The Rise and Fall of Text MMO. Introduction

The Rise and Fall of Text MMO. (Chapter 1: Introduction)
My experience on text based MMO games.

Hello there reader, my name is Daniel also known as SavoDan here on deviantart and many other onlines game I have played to this day. You maybe asking, "why is this guy talking about the text based MMO games? those games are boring".  If you think that, this experience may change your mind, well at least I hope that happens.

This experience is just that, how I began to be interested on the text based MMO games. As the name says, its just text with only a few pictures on the game, zero graphics. It may sound boring but I will explain as this experience goes on and on, so just sit tight and grab a coffee, it will be a long journey.

First, I love to play MMORPGs, World of Warcraft, Cabal Online, Silkroad Online, Knight Online, Defiance, Rift, Runescape and the list can go on and on, I like to play online especially fantasy or post-apocalyptic MMOs. I had great experiences in those games.

This introduction will focus on the first browser text MMO games I played.

All began on 2008, after a raid on Knight online, I logged out and began browsing on the internet as always, watch some youtube videos and read reviews of other online games, then a small ad caught my attention, Space Federation, some of you may know that game or at least have seen this ad somewhere on the internet. My curiosity was high, so I clicked on the ad, I expected some virus ad or something similar, but no it was really an online game just advertising to get more players.

I explored the page a little bit, as usual I checked the screenshots of the game. No client was needed (although there is an option). On my mind I was: "What type of game this is? No graphics, only texts." I was very confused so I decided to give it a try so I could at least talk about this game.

At first I found it very confusing and very complex for me, on the first day I left the newbie proctection and got my ass kicked several time, in other words, yes I raged quit and forgot the game.

Months later, I found Gladiatus a gladiator MMO, there I became addicted to the game for some time, I reached level 28-29. It was a simple yet addicting game, what you had to do?  Just go and expend all your energy, get money, maybe go to the arena and fight other players and then go to work 8 hours till next day, hence and repeat. After level 10 you unlocked dungeons and mercenaries but was very hard, even at level 29 I could not complete the first dungeon. I abandoned the game on 2009 after I began playing Cabal Online and returned to Knight Online.

Gladiatus and Space Federation were the first games I played. From 2009 to 2011 I forgot about those games, until I stopped playing client MMO games due to my pc stoped working and got a netbook.