I'm glad I'm not the only person coming to the comments to mention them 😂 They keep growing and innovating, every time I come back after a long break there's something new to check out
For the time being. If I remember correctly, it was recently sold, and while the new owners have said they have no plans to shit it down, I don't believe a thing big companies say
Warframe is maintaining an actively ongoing and frequently developing story, it's been going since 2013. There are people in its target M demographic who couldn't read when the game released.
@@djcfromptyea that was mostly fixed a while ago, but while it was happening anybody who cared about the aimbots played on community servers that had active admins so it wasn’t even that big of a problem
@Goldkingneko the original savetf2 movement in 2022 didn’t lead to anything, but the fixtf2 movement this year has worked so far! Bot free for 5 months!
Oh damn i just wrote a comment about the fact that there is a friend of my dad that has been playing it for 20 years and i see this comment😂 Fate is extremely niche as well
City of Heroes was shut down in 2012, and since then the only way to play was on a few independent servers. That was until a couple years ago when NCSoft (CoH's publisher) struck a deal with the admins of the biggest indie server and gave them permission to run the server and even produce new, officially licensed content in exchange for a portion of the revenue. It's a rare, very happy ending when it comes to game preservation/modding community and their relationship with publishers.
Damn, I got realm of the mad god thinking it was some ds dungeon crawler with like 15m of gameplay but never actually played it cause my 20 year old pc (this was like 5 years ago) kept on crashing.
I've been playing Toontown Corporate Clash for over a year now and highly reccomend! It's a open private server that builds alon what toontown could've been. New cog/boss type, new story, gag track, etc. With many more big plans under way!
It also helps that shooters like that are much easier to set up servers for, since the tools to do so are publicly available, often official as well. Not to mention 99% of them have lan functionality, making arena shooters one of the longest lasting old school multi-player games.
Man, I remember joining Animal Jam's open beta back in 2010. My username was just 1212 become it was like the first time I created an account on anything lol, I played for years
My dad still plays Star Wars Galaxies pretty regularly. And the people running the servers can do it just fine since they don't provide the software or license, you still need to buy a copy to play.
But like, what third party server do people use nowadays, I remember that online had major controversy and rewritten got shut down by Disney so what site do people use ;-;
Toontown online got shutdown, but fans made so many different versions of it now to play, and I love it: rewritten is fun, corporate clash is so cool with new cogs and gags and story (and more), fellowship allows you to choose what two gag tracks you start with instead of just starting with throw and squirt, he’ll there’s even toontown offline
Companies will stop selling/servicing games and then proceed to sue people for making those games they stopped giving a f*ck about available for the masses.
Lord of the Rings Online, and Guild Wars are still online, and Guild Wars 2 and Star Wars the Old Repulic aren't that far off from being 15 years old. Yes a lot of mmos are gone, but there are still a lot
There's also a few restoration projects that try to keep old MMOs alive but the IP owners keep going after them. The defunct Cartoon Network MMO Fusion Fall comes to mind
Crazy how the servers for the decade old shooter Plants Vs Zombie Garden Warfare are still going, and its sequel Garden Warfare 2 predates both overwatch games and still gets lobbies at any hour, despite competition from the newly release Marvel Rivals
The fact that not only does Transport Tycoon - a game from the mid 90s is still alive with servers, but it also went open source, get's regular updates and mods created for it is just mind boggling. And you can play it for FREE on steam
I did the Toon Town Reimagined or whatever it was called, years ago on a stream and a bunch of people from the community showed up to help me. Pretty much everyone either joked about going to the popular worlds town square or told me not to go there. A few hours in I had to know so we decided to go. As it turns out there’s a massive community of people just having furry rp sex in the town square, but the censoring is still there like in the normal game so they had like a meta of silly words to use. Needless to say it was the last thing I expected to find in a like 20+ year old game. And yet looking back on it, kinda makes all the sense in the world.
Good example of an unchanged MMO that’s old as balls is Guild Wars. It apparently takes so little to keep the game servers running the developers just left it running as long as its successor is alive (guild wars 2 game released in 2012 and is still amazing game).
Toontown is a special case. There are a bunch of fan servers but the biggest 2 are a pretty faithful recreation called rewritten with some new content and then a major overhaul called coorporate clash.
