In line with the great MMORPG theme week, genre enthusiasts from MeinMMO, GameStar, and GamePro reveal which online role-playing game sparked their love for fantastic online adventures.
With their vast worlds and large player populations, MMORPGs potentially offer an experience that cannot be found in any other genre. There’s simply something special about being part of a community for weeks, months, and years and making a name for yourself on a server.
To experience friendships and relationships forming all around you. To be able to encounter foreign avatars everywhere in the world, with whom you can interact via chat, emotes, or gameplay. To develop a character through your actions and achievements that truly means something to you.
In this week, you can expect exciting articles every day on the topic of MMORPGs. Included: a journey through the history of online role-playing games, along with nostalgic reflections, streaming evenings, interviews, columns, and analyses.
Here’s the program for the great MMORPG theme week 2025 from MeinMMO
Many MMORPG enthusiasts fondly remember their first time. The one online role-playing game where they first experienced what is possible in the genre. The one where they simply had the best time ever.
In line with the great MMORPG theme week, editors from MeinMMO, GameStar, and GamePro remember which online role-playing game sparked their love for fantastic online adventures. First up is video editor Magdalena from GameStar.
Which MMORPG do you fondly remember? In which world was it your first time? Share it in the comments!
The best thing about New World is … chopping wood
Game: New World | Developer: Amazon Games | Platform: PC, PlayStation, Xbox | Release Date: September 28, 2021 | Model: Buy2Play
Magdalena Ihsen: New World undoubtedly has its weaknesses – but one thing was never up for debate: chopping wood was and is great. Really. I mean that completely seriously – and maybe a tiny bit in love. It doesn’t feel like a tedious side activity, but like a fully-fledged part of the game world, executed with a lot of attention to detail.
The gameplay trailer for New World Aeternum:
Hardly anything has captivated me as much as the feeling of roaming through the forests with an axe in hand. Always searching for the next tree. The rhythmic swing of the axe, the rich sound upon impact with the bark, and finally the satisfying crack as the tree slowly falls – it was almost meditative.
I spent more time in the forests than in dungeons, and I regret nothing. It was never just about materials or progress in the profession – it was this simple, calming gameplay that brought me so much joy.
I often think back to my days as a woodcutter. To the early hours in the game when the fog still hung over the treetops and I roamed the forests alone with my axe. Those moments were pure gaming joy for me – and one of the reasons why, despite all its problems, New World remains so vividly in my memory.
On the next page, MeinMMO editor Karsten continues, who lost his innocence in Azeroth, followed by MeinMMO author Paul, who knows his way around Pokémon.
