User blog comment:Ralok/Destiny Wishlist/@comment-32856285-20140918053558/@comment-160529-20140920212509

"I don't play MMOs, but I am interested in Destiny and don't see how it is an MMO when the developers refuse to refer to it as such. "

That is easy... classification, is not something the developers can do themselves.

Classifying a game... is what critics and analysts and other people do. Just because it wasnt what they were going for doesnt mean its not what it is.

Its an MMO, saying it is not is just ignorance on their part for what an MMO is.

Adn dont say the word "technically" because it "technically" is an MMO, they refuse to call it that because they are just being snobbish.

"Yes, but are those properties really the only thing that makes a game an MMO? "

WHAT THE HECK DOES THIS MEAN? Yes, those are the aspects that make a game an MMO... it can still be a shooter and an MMO at the same time.

"Portal 2 depicts the protagonist in first person shooting portals with a form of gun.

Does this make Portal 2 an FPS?"

Yes... yes it does, and it is, but it is also a puzzle game. You can be part of more than one genre and game type at the same time.