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What are people's favourite pre-WOW MMOs that are still worth playing today? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I long for the days of yore, but I never really got into MMOs until WOW and I've always been jealous heating the stories of people playing MMOs prior.

At some point in the future I'm going to be making an XP era PC build where I plan to play some older games from my childhood as well and any MMOs from that era that I missed out on

Also going to try and get properly into FFXI at some point too but I'm wanting to hear other suggestions too.

I've tried everquest but the way they center the character in the 3rd person view starts to mess with my motion sickness a bit feeling like I have to look at the ground a lot more than I'd normally prefer.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Ragnarok Online was pretty great and you can still play it with private servers. This is a very chill game, mostly about the vibes and hanging out, you'll probably need a friend to enjoy this with because IDK if you'll get much out of it just grinding with random people. When you pick a private server you should probably find one with low exp rates, like 10x or less, if you've never played before.

Phantasy Star Online isn't really an MMO (it's pretty much a clone of Diablo except 3rd person and sci-fi) but it was heavily marketed as one. Grab the "Blue Burst" version for PC and play on a private server. You'll probably want to use a controller for it. This one you could play with randoms.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

City of Heroes was awesome and it holds up today, but is only available on private servers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

CoH was so cool. I'm not typically a big MMO fan but that was definitely a good one. I did also play on the private server briefly when that came out. This thread was about pre-WoW though so it doesn't qualify.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

CoH was released before WoW. In fact, WoW pretty much killed CoH. The servers went to full all the time to barely populated. I migrated over to WoW myself.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Holy crap that's surprising to me lol, CoH seems so advanced. I never got into WoW