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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I don't consider it a full on MMO. It's close, but it's missing some key features in my book: -The chat system is pretty abysmal, as you've noted. Full on MMOs usually have a pretty decent chat system. -You can't interact with other players that aren't in your fireteam, aside from those useless emotes and the occasional football (soccer) game. -There's no trading, and really no use for the in-game currency. My character had over 23,000 Glimmer as of last night, and I have nothing to spend it on, aside from Emblems that I won't use. -You can't advertise what events you want to make a fireteam for in the Tower. For example, if you want to run the Weekly Strike, you can't put a sign up saying so in the Tower. You just have to add people, hope they accept, and then hope they're up for it. -Bungie has said before that this isn't an MMO. They developed it, so to me, they can say whether they want to call it an MMO or not. Since there are quite a few other things lacking from this game for it to be an MMO, I don't think I can justify telling the creators that they're wrong about the classification of their game. Just my thoughts. :)