World of Warcraft is the true spiritual successor to EverQuest.

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Originally Posted by Ciderpress [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

If WoW hadn't been based on a well-established and beloved franchise (Warcraft), and was instead just a generic cartoony looking original mmo with the exact same mechanics, I'm not sure it would have been nearly as successful.

People are always like "Well see it killed EQ because of this feature or that feature" but they always leave out "oh also it's a WARCRAFT GAME"

One of the big things for WoW's success was also the fact that it ran easily on any e-machine or cheap laptop. I spent all kinds of money trying to get EQ 2 to run decently on my PC and it never did. Was really frustrating too because back then, online shopping wasn't a big thing, so this involved driving all over to random "computer stores" to see if they had anything I could upgrade in my already fairly expensive gaming PC to see if it would make EQ 2 run better. Had same problem with Vanguard.