Why is EvE on this list, its a old game ans free to try.

Starwars would of been ok if it was a single player game.

I dont rember why i quit playing AoC or LotR

I stop playing Warhammer becuase my old pc could not handel it and i guess the servers couldnt ether by restricking the amount of poeple in sieges.

WAR for me, although luckily the crushing disappointment hit me in beta and headstart and I was able to cancel my CE pre-order before making a very costly mistake. I was so hyped about that game, being a long-time fan of Warhammer on the tabletop, and loving everything I was hearing out of the Barnett & Jacobs hype machine. But once I was able to actually see the game in action it was clear that it had all gone horribly wrong, as they served up a buggy mess that got buggier with every beta patch leading towards release.

I've checked out the trial a couple of times since, and the game actually seems pretty well fixed up and in decent shape now.. but the ship has sailed.

Originally posted by Loke666

Vanguard and AoC. Both games had so great ideas but were released far too early, buggy and never really got the mechanics for the ideas right.

Definitely Warhammer Online. EA did a bad example as a WoW challenger.

I would like to add Vanguard to the list along with FFXIV. 

sadly SWTOR got to be the biggest disappointment for me aswell.

second biggest disappointment is Age of Conan!

both are fails and runs on rails. both would have done better with an auto play button! lol so you can just sit and watch it like a movie because the freedom in those games are so limited and forced controlled beyond me how they can call it mmorpgs even. But hey thats just my opinion.

SWTOR really saddened me when I closed my account this month.  The game bored me to tears.  I miss the old game before they screwed it up with NGE.  Oh well but that's a really old arguement...so that's my answer SWTOR.

Originally posted by sirphobos

Probably Everquest 2.  Don't get me wrong, it wasn't a bad game at all, but as a long time veteran of the original, I was expecting a lot more.

Honorable mention would go to Horizons, except that by the time it came out we knew it was going to suck.  Still, that game should be a lesson to anyone who buys into early pre-alpha hype of a game.

have to agree with Horizons bugs i mean comon, my chars multiple times gets its feet stuck in tiny hole on the ground and couldnt move after that and no /stuck option. also monsters that didnt stop chasing thro mountains and beyond but then again i didnt wait anything from the game at the time. i voted for warhammer cause i actually was victim of hype.

but the list is huge for dissapointments but the biggest ever is personally in lotro, world is amazing inbooks, films etc but the NON option to players be able to play as saurons forces against free people players would have been goldmine.

instead we got that lousy monsterplay. now that was biggest dissapointment.

FFXIV Not so much the launch which went rather smooth, but the diabolical lack of content. coming a close 2nd has to be SWtoR for many reasons which have already been covered numerous times to warrant me ranting even further.

Played it for 2 years followed it sinds 2003 but its prolly my biggest dissapointment even tho some how i still like it a little bit.

And the game is Darkfall what i thought it would be before 2008 and what it became after 2007 so many featers they dropped or where just lies plus community was big let down for me so many CHEATERS i lost for most part my whole faith in mmo's becouse of Darkfall.

Couse of downfall and my faith in mmo's prolly 2004 launched game hehe.

Honestly, ever MMORPG since EQ1, UO, DAoC.

SWTOR didn't disappoint me because I didn't expect very much from it at all and it was actually quite a nicely made game (compared to all the other trash MMORPG's on the market) and although I was disappointed it was a MMORPG and not a multiplayer singleplayer RPG, it wasnt really disappointing.

I know a lot of people will be disappointed with Guild Wars 2. So much hype it is ridiculous, lol...

But yea... disappointed in every game except until.... Vanguard! That was actually a great game, and one I would have absolutely LOVED! It was what Everquest 2 should have been, and a great game period.

However, it was horrendously buggy to the point of becoming a dead game abandoned by its unfortunate owners. During beta, when the game worked, it was an amazing experience that I had not had since Everquest 1.

So no, it isn't me, it's the disappointing games. They are no longer MMORPG's, they are singleplayer RPG's or crappy WoW clones or boring fail themeparks trying to parasite the WoW cash cow. All that are not trying to parasite the WoW cash cow are poorly funded games which suffer from either a lack of funding and talent (graphics) or indie-plagued User Interfaces or god-awful implementations of features most (funded) games dont have a problem implementing.

Oh dear, how depressing: Lotro, Warhammer, Age of Conan, Aion, EQ2, Rift .. the list goes on.  Maybe I expect too much?  Some of the disappointment might be to do with how easily bored I become with repitition and familiarity.

Dark and Light - I was expecting a massive sandbox with tons of potential for exploration on a scale never before seen. What I got was pre-alpha and absolute trash.

Vanguard - I was expecting Everquest1 x 10, but what was delivered was a giant empty unfinished world.

I would say EQ2. Not that it was a terrible game at launch, but I was expecting it to at least feel like EQ.

Since then I learned not to let my expectations get away from me in regards to new games, so not many major disappointments from there on.

1) FF 14

2) Warhammer online

3) SWToR

I think EA/Lucus arts/Bioware  sneaky ninja developed & published FF14.

Originally posted by Hrica

1) FF 14

2) Warhammer online

3) SWToR

 

I think EA/Lucus arts/Bioware  sneaky ninja developed & published FF14.

Actually from what I've heard, FF14 was not directly developed by SquareEnix. I'm not sure how true it is, but I heard the development of much if not all of the game was outsourced to a Chinese company that got fired after the initial launch went so poorly. SE's been working on recovering it since then.

Again, thats just what I heard. No idea if its true or not.

Final Fantasy XIV, Tabula Rasa, Warhammer Online, Age of Conan, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Lord of the Rings Online...

So many more that I was fortunate enough to be in betas for, so I knew better than to actually buy them when they rolled out in their buggy "beta" states.

Some of the specific ones I listed were in some way associated with great predecessor, developer, or legendary IP, and it was my own fault for raising my expectations so high.

I agree the biggest disappointment overall is SWTOR. But personally for me the biggest gaming disappointment of my life was Warhammer Online....that shit still makes me sad.