World of Warcraft is the true spiritual successor to EverQuest.

[Wakanda]

I always LOL when people talk about Pantheon or M&M being the true spiritual successor to EQ.

Reality is that the true spiritual successor to EQ is actually World of Warcraft. If you were a kid in 1999 who was super curious what the future of EQ would look like, and you had access to a time machine and traveled 15 years in the future, you would be looking at World of Warcraft. Nothing else.

Also I love M&M and hope it's super successful btw, but I just keep hearing these nerds on Youtube talk about how M&M is the true spiritual successor to EQ and as a non-boomer who plays modern games and stuff... like bro we are ignoring a really big elephant in the room and doing a hard LARP to pretend like WoW and EQ aren't related at all.

I frequently talk about this with youngsters on WoW too BTW. Kid who are like what the hell is EQ??? Like honey, you have no idea that the game you're playing is essentially the evolution of EQ. And yes -- Classic WoW is closer to P99 than Retail WoW. Just cold hard facts.

Also yes I am drunk AF. Please take this into consideration before raging out.

[Swish]

what about Pantheon?

[Reiwa]

For me eq2 was the true successor because neither of the computers I had at each time could run the game well

[Champion_Standing]

P99 still drunk I see. Good work.

[usmcjdking]

Nah. ESO is the proper successor to EQ. A lot of ESO is modeled after EQ.

[branamil]

Elden Ring is. It contains the unforgiving nature of eq, the sense of wonder, the bizarre quest lines, and the nonsensical item stats.

[Neno]

Both EQ and WoW had an amazing vanilla experience and then started going down hill on their 2nd expansions which were both ice themed.

[Jimjam]

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

Both EQ and WoW had an amazing vanilla experience and then started going down hill on their 2nd expansions which were both ice themed.

The icing on the cake!

Was Minecraft the spiritual succesor to Warcraft (World of)

[Ciderpress]

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

For me eq2 was the true successor because neither of the computers I had at each time could run the game well

WoW was basically EQ2 at launch too, just with a much better optimized engine and completely different art style. So yeah I think the "spiritual" successor to EQ is obviously EQ2 before it's WoW, unless "spiritual" requires that we leave out actual successors, which it probably does I guess nevermind.

[Cecily]

All I remember from WoW beta was item server loot lag off corpses and playing servant for nonstop fetch quests. I hate questing.