My friend says Diablo is an mmo. Is he batshit crazy? What do I tell him?>

[sophos1]

When I think of MMOs I think of persistent worlds supporting unlimited numbers of players.

[Aquamonkey]

When I think of MMOs I think of persistent worlds supporting unlimited numbers of players.

It's impossible to support an unlimited number of players.

[Howard Moon]

How is this discussion still going on?

[Howard Moon]

Because you linked it in another thread which brought me here, which started giving me a headache... and I ended up posting? =P

Lol dammit! I was hoping that would just kill the discussion over there, not revive the discussion over here :P

[Magicochon]

it's not an mmo. MMO requires that you can interact with hundreds of player that you don't know in an area (like a city a forest). Diablo will require you to create a game (public / private) that up to 3 other player will be able to join. So you canno't (at the same time) interact with more than 3 players. Which makes this game not an mmo.
If mmo would juste required that there is a lot of people online then pokémon black and white would be a mmo, starcraft2 and even super smash brawl on Wii (yes a lot of people play online).

[Deleted]

Genre(s): Action role-playing game, dungeon crawl, hack and slash, horror.

Which I find quite describing of diablo.

if it were an MMO because a lot of people play online then almost every single online game would be MMO.

Source: Diablo on Wikipedia

^ This

It has a good online component, and in Diablo 3 you will see it expanded, but it is, in no way, an MMO.

'Not everything that glitters is gold'. A wise saying, seemingly not applicable in this case, but if we change words: Not everything that has a good online component is an MMO.

[Deleted]

From wikipedia:
Diablo III
Genre(s) Action role-playing, hack and slash, dungeon crawl, dark fantasy/horror

Btw if "it has lobbies where you can chat with others and you can play games online with other people" would be the definition of an mmo, it would make Facebook an mmo. Is it an mmo? No, it's a social medim.
Is diablo 3 an mmo? No, it is an action rpg.

[coolye]

Role playing game -.-