Quote Originally Posted by Zarzak View Post
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Most MMO's are for teens and up and always were for teens and up. You're just mad or disappointed. I understand that. It doesn't change facts though.

Quests were streamlined with markers before WoW. Skills were placed on hotbars without the use of macros before WoW. Leveling through content was eased in many games before WoW. These things all happened because that's what people complained about at the time. Extreme death penalties were also removed before WoW existed because people didn't find that fun.

You wont find many games even back in the day where a level 1 monster would kill a level 1 character even a level 2 monster usually wouldn't kill a level 1 player solo. I've seen far more people complain about leveling taking too long back then, than I have seen people complain it being too fast now.

WoW just became popular and introduced all those things people wanted from different MMOs in one at the time for them fun, theme park package. Thus standards for the genre were born.