So is this an MMO or a Co-op?

[Chipis]

The official website and news forums say that this is a survival game. But the MMO genre is listed on Steam. So, what is this game like?

[Lani]

I know the tags of a game are community provided, but I do think those categories lower down on the storepage are filled in by the studio.
It's not an MMO, it's Multiplayer Online Gameplay though.
Not Co-op like Enshrouded or Icarus nor Pseudo MMO like Myth of Empires or ARK.
Closest comparison? i'd say Conan Exiles or Dark and Light.
Could change over time of course.

By Pseudo MMO I mean relatively small servers with the means to transfer between them

[Ele]

It is Co-op, I'm in a co-op session as we speak.

[Rats]

Too many devs/publishers use the MMO tag deceptively to draw in players/buyers.
Steam should removing misleading tags in game descriptions like this.

[Lani]

Originally posted by Rats:

Too many devs/publishers use the MMO tag deceptively to draw in players/buyers.
Steam should removing misleading tags in game descriptions like this.

Tags are community generated. It's players assigning tags. You can do so yourself by clicking the + at the end of the row.
I agree it's misleading and I think Steam should make it clearer to the general public these are community generated tags the publisher has no control over. It is documented in places, but should be made clear at the store page level.

In the case of Soulmask, MMO is listed further down the store page. I honestly do not know whether they control that or not. Heck, don't even know what the widget is called.

[aldebaran014]

We can play technically up To 70 players Online & We can had more than 200~ characters in servers for now!

[aldebaran014]

On public servers I saw the stats of the number of "Online Players" & "population of characters created in the server-said"! I hope that will be Like that MMO Tribe games.

[aldebaran014]

I imagine the tribal wars to come with PVP servers! No more invincible squatters in the capital area for your Tribe! with the trash.

[BionicFreak]

Originally posted by S0ggii:

The official website and news forums say that this is a survival game. But the MMO genre is listed on Steam. So, what is this game like?

Like all other PvE/PvP Multiplayer Survival games (Rust, Ark, Conan, etc.) it is not an MMO.
And also like all other Multiplayer Survival games, I enjoy playing it in PvE modes only, effectively making it a Co-op game.

[Caduryn]

Originally posted by S0ggii:

The official website and news forums say that this is a survival game. But the MMO genre is listed on Steam. So, what is this game like?

Since you played Conan Exile, its exactly like that.

[Yria]

more like Myth of Empires
much more

[Caduryn]

Originally posted by Yria:

more like Myth of Empires
much more

We are talking about the "Multiplayer" part, not Gameplay

[Lani]

Originally posted by Caduryn:

Originally posted by Yria:

more like Myth of Empires
much more

We are talking about the "Multiplayer" part, not Gameplay

Myth of Empires is closer to MMO levels with the cross-server gameplay.
Not to say SoulMask could not have something like that, but there's not really been any sign of them doing anything like that, has there?

Anyhoo, tags on Steam are either purely marketing spin or community generated or both.
I.e. not something to draw conclusions from. Always dig deeper than the grossly generic marketing buzzword :-)

[Pharaonkheops]

MMO stands for MASSIVELY Multiplayer Online game.... 70 players limit on server definitely doesn't qualify for MASSIVE ^^