Games such as Path of Exiles, Neverwinter Online, Continent of 9th and so on.
These days, the term is being put into other games that have nothing to do with the genre whatsoever. There used to be a time, well, not really that long ago, but about 6 years ago, when people were still using the term correctly for the correct genres. Misusing the genre is when game developers uses the genre term as a sales pitch, which is also why a lot of newer generations of gamers believe that even some single player games are MMORPGs these days (Games made in RPGMaker etc), or that games such as ARK Survival Evolved are MMORPGs. Calling a game, an MMORPG simply because it has a lot of people playing it world wide, is misusing the term FOR the genre. While this may be true, the genre never changes, NEVER. Some people today believe that terms change, for different games.
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I’ve been playing games since the late 70s and i’ve seen the start of the mmorpg era with games such as Avalon and the first ever full 3D MMORPG Meridian 59.
MMORPGs are games like World of Warcraft, TERA Online, just to name a couple. Nothing more, nothing less.ĭebates on this topic have split the communities, but most people in general agree that games such as Path of Exiles (Basically a Diablo 2/3 clone), or Neverwinter Online, are not MMORPGs and will never be MMORPGS, for the reasons i mentioned above. Said games are just online multiplayer games. Neither of those two games are capable of doing just that. It is defined by how many people are able to interact with each other in the same open, world.Īn online game can be considered an MMO ONLY when each server can hold hundreds or thousands of players at the same time, capable of interacting with each other and the game world itself by way of grouping up with people you find out in the open world etc. Neverwinter is also a prime example of a lobby and instanced based online game that claims to be an MMORPG even though it lacks most of the main features of an MMORPG.Īn MMORPG is not defined by how many people that plays the game.
Yes, a lot of people do play the game on a daily basis, but even so, that is not enough to label it as an MMO or MMORPG. Problem with this list is that Path of Exiles is not an MMORPG, as it is completely void of any MMO feature.
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