So lately I've been getting mindbleedingly bored, hopping between MMOs every month or so for about a year now. So few games are fun enough to solo through the barren lower levels, consistent in gameplay so that you don't hit a brick wall where you can't solo anymore, or have to start raiding to advance. In the past year I have played:

Hellgate London- R.I.P.
Ragnarok Online- only can be entertaining for so much time still
Maplestory- again, entertaining until the grinding sinks in and the general population being about 12
Everquest- The 51/50 server that gets players past the low level grind intrigued me enough to try out this game again, but it suffered the same problem as before that every 5 levels the monsters you are hunting get a raid tier stronger.
Shards of Dalaya (Custom Everquest Server)- This is one of the few games I have gone back to many times. XP bonus for leveling up tradeskills, same XP gain per player for a 2 person group as a full 6 person group, along with no XP loss on death (instead has nonstacking xp debt). Only downside is the necessity to 2box for certain classes unless you always group, and the time it takes to form groups for the lower levels. A much better experience than everquest itself.
Everquest 2- With the tweaks and rebalancing it has gotten over the years, this ended up being tied for the most fun game I played the past couple years along with Hellgate London. I love the achievement system it uses, getting achievement xp for exploring, killing nontrivial named monsters the first time. It gives a purpose to exploring. I initially picked it up for the crafting system, as I had been looking for a game with a decent one, but the regular pve ended up being great as well. But I ended up letting the subscription run out as almost any mmo gets boring when you play it by yourself.
Asheron's Call- Also a great game, but it just isn't the same experience as it was 9 years ago, it has been reduced to a grindfest without attack abilitys, just autoattack and heal (or sometimes just being effectively immune to what you are fighting.)
LOTRO- I picked this up for a month to play with most of the dev group as we ended up having some extra free time due to certain events, but as per usual, a lot of time ended up being spent soloing, I ended up outleveling most of the group and got burned out. The legendary weapon system seems great though, if I put in the effort to solo grind through another 10 levels to get there.
WoW- I raided in WoW for 2 years before getting married and having a kid, and have gone back to it a couple of times and it just isn't as fun as it used to be, to much was changed and the inability to consistantly raid killed it for me. The changes going in with the next expansion sound great but I would have the same raiding issues, and my guild is down to about 5 of its original members, when it started out with myself and 4 RL friends who leveled up through all of the dungeons together.

In addition to those I played several free mmos (Luminary, Dungeon Runner, Combat Arms(FPS but it still kept my attention for a while), Vanguard trial(played 1 day before uninstalling), Dungeon Fighter Online(still playing the japanese version, as having to translate as I go is better than the localized version)) and probably 100 decent flash based games, but the most common quitting factor besides a game just being terrible was being forced to solo because of the lower population levels, or being unable to solo to progress. So I figured why not ask you guys to see if we can get a lot of people together on an MMO, even if it doesn't seem like it would end up being AC2 any time in the near future, and form up a guild and play together. Post any game you would be up for joining up on, if enough people are interested I will throw a multiple choice poll up with everybody's ideas and we can vote for all of the ones we would be willing to play and go with the one the most of us would do.

Myself, I would play EQ2, Shards of Dalaya or LOTRO, or something someone else suggests that isn't WoW.

EQ2 is running a free trial system with 200% xp bonus for referals. I'd been back a week and I was in the 50s, with the 200% bonus, I've leveled people to 45 in an evening. In my opinion, this is the best family friendly MMO out there. Anyone who would like to join me would be welcome to, there's 3 veteran AC2 players in my guild (my family ) and more to level with like the good old days would be great.

Otherwise Darkfall is pretty good, but in need of balancing, not quite friendly to all though unfortunately.

LotRO lifetime was the best £100 I ever spent, on a side note

Which server on EQ2? I think I played on Blackburrow or Everfrost. Well I know I played on both I just don't remember which my trial account was on and which my real account was. 200% bonus meaning 2x or 3x exp? If only my old account could get the bonus.

Edit: One more question, does the trial invite have the level 20 cap like the normal trial?

I'd love to play something with some peeps. I have a ventrilo server I can donate. I've been bored to death at the moment, bouncing around MMOs. I bought Fallen Earth at release and I'm bored of that already.

I have been resisting the urge to sub to EQ2 or LOTRO for a few days, then got this posted as a weekly to try and get something together that won't get boring as quickly. Because I'm sure if i sub for one of them 4 or 5 people will want to play the other.

I'll play with you guys, I'm downloading Shaiya cuz I can't find any good games with decent graphics, as good as AC2 was. But I want to play with people from AC2 cuz they know what a good game is. Hoping eventually ac2 will be back around. But what I'm really looking for is a good healing style gameplay with fighting like my sorceror was. I got up to lvl 58 and it was so fun. Never been able to find anything quite like it.

Second thought Shaiya sucks so trying Megaten, by them aswell. It has a cool pet system it looks like, and you get to fight demons.

Nice innitiative but im to busy playing Darkfall at moment and with risen and soon dragon age i dont have time to play another mmo:(

Btw if you also seek a very nice community like ac2 had go play saga of ryzom also very nice mmo.

If you can get past the hill, you should come play eve
Great game really tough with a huge learning curve but i love this game

In game name in eve - Devalis

Also i have a ventrilo server if we ever wanted to use 75 player cap tho.

I can always use more people to talk to ^^

Playing Eve since 2.5 years now. It's simply the best mmo out there.

Yea, loved Ryzom's skill system and the tutorial up to level 30. Very nice and detailed, living world.
They added missions up to lev. 100 now, but I've not tested it yet.
Community was great and helpful.

http://lh6.ggpht.com/gduncan411/R9qbAETP68I/AAAAAAAAAWo/1Aoa_WRCNKg/LearningCurve%5B4%5D

Apparently images/uploads are disabled on these boards, but I think the "LearningCurve" part of the URL should give you a hint as to what it is

Very nicely done, you got a good laugh out of me on that one

I just got into playing Aion two days ago and so far I am loving it. Being an AC1 veteran, I can't even bring myself to play most modern day MMORPGs since they are so unintuitive a spider monkey with a jackhammer could make a more interesting design. However, this one seems to have sucked me in simply because the epic storyline quests are so fun to play through and the other quests seem so meaningful that although repetitive and cookie-cutter it still seems like you are getting something out of them.

Any who, just my two cents....btw, how is the VIP team anyway? Been quite a while since we talked!

Exordium wrote:Playing Eve since 2.5 years now. It's simply the best mmo out there.

Yea, loved Ryzom's skill system and the tutorial up to level 30. Very nice and detailed, living world.
They added missions up to lev. 100 now, but I've not tested it yet.
Community was great and helpful.

Damn right eve is simply the best mmo out there lol.

you can always hit me up as Devalis (Prime char) or treeas, Or in mirc