[Arakiel]

I was playing Everquest 2 right up until my home computer went *fizz*...

What I played of it, I liked alot. It has really high hardware specs though which is why I was upgrading...which it turn why it went *fizz*. As with any Online game, the MMO's have their share of jerks and inconsiderate people. They also have their fair share of nice friendly people. Ignore the jerks, hang out with the cool folk and your fine. If your the type that can't just ignore the idiots then MMOs aren't for you. You'll just end up frustrated and angry over silly things.

MUDs are "ok" but were much better back in the day. From my personal experince "most" of the MUD players these days are hardcore mudders which have little or no patience for new people...your results may vary.

As for your download limits, i'm not sure that you should be overly worried about it. Most Online games are still geared towards the 56k modem user since the majority of the planet still doesn't have broadband. Since your dealing with games that can run over 56k they aren't going to be pushing gigs of data every hour to you. So unless your planning on playing for 6 hours straight every day you'll probably be fine.

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