^I dont know about Officially or not, but Wikipedia calls it a MMO, but Zipper themselves call it an FPS. I know theres such things as MMOFPS etc, but from my experience in the beta, MAG does not feel or play out as a MMO. More like a fps multiplayer.

Sure theres alot of players playing at the same time, but the scale isn't there. The feeling is that you're apart of your 8 man squad. At the most you can get a 32 v 32 player feeling. But thats just like any other FPS multiplayer experience.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massively_multiplayer_online_game

"By necessity, they are played on the Internet, and feature at least one persistent world."

As I said...I know ZERO about the techincal implementation of MAG...it seems in reading the are some MMO like features.  I guess the game will function a bit like Guild Wars...I'm not sure,  but if you call MAG a MMO...then what's the signifigance of having 256 players?  You can get 256 in most MMO's with no problem...

^ Thats what i said. Wikipedia definition of MMO will put MAG in the MMO corner. But for us who are in the beta and have played the game, would probably call it an FPS game.

And i don't call it an MMO. I call it a FPS multiplayer game.

And there's not a persistent world in MAG.

no persistent world would mean MAG isn't a MMO as per Wikipedia's definition.  I read a little on MAG, and it seems to have a leveling system of sorts, but that doesn't make it a MMO.  Looking at that lawsuit against the big MMO's, I think that is the leverage they are pursuing.

^ Im with you, its not an MMO. But some elements by wiki definitions can make it out to be an MMO

"MAG for PS3 and Huxley.[15] Another MMOFPS known as Dust 514 is being developed by CCP Games, who also created Eve Online. The game will tie into the Eve Online universe."

But as i said. It dosen't play like an MMO, it dosen't level up like an MMO and it doesen't feel like an MMO. Hence my statement that its "just an FPS" multiplayer game.

MAG is NOT an MMO.
you do not start in your game world, towns , guilds , region ....ect

you select a menu for a match and you play it, just like any other multiplayer game.

MAG = First Person Multiplayer Game

PlanetSide = First Person Massively Multiplayer Game



on Planetside you are in a huge world and can travel from planet to planet you don't select a menu of a mission, you do missions yourself and there are 3 armies that try to control planets as long as your army keep fighting the battle goes on.

Note : Planetside was one of my favourite games back in the day, i hope they make a new one on consoles

again on a multiplayer game, you choose the game type, and team , and play a timed game.
on an MMO you start in your world/town..ect and freely do whatever you want. imagine Elder Scrolls but with online people playing with their own characters and quests, yeah thats an MMO

I think the word is....persistent environment...but I could be wrong..

M.A.G is indeed a persistent online game, maybe you all should read up about it again. Even when you aren't online the war is still raging and the next time you log in things are going to be different. It is indeed an MMO, or more precisely: a MMPOFPS. In terms of the number of players for Dust 514, if people had actually bothered to watch the interviews they would have found out that the game will have more than 16, but less than 256 players. Huxley is no longer coming to consoles, didn't you guys know these things already. I mean most of this stuff is really OLD.

MMPOFPS: Massively Multiplayer Persistent Online FPS.

Hey, we still have The Secret World! *shakes a fist*