Lead designer Ryan Barker of EverQuest has said it would be "definitely true", no chance of World of Warcraft without the 1999 MMO, Blizzard would "say that too."
Not sure if something like WoW could have happened eventually, "but it definitely wouldn't have happened now" without EverQuest. It was the "original spark" other games leapt from.
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