History YMMV / Tibia

* AllegedlyFreeGame: To access the majority of the game's areas, quests and other content, you'll need to shell out a minimum of ~$10 for 30 days of Premium Time. And getting most of the level 200+ equipment, which usually starts at around 1,000,000 gp and increases in price exponentially as you level up, will likely require you shell out money for [[RevenueEnhancingDevices Tibia Coins]] that you can then sell on the game's Market for gp, unless you want to farm the daily bosses (which require 5-man teams or mastering tricky mechanics, or both) with less than a 1% chance of dropping the level-appropriate equipment.

* BribingYourWayToVictory: If you don't like working hard to get to a high level, you can literally ''buy someone else's character'' using Tibia Coins. More specifically, you can find people who are selling their characters on the game's Character Auctions and bid on them using Tibia Coins. Granted, there are a slew of (understandable) restrictions on what characters can be bought and sold, and the seller has to pay a non-refundable 50 Tibia Coins (~$2) just to post an auction, plus [=CipSoft=] gets a 12.5% commission on every auction. Extremely high level (1000+) characters will get auctioned off for hundreds of thousands of Tibia Coins, translating to thousands of euros/dollars in real world money!

* BribingYourWayToVictory: If you don't like working hard to get to a high level, you can literally BUY SOMEONE ELSE'S CHARACTER using Tibia Coins. More specifically, you can find people who are selling their characters on the game's Character Auctions and bid on them using Tibia Coins. Granted, there are a slew of (understandable) restrictions on what characters can be bought and sold, and the seller has to pay a non-refundable 50 Tibia Coins (~$2) just to post an auction, plus CipSoft gets a 12.5% commission on every auction. Extremely high level (1000+) characters will get auctioned off for hundreds of thousands of Tibia Coins, translating to thousands of euros/dollars in real world money!

* EpilepticTrees: popular within the fanbase, especially early on the game had loose plot threads everywhere, such as the Ferumbras quest, hints found in some books ingame, the actual quest only added a few years ago.

* HilariousInHindsight: During the first years of the game, the developers told a player that it would probably be impossible to reach level 100 because of the huge amount of EXP required. At the moment, a few players have passed level ''1000'', and passing level 300 is already, while still rare, somewhat mundane. Also, the first player who reached 1,000,000,000 experience points (around level 395) caused a glitch on the official website.

* GoddamnedBats: Extremely common. [[BigCreepyCrawlies Giant spiders]] are often accompanied by tarantulas, [[SmashMook Behemoths]] have cyclopes and dwarves, etc.

* AwesomeArt: 3d or 2d discussion aside, there is no denying that the games pixel art is [[http://www.tibia.com/abouttibia/?subtopic=screenshots gorgeous]], especially in the never released areas.

* HilariousInHindsight: During the first years of the game, the developers told a player that it would probably be impossible to reach level 100 because of the huge amount of EXP required. At the moment, a few players have passed level ''650'', and passing level 200 is already, while still rare, somewhat mundane. Also, the first player who reached 1,000,000,000 experience points (around level 395) caused a glitch on the official website.

* FunForSome: Some players choose to stay on the starting island of Rookgard, which is considered to be the best designed area in the game. Some players even reached level 100 on the island, something that required years of grinding in the limited hunting areas.

* HilariousInHindsight: During the first years of the game, the developers told a player that it would probably be impossible to reach level 100 because of the huge amount of EXP required. At the moment, a few players have passed level ''400'', and passing level 200 is already, while still rare, somewhat mundane. Also, the first player who reached 1,000,000,000 experience points (around level 395) caused a glitch on the official website.

* MemeticMutation: [[http://forum.tibia.com/forum/?action=thread&threadid=1344512 This]] forum thread evolved from a newbie's angry feelings to a boss creature in game and a cult following dedicated to him.
* RuinedForever[=/=]BrokenBase: Many patches enraged players, since they usually disturb the status quo of the class balance

* Hilarious in Hindsight: During the first years of the game, the developers told a player that it would probably be impossible to reach level 100 because of the huge amount of EXP required. At the moment, a few players have passed level ''400'', and passing level 200 is already, while still rare, somewhat mundane. Also, the first player who reached 1,000,000,000 experience points (around level 395) caused a glitch on the official website.