Game mechanics and the community (Destiny)

by kapowaz, Wednesday, November 27, 2013, 17:55 (4012 days ago) @ Malagate

...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 loads of MMOs with no subscription fees. If anything, the current trend is away from charging a recurring subscription fee and instead relying on the initial retail copy + micro-transactions, so I don't see why that's a major concern.

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

Massively Multiplayer Online.

Yeah, I can see where the confusion would arise on that one.