They released around the same timeframe, and WoW took off like crazy while EQ2 has had good but far less success...But why?

EQ2 Looks FAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRR better, WoW looks like a more colorful Everquest 1

Character creation is unbelievable in EQ2 compared to WoW

Dungeons, raids, overall battle system is much more comfortable and enjoyable in EQ2

The acting and overall story is much more in depth depsite WoW having the Warcraft advantage (granted EQ2 had EQ1 lore to work off)

And the world is HUGE and far more diverse -  I will give WoW credit for being close to seamless...

What the hell happened that made WoW explode like it did, and not the Dynasty of EverQuest?

Because WoW is perfect. It's the most user-friendly MMO and it's addictive. It appeals to the casual more than any other MMO's.

EQ 2 look more like a chocolat cake, you eat it but if too much you get sick for a bit.

But WoW in the other hand is like crack, you feel sick you know its bad for your life, you change socially and you die in the inside. BUt You need too come back for more.

Like alot of people WoW and Crack as kill life.

Wow , you just made a thread about games released 10 years ago.

6-7 years ago pft

13 years if we were talking about EQ1

This thread is pointless.If it wasn't for Everquest their wouldn't even be WoW.
WoW took almost every aspect of gameplay from EQ and created WoW.
So in a way if it wasn't for Everquest you their wouldn't be any WoW.

That is in fact the very true, And WoW is still doing it now, not so long ago they took Plant vs flower. And resently, In blizzcorn they say the stole Pokemon and add it to WoW.

yes I said it.

Wow was very PC friendly compared to Eq2 or even Eq1 though...

Everquest 2 was an technical mess with high system requirements and an unimaginative design when it was released; and, while I'm told they were steadily addressing the core issues for years after release, they pissed off a lot of people who were upset by adding bizarre features (like ordering a pizza through the game) while a large portion of the game was broken.

Blizzard did a lot of things right, like keeping graphics fairly modest to ensure people with a few year old systems could play the game, and releasing a game with few issues (largest one being loot lag on high population servers). It didn't matter that SOE fixed EQ2 years after it was released because everyone and their guild was already playing WoW; and EQ2 already had an awful reputation.

Exactly what HappySqurriel said. I played EQ2 at launch and it hardly ran on my system. I couldn't group because it would bring my system down to a crawl. Single player and co-op went very slow and felt a step back from Everquest 1.

I went back to it with the Kunark expansion, gameplay was better by then and I had a new pc that could handle it. However we were already heavily invested in WoW so that remained our main mmorpg.