These are the reasons why I personally consider Destiny a MMO. I'm asking for your opinion, not anyone else's. Read, vote, and voice any opinions on your reasoning!
1. Large player community
2. In-game chat (however disappointing it may be at times)
3. Useless emotes (dancing, waving, etc) and character customization not seen outside the realm of MMO's.
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[quote]gw2, teso, ff14, defiance, ps2, lod, eve....etc. there are sooooo many mmo's that use the same shadow server type
-professor goat[/quote]
awesome reasoning! This is a MMO!!
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There's a reason Bungie never called it an MMO, but rather "shared world." If you're building a fresh game in a fresh world and borrowing gameplay mechanics from multiple genres, why pigeonhole your creation into an existing category. MMO wasn't even a term before people needed something to describe what Everquest was. Same goes for Warcraft as a RTS, Wolfenstein/Doom as FPS, etc. Categorizations should exist to help describe and understand art, not vice versa.