So, I’m heading into a bit of a gaming slump. There’s nothing out that I really want or want to play. My MMOs are getting less and less of my time. Pretty much the only thing game-wise that I’m doing is Dark Heresy. (so expect some of that in the future, perhaps a lot! at least until Plants vs Zombies is released) Thus today’s post shall be about the worst MMO purchases I (or you, eh?) ever made.

The top of my list goes to Tabula Rasa! I got this game when it launched at the full 50 buck price tag and barely made it two weeks in. The gameplay wasn’t bad — I liked the action, but the quest grinds and spawn camps got boring fast. And after a while you realize that your action-y, unique combat is really just mouse button mashing instead of hotkey mashing. 

Pirates of the Burning Sea. I loved this game. No, I shouldn’t say that — I loved the setting. This was one of the few games that I really got into role-playing on. I had tons of character detail, background information — hell, I even looked up maps from the time period and got period-accurate details. But, I never made it past the pre-launch pre-order time. The ship combat was fun and unique, but the average questing system and rather poor avatar combat drove me away.

Lineage 2. I can take an asian grind-fest MMO occaisonally. Hell, at times they’re more fun to burn time on than the average western quest-grind-fest MMO. But Lineage 2 nearly broke me. See, I made the mistake of choosing a dwarf scavenger — the class whose sole purpose was to grind. Once you’ve grinded for 15 hours straight, three days in a row — you’ll know what I mean.

Vanguard: Saga of Heroes. I played this while it was in beta, bought it on release. I knew what was coming, but I still hoped for the best — hoped that it would change. It didn’t. This game had great potential, amazing potential. But on release it just lagged so badly and was so unfinished. I lasted up till the 20′s when the game shifted further and further into a grouping only playstyle (I hate games that shift their leveling trends half-way through) and one of the main quests needed some obscene amount of money to pass. I tend not to make a lot of money during my leveling up, I just don’t care about it since anything I’d want to buy is usually obsolete in a few levels, so making a major quest chain require a large sum of money to just be completed is stupid. Sorry.

Horizons. Crafting was fairly enjoyable — was there anything else? No? Thought so. Oh, and making massive changes to the game the week before it launched, right after beta ended? Really? That was smart…

And that wraps up all the ones I can remember. Which, in the long list of MMOs I’ve played, really isn’t too bad.