Agreed. LFG kept everyone in cities sitting around talking crap in trade chat. Not fun. Also the way they made everything a mad rush to level cap, with the xp boost heirloom gear, the group quests that got nerfed so you could solo them...so many things that turned the game from a unifying social experience into a project in solitude....
I can't help but laugh after the documentary showed their gleaming plasma-cooled swat team secured never exposed to cameras before boner inducing mega server pod of awesomeness, and it all bugs out and crashes on the launch. Not quite the infallible game company after all....
It's hard to put Iron Maiden on the list because they have succeeded in the industry despite no radio/video play, whereas these other bands are everywhere. I used to love Maiden, but grew out of them. Great music when you're 17, but it doesn't hold up that well when you're in your 40's...I still have loads of respect for them though.
After the Stones stopped doing cover songs, they got quite good, and recorded some very original, vibrant pop rock. After Brian Jones died, they morphed into a blues-rock outfit, and still made good music. Some say when Mick Taylor left, they started to suck, but i still like their stuff up through Tattoo You. But that was 34 years ago. They've been pretty awful ever since. But they had a very good run, IMO.
Yeah, there's a whole industry built up around a cult of death. You can add Sublime to that list, a group who released one album posthumously to it's singers' death, and it went triple platinum. And it's very mediocre.
I should have added another 10 bands up there, to be honest. But I still have to go with Aerosmith, what a shit band. They started off ok, then pressed the suck button. Just like Def Leppard. "High and Dry" was a solid hard rock album. Now look at them. Terrible.
He'll be off to Man Utd in January. If not then, he'll leave for free in June. I say sell him, reinvest the cash right away. Hopefully Okore will be prepared to give it a go finally as well. Losing Vlaar is not the end of the world, I just hope we hold United's feet to the fire and get 6m for him.