I think it's interesting to consider games that took off so wildly they literally killed/stifled the genre. Has anything similar matched World of Warcraft? It

I think it's interesting to consider games that took off so wildly they literally killed/stifled the genre. Has anything similar matched World of Warcraft? It was a cultural phenomena when it launched and so many big studios tried to capture it, but none did to that level. It's more niche now. Pokemon Go seems like that but to an extreme. Maybe it's the traction required for IRL video games to take off, maybe it's just Pokemon was definitively one of the best franchises for that style of game.