Because it's not false advertising and that's my point.
Giant persistent galaxy with thousand of players that's online and people are saying its not MMOy enough. What a joke.
So you saw MMO and was like Oh must have, without actually doing more research to find out more about the game. I mean it is technically an MMO. Just because it does not conform to YOUR (a nobody whose opinions matters to absolutely no one but themselves) idea of what a MMO should be does not mean it is not one.
So you guys say that the game
is in fact an MMO. You Drathmar go even further, trying to aggravate the person you're answering to by telling them nobody cares about their opinion.
How then do you explain FD's decision to stop advertising ED as an MMO? There are two explanations: Either it is actually an MMO, but they didn't want poor Ghostickles (remember, a person whose opinion interests nobody) to be mislead into thinking it is some
different kind of MMO than it actually is. Or they backtracked because they realized, in its current state the game can't in all good faith be called an MMO. Either way it's a matter of public perception.
Yes, the definition of MMO is murky, and yes you could stretch it any way you want to fit almost any kind of game with an online component into it (somebody said, thinking they were smart, 'massive is relative'). Truth is, when you call your game an MMO, this gives people expectations. If you want a positive image, it is not in your best interest to go all smart-ass and reply 'lol we made an MMO
technically'. And with FD having a rather spotty track record when it comes to video games after the Elite series and not being the biggest player out there, they couldn't afford, like Wargaming or Bungie, to play on words and act all smug and adopt a 'deal with it' attitude. That's why you see that effort now from FD to remove the notion that ED is an MMO, because it's obvious that a public fight about semantics wouldn't make them any good.
Please note that I'm not discussing here whether this game should be an MMO. This isn't the topic, so there is no need to tell me to 'go back to EVE'. People defending a company that isn't even trying to defend itself because it knows it's a lost battle, is baffling me. You guys are
consummers, and you are actively trying to pretend that a company you're giving money to, didn't do anything wrong when said company is actually removing pieces of advertisement from its store page after the fact. I have no serious gripe with FD and I totally wish that Elite becomes better and better, but some people do have legitimate concerns.
And being a sycophant for the sake of sounding smart on the internet or of justifying your spending so much money on a game against the better advice of your wife, when some things aren't too pretty isn't how you help a company you like. If you show FD that whatever they do, right or wrong, you will support them against all reason, then they have no reason to improve.
This picture is from five minutes ago, 2015.
And I have been playing WoT since 2011. My opinion hasn't changed. And in the current state of affairs, I will sooner call World of Tanks an MMO than call ED one.