@BraydenParker-s5t I'm not too far into the game but I'm far enough to catch creatures and power level people. So if you do play the game. Let me know if you want to play together cuz otherwise you could just hire mercenaries
Toontown is actually neat, you got two main servers, toontown rewritten, which is mostly just trying to be faithful to the original game, and toontown corporate clash which tries to be more experimental in its changes, i personally like corporate clash because it feels like it has more depth and seems to be more of a "what could have been" rather than just preserving the old game. Toontown 2 in a sort of way
No shit my brother has been playing WoW since he was 4 and was healing in a top guild before he could read(born in 01) and still plays today. He staryed by healing ppl from my mom guild on her lap, to taking over for my mom when she used the restroom (the main healer in the guild renamed to "the elements" or "elementals" id have to ask him, a top guild at the time ig) got his first maxed out character at 8-9 and was the mascot of said guild. He still plays to this day, though that og guilds been dead for a decade though, taken over by new ppl
The company tibia is from, cipsoft is in my city They even have some busses decorated with ad One normal bus is full with a dragon we love it The other is a small little city bus that has a few pixel characters on it You see it a bit more rarely than the dragon one
Openttd, may not be the real og transport tycoon deluxe, but its run by a genuin company, and is still being maintained with servers running perfectly. Openttd is from 2004, with the og ttd being from 1994
Same thing with valves old games, like HL1 HL2, etc etc. Most of them have server browser, which also show community hosted servers. There are still people playing HL1 multiplayer.
This is completely true for Monster Hunter Frontier Z. Its been gone for 5 years after being a japanese only MMO since 2007. There are somewhat translated servers for english players now.
Space station 13 is a good example. That ganes 21 years old and you can still play it officially and thosevganes ate insanly active. Its lije the only thing that game player runs of sll the other ganes they have
My brother legitimately coded for the team that picked up Toontown again. They called it ToonTown Rewritten. I don't remember if it's still active as of writing this but I know that he worked on it actively for a good few years.
Final Fantasy 11 and Dragon Quest 10 are both still fairly active, and you can still play on player hosted servers for Phantasy Star Online on both GameCube and Dreamcast
My dad still plays ultima online and is on the same discord server with one of the admins(who also plays regularly).also the game still gets events. Edit:spelling mistake
I currently play a 19 year old game that is still being developed and still runs on servers owned by the developers, sometime this year they are finally going to move over to 64 but servers
Don't forget, while it's likely been mentioned somewhere else on here, the original servers for Phantasy Star Online for the SEGA Dreamcast are very much alive and well with updates coming out to this day!
I was literally watching this while playing wizard 101. Not as old as some others but definitely a legacy MMO
Literally was about to comment about Wiz lmao
A 16 year old game.
They just had their 16th anniversary
WAS ABT TO COMMENT ABOUT WIZ
I'm glad I'm not the only person coming to the comments to mention them 😂 They keep growing and innovating, every time I come back after a long break there's something new to check out
It’s only 14 years old, but Star Trek Online is still actively maintained and updated
For the time being. If I remember correctly, it was recently sold, and while the new owners have said they have no plans to shit it down, I don't believe a thing big companies say
That explains why I hopped on and NO ONE was there 💀
@@axie4777really? Did you check the winter event area or any of the hubs cuz those are always packed for me
To be fair its star trek. trekkies aren't ever letting that die.
STO is also outrageously Pay to Win.
Although all MMOs made by Cryptic were like that.
Funny thing is this also applies to games that are still being maintained yet have changed drastically over the years
Maplestory, completely different game than when it came out. It’s still highly popular in korea due but it’s so unfriendly to beginners
Warframe is maintaining an actively ongoing and frequently developing story, it's been going since 2013. There are people in its target M demographic who couldn't read when the game released.
Ya, games like tf2 are still going strong and that’s wild to me
Everyone: HOW IS THIS GAME STILL ALIVE?
TF": we don't know either!
Last time I checked in, TF2 was so rife with aimbots ruining the PvP servers that only Mann vs Machine was playable. Has Valve fixed that?
@@djcfrompt I thought they did something to help fix that. Not sure if it worked though, I don’t play TF2 so I have no way to check
@@djcfromptyea that was mostly fixed a while ago, but while it was happening anybody who cared about the aimbots played on community servers that had active admins so it wasn’t even that big of a problem
@Goldkingneko the original savetf2 movement in 2022 didn’t lead to anything, but the fixtf2 movement this year has worked so far! Bot free for 5 months!
Made me recall an game i played in the earlier 2000. Just found it, Fate. Been trying to find this game for ages.
