Been doing online gaming for over a decade now. :)

Started playing Gemstone III back in 96.
Moved on to The Realm Online in 98 and played that until 2004.
Beta tested Everquest and played until release. Never played again after that. :)
In late 04' I tried Final Fantasy XI
Played WoW from late 05 to early 07.
Played Eve Online from early 07 to present.
...and now I've found my way here. :)

-Eloricth

Cool. How did you like Eve Online? I've been thinking about trying that one.

I've played toontown for over a year, and then found pirates... I love the charm of the toons, besides it is safe for my kids to hop on anytime. I enjoy pirates because for all the controls (big brother Disney anyone?) it is more adult than toontown. I seem to be levelling fairly quickly, but need to work on my weapons most definitely... I absolutely enjoy these more social games vs. standard "games" for say wii or PC.

Arrrrrrgh!:buds:

It's an awesome game. Definitely for the older crowd that likes to think and strategize more than just run and gun. The universe is MASSIVE. You don't walk around as a person (not yet at least), but you fly spaceships.

Also, everything you know about conventional leveling mechanics you can take and throw out the window. You level/gain skills in real-time. In other words, you train a skill, and that skill can take hours, to days, to weeks to learn. The good news is that even when you're not signed in to the game, the skills continue to train. So you can set a long one, go to work, and then come back. You can also pause a skill that's in training to train another skill, and you will still retain all of the time spent training the first skill.

The game itself has waaaaay too many features/mechanics to explain in here, but the other really cool thing is that when you start raking in the dough (in-game) you can pay for your game membership with the money from in-game. Meaning you no longer have to pay the $15/month fee.

Overall, it's a really fun game -- if you have the patience for it.

POTCO is great, to me at least, because of it's simplicity. Simple things like not having to worry about an inventory, or an exponential amount of armor/weapon upgrades, means that you can spend more time playing and less time running to the shopkeep.

-Eloricth

For Multi: Toontown off and on. Kids played but got bored. I got bored with it too.

Other games: Counterstrike, Battlefield 2/BF 2142, Railroad Tycoon II, Total Annihilation, Diablo II

Currently I'm playing Pirates for computer games; I'm mostly a board/wargamer and prefer sitting at a table with friends instead of playing on the computer.

Pen & Paper games are awesome. :) Many a fun weekend I have had playing D&D & Battletech. Painting miniatures is a pastime now, unfortunately. :(

-Eloricth

I'm probably the minority but I never played any MMPOG before POTC.

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Haha its funny to see people's comments about Runescape! I used to play in back in junior high, I think I got up to level 40's and quit, it got seriously boring. Other than that I've never really played an online game although I have pondered getting the Sims online. Pirates is perfect for me, I'm completely addicted.

there wasn't an option on there for me. i didn't play any online games before POTC.

Club Penguin, Rakion, Perfect World, RF, Hellz yeah i play CP.

I played Shot Online. Only other MMO I have played.

Ummmm Adventurequest..... *puts on flameshield* lol.

VMK :) that's my first love ;)

I used to play another pirates game, based in Germany, called Seafight. I got right to the top, with a fully armed ship and then the game got a bit boring. I have even brought a few of my friends from www.Seafight.com over to PoTC with me.

Seafight is free to play, flash based, and really frustrating lol.

wow most of these ive never even heard of the ones i know are VMK POTCO Habbo Hotel (ick) Coke Music (boring) WoW (heard of it never played) Runescape (played for about a week then quit .-.) Clubpenguin (heard of it never played) Webkinz (heard of it from sister but never cared for it)