Steam lists PoE as an MMO?

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CharanJaydemyr wrote:

But okay, let's say that MMORPG=/=MMOARPG. Does the inclusion of that 'A' invalidate or exclude my two points? At which point does an MMO become Action?

If those two points excludes it from being an MMOARPG then they also exclude it from being an ARPG.

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CharanJaydemyr wrote:

And what's the difference between an ARPG and an MMOARPG? If you're going to say 'the MMO means it supports lots of players online' then technically Diablo 1 was an MMOARPG because it had the Battle.net lobby...and that just sounds wrong.

The game is designed around having a "massive" amount of people directly or indirectly affecting eachother in an online envoirment.

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CharanJaydemyr wrote:

But whatever -- as discussed, the worst it can do is attract a bunch of MMO*RPG* players who want full crafting, houses, mounts, events, persistent world, raids and start getting pissy when GGG provides precisely none of those.

Because that's just what the community needs.

That is completely irrelevant to whether or not this game is an MMO.

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It doesn't really matter what people or the devs think. If it has a massive community and played exclusively online, it's going to be tagged an MMO, it's going to be on MMO sites.

I saw this thread back when it had only 2 pages...maybe I should had commented it about it then. Anyway I dunno if anyone has said this already, but Steam lists it both as a MO and MMO...

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MMO implies that instances have large numbers of people in the same instance.

There are MMOFPS that reach the 'massively' portion of having people in the same game, though not many.

There are even some MMORTS, though I can only think of one.

MMORPG is the common one, as only controlling one person, and not necessarily directly fighting each other, leads it to be easily defined.

PoE is not an MMO, as the only instanced areas that can be defined as 'massively' are towns, which is analogous to battle.net waiting areas and such (for example D2 everyone in chat channels).

There are some games which also are not technically MMO's but do get classed as them, such as DDO, which actually has much smaller instances of parties, but the 'town' areas are very very large and it does have a very MMO type feel to it. Personally I would still class this just as an MORPG.

But yeah, it all comes down to the definition of ONE words, 'Massively'

I could had swear that was listed as a MO when the store page first came out...

Pointing out spelling errors and generalisatons doesn't really make a good argument you know.

The devs can call it whatever they want, that doesn't mean its true. If they started calling it a RTS, would you still go with what the devs said?

You actually just confirmed my point. The devs dont want to call it an MMO because they think that term is too closely related to wow clones. And that's exactly what i mean, its starting in the wrong end!

If you don't think DDO is an mmo then you are simply wrong.

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