Game mechanics and the community (Destiny)

by Malagate , Sea of Tranquility, Wednesday, November 27, 2013, 16:52 (4012 days ago) @ kapowaz

Honestly, "Shared World Shooter" says "FPS with MMO and Open World elements" just fine.

If the two terms are interchangeable who go to the effort of defining a new term at all? Why not just call it an MMOFPS and call it a day?

...because they've been over that same ground a million times already? Anything that starts with "MMO" immediately causes any potential customer to say "okay, so what's the monthly fee?", among other things. There are MMO trappings, but it is not a bona fide MMO infrastructure, as far as we've been led to understand it. (...Speaking of which, I'd be fascinated to look at their backend design docs.)

Calling it an MMO-anything would be incorrect. That acronym alone steers the audience's impression away from what it actually is.

~m