The Dice is an upcoming “MMOFPS” set within the Atomic Coronary heart universe. Developer Mundfish introduced their new sport this previous weekend, together with a slick trailer. It seems to be unimaginable, and I can’t wait to see extra. However, The Dice isn’t an MMO — regardless of what Geoff Keighley stated.
This sport, from what we’ve seen, isn’t any totally different than Warframe, The First Descendant, Dune: Awakening, and Future 2. You may say a number of of those titles are MMOs, however I disagree. The phrase “MMO” has misplaced all that means at the moment. What we’re on the lookout for is large-scale, persistent worlds the place a minimum of lots of of gamers can work together in actual time. All the time-online gameplay alone doesn’t reduce it.
The Dice seems to be extra like an extraction shooter or survival sport, a la Escape from Tarkov. Nobody says that sport is an MMO. And that’s not saying this explicit style is unhealthy, however labeling it an MMO units up the flawed expectations. When builders and publishers throw that phrase round loosely, it misleads the gamers who’re genuinely on the lookout for a deep, social, persistent expertise.
So till we all know extra — particularly about participant counts, world design, and the way interplay works — I detest the at the moment MMO label the sport has. I’m intrigued, and possibly you might be too, however let’s maintain our expectations in examine. The Dice may very well be misbranded to reap the benefits of us ravenous followers of the style.
