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[nanarchy]

Azzanation said:

nanarchy said:

well if you change the meaning of MMO like you have then sure 16 player max is MMO. However MMO DOESN'T stand for Massive Multiplayer Online. It stands for MASSIVELY Multiplayer Online, i.e. a bucket load more than 16 players.

I am not changing anything, you just corrected my spelling mistake, and the point still stands. As the general public see MMO you would expect MMO games to be a lot bigger than 16 players, however that’s generalising the genre because of a couple big hitting games that made the term popular. MMO does not stat how many players have to be counted for to earn the term MMO. If you can update me with a statement proving this, I would appreciate it and happily accept it.

MMO phrase was first coined for very large player bases in a single instance around the time of MUD's were games had limits of 50+, it had nothing to do with a few big games. I have never seen anyone claim before that 16 players is somehow an MMO, even back in the old days of MUD's with the difficult limits they had to work within they would not have considered this an MMO. the massively multiplayer is an important part of that definition and I don't think I have seen any definition (though there are many) that would classify such a small number as an MMO.