The sequel The Traitor's Soul is really good
Same! I enjoyed replaying
all 3 games actually slap, and the 3rd has a ton of mods.
Oh damn i just wrote a comment about the fact that there is a friend of my dad that has been playing it for 20 years and i see this comment😂
Fate is extremely niche as well
City of Heroes was shut down in 2012, and since then the only way to play was on a few independent servers. That was until a couple years ago when NCSoft (CoH's publisher) struck a deal with the admins of the biggest indie server and gave them permission to run the server and even produce new, officially licensed content in exchange for a portion of the revenue.
It's a rare, very happy ending when it comes to game preservation/modding community and their relationship with publishers.
orly? i used to play the hell out of that game, brb reinstalling
😂 My mom was one of the hige COH legacy supporters and still is in the servers!
Ncsoft loves their communities. They refuse to turn off the guild wars 1 servers
@MidasMakeItRain Guildwars is still up?! brb reinstalling _again,_ im coming, my Seige Turtle
@@kingmasterlord yeah, and they said they have no intention of ever taking them down because of how little server space it occupies.
TOONTOWN REWRITTEN MENTIONED 🔥🔥
WHERE THE _mew_ IS A THE MINGLER?? 🗣️🗣️
Idk about that second half but the community made Toontown corporate clash
LETS GO FISHING AT MY HOUSE
LETS GO RIDE THE TROLLEY
Realm of the mad god is still going strong
And Fusionfall was an underrated masterpiece
Man, had some great times with realm on kongregate waaay back when
Damn, I got realm of the mad god thinking it was some ds dungeon crawler with like 15m of gameplay but never actually played it cause my 20 year old pc (this was like 5 years ago) kept on crashing.
i still play realm occasionally, it’s kind of sad now. dwindling player base and lackluster content.
I've been playing Toontown Corporate Clash for over a year now and highly reccomend! It's a open private server that builds alon what toontown could've been. New cog/boss type, new story, gag track, etc. With many more big plans under way!
Realm of the mad god is still around, baby. On its 3rd owner and like 13-15 years later and still alive. Still updated, too.
Good news! Webkins is still there! Bad news all your webkins are dead if you havent used your account in the last 2 years. :(
I used to love webkins!
Wizard101 is also still receiving regular updates and support from its dev team which is very fun!
Eve online still going very strong 21 years in.
I miss Ddust514
Last time I checked there are some servers on Unreal Tournament, Quake 2 and 3 and the community still pretty alive, although really small
It also helps that shooters like that are much easier to set up servers for, since the tools to do so are publicly available, often official as well. Not to mention 99% of them have lan functionality, making arena shooters one of the longest lasting old school multi-player games.
I've played MapleStory since forever, and that's almost 20 years old now
That's a name I haven't heard in a while.
Animal Jam (classic) is still up and running, but is now 75% adults who just wanna try and relive their childhoods 😭
Yooo I forgot animal jam shiiit
Man, I remember joining Animal Jam's open beta back in 2010. My username was just 1212 become it was like the first time I created an account on anything lol, I played for years
My parents told me stories about being in math grad school and pulling all nighters to play WoW.
I play WoW.
Not me helping make a mod to revitalize a decade old game while watching this.
Freaking send it, man!
My dad still plays Star Wars Galaxies pretty regularly. And the people running the servers can do it just fine since they don't provide the software or license, you still need to buy a copy to play.
Ah, yes, that's about the time I should come back into Ultima Online
I play “pirates online” the pirate of the Caribbean game that was on the computer, all the time. It’s a banger fr
I hop on TLOPO myself from time to time.
Club penguin is my favorite retro MMO
But like, what third party server do people use nowadays, I remember that online had major controversy and rewritten got shut down by Disney so what site do people use ;-;
Toontown online got shutdown, but fans made so many different versions of it now to play, and I love it: rewritten is fun, corporate clash is so cool with new cogs and gags and story (and more), fellowship allows you to choose what two gag tracks you start with instead of just starting with throw and squirt, he’ll there’s even toontown offline
Companies will stop selling/servicing games and then proceed to sue people for making those games they stopped giving a f*ck about available for the masses.
Lord of the Rings Online, and Guild Wars are still online, and Guild Wars 2 and Star Wars the Old Repulic aren't that far off from being 15 years old. Yes a lot of mmos are gone, but there are still a lot
LOTRO slipped my mind, yer right!
