Huh. Gio and I bought in to the EQNL Alpha, so we're sorta into that and LOTRO right now. I do remember Aion coming up as a possiblity, though.

Sadly, we are terrible at games. We play well, but we do the  HOLYSHIT ALL DAY EVERYDAY for like a week, then we remember we have other things to do and we disappear. Sometimes forever.

Also, renaming this to MMO's in General. What are all the rest of you playing?

My friend talked me into trying Aion out so I'm downloading it now. Gonna be a pistol lady

As MMORPRG's go I've played TERA (pretty meh) and tried out SW: TOR (bleh). Neither lasted very long on my computer.

But I've been playing League of Legends quite consistently for about 3 years. I still suck at it (with occasional stellar moments, I must say) but It's fun so what the hell.

Thresh is pretty awesome! I mostly play supports and tanks, a few mages here and there.
I adored the old Karma so I refused to play her after the rework and whined that 'I played Karma before she was cool' and 'They changed it, now it sucks', but I've given her a shot recently and MY GOD does she pack a punch! She's more Ability Power-based than Support right now, but she was a so-so support before so it's not such a big loss anyhow. I'll miss the sakura petals though   and the Sakura skin (the only skin I own) looks pretty fugly now.

And you're right about the pressure, the LoL community can be just awful sometimes. But the tactics are ever-changing and new opponents are always a challenge, so I might say I prefer that sort of game to a standard MMORPG Grindfest.

Annie is adorable, but I've yet to try her out I fear her stuns more than I fear her ult!

I played FFXI extensively back in college and a few years thereafter. I made some really good friends and had a ton of fun, but I also let it eat my  life. I also realized I inherently dislike the game design behind them, where things are constantly being changed around you and there's no static goals. FFXI managed to avoid that for a long time by focusing on ridiculously hard to get stuff with PVP claiming competition, but eventually they gave in too. I guess that was wise, because most people seem to prefer moving goal posts to goals that are unattainable for 50-95% of players, depending on the specific thing. I prefered the hard to get stuff that remained constant though. And it was my first MMO, so I just assumed it was normal design at the time. That's a pretty dated game now at any rate, although I still think it's cute and fun. I almost started it up again, but apparently I have better self-control and realized I can't spend the needed time on it and more important stuff I have to do simultaneously, so that didn't take off. Still miss it though, I had a lot of fun there, and wish I'd managed to finish up a few more things before I quit. At any rate, I don't play any MMOs now. For me, that's definitely for the best.

I played Aion for like, a week? A bit more. I don't really like direct PVP in MMO's though. I was into the non-actual pvp group conflicts of other games, but I don't really want to poke people's avatars. I had a bigger list of problems with Aion when it came out, but I totally forget what they were now. That was awhile back. But PvP centric MMO's just don't make sense to me. If I want twitchy stuff, there are excellent games on the ps3/4/etc for that. MMO's just don't seem like the best venue for it.

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Right now? Maple Story, since it will run on Morgana without chugging. I just got into the open beta for The Mighty Quest for Epic Loot, which is actually pretty awesome. And I had just gotten into Ragnarok Online II, but for some reason, the launcher doesn't want to work -- stupid Windows.

Hey everyone, thought I necro thread this since I've got Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, I'm on Moogle and my character is Lywin Arkans who is a Lvl 14-15 Arcanist so you'll find me in La Noscea and Limsa Lominsa around 12:00pm-11:00pm Australian Eastern Time(GMT +11 hours).