"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