"Dead" MMOs

[PhrawzT]

I played Everquest 2 constantly in 2006/2007. I heard that it's still able to be played, but I assume it's a ghost town.

 

[KenaiPhoenix]

Well, if it has players then it is not "dead", I think.

I have played some servers of Star Wars Galaxies, a game that I wanted to play back on its prime, but I didnt have the computer nor the money to do so. They are fine and worth a try, definitely a different experience than you average MMO, they just lack the big population that the game was designed to have.

And what I play is normally Final fantasy XI or Horizon XI, but they both have 1k+ player regularly, so I dont think they fit the bill.

I personally first dislike that MMO is bit overused and overextended as a term.

Yeah, sadly the term has been extended too much since Destiny

 

[Dyne]

I played Everquest 2 constantly in 2006/2007. I heard that it's still able to be played, but I assume it's a ghost town.

Me too. Do you remember what server you were on?

The only "dead" MMO I think I played is City of Heroes. I played it for a few months when it first came out, until Everquest 2 came out in Nov/Dec of 2004.
I also played SWTOR (is that dead?) and FFXIV: ARR.

 

[lytrid]

Downloaded Dragon Ball Online.

 

[ImhotepTheSecond]

Technically not dead, but there was this MMO game called جزر عيش سفاري (safari islands) that I played a lot as a kid and recently revisited to find maybe 2-10 people on every server. It was popular all over the MENA region back in the day as it was based on a show that played on MBC3 (television channel that played nickoloden cartoons and game shows) and it was personally my first MMO experience. Shame that the MENA region never produced a game like it again, it was a rare moment where we had our own little bubble of media. You can still play it from the official website (https://safariislandsgame.com/play/?lang=en). Another example is Mabinogi that I still play all the time

Properly dead MMOs I've played are private servers of Shin Megami Tensei Imagine, monster hunter frontier, flyff, Lineage, and a couple of Chinese MMOs like 梦幻西游. Some of them had official revivals but they just don't feel the same. One aspect of game history I had an obsession with at some point was the wave of Korean online games in the 2000s. It's like they had a big release every other month which buried a lot of weird experimental titles under the rubble until they got revived bit by bit. One I remember is Yogurting. Not the most exciting title but it's advertisements were really catchy and for some reason it was really popular in Thailand

 

[rematche]

Sad that RF online dead years ago. It needs a comeback. What I liked about the game, that you can create your own mecha and your character with skills, items, accessories, weapons, guilds, etc on both. You either fight as your character or in your mecha.

 

[dapperley]

I miss Silkroad Online.

 

[Nickakyoin]

It's impressive that, from what I've understood, Final Fantasy XI still has an active playerbase that plays to this day. Something like 1000 players or something that are keeping the game alive. I feel I should rush myself after XIV Endwalker to get into that.

Not sure how to classify Dragon Quest X. That game is Japan only and still has, somehow, also a little of abroad playerbase. Never understood why not release that one, there are way more several and unknown MMOs that are still miraculously alive.