FFXIV interview.

[Pwnagraphic]

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My question still goes unanswered..

[Malacite]

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I mean, that'd be like calling Halo an MMO.

>.> I remember reading in EGM Bungie had plans for one waaay back... was a few months after Halo 2 I think.

[Kailea]

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The town are persistant in GW. Yea, there are diff servers for each town, but they are still persistant.

persistent "WORLD" not towns....

look at the towns, like they where battle net for Diablo, but with shops

[Takelli]

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n the defenition of MMORPG, for a game to be called a MMORPG, it has to have at least one persistent world...... GW does not have that

The town are persistant in GW. Yea, there are diff servers for each town, but they are still persistant.

[Pwnagraphic]

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But then is MAG an MMO considering the M in MAG is "Massive"?

[Armando]

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Kailea is right, technically speaking if everything is instanced and you only play with a handful of people at any given moment it's not massively multiplayer. It's just multiplayer.

I mean, that'd be like calling Halo an MMO.

[Kailea]

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He said MMO. not MMORPG

the key is "MMO" here the definition still aplies

[Pwnagraphic]

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He said MMO. not MMORPG

[Kailea]

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Well, I consider it a MMO.

MMO stands for Massive Multiplayer online game.

Its online and its player base is fairly massive. Ever walk through the busy town? Theres TONS of people in those towns always trying to do something.

Yea, its all instanced, but its still an online game. Even the PvP is instanced, but you do have a good amount of people fighting at once.

The reason why its called a MMO though, is because its all online.

If you played Champions, it has an offline version and an online version. If it was all online, it would be a MMO.

in the defenition of MMORPG, for a game to be called a MMORPG, it has to have at least one persistent world...... GW does not have that, its nothing more then a big pretty #D dungeon crawler, or MORPG

[Pwnagraphic]

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He's got a point.

[Takelli]

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Guild Wars is not an MMORPG, its more like Diablo, but the cities take the place of battle net chat rooms

Well, I consider it a MMO.

MMO stands for Massive Multiplayer online game.

Its online and its player base is fairly massive. Ever walk through the busy town? Theres TONS of people in those towns always trying to do something.

Yea, its all instanced, but its still an online game. Even the PvP is instanced, but you do have a good amount of people fighting at once.

The reason why its called a MMO though, is because its all online.

If you played Champions, it has an offline version and an online version. If it was all online, it would be a MMO.

[Pwnagraphic]

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Ah cause Mal up there called it an MMO.. I don't classify that as an MMO either.

[Kailea]

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Would you consider GW an MMO?

Guild Wars is not an MMORPG, its more like Diablo, but the cities take the place of battle net chat rooms

[Pwnagraphic]

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Would you consider GW an MMO?

[Takelli]

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yet specifically for RP that could still be highly successful (enough to maintain the game at least)

Go take a look on plane shift. That game is heavily based on Rping. Everything you do is Rp. You need to Rp to talk to other players, and NPCs. If you talk too much OOC, you can get a warning from the Gms. Its a really good game that is based around role playing, and is really fun once you get into it. The game is still in development though even though its been in development for... 7 years lol.

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Guild Wars was sort of an oddball being the only free MMO (to my knowledge) to ever hit retail. It

There have been a few others. Just today I saw dungeon runners in Circut City...