There's also a few restoration projects that try to keep old MMOs alive but the IP owners keep going after them. The defunct Cartoon Network MMO Fusion Fall comes to mind
Crazy how the servers for the decade old shooter Plants Vs Zombie Garden Warfare are still going, and its sequel Garden Warfare 2 predates both overwatch games and still gets lobbies at any hour, despite competition from the newly release Marvel Rivals
The fact that not only does Transport Tycoon - a game from the mid 90s is still alive with servers, but it also went open source, get's regular updates and mods created for it is just mind boggling. And you can play it for FREE on steam
LittleBigPlannet just recently got its servers taken down i wish they were still up :(
I recently got back to club penguin. There aren't much people, but still fun with all the mini games and story missions.
I did the Toon Town Reimagined or whatever it was called, years ago on a stream and a bunch of people from the community showed up to help me. Pretty much everyone either joked about going to the popular worlds town square or told me not to go there. A few hours in I had to know so we decided to go. As it turns out there’s a massive community of people just having furry rp sex in the town square, but the censoring is still there like in the normal game so they had like a meta of silly words to use. Needless to say it was the last thing I expected to find in a like 20+ year old game. And yet looking back on it, kinda makes all the sense in the world.
City of Heroes just recently (like in the last two years) got one of the fan servers to be legitimately recognized and allowed.
Dungeons and Dragons Online is as old as I am it feels like and it has just enough people to keep it going 😂
payday 2 is only from 2013, but holy hell it feels pretty ancient for how strong it's still going
When I downloaded the portal to play original RuneScape I got hit over the head with the nostalgia Hammer man.
Game is still super active to.
Very sad the original club penguin got shut down but whoever set up the new stuff for it I'm very thankful for so I can go back and play it!
I miss moshi monsters :/
Omg Moshi monsters! I remember I got the VIP thing once and it was the absolute peak of my childhood. It came with a box and some figures and stuff
I bought IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 and that thing still somehow has a community around it AND IT'S OLDER THAN I AM!!!
Star wars the Old Republic is 16 years and just got a large graphical update. So its still alive for now
12 years...
@@snusmumricken I read the announce date not the release date so I mathed wrong. thx
wizard 101 is still going strong and SWTOR is getting up there (swtor is now 13 years old)
Good example of an unchanged MMO that’s old as balls is Guild Wars. It apparently takes so little to keep the game servers running the developers just left it running as long as its successor is alive (guild wars 2 game released in 2012 and is still amazing game).
Free Realms is one that we will never see again.. and it fucking breaks my goddamn heart. Rest in codes FR
Toontown is a special case. There are a bunch of fan servers but the biggest 2 are a pretty faithful recreation called rewritten with some new content and then a major overhaul called coorporate clash.
Lego Minifigures Online shut down in 2016 and I since haven’t been able to find any trace or hope of a playable revival
Bro, Lego universe.
TORAM online is a MMO from 2007 still open and available on both PC and mobile
What's the full name of that acronym
@BraydenParker-s5t no it is literally called that toram online that is it's name no acronym
@BraydenParker-s5t I'm not too far into the game but I'm far enough to catch creatures and power level people. So if you do play the game. Let me know if you want to play together cuz otherwise you could just hire mercenaries
@@puppyprincedeus310 cool I understand didn't know it wasn't an acronym
@BraydenParker-s5t I'm currently trying to max level a pet so I can fuse it and make it stronger
Damn toon town i remember that game had so much potential
A little different, but monster hunter frontier was an absolute trip to get back into. I'm not too far into it yet, but its really fun!
Toontown is actually neat, you got two main servers, toontown rewritten, which is mostly just trying to be faithful to the original game, and toontown corporate clash which tries to be more experimental in its changes, i personally like corporate clash because it feels like it has more depth and seems to be more of a "what could have been" rather than just preserving the old game. Toontown 2 in a sort of way
Not an MMO, but I was surprised seeing a 24/7 online multiplayer server on Quake (1996), with active players most of the time.
No shit my brother has been playing WoW since he was 4 and was healing in a top guild before he could read(born in 01) and still plays today. He staryed by healing ppl from my mom guild on her lap, to taking over for my mom when she used the restroom (the main healer in the guild renamed to "the elements" or "elementals" id have to ask him, a top guild at the time ig) got his first maxed out character at 8-9 and was the mascot of said guild. He still plays to this day, though that og guilds been dead for a decade though, taken over by new ppl
Star Wars the Old Republic is nearly 15 years old and is still getting story updates.
