[Tokai Saikutsu]

You answered your own question. Companies "seen" WoW's success and tried to copy it. Not sure what they claim in numbers now, but even at 11 mil players x $15 usd a month is your answer. Greed not gaming. Dont forget, Warcraft had a big following long before WoW was even made. To me it seems, most of those other clones tried and failed due to this. Some were just flat out garbage.


I believe Everquest topped out at around 1 mil players at its peak. EQ and its players also "grew up" together as bigger, badder PC's and tech came along at a very very fast rate. Everquest did have a following of sort before it was made, it is called Dungeons & Dragons and text based muds ( 80's - 90's )that the players made themselves. Also do not forget, not eveyone had pc's even into 2002 - 04 ish.

Why dont companies pick up on elements of what made EQ great? Its very different world in 10 years, and way different gamers, most alot younger. Most gamers are also male. Lets face it, newer games have nice gfx and some real hot female toons to look at, not square faced, triangled ass EQ avatars. lol

If you tell me what made EQ great for you, it will most likely be all the things you hated at the time. Camping for hours if not days for a drop and losing the roll, camping the same mobs for hours just for a level, so you can camp different mobs for another level .....
Working for days, if not months for that 1 uber drop that is about to be junk in next months x pac.
Waking up at 3 am for a naggy raid ( gotz to beat guild name here to da lewtz!.
Getting killed on way to a group ( and forgetting to hit /loc ) crap!!! Then spending the rest of your night looking for a nec to get it for you and tossing him all your plat.
And so on and so on ....

This type of game isnt well liked anymore. Mostly we all got older, families get in the way of our fun : P Jobs and Just plain no time for it. Even EQ seen this and made the game WAY easier than they use to be. Its almost a joke now. Do you really think kids today could deal with the original EQ? i doubt it.

In my opinion, there are only 2 games left out there in the MMO world, EQ and EVE, all the others left are either wow clones, or straight up garbage, wallet sucking waste of times. Although Earth & Beyond was nice middle ground game killed by ea. Here's hoping Everquest Next rocks like this did! ( holding very little hope tbh )

It still comes down to making money, like everything in life, sadly.

P.S. Is it just me, or do you all laugh at the people who claim to be Hardcore gamers on thier x box's now?