Well said Sleepy. I agree 100%. Its loss was disturbing in a genre overcrowded with unimaginative clones.

Another low point was the bankruptcy of the company that created The Chronicles of Spellborn. A game with such an excellent innovative combat system and such wonderful quest writing doesn't deserve such a fate.

It was a year with so few high points. CO and Aion were a step backwards in the evolution of the genre. Fallen Earth brought some new things to the genre, but not in the most exciting or memorable ways. AoC and WAR are withering away. I think a lot of people hung onto WoW because of how depressing the rest of the genre is.