How is this game a MMO?

[Hemlocks]

I see it listed as a MMO but how? Thought this game was mainly a single player experience.

[serotoninpack]

It is mainly single player. Can coop if you want.

[Hemlocks]

Originally posted by serotoninpack:

It is mainly single player. Can coop if you want.

How does coop work in game?

[D.A.R.K.]

Originally posted by Hemlocks:

How is this game a MMO?
I see it listed as a MMO but how? Thought this game was mainly a single player experience.

You can interact with people on chat and towns, I don't like that but this is enough to be called MMO. I would like more "Frame-Like" which THE GAMEPLAY is only a coop up to 8, but the chat is global.

[serotoninpack]

Originally posted by Hemlocks:

Originally posted by serotoninpack:

It is mainly single player. Can coop if you want.

How does coop work in game?

Up to six players arguing on drops.

[crzyfsh123]

It's not.

[Poyzo]

Originally posted by D.A.R.K.:

Originally posted by Hemlocks:

How is this game a MMO?
I see it listed as a MMO but how? Thought this game was mainly a single player experience.

You can interact with people on chat and towns, I don't like that but this is enough to be called MMO. I would like more "Frame-Like" which THE GAMEPLAY is only a coop up to 8, but the chat is global.

Were people kicked in PoE1 (end-game) if they didn't have the right build?

[Drake]

Originally posted by Hemlocks:

I see it listed as a MMO but how? Thought this game was mainly a single player experience.

It's not. People just don't understand what game genre means. They don't understand that multiplayer and massively multiplayer are 2 different things. They think that just because it's online it's an mmo. That like saying a fighting game is an RTS because you have 2 units killing each other...

A massively multiplayer game needs maps with big max player size (like at least 50+) that people can join at anytime without grouping. A full privately instanced game can't be an mmo, more so if you can only have 6 players in an instance. And no, having a global chat and meeting people in town doesn't qualify.

[gachi is manly]

Well, it's multiplayer, most of the player base is massive due to only leaving their gaming chairs to get food and sleep, and it's online. So, MMO.

[Eddiero]

Originally posted by crzyfsh123:

It's not.

but it is. you see other people in towns. just not in instanced maps

[Drake]

Originally posted by Eddiero:

Originally posted by crzyfsh123:

It's not.

but it is. you see other people in towns. just not in instanced maps

which is the difference between an mmo and a multiplayer game. For a game to be an mmo, you need all off the maps off the main world to act like a hub. Not just towns. A game with private instances linked to the player initiating the instance can't be an mmo.

Otherwise LoL, Dota and counterstrike can be classified as mmo just because there are a lot of people playing at the same time in closed instances.

[Eddiero]

Originally posted by Drake:

Originally posted by Eddiero:

but it is. you see other people in towns. just not in instanced maps

which is the difference between an mmo and a multiplayer game. For a game to be an mmo, you need all off the maps off the main world to act like a hub. Not just towns. A game with private instances linked to the player initiating the instance can't be an mmo.

MMO= Massive Multiplayer Online
It fulfills exactly that.

[Thornburst]

u can seat in town and spam annoying sounds with your pets. that is the most moo thing i can imagine and is totally possible in poe

[MrSoul]

Originally posted by gachi is manly:

Well, it's multiplayer, most of the player base is massive due to only leaving their gaming chairs to get food and sleep, and it's online. So, MMO.

Badum tss!

[Drake]

Yeah sure, and fortnite is an mmo then...

Instances are 6 players and are destroyed after the last player leaves. It's not an mmo. Just like diablo 2 is not an mmo.

[MrSoul]

Originally posted by Thornburst:

u can seat in town and spam annoying sounds with your pets. that is the most moo thing i can imagine and is totally possible in poe

You’re not wrong. And I’m Ngl, thing really miss from gw2? Sporadically forming bands in the main cities.

Miss ya my fellow members of Rockin’ Norns…maybe one day we’ll meet up again.