Moonwards {l Wrote}:The thing for me is that the player experience in an MMO is fundamentally different than an MMORPG. For one like ours, which focuses on allowing people to create things and share them in the world, the networking code is fundamentally different. So, although it has some similarities to an MMORPG, I wouldn't say it should be counted as being part of the same category.
This shows very confused thinking. There is a category of games called "MMO" which refers to a wide variety of games whose essential quality (the clue is in the name) is that they are played online and with massive numbers of co-players.
There is a subcategory of the MMO category called "MMORPG" which refers to MMOs where the games involves role playing.
In your comment here, you're claiming the "MMO" category for games with a "player experience" like your game and then excluding any MMOs which aren't like your game, like MMORPGs, even though they are played online and with massive numbers of co-players. This is silly.
If your MMO is essentially different from other MMOs, that doesn't mean your game is an MMO and all the others aren't. What it means is that your game is in a new subcategory of MMO.
Please stop trying to play word games in order to put your game in a place it is not deserving of. You cannot claim the category "MMO" I'm afraid.
There are many FOSS MMOs and your claim that there aren't is offensive.