Best MMO PvP you ever played?

Everquest 1 Sullon Zek. You lost hours of experience points for dying to an opponent of within five levels.

There was hate there that I have yet to see matched on any server in any game ever. No rules. No GM bailout. No crybabies like here.

There was world pvp everywhere. No exclusive instances. You wanted to kill a boss you better make sure half your guild or others in your faction are paid to guard the zone in, otherwise they come, kill you, steal the boss, then laugh at you in general chat. Bosses had to be killed at 3 am by some factions.

Factions would wipe out home cities and camp bindpoints for hours.

You always watched your back. Snares, snared you...bigtime. Blinds made your entire screen black.

To me those were the good old days. Nothing has come close since. That fear, that joy of retribution....that pure feeling of knowing when you were on top here, you could beat any other MMO out there.

There were no rewards for pvp. No gear. No point system (that worked). Not even pvp balance. But it was still the best I ever played because it felt hardcore. No mercy.

I tried it once, my first 20 mins in game. I walked up onto a dock to get a ferry across some lake. A guard instantly attacked me (NPC)....an I quit lol. That was my first ever look at MMO's I didn't know anything about them at that stage.

Yeah. Another feature of that game was that each city/area had its own faction and you had to quest it up to max. Even your own. Because the enemy could sneak in and do the quests too, and if your faction was lower than theirs the guards would attack you.

I remember many a day when low level halflings were killed in thier own backyard by their own guards....and yes lost experience for it.

I don't think anyone on these forums could take servers like that anymore.