World of Warcraft really is an EverQuest copy/pasta.

[Wakanda]

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

What I never understood about wow that worked in EQ and it made no sense to me.

If I saw you running from across the zone in EQ, I knew who you were. Like "oh cool there goes hazenblat, his armor I recognize a mile away"

But in wow, a game with much higher quality graphics, I couldn't identify one person from another in my groups.

I never understood why this was the way it was to me.

I think a lot of this is because when you're playing WoW it feels like you're watching a group of characters / dots from a far, but when you're playing EQ it actually feels like you're actually in the game and up close and personal with the people around you.

Secondly your gear changes so rapidly in WoW that your outfit may change multiple times a day. And items also look identical on every race, meaning you have to zoom in or hold your mouse over people a lot of times to tell if they are a night elf or a human.

But also in OG WoW each faction only started with four races and eight classes. Not a lot of diversity compared to EQ.

[cd288]

Today in stunning content provided by RecondoJoe on his ban evasion account.

Joe, didn't you throw some hissy fit about P99 and post that video of you deleting your characters? Bit sad that you threw a tantrum and said you were leaving and then came back. Have some balls and put your money where your mouth is.

[shovelquest]

Oh cool, recon is a bad ass.

[tycohunden]

Apparently, when WoW was finished and they had to build the world one of the devs who were deep into EQ raiding asked one of the higher ups what he wanted, and followed it up with: We could just copy EverQuest with our own lore? That pretty much became WoW, sure they tuned it around a bit, but basically wow is just the love child of EQ raiders and suits without a creative bone in their body... Then came bobby...

[loramin]

I mean, you could also argue that EQ copied DikuMUD, or that DikuMUD copied other MUDs, or that MUDs copied old school RPGs like Wizard, or that Wizadry copied Dungeons and Dragons, or that ...

Everything is derivative: it's just a question of degree [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Reiwa]

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

I mean, you could also argue that EQ copied DikuMUD, or that DikuMUD copied other MUDs, or that MUDs copied old school RPGs like Wizard, or that Wizadry copied Dungeons and Dragons, or that ...

Everything is derivative: it's just a question of degree [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

No you can't.

That's enough misinformation from you.

[Ekco]

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

No you can't.

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- Smed

probably.

[loramin]

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

No you can't.

That's enough misinformation from you.

EQ was not based on DikuMUD so much that it got sued for copying their code ... but there's also zero chance that all of the overlaps between the two games were coincidental:

Originally Posted by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DikuMUD

There was a minor controversy in late 1999 and early 2000 regarding whether the commercial MMORPG EverQuest, developed by Verant Interactive, had derived its code from DikuMUD.[18] It began at the Re:Game gaming conference in 1999, where the Director of Product Development for EverQuest, Bernard Yee, allegedly stated that EverQuest was "based on Dikumud". He did not specify whether he meant the code itself was derived from DikuMUD, or if it just had a similar feeling. Some attendees had understood it to mean the former, given that the chief designer, Brad McQuaid was an avid player of SojournMUD and TorilMUD that was based on the Sequent DikuMUD derivative, and reported to that effect on Usenet.[19] After the Diku group requested clarification, Verant issued a sworn statement on March 17, 2000 that EverQuest was not based on DikuMUD source code, and was built from the ground up.[20][21] In response, the DikuMUD team publicly stated that they find no reason whatsoever to believe any of the rumors that EverQuest was derived from DikuMUD code.[22][23]

So, as I said before:

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

Everything is derivative: it's just a question of degree [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Reiwa]

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

EQ was not based on DikuMUD so much that it got sued for copying their code ... but there's also zero chance that all of the overlaps between the two games were coincidental:



So, as I said before:

Personally I think EverQuest was based on the Boston philharmonic chorus.

Do you have a webpage directly refuting that?

I do.

[cd288]

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

EQ was not based on DikuMUD so much that it got sued for copying their code ... but there's also zero chance that all of the overlaps between the two games were coincidental:



So, as I said before:

You literally quoted something that said Dikumud said they found no reason to believe that EQ copied anything lol. Guess you didn't read the full quote?