I got into Anarchy Online during the 'beta' phase and then would check back in every few years to see how it had progressed.

Never got super good at it... or even tried to... but I always found it quite exciting and fun to play and was extremely impressed by its expansiveness compared to other gaming options of its same time.

In other words I always thought that it was way ahead of the curve in so many ways... but somehow it failed to keep up with the rapid changes in gaming at the time.

Had a similar experience with having played it and then playing WOW... and then quitting WOW! To this day it would be hard to convince me that the WOW team did not straight up copy from it in their original implementation... just with better funding.