I’m really enjoying what I’m considering my second wind in MMORPGs, fam. I had a rough spot in the mid-teens after the original Star Wars Galaxies and City of Heroes games shut down, compounded by a cross-country move and the founding of a new company to do *gestures* all this. I played, but not nearly as much as I’d played before, and definitely not with the heart and soul. As I’ve found new MMOs – and rediscovered SWG Legends and then Homecoming – the last six or so years of MMOs have been really happy for me. I have a nice big bin of MMOs I really enjoy playing, so no big deal if Homecoming is offline because I have a bunch of backups that I don’t even really consider backups. And it helps that only one of my current five MMOs needs a sub. I can keep them all on a long rotation.
Tell me about your fall-back MMOs, the MMOs you play when you need a change or your main game is patching up or just annoying you. What’s your current backup MMORPG?