the question was “popularized” not “invented”.
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djsoren19@yiffit.net 4 weeks agobecause it’s flat out wrong. WoW aped most of its systems from Everquest, which most of WoW’s development team was actively playing. They made some improvements on the genre, but the bones existed as early as 1997 with Ultima Online.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
djsoren19@yiffit.net 4 weeks ago
I promise you, Everquest was plenty popular at the time, and it didn’t invent those things either.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
sure, we can quibble on the threshold of “popular” here.
sushibowl@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
WoW was like the iPhone of MMOs. Didn’t invent anything, just put it all together in a coherent, accessible, user friendly package.