Where did WoW go right?

[Ferok]

WoW classic, take out all instancing: best game ever.

[kaev]

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

I don't know one friend who went to WoW. They all just stopped playing MMOs since EQ morphed into a vastly different game and all other MMOs suck. And I disagree that the cartoonish graphics of WoW were an improvement.

My EQ friends who tried WoW were the same ones who went to DAOC. Most of them never returned from DAOC for the same reason you cite, although it was the morph to raid-centric content design that started in Kunark and took full flight in Velious that they despised. (Yes, Virginia, there were a fair few classic EQ players who abandoned EQ because of Velious. Not everybody loved Velious, damned near every player I hung out with pre-Kunark disliked it enough to stop playing EQ.)

The only people I know who stuck with WoW long-term are those for whom WoW was their first MMO, and pretty much everybody I knew who tried WoW as their first MMO stuck with it for years (most still play occasionally.) WoW apparently did a very good job of teaching new players to like it, that may be the most important thing Blizzard did right.