"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.

 

[Skripglow]

Maplestory is dead

Spoiler

to me unless Classic ends up turning alright

Wish there was a Maplestory 2 server that was alive and not ran by scammers

 

[Guinea]

This thread made me check if PokeMMO was still active as hell and yeah it's still going strong.

 

[RohanSpartan]

I miss Face of Mankind and Pirates of the Caribbean Online.

 

[Varyag]

I miss, I really miss playing TERA Online. I really liked that game, from the classes to teh aesthetics to the gameplay, the beautiful world, the big-ass monsters roaming areas. There are a couple revival projects on private servers going on today, one of them keeping the game as it was on 2014, and the other on the final patches of the game before it closed. I played them for a bit, fed the nostalgia, but the install was very big, and I don't have the patience or the time to play ANY MMORPG style game anymore. It was still really cool to just go around the world tho, and witness it again after all this time. I might hop on them again later.

Another MMO that I really liked, and is technically still alive, is Tree of Saviour. But it is basically only populated by Chinese bots at this point. I really loved the artstyle, and the "all skillshots" type of spellcasting. It was like a modern version of Ragnarok Online, which I never played back in the day. However, ToS has a mechanic where you can level up and mix any class combo, and that made the game extremely grindy, like going up to level 999 grindy. I wish there was a non-MMO game just like that, and not just a Diablo-Like ARPG.

 

[Billy Beans]

A few great "dead" MMO's that I miss are Asheron's Call 2, Wildstar, and UO (in its prime).

 

[RetroPixelLizard]

There's one I want to make a come back, mostly because of the fun tiems I had In the 2000s when I came across It, sucks It had the most generic name despite what It was.

RPG World Online

It was the first free-to-play Sandbox MMORPG that relied on players to have an economy. You could start your character out to be built for combat but your growth might be a little slow at the start.

OOOOR....!

You can start as a trade skill based character starting with the following skills: mining, masonry, blacksmithing, farming, carpentry, cooking, alchemy. And find a nice plot of unclaimed land to mine out, make some things to sell for gold so you can buy the land and a trader NPC, and then build up your smithing/alchemy skills to make the wares to sell to other plays, because It's either make the gear yourself, get It from another player (Peacefully of "peacefully") or buy It off another player.

It's really fun to build up a place from nothing, I remember building a tavern that sold food/drink to anyone leaving the main town, fun times.

It could make a comeback, but the creator did not make the game open source In It's later years. :(

 

[PLCMB]

i am currently playing SMT Imagine and NFS World.
i regret not playing to the fullest back then when they're still in service, thank god for private servers i can finally finish what i started.

 

[Den MDM Den MDM]

There's one I want to make a come back, mostly because of the fun tiems I had In the 2000s when I came across It, sucks It had the most generic name despite what It was.

RPG World Online

It was the first free-to-play Sandbox MMORPG that relied on players to have an economy. You could start your character out to be built for combat but your growth might be a little slow at the start.

OOOOR....!

You can start as a trade skill based character starting with the following skills: mining, masonry, blacksmithing, farming, carpentry, cooking, alchemy. And find a nice plot of unclaimed land to mine out, make some things to sell for gold so you can buy the land and a trader NPC, and then build up your smithing/alchemy skills to make the wares to sell to other plays, because It's either make the gear yourself, get It from another player (Peacefully of "peacefully") or buy It off another player.

It's really fun to build up a place from nothing, I remember building a tavern that sold food/drink to anyone leaving the main town, fun times.

It could make a comeback, but the creator did not make the game open source In It's later years. :(

Never heard of this and I kept looking for MMOs lately. +1 for this to make a comeback.

 

[hazys]

I tried playing Tree of Savior because it was the successor to Ragnarok Online. It's also a beautiful-looking game. The combat is actually good, but it's got a horrible cash shop, and in general the game is a mess that doesn't explain anything. It's still online, but no one seems to play it in the West. If someone's willing to brave it with me, I'd give it another try.

 

[demons-souls]

Has anyone here heard of Kabod Online?

Similar to Scarlet Blade, it had... tits. Still, I downloaded it (probably) around 2009 and it seemed dead at that time. I have no idea how much longer it lasted and haven't known a single soul who remembers or has played this game.

 

[Sheepy765]

Ragnarok Online has players but it feels dead outside of Prontera.

 

[Xdqwerty]

Second life

 

[stinky]

i am currently playing SMT Imagine and NFS World.
i regret not playing to the fullest back then when they're still in service, thank god for private servers i can finally finish what i started.

which imagine server?

 

[Bagamnan]

There is one that got my attention while doomscrolling, a Lady made a video on YT and it looks fantastic, it is really dead tho, development has stop completely but you can download it and play. I do not have a W11 pc unfortunately at the moment so if you do let me know how it is! Ninelives by SmokymonkeyS.