[MUD-Dev2] Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD

[Aurel]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Adam Martin <
adam.m.s.martin at googlemail.com> wrote:

>
> The thing about POW is that it isn't MMO.
>
> Here are 21 million (approx) reasons why you're all wrong:
>
> http://www.google.com/search?q=mmo
>
> Sorry :(. Really, I am. If you're going to do a search/replace on
> every document and every webpage in existence, then ... awesome!
>
> Otherwise, it's too late for you to change this terminology now.
>

All you need is for the next WoW to call itself a POW or a PSW or whatever
it likes and you've got a name change. The marketing team might even try to
pass it off as a new genre to create more buzz, much like MMO did in the
first place by differentiating itself from MU*. In fact, I'd say it's
inevitable that a AAA multi-user online title will spawn a new genre
sometime in the near future just to differentiate itself from all those 21
million (and growing) hits for MMO.