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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jdrakeh" data-source="post: 3712486" data-attributes="member: 13892">That's exactly the double-standard I'm talking about. You and others are claiming that the DI (and, by extension, D&D4e) is a MMORPG because it allows one to play a tabletop RPG online. My point was that, using this rationale, all   tabletop RPGs are MMORPGs because that option has existed for them since the year 2000. People, yourself included, are pigeonholing the DI as an MMORPG because it presents an option that has long been available for all tabletop RPGs.The DI providing the option to play D&D 4e online makes it an MMORPG? Fine. But you can't sit here and claim that while also claiming that OD&D, AD&D, etc aren't MMORPGs, because that same option has existed for them since the year 2000 (this is when WebRPG was first released). Why are the DI and D&D4e MMORPGs while GRIP and Traveller aren't? Or OpenRPG and Champions? Hmmm? If anything, the DI is playing catch-up to pre-existing technology so this whole "OMG! They're turning D&D into a MMORPG!" argument doesn't carry much weight with anybody who has had an internet connection in the last decade. It's a deliberately offensive knee-jerk response to D&D4e designed to categorize those looking forward to the new edition as something 'less than' the exaggerated stereotype of the traditional gamer. Let's call it what it is -- TROLLING <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>

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