Not an MMO

[TokusatsuTV]

it's not a true mmo unless it's a persistent online world with an open map. getting tired of all these free arena-shooters on steam saying their mmo's.... your basically only saying you have basic multiplayer and a lobby function in so many words. why dont you just say that?

[Areo GunFleet]

@Kaze - not to fuel a terminology dispute, but GunFleet is an MMO Shooter according to this definition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massively_multiplayer_online_game .

[Snowblind]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Kaze:

it's not a true mmo unless it's a persistent online world with an open map. getting tired of all these free arena-shooters on steam saying their mmo's.... your basically only saying you have basic multiplayer and a lobby function in so many words. why dont you just say that?

You're definitely confused about what an MMO is.

[pencil syrup]

Just a little helping hand.
MMO - Massively Multiplayer Online game

Is it MASSIVELY multiplayer? Maybe not yet, might be though.
Is it Multiplayer though? Definitely.
Is it an Online game? Yeah.

Ergo, it's an MMO.

[TokusatsuTV]

no that just means it has 'multiplayer functionality'.

[Salty]

No wrong. Instead do some research. An MMO with an open world is ALSO an MMO however more often recognised as an MMORPG. Please stop its embarrasing.

[TokusatsuTV]

rpg = role playing game, so no ♥♥♥♥. also, since by the devs logic, its an mmo right, but it cant be massive with only 5-6 people in a match on each side, and since theres no such term/abreviation/label used in the past 10 years called 'MO' then it just becomes 'multiplayer' because the online part is insinuated. you have mmo's in general, and then you have multiplayer games. so please, give me an example of the label 'MO' on any game in the past decade, because the term doesnt exist.

[Cortexion]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Areo GunFleet:

@Kaze - not to fuel a terminology dispute, but GunFleet is an MMO Shooter according to this definition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massively_multiplayer_online_game .

i don't mean to defend the OP but: "A massively multiplayer online game (MMOG or MMO) is an online game which is capable of supporting large numbers of players, typically from hundreds to thousands, simultaneously in the same instance (or world)."

doesn't seem to fit your game, it's quite a stretch to say 14 players is exactly a 'large number' for this purpose

[TokusatsuTV]

Oprindeligt skrevet af GamerNato:

Oprindeligt skrevet af Areo GunFleet:

@Kaze - not to fuel a terminology dispute, but GunFleet is an MMO Shooter according to this definition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massively_multiplayer_online_game .

i don't mean to defend the OP but: "A massively multiplayer online game (MMOG or MMO) is an online game which is capable of supporting large numbers of players, typically from hundreds to thousands, simultaneously in the same instance (or world)."

doesn't seem to fit your game, it's quite a stretch to say 14 players is exactly a 'large number' for this purpose

actually thats not defending them lol thats proving them wrong, which on that note, why is it cod and battlefield use the same lobby system and have thousands of people online at any given time and are much bigger in scale than this, but even they dont term themselves an 'mmo', so how do you explain that? Even the game your copying, "world of warships' doesnt classify itself as an mmo, it classifies itself as a 'multiplayer video game', and if thats not a smoking gun, idk what the ♥♥♥♥ is. also, now all of a sudden you have both 'online-multiplayer game' AND 'mmo' on your keywords???? whats going on with you guys?

[Leanasas]

first of all world of warshisp is not even the first game to do the warship, it was steel ocean that came out in china before wows did by a year and navy field which is 2d is probaly the first warship multiplayer game from korea came out like 10 plus years ago. so please stop saying wow did this and wow did this first, because its ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

[TokusatsuTV]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Leanasas:

first of all world of warshisp is not even the first game to do the warship, it was steel ocean that came out in china before wows did by a year and navy field which is 2d is probaly the first warship multiplayer game from korea came out like 10 plus years ago. so please stop saying wow did this and wow did this first, because its ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

please quote me where i said anything about wows being the pioneer of its respective genre in this entire discussion.

[Caldrin]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Areo GunFleet:

@Kaze - not to fuel a terminology dispute, but GunFleet is an MMO Shooter according to this definition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massively_multiplayer_online_game .

a quote from that article

"A massively multiplayer online game (MMOG or MMO) is an online game which is capable of supporting large numbers of players, typically from hundreds to thousands, simultaneously in the same instance (or world)."


So you are telling me when this game is available and i log in.. it will be to a game where i can play in the same instance/world with a large number of players ?


Or is it going to be like i expect a lobby based game like the others.. not saying thats a bad thing but in no way is a lobby shooter an MMO.. or do you class games like battlefield, Counter Strike and call of duty mmos ?


Again there is nothing wrong with lobby based shooters I enjoy other similar games no problem at all but they are not MMOs.


But i guess its not the companies fault really.. hell everyone decided to start calling their games mmos a few years ago for some unknown reason.. maybe they thought they would trick people into getting their games thinking they would be actual mmos.. so really the MMO tag on most games its totally pointless.


But for me this quote will always be what an mmo is.

"A massively multiplayer online game (MMOG or MMO) is an online game which is capable of supporting large numbers of players, typically from hundreds to thousands, simultaneously in the same instance (or world)."

[DirtyHarry]

7 vs 7 isnt MASSIVE........so no MMo imo, but yeah people call theire games MMO, but they dont have MASSIVE multiplayer.....thats the problem imo, dont call it MMO, if you give us a simple teamdeath,match mode....that i very confusing, i agree 100 % with the OP......no massive people on a server together isnt an MMO and shouldnt be called that.

[Lord Haart]

I hate the game, but it IS an MMO, just not an MMORPG.

[Cortexion]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Lord Haart:

I hate the game, but it IS an MMO, just not an MMORPG.

it's really not

having a freemium business model on a >20 lobby based game doesn't make it an MMO

the only property of an MMO i see in this game is multiplayer capability

not all multiplayer games are MMOs however

[Helyi]

It's not an MMO.
As someone who has been around since Frogger on the Atari.
MMO's originally were coined because of thousands of players with whom log in and out of a persistent universe/world.
The genre of which does not matter (FPS/RPG)- the persistence does.

By the failed logic in here, Quake 1 if you increase the server limit is an MMO.
Just. No.