I'm gunna be THAT guy and say Runescape, or at least until my main got banned for macroing on a date that I can prove I was playing it. I never touch macros or cheats in general.
It'd be OK if I were allowed to appeal, but Jagex's policy on the matter is 'You were banned. Feel free to make another account because we don't allow ban appeals'
I do have other accounts, it's just that that one I had been playing since I was about ten and damn the nostalgia.
I used to really like Runescape. At the time it was literally the only MMO I'd played, I didn't even realize that there were other games like it in existence. I used to love exploring the tiny free-play world, fantasizing about members-only stuff, chatting with whoever had a moment, throwing "parties" at that inn in Varrock and the party house in Falador, and spending literal hours begging people to help me with the Draynor Manor switch puzzle.
Nowadays it's just... so different. It's modernized a lot, there's a voice-acted tutorial and everything. Even when I go to bootleg RS2007 servers, it's just not the same.
It was kinda hilarious for my level 40-ish character to be stuck in the tutorial instance last time I logged on, though.
EDIT: WAIT WHAT YOU *HAVE* TO INSTALL RUNESCAPE NOW?
I REMEMBER WHEN THE LAUNCHER WAS A TOTALLY-UNSUPPORTED OPTIONAL CONVENIENCE THAT NOBODY USED OR KNEW ABOUT
STRRAAAAAAAAANGE THINGS ARE HAPPENIN TO ME
Ah, I loved Runescape! It was wonderful back in... oh, I started around '08 and stopped in maybe '12? I managed to catch the tail end of the game's Renaissance before the Gower brothers sold it to that guy who was obsessed with "modernizing" it.
I had this sense of childlike wonder the entire time I played it, of discovering the game world, exploring new places, meeting new people... I picked up a membership because I loved it so much, even, and went on all the quests I could. I eventually managed to finish every single F2P quest they made and something like a quarter of the P2P quests.
Even after I familiarized myself with the game's hotspots I didn't get tired of exploring. There was always something new, it felt like. An isolated corner in the northwestern hunting grounds. Getting a new, amusing line of dialogue from a throwaway NPC. Everywhere was new and interesting, even the places I was too wimpy to go into without getting torn to shreds.
Except the Underground Passage, fuck that.
I mean, there was an entire game mechanic dedicated to exploring new places! What happened to Clue Scrolls? I spent literal hours killing H.A.M. members for clue scrolls because I just loved that feeling of adventure and excitement that came from pursuing that treasure that might not even turn out to be good. I don't think the developers even remembered they existed when I left.
I miss late-2000s Runescape :c