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Originally Posted by Wakanda
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I've been playing WoW off and on since 2004. I'm not asking why WoW is more popular than EQ, I'm asking why other non-EQ old school MMO's seem to have a larger and more active player-base than EQ does? I could understand if they were more popular than EQ when all of the games were new, but they weren't. It's like these other games aged better or something?
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What you see makes sense to me. EQ has a lot of descendants and derivatives, including World of Warcraft itself and consequently including that game's many clones. If a player sort of liked EQ but wanted a little different, there are a great many options. Most of the other old games you mentioned had vastly fewer copycats, or none at all, so folks who wanted one of those general styles of games were more likely to stick with the originals out of necessity.