Too many to list, but a whole lot less than in other, lesser, games.
(IMHO)
I'd agree with that. Contemplating the naval while Rome burns comes to mind. But Cryptic/Paragon did some very good work. The basics of the game. The Archetypes. The 1-50 levelling. Combat. Interface. ITF was a great piece of post - Cryptic work.
Less successful for me?
CoV. Sideways move. 'Pressing' limited resources over twice the area. Rather than filling the 'empty' zones with MORE content.
Rogue. Compounding this error. More great zones. Beta tested mission content. (So my Duo partner thought...)
Incarnates. A fracture rather than a progression. (Not like the game I'd come to recognise at all...like a pre-op for CoH 2.)
Lack of moving to a modern gaming engine. Some say the graphics were starting to look dated. (Me? I just loved how it played.)
Mission types. All seemed to familiar after doing 1-50 a few times.
NOT going back to original archeyptes sooner and making them 'more so.'
Perhaps not creating individual archetype mission arcs for 1-50 for each type. (A lot of work? Better than closing down. The 1-50 journey was too samey for some.)
Game was too slow. (Too fast for me. But why not allow one server to switch on perma Hasten for all as inherent. SB buff as inherent for all who want to play that fast. Me? I'd just slip around maps with that...)
Hmm. Key expansions? Sideways moves that didn't build on the core game in the right way. Splintered the player base...while not really addressing. Not adequately building on what made the core game so great.
...and for the money invested...did these 'key expansions' give a return of investment for NC Soft in terms of revenue and play base expansion?
Worse. Did(?) some things alienate key parts of the player base that didn't come back.
Subjective opinions. But they can cause erosion of a player base.
Some may disagree. But how come CoH is dead while some dreadful mediocre MMOs still survive.
Was it a lack of advertising by NC Soft only? Cultural? Politics. Egos. Fickle MMO fans? Lessons learned too little too late?
*wrong thread. I know. But it just came out...
Azrael.