People who are mainly MMORPG fans are looking for MMORPG's.
So you all know better than most on this site that we're a passionate bunch. You all helped fuel the MMO movement during the EQ, DAoC, and SWG era. With all due respect, and I mean that, I used to be a huge fan of your site over a decade ago, but since when can people start changing the definition of something? I mean, if tomorrows generation decides to re-define what we call cars to include anything with wheels as being cars, car enthusiasts everywhere would be up in arms. Someday maybe the more "traditional" version of MMO will come back, but for now, times have changed. The "new" MMO is 50+ to whatever number of players together in one place.
The days of 1000s of players sharing a single game are mostly gone and if you consider "servers" - most of which host fewer than 500 players - these games all fit. I dunno."M" (MASSIVE) "M" (MULTIPLAYER) "O" (ONLINE) all seem to fit each of these games. It's not like Bill said these were all MMORPGs, simply "MMOs". A cheap tactic unworthy of the premiere MMO discussion site if so. Instead of a discussion about how, for example, PUBG created a new way to do multiplayer battle royales that has become hugely popular, most of the discussion about it has simply been about how you could call PUBG an MMO.Īs some have said (jokingly I think) maybe it was just a deliberate miscategorization in order to generate hits and they didn't care about having the PUBG significance in 2017 discussed at all. I also expect that when an obligatory end of year top 10 whatever article is posted for discussion they phrase the title and the article's content in such a way that it focuses the discussion on the relative merit of the items included in the top 10 list. It's something I suspect most of us who come here on a regular basis enjoy.īut I do care about definitions and I expect the premiere MMO coverage site on the internet to have more gravitas about how they use that definition and what games they include in it. They should and do cover many other games that are outside the MMO scope. You're right in that there are not enough MMORPGs (nor are there enough MMOs that are not RPGs) for this site to survive on them alone. There are not enough MMORPGs for this site to survive on them alone. Some of you don't want to live in the real world. I prefer having a place to come to than to have this place close down.