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Metal_DK posted...

Those graphs dont prove your point at all.

Warcraft 3 saw a massive migration to WoW when it came out. WoW for about a year or so was played almost entirely by Blizzard fans. As somebody who played a shit ton of Warcraft 3 custom maps, I can definitely tell you that after WoW came out, the amount of custom maps being played became only "DOTA -AREM BANLIST!" skyrocketed. Blizzard fans moved to WoW.

Im not saying they made an MMO because they created Warcraft. Im saying WoW owe's its existence TO warcraft. Which is obvious.

Since you are factoring in personal experience I never played War3 and my group of buddies weren't big War3 fans at all and we all jumped on WoW because the BETA made a strong impression. You can't just assume all early growth was because warcraft fans purchased that for a new game and migrated over. WoW owe's it's existence to EQ, AC and Prior MMO of establishing the genera.

So yeah WoW owes it's existence to Warcraft just as much as Dota 2 owes it's existence to War3 for its.