Warhammer Online

[GenDenelith]

Alternatively, "When the dwarves are so stubborn you can't even kill them by shutting down the game".

So Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning was released in 2008, and was an MMO based on Warhammer Fantasy.  Unforunately, Warhammer wasn't as well known as stuff like Warcraft so there were a whole hell of a lot of comments from people saying they ripped off World of Warcraft.  Even though Warcraft as a setting was basically Warhammer fanfiction.  The game had a troubled development, and was published by EA so it was kind of a mess on release.  That, combined with lots of people thinking it was just a WoW ripoff meant it never really found its ground.  The servers shut down in 2013, honestly lasted longer than I thought it did.

But in 2014 a private server started up named Return of Reckoning.  If I recall, they have the blessing of the original devs or some such, so it's like semi-official.  The URL for it is here:  https://www.returnofreckoning.com/

I remember buying the game at launch way back in the day, and really enjoying it.  In fact, I even did a bunch of PvP.  Good to see that jumping back in the game is as good as I remember.  The gameplay is very WoW-style, but done well enough.  Classes have pretty interesting takes as well, such as heavy armour melee healers, and tanks that need to work their way up to unlocking abilities mid-fight.  Has some nice pet-ish type classes.

The game does have a heavier PvP focus than usual, so there's less PvE content.  Plus of course the game didn't really get much new stuff.  Still a fun time, and its free anyway so fuck it I say give it a shot.

tl;dr - Dwarf throwing purple jars and using a grenade launcher against soccer hooligan fungus is fun even 17 years later.