Can Cosmic Break even be called an "MMO"?

I've read from someone (I forgot whom) that MMOs have to be set in a persistent world, and Cosmic Break only has lobbies and match-up rooms. It would be like calling Call of Duty multiplayer an MMO. What do you think?

An MMO only needs to be 'Massively Multiplayer Online'. If a persistent world is a requirement, then nearly every F2P 'MMO' is using the title falsely, as the players have no lasting impact on the game's world.

If you think of an MMO as a game with you and buddies against lots of NPC mobs, that's what Arcantus is for.

MMO

it's massive.

it's multiplayer.

it's online.

With around 300 players connected at once and only instance maps (even less than a common french private server)? Nah. No way.

Midona wrote:

With around 300 players connected at once and only instance maps (even less than a common french private server)? Nah. No way.

anything above 3 is now massive.

Midona wrote:

With around 300 players connected at once and only instance maps (even less than a common french private server)? Nah. No way.

Well, any game that can sustain a population of players at all times is considered massive.

isn't MMO apply to all online games?

Welp, unlike CoD (or any other PvP-based), where we are stuck to menus and clickables for lobbies, CB actually has a lobby consisting of areas where we can fly and fool around with.

I think I can call that a 'persistent' world.

I had a debate with my friend about this, its kinda a hard line to draw. the world is not as big as an MMO, has less community and social interactions then an MMO, its also not a persistent world due to how some MMO's continues if you log off, CB just stops if you log off.

We came to a conclusion that it was a 'a multiplayer online game with a few MMO features'

FreedomFighter wrote:

isn't MMO apply to all online games?

That's what i thought to o.o"

I know the term MMO only to describe a game that can't be played offline or focuses totally arround online mode (i. e.: phantasy star games usually have an offline mode, but nobody buys them because of that). All other games are just...well...videogames with an online feature I guess?

In CB case: Massive-Moneyplayer-Online Game