Thank you that pointing out that UO was not the first MMO. It was the most successful MMO for its time. I played one of the previous two, Neverwinter Nights on AOL Dialup. My friend played another called Meridian Online. NWN was so popular there was a que for the server ALL the time. That's a lot for $1.59 a minute!
NWN was D&D based system. Level based with classic d&d classes. It was fucking TIGHT. There was PVP in the best dungeons. However, it was mostly consensual. They abruptly canceled the game because of a negotiation issue with Wizards of The Coast.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neverwinter_Nights_%28AOL_game%29Meridian Online has the exact same ruleset as early UO days. It just didn't have housing or horses. It played like doom. It also had a regeant system that was very identicle to Ultima Online.
yeah, i played that shit too. NWN on AOL. i remember the whole "flash to battle" style ineteraction where you'd be strolling through "map mode" and just kind of run over where another player was, or a pack of mobs..and then you, or your group would flash to a battlefield scenario, move around and have very battlechess like fights.
there was also mount...something that started with a K on INNImagination (sierra's online service [aka ImagiNation]) later called 'The Shadow of Yserbius' in a guild called KAAOS (after the punk rock band woot woot), which was less expensive i played a couple years prior to NWN after i started "<><ing" accts and using CC gens to play NWN all the time. good times! (i was arsedestroyer)
