used to play shooter games with garena, but stopped when their software updates gave me the finger. tried quake live but was bad at it, and its full features were only available to subscribers, so that's a killjoy.
also used to play countless hours of custom maps on warcraft 3. eventually got bored of it and lack of people playing anything else other than DOTA maps.
Sarisio: I played some MMOs but quitted them entirely as I can't stand constant changes in game rules - regular class "balancing", ability retuning, etc., and that's in best case. In worst case it is outright substitution of original gameplay experience (WoW's Cataclysm, RO's Renewal, SWG's NGE and so on).
Another reason - I want full control over the game experience. Subscription, always online AND relying on X other people to see all content - it is too much "no-go" for me to consider playing MMO.
i felt the same way about WH40K: Dawn of War 1. relic just got worse at balancing their game with each patch. it seems to me they were randomly picking suggestions from their fanboys and nerfing everything they don't like.