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** This has gone far enough that, nowadays, ''WoW'' fans will often accuse other MMOs of ripping off their favourite game for using gameplay mechanics and concepts that ''WoW'' ripped off from someone else. On the other hand, those who loathe ''World of Warcraft'' and all it stands for will make the same complaint of any other MMO with no regard to such things as "release dates."
*** It has gotten so bad you'll see them accuse anything and everything of ripping off WoW, including [[Dungeons and Dragons|Dungeons & Dragons]], a game which was ripped off primarily by WoW, not to mention the fact that WoW itself is a descendent of Roguelike games, which are descended from Rogue, which was an early attempt at making a computer game out of D&D.
** Or accuse Warhammer of being a [[Wo WWoW]] rip-off, which is funny because the reverse is almost certainly true. Still [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/4/10/i-hope-you-like-text/ Tycho of Penny Arcade] says it best.
** In fact, Blizzard once "announced" a new game as an April Fools joke: ''Warcraft: Heroes of Azeroth'', a strategy game and prequel to ''World of Warcraft''. The game in question was ''Warcraft 3''.
** The World of Warcraft expansion Mists Of Panderia is accused of knocking off [[Kung Fu Panda]] by having a race of Pandas with a new Monk class. However, the Pandaren have been around since before [[Warcraft 3|Warcraft III]] was released. It started as one of Blizzard's April Fool's jokes [http://www.wowwiki.com/Pandaren_(April_Fools)/ announcing a fifth playable race].
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* Dimension-shifting in side scrolling shooters: Salamander (1986) came into mind of many gamers, but it's far from the first side scrolling shooter that has dimension-shifting. The idea goes back as far as the arcade game Vanguard (1981).
* [[The Other Wiki]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quick_time_event proved] that [[Quick Time Event]] didn't started with [[Shenmue]] like many gamers think.
* Young'uns these days credit Blizzard with creating the first MMORPG; others just as misguided will correct them and refer to ''[[Ever Quest]]''. ''[[Ultima]] Online'' was the first game specifically referred to as an MMORPG; prior to the naming, they were called graphical Multi-User Dungeons (MUDs), the earliest examples of which date back to the 80s! The first fully graphical multiplayer RPG was AOL's ''Neverwinter Nights'' ([[Similarly Named Works|not]] [[Neverwinter Nights|that one]]) back in 1991, compare to ''Ultima Online'''s 1997 release. Oh, it's great fun to tell stories of games prior to ''[[Wo WWoW]]'', where players could kill other, unconsenting players and ''take their possessions as loot'', then be hunted as criminals and banned from towns as ''murderers''! Imagine losing stats permanently when dying, rushing back to your corpse (''after'' someone resurrected you) before someone looted it, compared to zipping right back and popping back up, fully equipped and at half health and mana.
** And as time passes, [[It Gets Worse]]. Many games coming out after [[World of Warcraft]] were derided as "[[Wo WWoW]]-clones" for [[Follow the Leader|directly copying the systems and sometimes look]] of [[World of Warcraft]]. There were some real problems with other companies trying to capitalize on the success but failing because they didn't actually understand what made the game great. However, it's now changed that the response to calling something a "[[Wo WWoW]]-clone" is "Well, it's an MMO! What else do you expect?" Which ignores the significant variety in games and playstyles that existed before or alongside [[World of Warcraft]] that were also MMORPGs. Raids, quests, progressively more ridiculous equipment, linear storylines, etc. are now seen as the definition of MMOs, even though some of those were in completely unrecognizable forms or nonexistent altogether before [[World of Warcraft]]. [[World of Warcraft]] may have refined a lot of things that needed refining, and ultimately made the genre accessible to a wide audience, but it also left out features that were extremely popular in games before it came out that in their own time were thought of as the definition of MMOs. The MMO genre is less of a genre than a wide variety of ideas that simply require [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|many players connected together online]].
* Tell me if you recognize this setting: Colonists on an alien world must fight among each other for limited resources while constantly under seige by parasitic mind worms controlled by an emerging consciousness produced by the neural interconnections of the native flora. That's right, it's Frank Herbert's Pandora book series which inspired [[Sid Meiers Alpha Centauri]].
* There's the belief that ''[[Quake (Video Game)|Quake]]'' is the first fully 3D (As in, drawing all aspects of 3D) FPS and [[Super Mario 64 (Video Game)|Super Mario 64]] being the first full 3D Platformer when in fact a [[Play Station]] launch title [[Jumping Flash]] came before them. And it was a hybrid of sorts.
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