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Mostly the lack of confident GMs it's not a particularly easy game to run online.
This
I started play by forum on dumpshock which is 'just shadowrun' (and still going). I love the world, but the rules are very very complex. Especially the matrix rules. Explaining that complexity over forum is hard. Tabletop/face to face it's much easier as there is a much higher bandwidth
The other issue I have with SR4 at least is that with the same build points some people can make gods and others the key stone cops. That's true for other game systems of course and a good GM can overcome that (helping the weaker and asking the stronger to tone it back a bit)
I am delighted to see that the Shadowrun 5 matrix rules actually seem to work, and are not too complex (by comparison).