Agreed, plus this also forgets games like M59. I would, however, say that UO was the first mainstream MMO and the game which brought the genre into people's mi

Agreed, plus this also forgets games like M59. I would, however, say that UO was the first mainstream MMO and the game which brought the genre into people's minds. I always felt that the largest problem of UO was that it was too successful. IMO if the target audience had been the primary player pool it'd have been a lot better. I remember in the months before the beta release I started seeing it hyped to FPS type players as a place where you could go kill people and I knew it wasn't going to be quite what they intended.