"A massively multiplayer online game (also called MMOG or simply MMO) is a video game which is capable of supporting hundreds or thousands of players simultaneously. By necessity, they are played on the Internet, and feature at least one persistent world."
-Wikipedia

The first question you might be asking is: Why Wikipedia?
Answer: The people who would argue against me likely cite everything that Wikipedia has as fact (Even though they keep moderating my correct definition of juice box... Bastards).

The second question you might be asking is: Why do you care about defining this on this forum?
Answer: Some people on this forum do not know what MMO stands for, or what a MMO is. These people improperly call things MMOs that are not MMOs. Consider it like being trying to teach a child that a tree is not a rock, sure they could get through life calling every rock they see a tree, but people would, probably correctly, think they were stupid... And it would be annoying.

The third question (which should have been your first, shame on you) might be: What is a MMO?
Answer: Massive (or Massively) Multiplayer Online game, some call these MMOGs, but I can't really think of anything that people would use the word "multiplayer" that didn't involve a game. Anything room based (A relatively small amount of players) that does not have a persistent game world is NOT a MMO. Just because a lot of people play it does not make it a MMO.

Here is a list of some games that are NOT MMOs:
Guild Wars, Diablo 1 2 and soon 3, Gunz, Rakion, Counter-Strike, Team fortress and Team fortress 2, Warcraft 3, etc.

Here is a list of some games that ARE MMOs:
World of Warcraft, Neosteam, Rohan online, Requiem: Bloodymare, FLYFF, Maplestory, etc.


I'm not saying don't talk about games that are not MMOs in the Free MMORPG section (as some games which are not Free MMORPGs might really be interesting to the majority of people who browse this section [Diablo 3]) just please do not in your posts classify them as MMOs and do not argue with the people who correct your improper usage of the term MMO.

this should be stickied....

Thing is, even publishers use "MMO" as a common term for online games.

everything is correct.

but i still get the feeling that gw is half half. Its not room based. Its like Lunia.
Diablo is an example of room based.

Its just....Instanced. Instanced doesnt make it room based. you dont sit and wait for someone to open a room. like you do on rumble fighter.
Although i cant even say that it is a mmo either bcuz of the non persistants.

to me its sitting between not a mmo and is a mmo

but.......ill just call it a mmo for the hell of it bcuz i can see all my 30 friends at once without having to join a room.

dont flame me. just my opinion. i kno its not a mmo lol but its more of a mmo then room based right?

Get over it.........................

everyone knows what it means. No one CARES if they use it correctly or not, unless your someone like yourself and "feel" the need to correct anyone who uses it out of term.

I use "mmo" as a shortened version of "mmorpg."

This thread is total homo.
Who the hell cares what the def is. Online game-- many people -- that's good enough to make it into this section. Like hell this will be stickied.. stop begging.

Seriously you need to stfu.
Like the other guy said, Get over it.
Stop taking things on the internet so seriously :-/

Massivley Multiplayer Online Game

doesn't any game that's played over the internet with other users fall into that category o_O"?

everything is correct.

but i still get the feeling that gw is half half. Its not room based. Its like Lunia.
Diablo is an example of room based.

Just because the lobbies are 3D does not make it anything less than a lobby.

A massive amount of bullshit that happened to be online


BECAUSE THIS IS REALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLY IMPORTAINT GUYS PLZ BE SURE TO SAY IT RIGHT OR U CANT PLAY THEM

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Now I have it on my desktop and I will never forget!

doesn't matter what the deffinition off MMORPG is, a lot of people (including me) are still going to call most online games MMOs