Is blizzard to MMO based?

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BigKevSexyMan

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Is blizzard to MMO based?

Three MMO games seems like a bit much, right? Does anyone else think there should be more blizzard IPs that are from a different genre?
 
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Kiroptus

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Re: Is blizzard to MMO based?

3 MMOs? There is WoW and the unnannounced IP, what would be the third one? Plus the New MMO is supposed to have a diferent take on the concept of MMO rather than WoW, which is very traditional.
 
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BigKevSexyMan

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Re: Is blizzard to MMO based?

I count d3 as being an MMO. And before you say that it's not technically an MMO, it's close enough to be considered one.
 
Drakk

Drakk

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Re: Is blizzard to MMO based?

BigKevSexyMan said:
I count d3 as being an MMO. And before you say that it's not technically an MMO, it's close enough to be considered one.
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How do you classify Diablo III as a MMO when it has always been, and will again be, an instanced game?? I believe the Massive in MMO is referring to the size of the persistant game world, not the amount of players playing the game.
The quick style of play that Diablo is famous for is partly due to the fact that you can enter and exit various instances of the game at will. Instead of spending 5 minutes in transit like in MMOs.


 
Krugar

Krugar

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Re: Is blizzard to MMO based?

It doesn't surprise me this type of confusion when you can have MMO databases listing Diablo, when people actually try to discuss if Diablo is an MMO, or even when Diablo 3 is often discussed in terms of, or compared to, existing MMOs (and often on these same forums).

So be gentle on the OP. He's more right than wrong.

This is the answer I was expecting to see when I was reading the replies:

BigKevSexyMan, Diablo 3 is missing just one game feature to be considered a MMO. Diabo 3 will not offer a Persistent World to its players. Worlds are created when you leave the chat window and start a new game. Maximum number of players on each game will be limited to a predetermined number. Currently this is supposed to be four players. Less than the eight players in Diablo 2.

Diablo 3 is thus an Instanced World and doesn't fit, as such, in the MMO category of games.
 
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sicilian

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Re: Is blizzard to MMO based?

Krugar said:
It doesn't surprise me this type of confusion when you can have MMO databases listing Diablo, when people actually try to discuss if Diablo is an MMO, or even when Diablo 3 is often discussed in terms of, or compared to, existing MMOs (and often on these same forums).

So be gentle on the OP. He's more right than wrong.

This is the answer I was expecting to see when I was reading the replies:

BigKevSexyMan, Diablo 3 is missing just one game feature to be considered a MMO. Diabo 3 will not offer a Persistent World to its players. Worlds are created when you leave the chat window and start a new game. Maximum number of players on each game will be limited to a predetermined number. Currently this is supposed to be four players. Less than the eight players in Diablo 2.

Diablo 3 is thus an Instanced World and doesn't fit, as such, in the MMO category of games.
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I think that difference is a little more vast than you make it out to be. With instanced games, we're essentially talking about a single player game that has a cooperative game mode. That differs from MMO in such a vital way that the only way you could confuse them is if you somehow mistook all games that have online capability for "MMOs", much like people refer to anything that lives in the sea as "fish".


 
Starving_Poet

Starving_Poet

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Re: Is blizzard to MMO based?

Aye you got it with the Persistant World.

Diablo is not an MMO - and for that reason neither was Hellgate - it was simply p2p multiplayer.
 
Apocalypse

Apocalypse

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Re: Is blizzard to MMO based?

i think most people do not know what "MMO" stands for, they just assume it means online only.
 
Bad Ash

Bad Ash

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Re: Is blizzard to MMO based?

Manly Men Orgy

he's right D3 IS an MMO (based on my definition) GHEY
 
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Kiroptus

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Re: Is blizzard to MMO based?

Blizzard only has one more MMO going, and from what it has been said about it, its very diferent from WoW.

I dont see any problem at all with them having MMOs to get money as long as they deliver quality games.
 
Apocalypse

Apocalypse

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Re: Is blizzard to MMO based?

well if that was the original point i would vote no, blizzard is making a ton of money specializing on a few certain games so why ruin that? more games could possibly water down what they release in the future
 
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jacobgold

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Re: Is blizzard to MMO based?

How can they be too MMO based?

If you did something that makes you millions on millions of dollars a month, wouldnt you do it again?

It's not like they would loose focus on other gametypes. Blizzard isn't only 1 team that can work only on a single project.
 
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