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MMOs (WORLD OF WARCRAFT)
Taking a beloved real time strategy series and turning it into an MMORPG was a bold move by Blizzard, but obviously, it paid off big time. Of course, it’s not like MMOs weren’t a thing before World of Warcraft came along, but WoW was the game that truly put the genre on the map, turned it into a juggernaut of the industry. MMOs went from being a popular niche to becoming one of the biggest sects of the entire industry at large almost overnight, and it owed all of that to World of Warcraft. The fact that Blizzard’s seminal MMORPG is still on top of the genre should tell you something about its enduring legacy.
