Gripe with using term 'MMORPG'

[Googenstien]

Ive been coming to the site for awhile now but recently signed up to post.. anyway.. a gripe I have here on these boards is how it seems almost everyone says MMORPG instead of just MMO.. I dont know why it bugs the crap out of me, but it does. I have been playing MMOs since EQ1 came out in 1999 and shortyly after the term was coined everyone I know stopped saying MMORPG and just cutting it down to MMO.

I see it almost as something like saying ATM Machine when infact the M in ATM is for Machine.. or Fed Ex for awhile had a line of Express services that they called Fed Ex Express.. when the Ex in Fed Ex already means Express.. yah.. Federal Express Express

 

[Radeonx]

Cool?
Your complaints don't really create much discussion....

 

[AmrasCalmacil]

Lotsa people Roleplay on them.
And there's differences that can be clarified between MMORPG and MMO.

 

[delet]

Maybe it's because Yahtzee popularized pronouncing the full thing "muh-more-puh-guh" so people here like to go with it? I just use MMO as it's 3 letters less and thusly more convenient.

 

[Lightslei]

So let people be as they will, getting worked up over trivial matters only backfires.

 

[The_Healer]

So?

Who cares what people call them, as long as we understand what they are talking about.

 

[Googenstien]

Maybe it's because Yahtzee popularized pronouncing the full thing "muh-more-puh-guh" so people here like to go with it? I just use MMO as it's 3 letters less and thusly more convenient.

Thats actually what I sorta thought

 

[Gigaguy64]

MMO is just Massively Multiplayer Online.

MMORPG is Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game.

There are plenty of MMOs that arnt RPGs but iv only herd MMORPG used to describe games like World of Warcraft or DnD Online.
So it doesn't bug me because that's what they are.

 

[migo]

It'd be more convenient to cut out the MM part than the RPG. Call it an ORPG for Online RPG.

 

[Thaius]

Because "MMO" could be anything massively online multiplayer, even an FPS or adventure game. MMORPG specifies it is an RPG that is massively multiplayer online.

 

[Pearwood]

Maybe it's because Yahtzee popularized pronouncing the full thing "muh-more-puh-guh" so people here like to go with it? I just use MMO as it's 3 letters less and thusly more convenient.

Was it him who popularised it? I heard it somewhere else before I heard it here, I don't know where it started.

 

[delet]

Maybe it's because Yahtzee popularized pronouncing the full thing "muh-more-puh-guh" so people here like to go with it? I just use MMO as it's 3 letters less and thusly more convenient.

Was it him who popularised it? I heard it somewhere else before I heard it here, I don't know where it started.

Not sure if anyone else started it, but he surely popularized it. Popularize != create. So many people follow Yahtzee that his mannerisms are bound to be turned into memes...

 

[Pearwood]

Ah yeah, plus I guess muh-mor-peh-guh rolls off the tongue a lot better than em-em-oh so it was bound to catch on eventually.

 

[Riobux]

Ive been coming to the site for awhile now but recently signed up to post.. anyway.. a gripe I have here on these boards is how it seems almost everyone says MMORPG instead of just MMO.. I dont know why it bugs the crap out of me, but it does. I have been playing MMOs since EQ1 came out in 1999 and shortyly after the term was coined everyone I know stopped saying MMORPG and just cutting it down to MMO.

I'm failing to see the redundancy of saying MMORPG instead of MMO. Isn't MMORPG a subcategory of MMO?

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

I fail to see why this matters to most gamers. Most recognize both acronyms anyway so it is kind of irrelevant.

 

[sir.rutthed]

There is a difference between the two, though it's more in the way you play than the actual game. MMORPG implies role playing, whereas MMO's are just huge online games with lots of players. TF2 may be considered an MMO, but not an MMORPG. Alternately, if you play WOW on an RP realm, you have every right to call it an MMORPG, since you will spend a good deal of your time role playing with other people. I personally don't give a damn which one you use as long as you understand the distinction, though there really is no difference for the purpose of discussion.

All that is to say: tacos rule.

 

[Judgement101]

MMO=Massive Multiplayer Online
MMORPG=Many Men Online Role Playing as Girls

 

[WorldCritic]

MMO=Massive Multiplayer Online
MMORPG=Many Men Online Role Playing as Girls

Truer words may never be spoken.

 

[SUPA FRANKY]

MMO=Massive Multiplayer Online
MMORPG=Many Men Online Role Playing as Girls

You my freind, made juice come out of my nose. A winner is you!

OT: Ok, so what am I suppose to say? If this is really what gets on your nerves I hate to imagine you would do if some one killed your dog.

 

[fletch_talon]

Ive been coming to the site for awhile now but recently signed up to post.. anyway.. a gripe I have here on these boards is how it seems almost everyone says MMORPG instead of just MMO.. I dont know why it bugs the crap out of me, but it does. I have been playing MMOs since EQ1 came out in 1999 and shortyly after the term was coined everyone I know stopped saying MMORPG and just cutting it down to MMO.

I see it almost as something like saying ATM Machine when infact the M in ATM is for Machine.. or Fed Ex for awhile had a line of Express services that they called Fed Ex Express.. when the Ex in Fed Ex already means Express.. yah.. Federal Express Express

The FedEx and ATM examples you're referring to are tautologies, when two terms are used in conjunction despite having the same meaning. MMORPG does not fall in this category.

For the record, MMORPG makes a hell of a lot more sense than MMO. Massively multiplayer online... what? MMOG would be better, but MMORPG is the best because it actually identifies the genre of the game, not just the fact that it is big and features online multiplayer.