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8/5/2015 7:38:54 AM
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Why are so many people calling destiny an MMO
No one who works bungie has ever called destiny an MMO, probably because it's not even close. Just look at the frigging Wikipedia page, no where on there does it mention the phrase MMO.
You can't trade, there aren't any social features, there's still basically no matchmaking, so why are people calling it an MMO, I'm confused.
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#Destiny
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A. It was advertised as a MMO RPG FPS hybrid, or a shared world shooter (the RPG part is really the least seen out of all three). B. MMO- Massive Multiplayer Online, let's see, sure there are things like strikes and raids that only have a few guardians, but you have social spaces and things like patrol.
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1 ReplyBecause people have misappropriated that term greatly. Seems to be the norm now days, make a word mean whatever you want! Massive in their eyes is 16 players in the tower...
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it's an online FPS, not an MMO.
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Let me see.... MMO stands for Massive, Multiplayer, and Online. Destiny has a HUGE player base in the millions.... Massive. Destiny has Multiplayer. Destiny foes indeed connect to the internet so its Online. Problem?
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You do realise that during this games creation and early advertisements they were referring to it as the first MMO on a console.
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9 RepliesNone of the above characteristics are what define a mmo.... M.assive world.... Yes M.ultiplayer......... Yes O.nline................ Yes Even if BUNGIE doesn't wanna flat out call It a mmo all the game mechanic are mmo based... All the game modes are mmo based.... And there entire loot system and business model is mmo based. DESTINY IS MMO
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Cause people don't know the difference or have never played an MMO In their lives.
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Edited by KhorosheyRabotnik: 8/5/2015 2:50:46 PMNo one at a slaughterhouse names a cow steak dinner, and if he does, he doesn't tell anyone cause that would cause him problems.
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1 Replythe real question is: - but did you die?
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1 Reply[b][Accessing This Comment Requires A Deluxe Bungie Gold Subscription][/b] [b]~[i]TheGreatNike[/i][/b]
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They call it a POS, Persistent Online Shooter, though I'm sure some in the community would translate that acronym differently...
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1 Replyhttp://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/927/Destiny.html
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Massive- Yes. No where does it say all the players have to be on screen at once. Multiplayer- Of course. Online- Definitely.
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Edited by moonpie1: 8/5/2015 1:57:37 PMIt's definitely not an MMO. Massively Multiplayer Online games are designed to have hundreds if not thousands of players in its open world (questing) or PvP areas together. There is just nothing massively Multiplayer about 6-12 people on a map (PvE/PvP) you could walk across in less than a couple min or sec. Try a map with 600 people fighting against each other that takes 40+ min to walk across or seeing hundreds of players in the open world while questing. They may want to take it in the MMO direction in the future when it becomes next gen consoles only until then its an RPG/FPS. CoD with space magic imo
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I agree! Why are so many people doing things that make perfect sense? I'm confused too.
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Edited by TheRealRazgriz: 8/5/2015 1:27:01 PMI've taken to calling it an expansion based rpg. Which was initially just a jab at people like you who cry out "IT'S NOT AN MMO BUNGIE NEVER SAID THAT!!!!" Ok year sure it's not massively multiplayer, it's decently large multiplayer, Which is why bungie refuses to use the mmo moniker. But from someone who has played a lot of mmo's, destiny IS undoubtedly modeled to play like an MMO just without the shit load of people.
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It's a shared world shooter MMO-lite (being things like patrols with open areas where Guardians aren't instanced, social hubs, persistent patching, updates, and hotfixes. Expansions and not DLC, etc. etc. It's not a true MMO, but it carries tropes and features from an MMO innumerable. Hence the "lite".
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Edited by Afawafa: 8/5/2015 1:02:51 PMPeople just like to use MMORPGs as comparisons since those are famous for making old content obsolete with new patches/dlc. But really, it doesn't matter whether an RPG is MMO or not. The RPG part is more relevant. The issue of new content making older content obsolete is present throughout various RPG genres with post-launch additional content. Even a classic turn based JRPG player can experience this phenomenon. Additional "Bonus dungeon/area" DLCs often offer much better items than what can be found in the base game. It's not strange for a common drop from a high level bonus dungeon to be stronger than say, your level 100 Beginner's Sword +20 which you've upgraded through New Game+ and New Game++ by beating the final boss 100 times for upgrade materials.
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7 RepliesBecause it's very similar (especially with TTK changes) to a traditional MMO.
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It has the leveling system and loot system of an MMO just put that in your post
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It's an MMO. Stop pretending that you know more than you actually do just because you read a Wikipedia page.
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While it is not a true MMORPG it is also not a normal or average FPS game either it is an FPS game with some MMORPG elements so most people just call it an MMORPG to easily convey the idea. Its like call the infected in the Last of Us...Zombies.....its not true nor does it follow the storyline but it is a quick way of describing what these enemies are similar to.
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Because it is an MMO. MMO = Massively Multiplayer Online. Please explain how Destiny does not fit that category? I'll agree that it's not an MMORPG, a la WoW or Guild Wars, but that's not what you said.
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For all the countless reasons that it is one. Even more so when TTK hits.
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Maybe because it's an mmo. You think bungie came up with the idea of a raid all by themselves? Not a chance. They stole it from WoW and just scaled it down a little bit. There's massive(compared to other games out now) worlds, it's multiplayer, and it's online. What's that mean? MMO
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Why are so many people b*tching bout not being able to accend in year 2?
