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Made this cuz some idiot in C&S pissed me off with a stupid question.

What is the first thing you do when you first play a new mmo? (aside from logging on, like once you're in the game)

Honestly, the first thing I do in any new mmo is smash every button on my keyboard to see what does what. I than note the basics, like inventory, rest, chat, party, exchange, and stats. Next I look to see which keys bring up a strange menu that I've never seen before. Than I go exploring.

What's the first thing you do?

Once I tried Aion, i just followed along. Never strayed off track. Read the guide at Aion's site.

I'm still a newb but hopefully, I'll get better!

follow the guides, beginner quests

If I bought it from store I check for game manual, if there is one I read it, then I open options/preferences and arrange the game as I feel comfortable with and then read some basic help and walk around, test controls, explore surrounding NPC's, areas, etc.

Guess this is pretty much what I do in every game

BTW How did he piss you off? Did you kick him in the balls while exploring the keys?

Seems like everyone reads guide's and in-game tutorials... I just smash and try everything until i figure it out =P

for a mmo i go find the closest mod and kill it using the skill that sounds the coolest.

Walk around and pretend to be a girl to get free items.

I feel dirty now

Don't, one of my best friends irl did that when he first started sro... he got a full sos set 5d too

Find the begin NPC and just follow from there, buttons are usually the same and you'll learn them during quests.

Well, before I play any MMO I always research it a bit just so I know i'm not wasting my time with the MMO and the character.

first thing i do is beg for 10k

i research it and decide what build/race/whatever im gonna go with then prolly do some quests

research the mmo first. I mean you have to be pretty dumb to just look at a couple youtube videos or screenshots and then download the game. Nothing is worse than waiting 3 or 4 hours, making accounts, and playing the game only to find out that its terrible

Just off the top of my head, I'm pretty sure having your balls ripped off by a hairy man is much worse...

I don't read shit. First thing I do is try to get ass far on the map as lvl 1 as I can. If I can reach high lvl mob areas( like lvl 100+) and not die as lvl 1, I uninstall the game.

Example, Jade Dynasty.

click every button, thats how I figured out what Alt+F4 does

how about ctrl+w?

That i found out by different way (you don't want to know)

this.

kill some mobs outside...
see skills(99% of my interest in any game), how the game looks..
see pvp when i can.

In SRO I didn't do jack but it was my 2nd MMO, after SRO ~mid 2007, when I started moving onto other MMOs~ I will do the following:
Research the game:
Is it Popular? Number of reviews, how much information google drags up.
Does it have PvP, specifically Battlegrounds?
Payment Options (F2P/P2P/Item Mall/Subscription)?
How is the PvE (Raiding/Instances/Dungeons?)
Quest-Based Leveling, hard grind, or a good mix?
Are the player-based reviews positive, negative, or meh?
Does it have a large fan-forum? (This is where you see the true face and condition of the game)
Gold farming/selling problem?
3rd party program problem?
Customer Support?

Once all that is done I move on to classes:
Classic class structure of:
Tank
Healer
Melee DPS
Ranged
Magic DPS
Curse Class
Poison Class

Then I pick a class and start planning my build. While I'm doing all of that I'm thinking of a name to suit my toon. Once I get a good feel for the game ~1 month of playing~ I start researching the PvP Meta & other classes, performing test, seeing what works, and what doesn't.

I hate doing quests. They take too long time.

The first thing I do is, as thread starter said, press nearly all the buttons and see what it does

Run around in circles.

fixed

First thing I do in a new mmo is get severely pissed off. Walking into a new mmo is like going to a different country with an entirely different culture and language. Also, nothing pisses me off more than to not know where 1 single npc is located, nor their names, or their titles. So I have no choice but to be to total newb and either wonder until I get sick of the game or ask questions and hope that im either answered, or not mocked for my newbness.

Also, I check to see if inventory is the letter "I" or "B" then I realize what the general layout will be for the keymapping. But I always forget anyways and pound the wrong button to bring up my inv.

Before I even play it, I read guides, see what the gameplay is like, assess user feedback, decide on a class (usually healer/paladin type) and then download and play.

Next step is either get tired of the bots (if it's SRO) or get so busy at work that I have to pretty much quit playing.

Follow tutorial quests and stuff, get to lvl 15 with as many skills as i can, then if i like the game i think about stuff like builds,guides,etc

idk if RoM has that good graphics(i didnt like em anyways)

I jacked off in his soup. o.o

now im curious