Sandbox type - UO

Themepark - EQ

RvR/PvP - DAoC

Best MMO in the last 6 years....Vanguard despite its problems, shame they got rid of the pvp servers and left it to rot for so long.

Vanguard and SWG had the best crafting/harvesting.

Anarchy Online - Twinkers heaven

EVE Online - Living breathing world

Underlight as character Jevik Bane. EQ1 as GM Mennix.

WoW hands down. i've played mmo's for 12 years, but after playing WoW for 5 I haven't been able to get into another mmo. Everything else just seems like a crappy knock-off. 

I'm hoping that ArcheAge changes my mmo drought though. 

Very easy answer for me.

EQ pre PoP.

The first 6 months of play in WoW for the first time in 2005.

best mmorpgs i have played

1-WoW

2-GW2

nothing else has picked my interest as much as these 2 have done it.

I can say i have played over a 100 mmorpgs and all are meh! enough to walk away from them.

FFXIV:ARR has the potential to join the 3rd place on my list but it is a wait-and-see right now.

1. Asherons Call
2. GW2
3. DAoC
4. Elder Scrolls Online  (because I want to piss off haters)

anarchy online

age of conan

swg

those 3 combined would be great

Finding a PC magazine with a small article and a picture of Everquest 1 within it was the start of a 13 yr love affair with the EQ series.

There was literally nothing else like it on the market at that time, the graphics where for their time outstanding, the gameplay innovative, the fact you had Multiplayer functionality was unheard of on that scale, and to enter a persistent world so vast and with so many different races and classes was just awe inspiring.

My days where spent yearning to log into Norrath, while I was battling and questing my way through Norrath I can remember each new zone I was able to enter without being instantly killed by some red mob was another new and interesting place to explore, each zone was as different as the last, with bizarre creatures, dark deep and dangerous dungeons to explore, all of them open to the entire game world at all times.

The game was tough, but it was so rewarding to finally here that Ding of gaining a new lvl, seeing my first lvl 50 character running through Kelethin was a unique experience, all of us in the grp thought the player was almost Godlike to have achieved such a lofty lvl, when it was taking us days on end just to get 1 lvl under our belt.

Everquest when it first appeared on the market was a game that had a harsh death penalty (you could easily lose a lvl without an cleric to give you an experience rez), you could easily lose your body and all your items if you died in the wrong place, this added such an air of danger that when you entered a dungeon you where actually cautious about where to go, what to attack and how the heck you could get back out of there incase things went bad, and they did quite frequently.

The game stayed this way for a number of years, but then the competition came out, they changed things, and suddenly corpse runs where replaced with an npc who could bring you your body, dungeons suddenly had private instances, the harsh death penalty wasn't so harsh anymore, and it became a breeze to lvl, the game lost it's appeal, not over night but very slowly as it tried to compete with every other new MMO release.

I still buy the expansions, and I'm hoping EQNext will be something that I can enjoy again.

Originally posted by azzamasin

1. Asherons Call
2. GW2
3. DAoC
4. Elder Scrolls Online  (because I want to piss off haters)

You already played that?

Are you a wizard?

WoW is easily the best, but even the best MMORPG can't keep me hooked for 8 years+. So I bounce around other games, which do some things right, but not as many things as WoW.