I started playing UO in 98 - my grandma played and made me a toon to play. I was 14 and it took me a while but I did eventually had my first player crush on a guy named Beast of Burden. I think he was a Tamer and I was a puppy dog. Most of the time he sent me to gather reagents from the ground, some days I would be pked just for my bag of regs.
Eventually I pulled away from Beast and started doing more exciting things in the game. After years of playing, then years of not, I have been compelled to return to a very different game than I left. But, it is fun and I have found the changes in the game to be ok but play a bit on Siege for old times sake.