User blog comment:Deyvid Petteys/ESO is a WOW clone?/@comment-5206984-20120618031040/@comment-71.204.113.253-20131215064524

no one thinks wow was the first mmo.. but at its height everquest had 250,000 users.. wow had 14 million.. so people use wow as the example first because its the king of MMO's and is a common reference that more people will understand.