The Daily Grind: What's the longest an MMO's been out before you've tried it?

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That would probably be World of Warcraft, which I took up and played for about a year and a half starting in late 2006. It was shortly before the WoW Burning Crusade expansion launched. By my reckoning that would have been around two years after WoW itself launched.

I started Everquest in 2004, 5 years after it's release and played it fairly religiously for several years. Only recently did I actually manage to cut myself loose.

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I tried EQ2 for the first time sometime last year, so about 7.

Tried UO for the first time monday hehe.

I have just started subscribing to EQ2 after trying the f2p for a couple of weeks and find I have been enjoying it lots.

What stopped me before now is a combination I suppose the age of the game and a general lack of time to fit another mmo into my life even on a casual basis.

Also a slight fear of jumping into such a well established game as a brand spanking new player who knows no one. More so prior to the f2p when I imagine the majority of people will all have been roaming around on max level characters in epic gear. While I do see those sort of people I am also seeing a healthy number of people at my own newbi level (whether completely new like me or just returning players starting over) that it hasn't been as daunting as I imagined it was going to be (still a lot to take in but manageable so far.)

All in all I am glad I took the plunge though I still wish I had more time to devote to this one (as with all mmo's i suppose) than I currently do.

Started WOW on tuesday, since its first 20 levels are free to play lol. so that makes it..8 years? yay

Istaria, gave it a try last year (it didn't stick), it launched in 2004 i believe. But it's not that i was hesitant because it was older, i just never heard of it before. After that i think City of Heroes, maybe four years after launch, convinced to try it by a friend.

I played wow on tuesday since its first 20 lvls are f2p. so that make it..8 years? lol yay

Tried EVE Online 3 years after its release - still worked like it's beta, didn't subscribe.

I'll usually try a game within the first few months. If I'm not feeling it, but it has a few things I like, I may give it a second chance after 6-12 months. However, I was so deep into CoH that I didn't try WoW until 15 months after launch, and I didn't try GW until right before Nightfall hit (like 2 weeks before). WoW was an off again on again MMO, and only really enjoyed BC and a few vanilla dungeons (quit during LK). GW I probably don't go more than two months at the longest w/o jumping in and having fun, but w/o a sub fee I never feel compelled to play just because. My HoM is 28/50, though I'm only shooting for 30, just a few more armors...

EVE online in October, although I have kept an eye on it for a looong time before that
it's so much different from the others i played - WOW, LOTRO, RIFT and very briefly SWTOR now - that being the fastest burnout in my 6 yrs of gaming:(

so I guess 7 yrs in my case