You hadn't invested your time in, and why?


Example:


Priston Tales II


Though it has good graphics, I started back when it had a balanced game. It Transitioned from Closed Beta to live and was actually fun and well balanced. Shortly thereafter, they introduced an Expansion called RENEWAL.


Renewal destroyed the balance of the game, turning it into Warrior-Craft, as well as removal of alot of the attack animations. This also started a massive trend of buggy updates and incomplete content additions. Over the course of the next 1.5years, the GM staff would continually dangle a carrot about the patches that were coming and would correct the balance issues as well as the ever growing list of bugs, only to have nothing fixed with the next patch.


So, Developer - Yedang, Publisher(???) - GamerBridge / GamerKraft.


I suggest avoiding this one.

Warhammer Online. I don't think I'd been this excited about an MMO since waiting for Ultima Online. I was so hyped up that I pre-ordered the $80 Collector's Edition, plus I spent another $50 on a couple guides for the game. I usually don't buy those guides, that stuff is out of date before it hits the shelf, but I was so amped up for the game, I wanted these books anyway. So $120 invested into the game.

I played it one month and cancelled. What a disappointment. It wasn't a terrible game, but it wasn't good either. And certainly a crushing let down considering my hopes were sky high for the game.

I'm pretty excited about Guild Wars 2, but believe you me, I'm not buying no Prima Guides this time. At least it'll hurt less if I get disappointed again.


Can't say there are any games were I'm disappointed about the time I invested in them though. It's usually about the money for me. If I don't like a game, I'll usually stop playing it pretty quick, I'm not terribly patient with games. If I've invested a lot of time into a game and then it goes to crap later, that's disappointing, but I'm usually not upset about the time I spent, because I recognize I was having fun with it until someone messed it up. I spent 5 years in UO and 6 years in DAOC, both those games fell apart due to age and bad decisions, I'm still happy with the memories they provided.

There are a few games I "regret" buying... like Rift and Warhammer. Those two got me bored before the end of the "free" 30 included days... and I was in beta of both, but somehow hoped release and having my own lasting characters would give them more appeal. It didn't work. I also bought Mortal Online collector in an attempt to encourage a sandbox MMORPG which looked promising... only to see the game end as a mindless and imbalanced PvP gankfest instead of a good sandbox like UO. Yeah, those I kinda wish I wouldn't have put a cent into. When it comes to purely time invested, the winner (or loser, actually) is Lineage 2. I wish I had never played that pile of an Asiatic grindfest crap. I stuck to the game solely because some friends from AC (Asheron's Call) where playing too. That never happened again since then (and will never happen again, no way I'm gonna force myself playing a game I dislike)... god what a waste of time in a crap game.

To the opposite, curiously, even though Age of Conan was quite bad too, I feel I got enough fun to be worth my money out of it. Hell, I was even there for the launch of Anarchy Online, which was one of the worse MMO launches ever, yet I had more fun out of that game than the more "modern" games listed in the first paragraph.

 

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Warhammer Online, I was in the beta pretty early and saw all the changes being made and I thought that the game had a legit shot to be great.

The open beta's were a freaking blast, I had 6 coworkers playing with me in it, and we would play til 1 a.m. and come in like zombies and talk about it half the day. Most of us bought the $80 (I think it was 80) super duper version of the game, to get in the game 2 days early.

Sadly the live game was nothing like the beta, the world was just to big for open world pvp with the amount of people they were letting on servers.

 

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Easy answer, Horizons. Absolutely nothing good came from that PoS. I managed to get my entertainment for the box price of WAR and AoC but Horizons was a complete and utter disaster. Hell, even Vanguard was ok for a month.

 

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Tabula Rasa. It was only a month of my time but it's a month I'll never get back.

 

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Age of Conan, Horizons, and Warhammer all come to mind.


MMO's are dead to me.

 

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I don't regret any of the games I played, they all entertained me - albeit some more than others!


Life's too short for regrets.