It was around november 2004. At the time my only MMO experience (3D MMO, i'm not going to speak about all the MUDs I played) was Anarchy Online and the unlucky 2 months in URU Prologue (Myst Online). I was deciding what fantasy MMO to try and, having already discarded WoW, because of my bad feeling with Blizzard, I ended up to buy Everquest II.
When I was at a store, looking for the EQ2 box, my eyes were captured by another very nice box, related to an unknown to me MMORPG: The Saga of Ryzom.
The beautiful cover and all the story written outside the box in a very well translated local language really catched my attention, so I decided to buy both games. I was out the store with the collectors edition of EQ2 and the normal edition of SoR.
I really bought SoR blinded, not knowing anything of the game.
Well, just to make this story not too long, I played EQ2 just few months (around 3 months) while I played Ryzom more than 3 years, till the shutdown of the servers in february 2008. And no other following MMO, played or trialed, could steal my soul from the wonderful living planet Atys.
I'm still happy to be part of the great Ryzom Community and I'm waiting the game fully back up soon, as announced.