I played Ragnarok Online since its 'Alpha' Launch all the way till almost a year after its official Release. But constantly doing the same thing got boring and the grinding got longer and longer. I even picked the game back up about 2 years later trying to see if they had improved the level rates and classes, only to find the game had gotten even worse with LONGER level requirements and had the same exact classes with just 'secondary' classes added to them.
I played Phantasy Star Online Episodes I&II for GameCube from its launch for about 3 months until I got bored of doing the same levels over and over. Still is the best MMO I have played to this day, but lacked fresh content and updates.
I played Star Wars Galaxies for about 3 months, but even after trying to create two separate characters, I found myself getting nowhere in a vast galaxy of barren planets and broken quests masked as 'Star Wars'. In the end, I quit the game simply because half the time, I couldn't even accomplish what they wanted me to.
I am throughly hoping Old Republic will be able to fix what all these MMORPGs had problems with. Because I'm actually looking forward to that game. But I've been burned by the MMO genre many times before and have been distancing myself from it for many years, including keeping myself from playing WoW all this time. So if Old Republic turns out to be just another WoW clone or another excuse to have tons of people search for 'gear' and 'grind', I'm pretty much giving up on the MMO scene forever.
Six upcoming games you should look into:
