Browsing recently through various articles about MMORPG's past and present left me wondering: which MMORPG or other MMO-type games have you followed the development of, only for the project to later be canceled or for the final product to be a big disappointment?
The MMORPG that I was looking forward to above all was VR1's proposed
Lost Continents, the only pulp-era themed MMORPG I'm aware of that was/is being developed. Besides being a big fan of Indiana Jones style pulp-era fiction and such, it was in interviews and previews for this game where I first heard of the proposed introduction of instancing (they were calling it "private zones" then), an element that's taken for granted in today's MMORPG's and other MMO-type games.
Unfortunately, the game never saw the light of store shelves. Months into its development, it was at first "suspended indefinitely", then finally officially canceled.
-G
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