Funcom is a stunningly inept company that somehow managed to acquire a handful of completely amazing world designers.
Anarchy Online was amazing, Shadowlands was holy shit amazing.
Age of Conan tried really hard to stick to the feel of the Conan novels.
And Secret World has some rather cool cthonic horrors.
All are marred by godawful tech, horrendous gameplay issues, hilarious bugs, unbelievably awful customer serivce, and head-in-the-sand development practices.
This announcement surprises me this much: --><--
Whoever designed AO and Shadowlands though, please go join a real company and make something new and amazing if you haven't already, because I want to explore more of your crazy genius brain.