My brother plays DAoC almost 24/7 (infact he is sitting right beside me playing right now).  He is on the Merlin server in the Hybernia realm.  He was big into UO but this game looked better and he made some good dough selling his UO account so he switched.  He had his UO account for 4 years which was almost from the start but the idea of starting a game right from the beginning was too temping for him.
I perposly don't play games like that because I tend to play them too much (still can't get away from Diablo 2

).  One game at a time is all I can handle.