Where did WoW go right?

[Vladesch]

My thoughts on why so many people went from EQ to WOW....
(Not all of these are my particular reasons)
These opinions are all based on the state of the 2 games around the end of 2004. (ie OOW vs WOW classic)
- Soloing in eq was lots of downtime. WOW is pretty much constant killing for most classes.
- WOW graphics were superior.
- EQ put basic class spells behind raid mobs that were competed with. (that was the final straw for me. It wasn't fun playing an enchanter who couldn't mez the mobs in the level-appropriate zones. Actually it wasn't fun or unfun because I never got a group.)
- Competition for raid mobs and cockblocking. (I was on asian time. Not much fun playing just after the US. I remember well the anguish trying to get the ssra kill. Hmm... actually any good rare spawn was close to impossible. I eventually got ssra by "camping" the entrance to ssra and joining up with another guild to kill him.)
- Locked zones. Stupid idea and a PITA for raiding guilds having to continually reflag people as they replaced the guild hoppers.
- Raid oriented view of the game by the devs. Raid or die.