Reasons why vanilla World of Warcraft was so popular.

[Coldpro]

Wow was popular to begin with because Warcraft was popular. It spread due to the advertising blizzard used, and most likely also to some extend word of mouth. But the adds with different known people and "I play x class" most likely had the biggest impact.

After that you could probably also add the rising popularity of the mmo genre (or might be wrong and its just my pov).

Dont forget, a lot of people were also fed up with EQ and Sony's bullshit, and many vanilla WoW players came from games like EQ, AC, Ultima, DAOC, etc.

[MoanaLisa]

Thread necro from seven months ago. I'm quite sure we've been around the block on this subject several times since.

Closing.