i've heard of gaia soo many times! but i never joined because i didn't understand how it worked and was too lazy to get into it
the first game i joined was howrse in 2010 i was nine years old and probably shouldn't have had access to a computer but oh well haha it all started there and then i joined kofk, my candy love and flight rising after a while. i slowly lost interest in howrse and didn't log in for 3 months, so they deleted my account
there was no way to get it back so i dropped all online games for years after that happened... i was so devastated haha. it meant so much for me i played for hours everyday since i was nine and met amazing people that are now part of my everyday life. i came back to kofk a couple of years ago because i was feeling nostalgic and now i only play kofk, eldarya and dappervolk (not consistently but i try)
these games shaped me, i'm studying digital arts in uni because i became interested in web and game design! i hope they never truly die even though they're not half as popular anymore