WoW is a more modern MMO and largely based off of EQ so can't really compare them in terms of game mechanics and polish.
The biggest difference is WoW has hardly no replay factor on your main character.
In P99 you could sink 2000 days in /played, have a nice nest egg of high end items and plat, then for w/e reason in real life you take a break. 4 years later when you come back, your 800k is still more or less valuable, your fungi is still a fungi etc..
In WoW you sink 2000 days, your main will have pretty much bis in every slot, high pvp rank and that's about it. You raid once a week, then if you don't enjoy the mindless pvp grind, your options is to start a new character at lvl 1. There's no purpose to run your raided main into instances due to non raid items being irrelevant. What's worse is if you take a 4 year break, the dude that started playing 8 months ago already has better gear than your main. This is even before EQ introduced AA.
Some people never get to see the insides of ToV and are more than happy farming their little favorite spot and twinking their 8th characters in EQ. This is why EQ neckbeards will always come back to this game, while those that take a break from WoW might never come back.
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