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3/9/2015 6:04:14 AM
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MMO or not an MMO

How many people here think that Destiny is an MMO and why? If you don't think that it's an MMO then say why. I personally think that Destiny isn't an MMO because of it's limited amounts of players, bad loot system, and the number of things that are included in games like WoW, FFXIV, etc that Destiny doesn't have.
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  • [u]Definition of MMO[/u] A massively multiplayer online game is a multiplayer video game which is capable of supporting large numbers of players simultaneously. Whilst large is somewhat subjective, the term MMO was obviously coined to separate games that were considered to hold small numbers from large numbers. Everyone knows the scale: small, medium, big. Now if we consider two things: • [b]Small[/b] would be [b]2[/b] - otherwise any less and there wouldn't be a point of playing online at all. • [b]Large[/b] to be [b]500[/b] - for Realm Online in 1995 as this is the first record I found of actual simultaneous player numbers and is good for argument same as this would be an extremely conservative figure by today's standards . - Therefore in this conservative argument the [b]medium/mean [/b]would be[b] ~250[/b] players. Destiny can hold [b]12-14 players[/b] simultaneously which is on the lower end of the 'small' scale shown above. Therefore making Destiny not a MMO. Logic wins every time Additional reasons: [spoiler] 1. Bungie or Activision have never classed this as a MMO its always FPSRPG 2. Just because it has some traits of a MMO, that doesn't define it as one (the same as men breathing doesn't define them as women, and vice versa) [/spoiler] Checkmate Irrationalers Checkmate MMOers Checkmate Atheists Checkmate Feminists

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