Long-time fan of "Life in Aggro" so decided to join the fray in the forums! A bit about me is that I have been a gamer since the Amiga days and I have seen much, most likely too much. MMOs are one such genre I enjoy, first seriously starting with Anarchy Online then Ragnarok Online, EVE Online, City of Heroes, World of Warcraft, GW2, and Wildstar being the latest MMO I have experienced.
Anarchy Online I would most likely still be playing if not for the rather high sub and game engine that suddenly did not support newer AMD cards at one point. Ragnarok Online I played on private servers mostly due to my passion for games that have 2D character superimposed on a 3D environment (BoF 4! ) way back when it was quite big but given the constant flux of private servers going up and down, never firmly got invested.
EVE Online was something I enjoyed but never really liked the time-based skill leveling and generally did get bored a lot (lots of number crunching if you trade and the politics are unreal). City of Heroes I did settle into quite nicely but then NCsoft killed the game so that was that.
World of Warcraft I still play to this day and have gone though many guilds/communities (often as main healer/officer and raided for over 6 years now to the point where I am kind of tired of being an officer in guilds so now I am in a guild with some of my old guildmates as mostly just another raider without the stress of being an officer, web admin and so on)
Guild Wars 2 I played on and off though despite the story and visual design, not really invested a lot into but hey, no sub so can play it without the commitment. Wildstar is one I am quite sad about as the story and visual design again were fantastic but the grindy and strict gameplay reminded me of the early days of WoW which is not bad as I like a challenge but, there is a fine line between challenging and tedious especially since my perception of that has changed since the early WoW days.
There are more I have tried out (a lot more) but, I generally don't play them enough to either find a community or get max level. I am also a big fan of LucasArts adventure games and pretty much all the game series you can think of. (except sports with the exception of motorsports)
That is all for my gaming habits, I am also a dabbler in the field of web design, programming and various other computing fields as well as being a moderator for a gaming community which I won't mention due to a certain advertising rule (which is similar to the one we have)
I am going to end here as I am starting to ramble on and maybe went overboard with MMO stuff but anyway, I look forward to conservations with you guys and being part of this community!
Cheers!