Is WoT really an mmo?
Дата: 24.07.2010 19:11:16
Scrap, on 24 July 2010 - 04:42 AM, said: MMO= Presistent world, massive player count, saved progress.While it is massively played and it does save players progress no world exists that goes on as the player quits. Tanks and tank upgrades are not a "world". I guess it is a PR gimmick and trying to slap on such a sellable word helps.
MrVic: With Clan wars going all day and night, And territory changing
hands and Defense fights ect ect that world is there and very
persistent. If your not online it changes and evolves, as battles
change the face of the world 
So even the user created definition
on wiki fits WoT.
One reason you see games like MW2 BFBC ect not use a "mmo" tag is pretty simple they are "FPS" Pretty much any first person shooter now days is about online fights. So calling it a MMO is not really needed since its already inferred. WoT is not a FPS really, its breaks the game mold and is going a new direction for their game. MMO fits the game and informs them at the same time the game is not a co-op or pve game. Its about destroying your enemies on a global stage! As the gaming world and evolves the
tags for games open up also. STO for example was so heavily
instanced that you were around less people most the time then in
WoT.
Regardless it doesn't matter the only argument is that its false advertising, which does not apply since its FREE if you somehow get screwed over by something free then you have bigger problems then the semantics of the MMO tag....other then that its all stuff that does really matter does not harm to anyone its just a opinion.
One thing that is funny to me is back in the day Games were just labeled "online" Then someone had this great idea in someones marketing dept, he was like "Lets call it a MMO! now were bigger then those "online" people and were cool and people will argue this term every day for the rest of their lives instead of playing games and enjoying them!" We have failed we let the marketing people run our gaming experiences. Lets get back to reading about a game NOT just its "tags" and decide for ourselves. In this case Lets just play the game and see how it goes since we can!
So even the user created definition
on wiki fits WoT.One reason you see games like MW2 BFBC ect not use a "mmo" tag is pretty simple they are "FPS" Pretty much any first person shooter now days is about online fights. So calling it a MMO is not really needed since its already inferred. WoT is not a FPS really, its breaks the game mold and is going a new direction for their game. MMO fits the game and informs them at the same time the game is not a co-op or pve game. Its about destroying your enemies on a global stage!
As the gaming world and evolves the
tags for games open up also. STO for example was so heavily
instanced that you were around less people most the time then in
WoT.Regardless it doesn't matter the only argument is that its false advertising, which does not apply since its FREE if you somehow get screwed over by something free then you have bigger problems then the semantics of the MMO tag....other then that its all stuff that does really matter does not harm to anyone its just a opinion.
One thing that is funny to me is back in the day Games were just labeled "online" Then someone had this great idea in someones marketing dept, he was like "Lets call it a MMO! now were bigger then those "online" people and were cool and people will argue this term every day for the rest of their lives instead of playing games and enjoying them!" We have failed we let the marketing people run our gaming experiences. Lets get back to reading about a game NOT just its "tags" and decide for ourselves. In this case Lets just play the game and see how it goes since we can!
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