There has to be a better way to distinguish MMOs from Non MMOs

Sovrath

TheDalaiBomba said:

Sovrath said:

madazz said:

A lot of people here are utterly wrong, many are confused. Some are close.

For one, we know what the first M in MMO stands for. Wtf is with the "we don't know" argument? It's massively. It's always been.

Massively multi-player online.

Except, instead of “massive “ pertaining to the amount of people who simultaneously share a game world some companies use it to mean “massive amount of people who can simultaneously access the game.”

So the definition hasn’t changed it’s just what it’s referring to.

Not to nitpick, but those are literally two different definitions.

It’s not two different definitions if some marketing department decides to us the initialism to refer to something else.  It’s changing what massive refers to. That’s the issue.