Lol ok now we're getting somewhere, you just admitted to it having an open world and rpg elements, the fact that you don't actually fly your ship from planet to planet is a obvious as that would be a huge game and most likely pointless gameplay unless they wanted to add a mini game of sorts with it but I'm sure you all would just complain. But back to your logic, how can it have those elements but not be considered an mmo? Bungie makes patches that effect the world as a whole. I mean it's just reaching. There has never been a mmo fps and I can see how you could be baffled by how it works but if you think about it it's the only way a fps mmo could work if you want real time fighting.