Servers have been down during peak playing hours every night, and customer service issues have almost become a meme on social media sites.
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It's almost become a springtime rite of passage in recent years.
Mr. Fyfe: Innovation has almost become a byproduct of that focus on people, because as you become more focused on people and personality, people become much more confident and willing to express themselves.
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Retiring to one of these communities (Sun City alone has bred a dozen places with the same name) has become almost a routine part of middle-class life.
One woman, a book-stall manager, complains that she has become almost a slave to her middle-school daughter, who constantly pesters her for money.
Yet dropping out of college has become almost a rite of passage for ambitious technology entrepreneurs.
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Emoticons have become almost a staple part of how we communicate with each other online.
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As efficient lighting technologies, like LEDs, go mainstream they become almost like a new source of green energy.
It is no accident that by the time Delia Bacon entered the field, Shakespeare had become almost a god in the public imagination.
For Badamungalaya's Mr Nogadia, it has become almost a full-time business.
Enjoying these has become almost a guilty pleasure.
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The economic recovery has been progressing so well that it had become almost a sure thing the Fed will begin phasing out its easy money policy and QE stimulus programs much earlier than planned, possibly beginning as early as this summer.
Taken as a whole, it has grown to become an almost indispensable resource for planning a trip to Scotland, with dispatches from Edinburgh to the Inner Hebrides.
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What should be a fairly straightforward transfer has become a documentation nightmare that serves almost no productive purpose and requires a month or more of staff time gathering signatures and filing forms.
While manufacturers of fixed-line phones were trying to come to grips with cellular technology, Nokia and Ericsson came out of almost nowhere to become, within a decade, globe-straddling corporations.
"The danger is that we could be reaching a point where nuclear weapons would become almost conventional, and there will be the possibility of a nuclear conflict at some point... that would be a turning point in human history, " he said.
Mrs Warren has spent up to 23 hours a day wearing the mask and said it had "almost become part of my clothes" and that saying goodbye to it was "almost like saying goodbye to a friend".
He graduated from the program in July and almost simultaneously completed the exam to become a Cisco Certified Network Associate.
Large though Mr Gates's bank balance may be, he cannot afford to kit out the United States with broadband networks, and almost certainly has no desire to become a cable mogul.
Monsegur, known to everyone in that community as Sabu, had become a charismatic, almost mentor-like figure for the community according to sources, showing along with his hacking prowess, an extraordinary knack for attracting online supporters.
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Since then Chou has deftly become a good friend to almost every player in the handset business.
True door-to-door field sales is almost extinct, and has of necessity become a hybrid by our definition.
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He is now almost certain to become the third Spaniard in a row to capture cycling's most famous race.
The succulent lamb sliders have become a local addiction and almost overshadow the excellent moules and frites that the place is known for.
That means imports such as oil or cars would become almost twice as expensive, while a German could vacation on Crete for half the price.
It was a very successful guerrilla organisation but, even in victory, it almost immediately faced what has become the traditional republican dilemma: should there be a compromise which falls short of the all-Ireland ambition?
Maybe after almost 19 years, the war has just become a way of life.
We've almost become an exit-ramp economy, with a large portion of the jobs growing further and further away from the central cores.
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