see a true hybrid since AC.  :(

FFXIV, we have to wait a year for it to release though :(

I played all three of those.  UO at release, EQ at release, AC for a brief time.  I hated every second of EQ that I played but I had friends that played.  Luckily after Kunark launched I was able to talk them into switching over to UO which I played for about 5 years off and on.  AC was brief, probably the only one I didn't really give much time on, maybe a month or two but I was really burnt out on MMOs and went to play FPS's for a while.

I played EQ and AC for 3 years and liked AC the most.  If only they capped the levels to a point, its my only complaint.  Hopefully Mortal Online will be like Asherons Call, heres hoping.

I swore I would never pay to play an online game.. and then SWG was announced. Since then, I've played many MMO's, but none of those three.

Started off with Asheron's Call back in '99. Loved every minute of that game, played until '05. Still resub and mess around from time to time. Favorite MMO to this day.

Played EverQuest from '01-'02, but it just couldn't pull me away from Asheron's Call. Was too used to having my character built around the skills I wanted, and hated the templates. Go figure this is 80% of the industry now.

Played Ultima after my experience with both the above, only played briefly, around a week. Honestly don't remember too much, didn't see many people around other than the friend that got me to try it out.

 I actually was one of the beta testers for the original EQ. I played for years.

I also played AC and UO on their releases. I was in part of the beta for AC as well.

I can't recall which was first for me, EQ or M59 though.

I played EQ for well over 5 years. I would return to it now if they merged a whole heap of servers, and launched a Locked Progression Server that opened over time, not by deed :)

UO - Never liked it was very clunky.

AC - Never tried it :)