TG players and newcomers seem to come from all types of game genres these days, and I see a lot of people that come to play game X and then venture out into games Y, Z and 0 that can be completely different. Just reading through some things here of late makes me curious about what other MMO's people that intend to play AoC have already played, if any.

Myself:

First MMO poked at was Anarchy Online. I played for about 2 weeks, liked the idea but hated the implementation, so I bailed.

The first MMO that I really played was Final Fantasy XI. I started at the US PC release and played for a little over a year. I was in the top North American guild/linkshell on my server, and we were the first all NA player (servers were a mix of NA and JP, or Japanese, players) linkshell to beat the "endgame" bosses available at that time. I stopped because the game essentially became a second job; FFXI was damn awesome, but required a huge daily time commitment to get anywhere.

My current MMO is World of Warcraft, and I've been playing that off and on for about 2 years. I'm in a guild that's around the top of the middle for PvE progress, and I was the top rogue/dps'er in our guild. I say "was" because about two months ago I had some disagreements with some of the leadership in my guild that led me to retire from raiding and PvE pretty much altogether. We're all good now, but I simply don't care about the game anymore given all the changes that Blizzard just made in the most recent patch. I had switched to PvP for a while, but Blizzard refuses to properly address people cheating the PvP Arena system, so that's over for me as well. :P

That's it for me; AO, FFXI and WoW. What about everyone else? No need to launch into narratives like I have if you don't want, I'm just curious what everyone else has done. And if you haven't done an MMO, please speak up as well! No doubt we can help ease the confusion that you likely have about terms, concepts and whatnot.