To call any of these facebook games MMO's is a real stretch.  All I got out of the article was a good chuckle at the attempt to rationalize how their might be construed as MMO's.  Your arguments were for naught, they just fell flat on their face.

Originally posted by DarkPony

Originally posted by Elikal

Never. Won't ever touch any Facebook games again. Their policy to own your data creeps me out.

 

I fourth this.

 

fifth.... one of the biggest complaints is.. that when you tick the 'allow' box when it prompts you for any of the games.. it gives them access to.

a. Your name

b. your age

c. your friends list

d. your email address

e.. and if your really stupid and put in your real location.. they now know where you live..

all of these are worth money to the right people (ie.. the wrong people) ... feeling paranoid.. you bet...which is why i don't play games on facebook!

To call any of the games on FB MMO's is really blurring the definition of what an MMO really is all about. While these games may be reasonable VERY VERY casual games, they are also pretty simplistic. Graphics are very simple. Game mechanics are very simple. They are designed to be more like an introductory game or even a games for small kids. I played a good number of these games and after a couple of months they ALL become boring and just time consuming wastes without any real entertainment value.

Def intrested in seeing the directions that games are taking.  Sticking your heels in the mud will just relegate you to stagnant experiences.  Not that I don't go back and play my NES games from time to time...  I'm about to head into Gurugu Volcano.

Self titled "Old Auntie Gamer" claiming FB games are MMO's?  Check.

Facebook games, good for dicking about on while your at work.

Would I ever give them money? No.

Would I ever play them instead of a real game? No.

Do I want them infecting the developers we have today (see money grubbing bastards)? No.

I started using Facebook a little over two years ago and got caught up in the games for awhile (most notably Mafia Wars).  For awhile I spent quite a few hours a day (very often 12+) playing dozens of FB games simply because I was between MMOs.  I finally said enough is enough and quit all of them.  As for these new 'MMOs', they are NOT MMOs for the regular gamer.  They're only saving grace is that they introduce gaming to millions of people who would otherwise never consider it and many of them eventually make the transition to the mainstream games, MMOs included.

I too got tired of all of the invites, gifts, and constant bombardment with dozens of apps' announcements from hundreds and thousands of other players (my friends list was nearing 2,000!).  I stopped using FB for that reason for close to six months.  When I went back again, I used the settings to remove and block all of them from my account.  Now my FB is a collection of family, friends & acquaintences (I'm in the process of weeding out my still 1500+ friends list) along with 'Liked' pages of the games, companies, and pasttimes that interest me.  It's useful and enjoyable now.  I even set up an account for my main EVE character (who is also my EVE Blog face) where I have connections to the CCP devs and employees and other EVE players, and all of this is tied to my Twitter account (again using my EVE main), and my Google account with my Blogger EVE blog. 

Facebook and Twitter CAN be both useful networking tools and enjoyable socializing tools without compromizing your personal security and data if you use a little bit of caution and common sense.  Being paranoid about Facebook in this day and age is just ridiculous.  If you use the internet, your info is out there.  Period.  Every big name - MSN & Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, just to name a few - all do the same thing Facebook does.  They just do it a bit more quietly and a lot less efficiently.

Never seen a facebook app that was not some form of fishing for info from you... trying to get you registered on something...

Last time I installed a B-Day notifyier... it did not notify me of anything... instead it posted on my behalf on people's wall when their B-Day came up... videos and crap like that... and the only way I found out was because someone gave it a thumbs up...

The iPhone is too restrictive on Apps... but look at what happens when you got 0 review... the 2% decent apps get drowned in a sea of dirty marketing info fishing apps...

Any game that has to be showcased on Facebook to get an audience is going to be low budget sh*te designed for totally clueless MMO noobs.

The only good point I can see in any of this tripe is it may create the impetus for some of these people to have a look at proper MMO gaming.

~Wolf

Believe it or not just being logged into the internet you are most likly tranfering more data on yourself than you relize just saying.

Im sorry its hard to read the original post...cant see past all the tin hats blocking my view...and my cell reception sucks too now.

On topic, it WAS once said that an MMO has to have a persitent world to be considered an MMO.  But that was a tag put on by the community and nothing at all in the term MMORPG, or MMO in general describes this.  Just like, well everything, stuff changes, adapts, evolves, becomes somthing different. Only the ingnorant see change as a joke and tries to their dying breath to defend the "old way".  There was a certain period in US history that this was huge..."this is how its always been done, so why change it?"  

So yes, i guess you can assume that some of these games can be considered MMO's cause they fit the very loose meaning of what an MMO is.  Just because people who play client based MMO's dictate somthing, does not make it true for everyone else.

As for all the facebook consiracy theorists.  I use facebook to keep up with my friends around the country, being Military i move alot.  I dont get viruses, i dont get hacked.  Companies out there have far more information on me then facebook can ever hope to get me to volunteer.  Its the digital age, i guarentee if you have lived past the age of 18, your Name, age, birthdate and most likely address is already is being sold in some sort of Info Market. Get over yourselves.

BTW i play MMO's.

Key Note: MMOs have PERSISTENT WORLDS!!! Farmvill doesnt. World is Instanced. more of a Diablo clone if you can call it that

LoL. Where does the word "Farmville" show up in my write-up?  Yes, all of them are synchronous multiplayers with persistent worlds. More simplistic? Definitely. Open worlds you can run around in and meet other people?  Yup.  Instancing? Dungeons - like current MMOs as well.

Old Auntie Gamer?  Oh yes.  Since M59 children.  Since Meridien 59.

I find it funny that roughly 65% of the paranoid people here think the government cares about their porkchops or girl/boyfriend making them sad.

Let alone the photos of them getting way drunk.

Yeah guys the shadow forces are really after you for that. Get real.

There are "strategies" (Conspiracy theories) and there are just plain craziness.

Facebook and the world really doesn't care if you think you are too fat or your mom won't let you go to the concert. That being said as a hobbiest to games I've tried a few on facebook 90% suck.

The other 10% do not need facebook to play, browser mmo's.

Facebook games will be more of the "create and release, ok our work is done, on to the next project' variety.

Which is fine if you like games that basically will never have new features.

Facebook is a social place thus it has a huge number of user, ok this is the point the game company looking for, defenitely they never allowed themselves miss this heaven....so they put games on facebook. But for me, I'd ranther find games on web site like mmorpg than facebook. fb is a place where to find friends but not games...

Most FB games I have tried or seen are just inventing new ways of rapidly wearing down your left mouse button. Utterly pointless games, never gonna touch them again and I touch FB as little as possible too.