Would you happen to know what game established the color-coded rarity for items? What made the industry as a whole accept and adopt universally the white, green, blue, yellow/purple/orange?
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AUGUST 25, 2023
This topic actually came up fairly recently on our discord server. I believe World of Warcraft conquering the world in 2004 was what solidified the grey > white > green > blue > purple > orange color power progression that everyone knows today. The items players could find were color-coded based on power.
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