Re: Guild Wars sells a million

Mean_Chlorine <mike_noren2002@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> once tried to test me
with:

> Thusly rridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Ross Ridge) Spake Unto All:
>
>>>It's just a matter of degrees
>>
>>Yes, that what "MASSIVE" means. It's matter of degrees whether or not
>>a game is MMORPG or not.
>
> So some 200-300 people in one town is not massive?

Having hundreds of people in a glorified chat channel isn't massive, no.

> Being able to play
> with/against any of the probably several tens of thousand players on
> at any given moment isn't massive?

That part is a nice feature that MMORPG's would do well to emulate. But
since you can only play with 8 at a time, it's not what I'd call massive.
The problem with GW is that everything is instanced. If just some of the
mission areas, like WoW or EQ2, I wouldn't have a problem labeling it
MMORPG. I'm willing to conceed that it's MMORPG-lite, however.

Knight37

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