I was trying to think of which games created certain mechanics that became popular and copied by future games in the industry.

The most famous one that comes to my mind is Assassin’s Creed, with the tower climbing for map information.

  • @djsoren19
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    33 months ago

    because 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.

    • @sushibowl@feddit.nl
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      53 months ago

      WoW was like the iPhone of MMOs. Didn’t invent anything, just put it all together in a coherent, accessible, user friendly package.

      • @djsoren19
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        13 months ago

        I promise you, Everquest was plenty popular at the time, and it didn’t invent those things either.

        • @acosmichippo@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          sure, we can quibble on the threshold of “popular” here. but you can’t question that WOW caused an absolute explosion in MMOs after it. not like anything before.