World of Warcraft

[Swiss Mercenary]

Granted, you may want to cite Evercrack as being an old dog, but at initial release few people were actually playing the game and it took a while for people to jump onto that particular bandwagon.  I remember the same thing with FPSs.  Wolfenstein 3D, Doom and Doom II was good, but we really had to wait until Duke Nukem 3D and Quake before that genre really achieved status.  Now you're bogged down with FPS games, many of which are barely worth a second glance and those that are worthy have a relatively short shelf life too.

Here, here!

That's the marketing model that killed Deus Ex 2 for me, and that's how the future is turning out. Clones are all I see...