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You have to be living under a rock to not know that WoW is still an incredibly popular game. It’s easily still the most popular MMORPG
It's a failed attempt at minimizing. Lots of people reply like that.
If the only pre-live service MMORPG still going strong.
I was actually surprised to see Ultima Online is still up and active recently. It must have a pretty decent sized population for EA not to shut down and repurpose the servers for Battlefield or something.
Now there's a name I haven't heard in a hot minute.
What about FF14 or Guild Wars 2? Don't they count as pre-live service MMORPGs, too?
checks Seems games as a service model that we know today really picked up steam at around the late 2010s. So, yeah...
I've been living under quite a rock then, haven't heard WoW even mentioned for years (and years)
No you don't.