The MMO Report: EQ was the first MMO edition

@Yellowdancer
No, it was not technically the first MMO...Ultima and Meridian came before it...but it was the first to bring the genre to a mass audience and have commercial success. So, he is correct with the fact that the modem MMO market would not exist today without it.

@valdi313

afaik UO peaked at 250 k subs and EQ I at 400 k subs , not that big of a diffrence ,especially considering that EQ was released 2 years after UO...

I am sure without EQ mmropg market would still progress. Tad diffrently maybe but it would go big anyway.

@Yellowdancer Apparently people missed your sarcasm and for that I'm truly sorry.

@valdi313

I played Yserbius which was before UO and M59. I played M59 at launch. I played UO at launch.

But EQ was the first to capture my heart. So for me it was the first. Though Yserbius was very, very good.

@Yellowdancer

Who cares, EQ was the first successful MMO to launch the wave of MMOs as we know them today.

Nobody gives a damn that you liked UO. It wasn't successful and didn't spawn a crapload of clones over the last decade.

If anything, UO was the last son of a dying breed.

Also, Casey's awesome, nerds can hate all they want.

@kalipou134

I'm so confused. Did I do a typo? I don't recall ever saying I liked UO.

I did like uninstalling it though.

@smartstep

As if anyone on G4 has anything resembling integrity, credibility, or wit.

@smartstep
You're right from a certain stand point. If you're talking about the modern evolution of MMOs, it's fair to say EQ started that trend. Virtually every MMO and the concept of what an MMO comes from is based off that.

UO had a top down view - not a 3D environment. Somewhere you need to draw the line. You draw it at UO or Meridian 59. Personally I'm not sure about Meridian. I think that's just something people say without actually looking at what the game was. It really is nothing like MMOs today and has more in common with the old Final Fantasy games if you ask me. There's a strong case for UO in my opinion though.

I think UO started the concept of what an MMO should be, EQ took it to the next level and almost every MMO after it has copied that format to some extent.
Technically text based games - MUDs, etc. could be called the first MMOs in a sense depending on how broad you want to make the definition.

@smartstep

You are right, if anything, EQ was the first 3D MMORPG where the previous 3 were top down.

@smartstep

"How person who talk for quite some time about MMO and get paid for it for a living can say that EQ was first mmo.

*sigh*

Learn your facts before you state them publicly as a Truth."

I would say the same to you. Casey never said EQ was the first MMO. Instead, he referred to Everquest as "the MMO that started it all". That is not the same thing at all as saying it was the first MMO. There's a lot of context in that simple statement that doesn't mean what you think it means literally...

@(Unverified)

Uh, wrong? Meridian 59 was 3D and it was not top down.

@Platapus You sir are a damn Beardist!

@Ripper McGee

Hmm, the thread client omitted my "does not equal" symbol.

The first line should be "Everquest, the MMO that started it all" does not equal "The 1st MMO"