Both DAOC and Anarchy Online were late 90's MMO's. They had a lot of issues back then but most of it was because of the internet infrastructure not being anything like it is today. Anarchy Online was particularly notorious for lag and members of your group simply going LD (link dead) mid-battle and as you know, when you have a party of carefully selected members, every person has a special role in the fight or you get wiped. We did a lot of running away in those days because all of a sudden our tank or healer would just stop responding.