Patch 1.4.0 was the killing blow. I loved the game on patch 1.3.8 - this was the best version of WAR. But they killed it completely with 1.4.0. But the big mistake was to release the game unfinished, then creating milion servers, where a lot of them ended up almost empty after the drop in player base, which lead to also leaving of those people who ended up alone on those servers a bit later.