Too many times...
For me, its been a lot like this:
Install game, log in, see shiny stuff, get excited, depo, buy shiny stuff, have some fun, get annoyed/pissed off/board/disappointed/whatever, sell everything, withdraw, wait for what seems like forever to get your money, uninstall game, go away for a while, get board/curious, re-install game, log in, see something shiny, get excited, depo, buy shiny stuff, rinse/repeat
FWIW, I'm amazed this "game" is even still around after all these years. Actually, I really can't believe it. I expected it to crash and burn many times over, in fact, I still do, someday! I think it continues in spite of itself. It's a very interesting testament to the genius of MA's psychological hooks. I'm constantly amazed at people's tolerance for fail, the addiction to the progress bars and golden swirlies, the cathartic mindless grinding, and the stickiness of being "invested" in whatever forms they can devise. Its just mind boggling that people keep logging in at all, and yet they keep logging in, and they keep depositing! It just keeps on keeping on. I don't know how much longer it has to go, but seeing that it is still around, and for whatever reason it keeps pulling me back, I do wish I'd not done all the above and that I still had all my skills, nice gear, LAs and whatever else I had, and what I would have had in the way of "assets" by now if I'd stayed "invested" and kept with it in spite of all my anger/annoyances/disappointments with MA and their handling of it all, its definitely a love/hate relationship for me, and there are not many days that go by that when I log in I think, "Damn, I wish I had thought of it first!"