Mythic has been around the block at least with Dark Age of Camelot, but it's beginning to feel like more and more they struck some core issues with the 'master plan'. Kind of like what happened to Vanguard. It was all a great idea on the drawing board, but as soon as reality touched it, the whole plan turned into little pieces on the ground and developers were left scrambling to pick up the bits and fix it.

Total Annihilation was a much better game then Starcraft, in my opinion at least. But of course, a lot more people played SC then TA. Eventually Cavedog closed, and the spiritual successor Supreme Commander has come out with fan fair reviews but lack-luster sales (Or so I've heard). Seems like WoW has killed the PC industry all by itself, not that the PC gaming industry didn't shot itself in the foot to begin with a few times.