User blog comment:Deyvid Petteys/ESO is a WOW clone?/@comment-5206984-20120618031040/@comment-103159-20120618235118

A lot of people seem to be under the mistaken impression that WoW is either the first MMO or the first good MMO. None of them seem to remember WoW's many predecessors, or that WoW is a cobbled-together amalgamation of content and mechanics stolen from other MMOs.

Unfortunately, now MMO developers have to straddle the line between "WoW-clone" and "Why isn't this more like WoW?", rather than actually develop something innovative.