Why do people keep calling Destiny an MMO? It really irritates me. Bungie has done everything they can to say "it's not an MMO, guys" but everyone keeps putting that label on it. There are only a very select few things that could be considered "MMO" and they really are major MMO staples or major gameplay. Destiny is a FPS, with an advanced form of matchmaking. Destiny is an Shared World-FPS-RPG. Is Red Dead Redemption a MMO because it has 16 players all in the same world? That's more than Destiny allows as far as we know (Deej mentioned that there was 8 [I think] players in the E3 demo.) Is GTA 5 a MMO? Is Dark Souls 1/2 a MMO? You can phase into other peoples world and everyone interacts with each other through messages. Is M.A.G. A MMO? Is Borderlands a MMO? _____________________________________________________________________________ Edit: This is straight from Bungie in on of the Mail Sacks! Caballero Do you guys ever get tired of people calling it an MMO? Not at all. Do you guys ever get tired of us insisting it’s not an MMO? Debate about this game is always fun, and we welcome it. The ideas that are shaping Destiny come from a lot of different places. We’re drawing the best elements from experiences we love. Like an MMO, our game will compel you to explore. You’ll embody a character that evolves on that journey. Unlike an MMO, the entire experience is built around heart-pounding action that you’ll see through the eyes of your hero. Ultimately, we’re looking forward to knowing how you describe Destiny, once you’ve played it. _____________________________________________________________________________ This is from Coup de Grace, he commented down below quoting Bungie in an interview. "We took this mesh-based networking that we’ve been developing for years and years with Halo and adapted that networking to work in a seamless interconnected world full of other players and AIs. So when you’re playing a destination you’re moving from area to area and every one of those areas has got this mesh networking with a group of players that are in it at this one time. And then it has its own servers for that particular area so you’re continuously moving around between these groups of both consoles and also dedicated servers that are hosting it." ... "For us we’ve kind of said we want this game world to be able to work with millions of players online at once. And that means playing to the strengths of the consoles. Being able to use these very powerful machines to run a lot of the simulation. Being able to use the servers in a seamless fashion so that as you’re moving from place to place you’re switching networks with all of the different people that are around you. You’ve got a very high quality fast action gameplay experience. If you have all of these calculations taking place in a central server that’s one place in the world you can’t really have a fast action experience." That's straight from Bungie. Yes, you can say Destiny has MMO elements, but it is not an MMO. If you guys want to prove me long, then write every way in which Destiny is like an MMO. Comparing this game to MMOs like World of Warcraft, Guild Wars, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Rift, EVE Online... it's clear that Destiny is not a part of that. I played WoW for about 5 years, I think I should know what a MMO is. Here are some reasons why I don't consider it a MMO. 1) There is low importance put upon leveling. All major MMOs put an emphasis on leveling. Look at WoW, it's level cap is at 90. Destiny is rumored to have a level cap at 20 (or low anyways) and they put emphasis on skill/abilities/gear. 2) MMOs and class roles. Now in Destiny there are abilites which can fit a role, but no class is a "tank" or "healer." A main staple of MMOs is the holy trinity of healer-dps-tank. 3) An economy. Destiny lacks an auction house or player economy, which is another MMO element. 4) MMOs have massive amounts of players. Look at a capitol cities in WoW, there are hundreds and hundreds of people in them. Also, a level 10 dungeon in WoW uses 5 players. A high level raid in Destiny only has 6. A raid in WoW has 25! 5) Quest/mission structure. Destiny has a campaign. A liner story mission mode. MMOs tell their story through tons of different quests in different places. Destiny has missions which can be given any where, where as MMOs usually have a town that gives out quests and once you're down with that area you never go back. 6) MMO is a shortened version of MMORPG. Destiny is an RPG, therefore it will have similarities to MMOs, that doesn't mean that it is one. 7) MMOs have a very distinctive style of gameplay. Look at the top MMOs and they all play very similarly. Just like any genre. Destiny does not play like a MMO. 8) MMOs also have a wide range of non-combat activities, such as mining/smithing, tailoring, fishing, etc. Destiny has non-combat activities, but nowhere near the scale of MMOs. (Halo also has non-combat games, such as in forge mode.) I'll be playing Destiny no matter what they call it though.