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EQ turned into EQ2, and then into Vanguard.

To be fair, every MMO on the market today one way or another (or completely blatantly) rips off World of Warcraft. Which always begs the question; why play a clone when the original is still much, much, much better?

I really can't recommend a good MMO that's not WoW, because there really aren't any. Every one of them I've played is just a bad WoW clone with clunky controls or unfinished/bug-ridden.