The only thing I can say destiny is with certainty is a horribly made game by clueless money hungry developers.

My guardian was eating apples and loaves of bread in his house on Venus when an alert popped up that my NPC wife is pregnant with an NPC baby. I went to the corral and bought a new horse to celebrate. Then I went to the blacksmith and repaired my VoG armor. I went up to level 11 at armor repair, so that is cool. I then used some animal pelts to make a new cloak. Then I woke up and remembered that there is one and only one thing to do in Destiny, which is accumulate equipment, since level and subclass skills max out fast, so trashing 95% of equipment means trashing 90% of all time put into the game in a way it doesn't in MMOs.

It fits the criteria of an MMO even if bungie doesn't class it as one. It fits the criteria of an RPG. It fits the criteria of a FPS. (Considering I'm heading into my third year of game development studies at Uni, don't even try argue with me that it doesn't fit all three of the above because i would know more then you would and you'll just look stupid). So let's look at gear progression. In an MMO as every new expansion launches, all your old gear that you grinded out for gets left behind. Destiny try's to piggyback off this by using the MMO aspects that the game has and follows this trend & has done before for TDB. In an RPG as you progress through the game you'll find a fave weapon that looks awesome or has a unique ability or move set but as time goes on you need to leave the old gear behind for better gear regardless how cool it looked. In an FPS old guns get left behind as the series moves on, look at cod for example, black ops had the galil, easily the best & most OP gun in the game and in black ops 2 and 3 that gun has been left behind just like many others. (Bo2 zombies had the galil though) As games move on, regardless of what you want to class destiny as gear always gets left behind for new and better or different stuff. You enjoyed your exotics for the year you had them (maybe even shorter then that) so why the fuss? They won't be completely worthless, you can still play PvP with them, the last 2 DLC & vanilla content with them, TTK content with them perfectly fine. The only thing you can't do which is the right move is do TTK end game content with them and rightfully so. I personally know I don't want have to rely only on year one gear and weapons when there is a vast range of new gear coming.

Whats an mmo ?

Destiny is a -blam!-ing MMO kid Sorry to break it to you

MMO ( and yes ppl who have never played an mmo are SUCH sheep... delusional prick)

Hi, my name is Matt, but you can call me sir if that suits you better. I have been playing Destiny since beta and would like to say that Destiny is indeed an MMO. I have played a couple MMOs in my gaming life most notably Elder Scrolls Online which I have played my fair share of (Veteran rank 14 breton templar healer) and Destiny, while it may not share every characteristic of the classic MMO it shares enough to fit into the genre. You may not want to believe it and if it irritates you enough that you feel the need to post on a public forum complaining about the terminology of an online community, then I ask you, why not just leave? Now I am not saying get the -blam!- out or calling you a sheep as you have done so kindly but I ask you to kindly be part of the silent majority and stop complaining publicly because honestly, nobody cares about your feelings on the subject matter. I would like to thank you in advance for hearing my statement and for not replying to this post by calling me insulting words. Yours truly - Matt

Destiny is an MMO because the word "massive" is subjective. They didn't want to market it as an MMO because, frankly, it doesn't handle the MMO aspects very well. They market it as a FPS, or "shared world shooter", because they really nailed the mechanics of the gunplay.

Here is a list of features that Destiny has that MMOs commonly use: Social spaces Character emotes An open world with multiple players in said world Cooperative options for main missions Extra missions that force co-op, usually between a small group (strikes) Extra missions that are usually part of the endgame that require a larger amount of players and heavy communication (raids, PoE, arguably ToO) A faction system DLC in order to expand on the game and to add new story to the game's timeline A loot-based structure, with the focus being the goal of getting better and better loot, eventually getting the rarest, and hopefully the best (Mythoclast, possibly Necrochasm after the 2.0 buff, all other exotics also can serve as examples) Daily and/or weekly missions/mission variants meant for higher level players I think I may have missed a few, but those were the ones I could list off the top of my head. It may be limited in terms of how many players are in an area at once, but it borrows far too many MMO aspects to simply be a "shared world shooter".

Destiny is an MMO

lol, a shared world shooter? This game shares so many traits of an MMO, even how it rolls out expansions, and gear.. It is an MMO. I played Dark Age of Camelot, Ever Quest, and World of Warcraft for many years. A shared world shooter isn't even a thing. Bungie and you are making shit up.

Butt sniffing fanboys will always call it a MMO.

It's not, but people will call it that to shut their brains off when thinking about most of the busted mechanics in this game. "Oh, Bungie did something dumb by hitting the reset button on their already shallow loot pool repeatedly throughout the game's first year? Well, MMOs do something like that so it makes sense and I like it. Derp."

Feels more like a co-op shooter.

Destiny is an mmo