Warhammer Online: First big MMORPG burn. Just such a massive failure of a game, and it seemed to be caused mostly by the arrogance of Mark Jacobs. They got plenty of feedback and criticism during the beta, but it was like they refused to acknowledge that the game wasn't perfect so they ignored it all.
Dragon Age: Awakenings: I still think it must have been bugged, this expansion was so brokenly easy that I have to assume it was a programming error. It was so utterly effortless even on nightmare difficulty that I eventually decided to try without magic items, and I was still able to auto-attack my way through all but the end boss, which took two attempts because I wasn't making the slightest effort the first time after being able to faceroll everything up until then by literally just holding down move-attack. Such a letdown tacked onto what had been one of the best single-player games ever.
Diablo III: NT
Neverwinter Online: Just the latest example of everything that's wrong with modern gaming, and a large step towards destroying my favourite genre. It's the McDonalds of gaming -- intentionally low quality, made by people who have no professional integrity whatsoever and are glad to produce garbage in order to minimize production costs. It's killing the MMORPG genre.
The Sleeper: Just wanted to squeeze in an amateur "game" since it's the P99 forum and all. Toop/Kegz's server is probably the most hilarious and memorable failure in EQEmu history, and the worst example of non-profit gaming that I've ever seen. There's endless comedy value in his psychopathic meltdowns.
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