This was my first, too. (Actually, I think it may have been third. I'm not sure.)
I actually haven't played for at least 5-7 years... I was a little skeptical coming back, but it's just as fun as I remember it and it's really refreshing to come back to it. The other MMOs nowadays just aren't the same, and that's including RO2. Even if they remake it, I doubt it'd still have the same charm that keeps bringing people back to RO and definitely won't have a community like HeRO's.