The original Forza Horizon from like 12 years ago still has me in a chokehold
I'm currently playing the now defunct Monster Hunter MMO myself. It's a blast.
I remember adventure quest and the futuristic version of the game
The company tibia is from, cipsoft is in my city
They even have some busses decorated with ad
One normal bus is full with a dragon we love it
The other is a small little city bus that has a few pixel characters on it
You see it a bit more rarely than the dragon one
Openttd, may not be the real og transport tycoon deluxe, but its run by a genuin company, and is still being maintained with servers running perfectly.
Openttd is from 2004, with the og ttd being from 1994
I’ve played Toontown somewhat continuously since like 2006, AMA
A-Net is keeping the lights on for Guild Wars as long as 2 remains successful
Same thing with valves old games, like HL1 HL2, etc etc. Most of them have server browser, which also show community hosted servers. There are still people playing HL1 multiplayer.
This is completely true for Monster Hunter Frontier Z. Its been gone for 5 years after being a japanese only MMO since 2007. There are somewhat translated servers for english players now.
I still play Counter Strike 1.6 and Source, both are still quite active and very very fun still after over 20 years
Eve Online is roughly 20 years old and has been still alive and updated with more content, pretty neat
World of Warcraft mentioned. FOR THE ALLIANCE RAHHHH
Swtor fuckin updated player characters in the last vouple weeks after 12 years. They look like melting wax
Ttr and ttcc are so fucking goated bruh I love toontown so much
Space station 13 is a good example. That ganes 21 years old and you can still play it officially and thosevganes ate insanly active. Its lije the only thing that game player runs of sll the other ganes they have
I played ToramOnline 10 years ago on mobile
My brother legitimately coded for the team that picked up Toontown again. They called it ToonTown Rewritten. I don't remember if it's still active as of writing this but I know that he worked on it actively for a good few years.
Final Fantasy 11 and Dragon Quest 10 are both still fairly active, and you can still play on player hosted servers for Phantasy Star Online on both GameCube and Dreamcast
My dad still plays ultima online and is on the same discord server with one of the admins(who also plays regularly).also the game still gets events.
Edit:spelling mistake
I currently play a 19 year old game that is still being developed and still runs on servers owned by the developers, sometime this year they are finally going to move over to 64 but servers
Ultima Online is still online and still gets updates. It's the first true MMO and the oldest MMO still going.
I feel my mortality by watching this short and reading the comments.
O have recently started playing delta force black hawk down 23 year old game
Kal online is a game from 08 from korea, its still getting maintaindled
Ah toontown rewritten my beloved
Guys what a game like this you would recommend
Eve online
City of Heroes
Yes @@Im_not_bob07
Sir Bart's son is terrorizing Ultima Online.
I MISS YOU MONKEYQUEST
Someone runs and maintains Club Penguin for free. And there is events and updates and such just like if it was offical still.
While not the oldest, warframe is arguably at its peak popularity and quality nearly 12 years in
gameplay loop is... unique compared to most other MMOs but I think Space Station 13 fits here too
Technically Dofus is still going too, looking even younger nowadays !
Lord of the Rings online: "pathetic"
Team Fortress 2, almost 18 years old and still going strong
Real reason for this is that the only 30 year old games you know about are the ones so good, that theyve been kept alive.
Still playing Lord of the rings online (17 year old game) on its original server, and going strong!
I’ll always remember lego universe. Best mmo evet
OpenTTD after 20+ years :🗿
Don't forget, while it's likely been mentioned somewhere else on here, the original servers for Phantasy Star Online for the SEGA Dreamcast are very much alive and well with updates coming out to this day!
Lego Universe just didnt exist until like two or three years ago because Lego didnt want to moderate it.
Dungeons and dragons online is also still going, which started in 2006
they shut down pixie hollow. i was devastated when i found out
The exception is animal jam classic
i love love that freaking game, had my same account from 2012
You can play old school runescape. It is just like 2007
The Legend of Pirates Online
Soapbox Race World
Mabinogi
*AHEM*
Gentlemen,
Meridian 59.
Rest in peace Bin Weevils :'(
On xbox mc i used to have a world with hundreds of tnts that id invite my friends to and watch from a tower
DC Online is still kicking around and now has an official ps5 port
RAGNAROK ONLINE SWEEP RAAAAAGH