The sheer fucking hubris of it all. The unexamined and unjustified hype wave. The "influencers" peddling the damn thing with naked cynicism. The recycled maps that often just took the same assets and tilted them sideways. The laughably bad QA allowing almost anything to be put in the chat box.
The way it just... stopped being relevant.
That is all. 
The fact that it was profoundly racist to the point where they brought in an outside consultant to help make it less racist
And it was still very racist
What if conquistadors!... but there's a vague World of Warcraft "corruption" cliche.
you could make yourself invincible by wiggling the window around
because almost everything was client-side
IN AN MMO
i liked how they made this sandbox pvp mmo where 95% of the content is players killing each other but then realized that testers were bored by the lack of content and then failed to pivot towards being a theme park mmo
It'd be like a Disneyland-style theme park where most of the areas were the same structure rotated slightly.
I was in the New World beta and discovered that if you tried to fish in a town it would crash your nd people around you's clients.
I reported this, heard back nothing, and then forgot about the game.
In the next beta I tried the same thing and it still worked.
On the game release (I apparently pre-ordered on amazon when it was announced as a free to play game and they honored it) I tried it and it still worked.
I have no idea if it still works because I stopped playing after a week.
I remember specifically that Iron Tower Studio, the guys making Colony Ship RPG, had to change it to that name from their original title, The New World.
And the Amazon bullshit just flopped and disappeared like a wet fart
I mostly remember New World because of Josh Strife Hayes. But he reviews dead MMOs regularly so it's pretty fitting.
