Okay, I'm tired of it. No, not every MMORPG is a frakking copy of WoW.

World of Warcraft was released in 2004, one year after Finaly Fantasy XI and a good number of years after EverQuest. Now, FFXI was a pretty popular MMORPG, sharing space with EverQuest. World of Warcraft is about as close as you can get to as a carbon copy of EQ plus a few of FFXI features.

Sadly, this is never thought of. Instead, we are shoved in the face games that have supposedly copied WoW.

"Looky! Looky! This game has Mana, it copied from WoW!"

"Looky! Looky! It's WARhammer! It copied it's name from WoW!"

"Looky! Looky! This game has humans! It copied from WoW!"

It's really just pathetic now.

Example 1 --> This article by MMOSITE.com [link] cites that because Perfect World uses a skill tree, it's a WoW copy. Perfect is also based on Chinese myth, has realistic graphics, allows you to fly at any time, and has a very robust creation system. It's nothing like WoW.

Example 2: "All the popular MMORPGS like FFXI and EQ copied form Wow!!!" You're just a dickweed, shut up. Yes, I have heard people say that (the whole FFXI and EQ thing).

What I'm trying to say is that World of Warcraft (whenever I type that may hand starts hurting and my back gets really cold) did not invent the MMORPG nor did it do anything original. It simply made an easily playable game. I know it's the market standard (very sad when the market standard MMORPG doesn't even have a housing system) and that games will be compared to it. I do it myself, it's the way things work. But you can't say "It copied Mana from WoW. It copied War from WoW's title. It looks just a little bit like WoW in that one pixel." Each game is a new game experience (in most cases). So, stop saying games copied other games. Please.