Personally, Vanguard is right after EQ on my list of favorite games. It offered a huge world, diverse races and unique classes and that's all I'm really asking. I play pretty casually(maybe ten hours a week if I'm lucky) so I could've played Vanguard for a long while and not run out of content, unfortunately the friends I was playing it with left and I with them, always thinking I'd come back when the game was a little more polished, and then the population just fell right out.
Honestly, with all its naive ambition I think Vanguard did more to set back the MMO industry than WoW, even. I don't think we'd see as many WoW-Clones if Vanguard hadn't failed so miserably in its attempt to provide an alternative, and I don't mean they failed in making a fun game, merely that they failed commercially, and spectacularly.
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