AndyPandy Puschel
Tronhadar Free Guard Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2013.05.29 11:08:00 -
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Cosgar's Alt wrote:S0LlD SNAKE wrote:lol @ thinking dust514 is an mmo , its set in the universe of an mmo but that doesnt make it an mmo
its just an FPS with matches 16 vs 16 Riiiigh, so those 31 other people you're playing with and against are just bots that you have no social interaction with?
Obviously not, but Dust is not an MMO, since this would make BF3 and MW3 or Borderlands2 also an MMO. As long as the core game mechanic are 3 simple gamemodes, played on static maps. One of the main feature associated with an MMO is a huge persistant world, where u can freely travel around. In this regard Dust fails miserably, since all i see are a couple of maps and gamemodes and even the "preparation" room is a generic tiny lobby, without any actual meaning.
In this regard Planetside2 or even Borderlands2 is more of an MMO than DUST. Dust atm is basically World of Tanks in space, without gold ammo and a working matchmaking system. U have gamemodes and matches and can pimp your toon, while there is some "secret" meta map game going on, most players don't care about. |
AndyPandy Puschel
Tronhadar Free Guard Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2013.05.29 11:19:00 -
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Cosgar's Alt wrote:Quote: MMO: (video games) A massively multiplayer online game. A computer game in which a large number of players can simultaneously interact in a persistent world or can potentially play against a large number of players in matchmaking. (colloquial) A massively multiplayer online role-playing game. And to answer your other question, I've been playing MMOs since Ultima Online, back when you had to pay by the KB for internet access. Take your internet tough guy act and shove it.
We can throw definitions around all day long like this one:
Quote:A massively multiplayer online game (also called MMO and MMOG) is a multiplayer video game which is capable of supporting large numbers of players simultaneously. By necessity, they are played on the Internet. Many games have at least one persistent world, however others just have large numbers of players competing at once in one form or another without any lasting effect to the world at all.
This don't change the fact that most MMO's are directly associated with a large persistent world and ofc there is no 100% definite answer on what definition is more correct. In the end i don't call Dust a MMO, since im not seeing "large" numbers of players like in Planetside2 nor do i see a persistent world or even a sandbox of any kind. It would make no sense to me calling Dust a MMO, since than i also have to call BF3 an MMO, but i use the word "online/Multiplayer FPS/Shooter" for those games not MMO. |