I think Discovery does have the potential to become an MMO if we could expand the player capacity of the servers. However, as far as I know, none of the developers want to put any more additional strain on the servers, so for the foreseeable future, Freelancer will probably remain as an LMO, according to Akura, and a Space Trading and Combat Simulator, according to Wikipedia.
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' Wrote:Imagine a game which is classified as an MMO right now dwindles down to 200 players on the server. Is it no longer an MMO? Not really. This is why I think it's defined by the game mechanics but the term "MMO" confuses this.
Yep, that game is still an MMO. I don't think it is the game mechanics or the number of players playing, but the capabilities of the game to support a number of players.
That MMO game is fully capable of supporting massive numbers of players, they just didn't come to play. The game is what counts, not the interest. The game is an MMO.
Freelancer can't even support more than those 200 - only a handful more players could be enabled before it collapses. No available hardware can push it beyond that. The game just isn't capable of doing more. It is not an MMO, because it can't support massive numbers of players.
This game is not created to be MMORPG so it's not. It's turned to MORPG + Space sim
Not on topic but not much off?
How many online games are there that are MORPGs really.. like Disco FL is? Where you RP in game?
I think I heard some that some retail wow servers are RPing.. but never checked it.
' Wrote:How many online games are there that are MORPGs really.. like Disco FL is? Where you RP in game?
I think I heard some that some retail wow servers are RPing.. but never checked it.
Uru Live was/is. When you're down there in the Cavern of D'ni, or Linking to any one of the Ages in the game, you're supposed to play like it's actually happening. Cyan Worlds, the creators of the game, encouraged (but never "enforced") actual role-play when the game was first released around '03. But after it's multiple deaths and re-births, the "role-play" has dwindled, and RP often goes hand-in-hand with OOC chat in-game.
' Wrote:Uru Live was/is. When you're down there in the Cavern of D'ni, or Linking to any one of the Ages in the game, you're supposed to play like it's actually happening. Cyan Worlds, the creators of the game, encouraged (but never "enforced") actual role-play when the game was first released around '03. But after it's multiple deaths and re-births, the "role-play" has dwindled, and RP often goes hand-in-hand with OOC chat in-game.
So anyone playing it? I wouldn't like to waste 1/8+ of my monthly download limit (1GB) in one day for something no one plays:)
I play it. And maybe a few hundred other people play it.
And while the game itself is easilt played as a stand-alone with not too much technical Myst-stuff, the players are very much about Myst-lore and the stories that you only ever got to hear about in the Myst books. So if you play, just be prepared for that.
' Wrote:I play it. And maybe a few hundred other people play it.
And while the game itself is easilt played as a stand-alone with not too much technical Myst-stuff, the players are very much about Myst-lore and the stories that you only ever got to hear about in the Myst books. So if you play, just be prepared for that.
Have no idea what is game about.. so I'll wait next month maybe to check it out and figure out. Not sure will I even play it even If I download.. well next month is soon but my school starts day after tomorrow. If I start playing anything new It will be FL.:)
I would classify Freelancer as an MMO, yes. 200 is actually quite a lot considering most online shooting games probably have more like 16, 32 or 64 at most. But it's not the server size that makes it an MMO, it's the community size. Does an MMO stop being an MMO when it's population peak drops during low-activity hours or maintenance time? No. We all play on the server together at some point, even if we can't all do it at once.
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