Favorite MMO?

[Sirion]

(07-02-2012 12:31 PM)Xannidel Wrote:  

(07-02-2012 10:46 AM)Arjahn Wrote:  As horrible as it is, I used to have a blast playing Runescape with my friends. It was our first real MMO, and despite how crappy it's become, it used to be simpler and a lot more fun to just party in the Hill Giant caverns.

Oh man don't get me started on how much fun Runescape used to be. I remember cutting magic trees in that elven area and fishing for lobsters and we did a few parties where the 3 headed black dragon was and doing Castle Wars.
Great times indeed.

I still log in on Runescape one or two times every year, just to see how it's doing, but I never really knew what to do. I used to start a lot of quests and rarely finishing them. That Romeo & Juliet quest was very fun, though.

But the fact that almost everything possible in the game is blocked for free players always made me mad. The map is huge, but you're only allowed to explore, like, 1/5 of it! Awful way of getting some bucks out of the game, if you ask me. I know they've been doing it years before in-game micro transactions were a proved way of successful business model, but couldn't they just rearrange this so Runescape goes the same way too? It would be a lot fairer to everybody.