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Meryl SinGarda
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Posted - 2012.04.06 01:25:00 -
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I originally found EVE back in 2003/2004 when I first started playing the MMO, Anarchy Online. I was hanging out with members of a player oganisation I had joined and one of them was talking about this guy, (not exact quote) "yeah, it sounds way better than AO. I hear he's lvl 400." and the other friend asked something along the lines of, "what's the cap?!" Which was followed by, "there is no cap."
That right there sparked my interest. But the image that was embedded in my mind at that moment was something like two-dimensional spaceships flying against a black background with strange faces, lots of money and a never-ending level grind.
Around 2005/2006 some bad things happened in a player organisation a friend and I had been running, so I tried out EVE. Confused the bejeebers out of me and dropped it immediately.
3 to 4 years later, after constantly being in and out of WoW, due to its horrible community and unsatisfying gameplay, I came back.
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Meryl SinGarda
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Posted - 2012.04.06 09:07:00 -
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baltec1 wrote:SWG was murdered by SOE and EVE was the only other MMO offering a real market and risk.
I wish I could have been around for SWG when it wasn't crap. I heard about it way too late. Also, can't stand SWTOR. But I'll stop. I have no reason to derail/troll this thread. ;D
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Meryl SinGarda
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Posted - 2012.04.06 09:23:00 -
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Elsebeth Rhiannon wrote:I used to play Anarchy Online, which had a lovely shades-of-grey scifi setting, which was totally ruined by wanting to make it into a better-selling fantasy game and adding an idiotic background story about ebil superbeings controlling one side and goodiegood superbeing controlling the other and oh gods don't make me think about it, it was too traumatic. The final straw was when in a dev chat the main storydev outright told astonished players that he thinks only stories with clearly defined good and evil are good stories. When the Shadowlands expansion did not really add anything fun to the gameplay either, I started to look for another scifi mmog and found EVE, which was then just out of beta and getting rave reviews comparing it to a "multiplayer Elite". I think I read about it first from some game site that listed MMOGs, but I cannot recall what the site was called. My RL friends who used to play AO soon followed me too.
Initially, I got most hooked by the fact that there was no real limits to who can play with whom. Friends could join months or years after me, and we could still meaningfully help each other on operations etc. No need to all have chars that we keep close to the same levels etc. It's a wonder that MMOGs in general have not moved away from that by now, tbh.
EDITed to add: hi to all ex-AOers. :) Seems a bunch of us made the switch in 2003/2004.
I'm interested as to which realm you were playing on. I probably wouldn't remember names, but I was on rk2 around that time and playing with an organisation called "Dark Templars of the Phoenix"
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Meryl SinGarda
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Posted - 2012.04.06 09:38:00 -
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Elsebeth Rhiannon wrote:Meryl SinGarda wrote:I'm interested as to which realm you were playing on. I probably wouldn't remember names, but I was on rk2 around that time and playing with an organisation called "Dark Templars of the Phoenix" I played for Shattered Dreams (neutral RP org) for a long time. I forget the server realm, tbh. I was trying to setup my own omnitek RP org around the time I quit.
Then you were on RK2. I recently took a look around Rubika and both Shattered Dreams and its leader is still around. Also, my character was Nuhmudiira.
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Meryl SinGarda
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Posted - 2012.04.06 19:48:00 -
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Ashley SchmidtVonGoldberg wrote:I realised that i was a complete failure in life and had no impact on anything.
People dismissed me and girls ignored me.
I found this game and realised that i was finally home with my own kind
I like when you post, it's hilarious. Especially that one time a new player was introducing himself on the forums. Have a like.
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