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"The only difference between programming and games is that games have win conditions."

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What about MMORPGs? Where do they fit in this classification? I’m genuinely curious.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There's predefined goals and rules.

It has win and lose conditions, for example failing a raid.

It can technically be completed even if that takes an insane amount of time and effort. You can therefore fail to complete it.

So you could argue it is a game quite easily. You could also argue it's a set of distinct games within a framework.

But things get a lot more messy with digital games compared to classic games.