What Has Been Your Best MMO Experience In 2023?
I started the year wanting to play more of The Lord of the Rings Online. Yet by the end of the year, it's been EVE Online that has been dominant in my MMO life during 2023.
I really wasn't surprised in the end to see in my Steam Year In Review that EVE Online was my most played game after Baldur's Gate 3, despite my efforts to play more of what has historically been my MMO comfort game. Yet this year, for whatever reason, I just felt more drawn to New Eden over Middle-earth.
<p dir=«ltr» lang=«en» xml:lang=«en»>This surprises me not at all. #SteamReplay2023 pic.twitter.com/JqGiWUbzqqI think the main reason for this is simple: New Eden brought better overall experiences this year over what I experienced in LotRO.
This isn't to say I didn't have fun in The Lord of the Rings Online — I have. But the two expansions, plus just falling in love with my pirate lifestyle in EVE has brought me so much joy this year.
The best experience I've had in an MMO all year was just last month in EVE Online, in fact. Right after Havoc launched, I found myself in more and more fleets, teaming up with my Angel Cartel militia mates to sow chaos and corruption in New Eden.
The first Saturday after the expansion launch, we were in a random roaming fleet, running the sites and trying to get into some PvP battles. It's a scene I described in an earlier article about how EVE's new expansion was living up to its name: a fight against a Phoenix Navy Issue ship with easily 100 people on grid with me.
It was the largest fight I'd ever been in and one of the first times I experienced real fleet warfare despite playing EVE Online since 2017. It was strangely calming, listening to the Fleet Commander call out war targets, only for me to lock and fire away,
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