You won the good fight, man. I can't believe they almost got away with it. You are a champion. A true hero. What it will bring to the game is immeasurable.
Elite Dangerous no longer an MMO?
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You won the good fight, man. I can't believe they almost got away with it. You are a champion. A true hero. What it will bring to the game is immeasurable.
calm down. It is clearly an MMO. Stop trying to change the definition of what it is to fit your agenda...
Robert Maynard
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Therefore, in E: D, a player in open has a chance to meet every other player in open whereas, in a sharded game, there is no chance whatsoever of a player on one shard meeting a player on another.
That last seems to be a circular definition.
Err, still an MMO in the store. As it should be.
And if you look down in the bottom right corner of the oed.com site.. in the More from Oxford box... first link...
oxforddictionaries.com is the free online reference version ::struck to remove confusion:: (both from Oxford Universities Press) You just don't get the "premium content" you receive from the paid version at oed.com
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Just enjoy the game for what it currently is or stop playing it until they fix whatever problem you have with it.
For any sane people out there in forum land, don't worry, new release game forums are always like this!
For any sane people out there in forum land, don't worry, new release game forums are always like this!
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My apologies; I didn't spot this. That said, as the only response I've had yet, it remains the best for now. Again, please provide a more authoritative alternative if you disagree.
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There is a legal term called " perception of value ".
If enough people have the same perception of value and purchase said product on these grounds, there is a legal case if those customers feel " cheated "
The perception of value was created when FD marketed ED as an MMO.
It doesn't matter what the literal term of MMO means, but more so the interpretation of MMO by those who purchased the product.
His site is reached via the link you posted. I just did that, you can too. May want to look in the mirror and repeat your last sentence to yourself.
Omg this thread just keeps getting better... +1 /subscribe
If you mean here that they are in a single instance, that they can see each other if they are in the same place in the map, not necessarily. Many MMOs divide players across separate instances to deal with overcrowding. Among the ones I'm sure use some variant of this technique are Guild Wars, Guild Wars 2, Lord of the Rings Online, Star Trek Online, DC Universe Online, and even World of Warcraft. And I'm not even talking about instanced dungeons (or equivalent), but just about multiple instances of the overland map.
Of course, those games typically have a player limit far above 32 players in a single instance, so this instancing is not so common, nor so visible when it happens. But all those games do use instancing to reduce server load whenever needed.
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None needed, as Hussars pointed out above it is indeed a site by the same people so the error was mine.
That said, I still don't see how the definition cited applies to ED in it's current form. Unless you interpret it in it's loosest sense in that it is an online game that a lot of people can be playing at the same time though in no way together. If you are taking that interpretation then every online game is an MMO. So are we trying to suggest that Farmville is an MMO? I mean it is an online game and lots of people play it at the same time. Is that the interpretation you are taking?
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There is a difference between bending the truth and not spotting small print. Wind your neck in.
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Actually, it was officially advertised as an MMO by DB in numerous vids on YT as well as on their website at least until end of 2014, as depicted below.
Lol.. no harm no foul, we all do it at some point
Funny thing is.. I said the same thing first time I saw it linked >.<
The real difference between OED.com and the online reference is the detail level.. the OED proper only really deals with direct terms/phrases/words, where the online reference is a bit more "casual" in its content.
As for the FED reference (for those who don't catch the reference) The Federal Reserve System (FED) was put into place by the Federal Reserve Act (1913 I think - will have to go look it up) It established the Federal Reserve Bank for the US (the bank is a business where the FED itself is chaired by a board headed by a nominee from the US President (POTUS). So the "System" is a government agency, where the bank is not "technically". It makes sense to lawyers and most bankers I think, but to the rest of us.. just another example of an overly complex system that should have been a simple "stop screwing with people for fun and profit"
Of course, I'd be out of work if we couldn't screw with people for fun and profit!
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Not sure what that means and don't care much. Were I a mod, this thread would have reached an abrupt conclusion long ago for being the utter pile of steaming biowaste it is. It seems MMOG means whatever each individual wants it to, no documentable references allowed. What a circle jerk.
Mu77ley
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This just shows you fundamentally don't understand how the instancing works in Elite: Dangerous. They're dynamic instances which put players within visual range of each other together temporarily so they can interact. The only time this is limiting player interaction is if there are more than 32 players within ~10km of each other, which would be damn busy anyway.
The whole player population is playing at the same time in the same game world, hence it's an MMO.