Personally I'm sorry it ended up this way. I like the fact that they took a risk and tried to do something different in a marketplace crowcded by so many 'safe' everquest clones.

At the end of the day I feel upset that this will now be a sign that 'deviation from the norm' is a bad thing. So we will be force fed more and more slightly improved WoW.

Yes the game was fundamentally flawed, mainly let down by its interface. Once you got over that hurdle beating the tar out of other people in a more or less evenly matched PvP without having to worry too much about griefing or ganking was fun... in short bursts.

What pisses me off the most is that the game is now unplayable, along with Auto Assault (yeah I've got a tendency to try everything) its become a coaster in my collection. I hope one day that someone sets the precedent of releasing the server of a shut down MMO to the open source community. I'm sure that their are licensing issues preventing that in most cases - but its a pipe dream of mine. Who knows maybe it would see a resurgance if open sourced as the community could make their own improvements.