Not in my experience.  Many times I meet someone we play together for like 1 year and then all of a sudden you never see them again. 

I met a person on EQ1 we played for 2 years.  then they just stopped logging in.  When I went to EQ2 I was wandering around and saw her name over a character.  I went up to her and she ignored me.  Then I realized she was an NPC with the same name as my friend in EQ1.

Sad really.

My other hobby is amateur radio and I use various electronic parts as the name for my characters.  Such as ...

Diode , Zener, Pentode, Dipole and so on.

I have completely given up on AO.  I still do not believe that the upgrade on the graphics will ever happen. I mean we have been told it was coming since around 2006 if memory serves.

The game is dying around them.  I think it is too late to save it even if they FINALLY update the graphics.  Even with all the bugs it had it was a great game.  I met so many great people and playing it was a blast.

I will be sad when they finally decide to put it to rest, but I think it would be best if they would just put it out of its misery.

Originally posted by Khrymson

What customer service!?   I never could get through to them after 5hrs on hold, because apparently my security question answers were changed{which I've been reading happens to be an issue for many}, thus I couldn't log in.   A few hours later I attempted to log in again, seeing as the locked out status appeared to have cleared and hoping I'd get a different question, only this time my password didn't work anymore.  Apparently they went and changed that on me too...

 

So I did the password reset, and immediately after that, my account returned to its locked out status, and I can't do anything!

 

So fuck it, as I said earlier, apparently EA and Bioware just don't care about everyone...

 

 

And please stop with, "but it just launched yesterday BS.  Issues are bound to happen like this" ~ seriously, even the worst of MMO launches never had these horrible account problems!

 You obviously did not play Anarchy Online when it first started.

 

Too few corps control too much in EVE.  I know its supposed to be an sandbox but as others have said unless you want to become a slave to those that play almost 23/7 and make EVE your second job, you are nothing.

I played EVE from the start when it was fun.  But no longer.

I am with you 100%.

However get used to the way it is now.  It will only get worse.

Originally posted by Papamac

Originally posted by cheyane

I am 50 + I demand my own place to put a dot.

Ditto.  I'll be turning 53 this month, and I don't plan on giving up gaming anytime soon.  It wouldn't surprise me if there were some 60+ gamers out there.

I am 66 years OLD.

One nice thing about being that old is I will die before MMO's get much worse.

I played SWG from the start.  Don't know about woodstock as I was in the army at that time.

  "Now that high-quality, big-budget multiplayer games are going free to play, I think the negative stigma that once surrounded free to play games will soon (finally) be dispelled.  Players will realize that a business model is just that, and does not speak directly to the quality of a game."

What a line of BS.  Give us a good quality P2P game and this FTP cancer will go away.

I would like to have seen in your poll the catagory...

The ability to group

However I feel that is a lost cause.

I was looking forward to TSW. However not any more.  I like a poster above me noticed the Facebook crap for getting into beta.

I gave Funcom a lot of money to play AO.  Well guess what Funcom.  the only way you are going to get another cent from me is to pry it from my cold dead fingers.

 "Traditionally dominated by PC and console games, events like Gamescom these days are more often showing the rising stars of the industry, like browser, MMOs and F2P games. They are now being recognized by many of the 'old' players as being a valid model for the future, and are starting to really get the attention they deserve."

Well here is one "old player" that thinks if what is described as a "valid model for the future", then the future can happen without me.

Sigh.

MMOs are slowy turning into fecal matter.

This is a prime example of  "Tempest in a Teapot"

I mean really, this is EVE, situation normal.

Sadly the OP is correct.

I played the game from start-up until about a year ago when I stopped believing "Means" about the graphics / engine upgrade.

You stated "  I also believe that communities are all about building personal relationships. "

One thing I have noticed is that the more casual MMO's became the less the community works together.  Once MMO's started attracting the "Great Unwashed" the communities in games have frankly gone to hell in a handbasket.

I would play Anarchy Online before the Shadowlands expansion.

As far as I am concerned there are no "Real MMO's" anymore.

I am also trying the game.

Maybe I am getting too old but I can't quite grasp the mining.  In the tutorial it goes on about scanning area and scanning tiles but I am having a time trying to find the locations on the map.  Generally confused.

As far as I am concerned Funcom just dropped the soap, and took all of us with it.