Are you kidding right now? Are we being punked?The question is did it popularize the genre, not if it influenced WoW.
There were multiple Blizzard people playing on The Nameless from day 1. Ariel was guild leader of LOS back in 99/00. That was Rob Pardo.So it started development not only years after EQ, but in all likelihood, after EQ even released in May 1999. Wasn't the lead dev on WoW the former guildleader of Legacy of Steel? I forget his name, but not Tigole. This argument is stupid. I'm not sure anyone can say that EQ didn't heavily influence many aspects of WoW.
Actually not really. Believe it or not, it spawned from the cancellation of Warcraft Adventures - an old adventure game which was to follow the story of thrall.You must be thinking of just Warcraft. World of Warcraft was pretty much always an MMO from concept to launch.
Seriously man... Do you get a lot of headaches? I mean... it's gotta hurt when whatever is between your ears oozes out absurdities like this. I imagine it kinda like the way your asshole burns after too much Taco Bell.You would think after getting curbstomped by WOW Sony would have learned a thing or two about running and advertising an MMO. But no, they have not.
Nobody has said this.To say that EQ was not a smash hit in the days of gaming computers costing $2K and internet connections not even reaching 50% of homes in the US at the time, let alone the world is a fucking fool.
Yeah but it only took them 12 yrs to finally get it.Sony is currently setting the standard for open development, honest communication, and community interaction.
Design was in house, and art/animation/etc were outsourced to an American company.I thought Warcraft Adventures had been contracted out to a Russian developer and was separate from Blizzard's own in-house stuff? I was looking forward to that too, damn shame it got canned.
You just did, and now youre backtracking....Nobody has said this.
EQ popularized the fucking genre in the west.
You're wrong.
Right, so the World of Warcraft was always an MMO concept, like I said. Warcraft Adventures may have spawned the idea, but that was never World of Warcraft.Actually not really. Believe it or not, it spawned from the cancellation of Warcraft Adventures - an old adventure game which was to follow the story of thrall.
You mean in the last two weeks Sony has been getting it right?Seriously man... Do you get a lot of headaches? I mean... it's gotta hurt when whatever is between your ears oozes out absurdities like this. I imagine it kinda like the way your asshole burns after too much Taco Bell.
Sony is currently setting the standard for open development, honest communication, and community interaction.