My experience's pretty much the same as Yan's; was hooked on Ragnarok a few years ago and spent thousands of RL money on it. Stupid days as they're all free now, unless you want good equipment and buy them with cash. :stare:

After Ragnarok I pretty much stopped playing online games because they're so costly and I'm really not a people person. I prefer walking around on my own and killing monsters, leveling up, without having to go around people all the time. Sadly, most of the MMORPGs I've encountered all require teamwork of some degree, which I hate. So I went with browser-based MMORPGs instead. I think Adventure-whatsis was my first browser MMORPG, it was fun for a while, until I noticed how all the good stuff requires cash and if you don't buy them you'll just get your ass kicked. :roll:

That led to me joining HoboWars instead, stuck with them for about a year, before I got bored with the people there who seem to be cracking sick jokes all the time and how the good stuff always cost cash, and went back to my peaceful, solo-PC gaming. Which is mainly Age of Empires III and Oblivion, at the moment. :lol:

I always go with the agility/melee type of occupation, so in all the MMORPGs that have them choices, I'm always a thief/assassin :lol: But I still get hit anyways and go 'OW.' :sweat:

Funny moments...watching an MVP in the midst of a HUGE crowd so large that you can barely even see said MVP, getting its **** kicked by said crowd, HP numbers flying everywhere, and the ground strewn with dead bodies of dead gamers. While lying in their midst as a dead piece of meat as well. :lol: And back during the days before monster-summoning was banned in cities in Ragnarok, you could be sitting in the middle of the city peacefully one moment, and the next, a huge explosion of magic everywhere, dead bodies on the ground, and the city being stampeded by random monsters of every caliber, and people going 'WTF', 'Who the hell used those damned twigs :illgetu:' Fun days. :XD

Yeah, it's been free for a few years I think...but that's only here in Taiwan, I'm not sure about how it is in other parts of the world. :sweat:

True, if I knew anyone IRL when playing MMORPGs, I'd probably spend most of my time chatting with them instead of forming a party and going monster-hunting :XD But I hate forming groups with strangers...I end up dead most of the time and we get nothing done but lose experience points. :sweat:

Haha, it's quite a sight to see, all those dead people strewn across the street...and the surviving ones running around in circles with hoards of monsters chasing after them, while even more people are running after the monsters trying to attack them while they're distracted by running merchants...:XD