<ul><li>New World marketing department has tried to brand it as anything other than an MMORPG.</li><li>Marketing departments try to avoid MMORPG as a term to sell games to The Average Gamer.</li><li>It's ridiculous to assume you can trick people into playing a game by calling it something else.</li><li>If a video game requires an online connection, involves playing with lots of other people in a shared world and has a persistent landscape, it's going to be realized as an MMORPG.</li><li>Marketing teams try to set different expectations for the future of the game than what they are initially.</li><li>Sometimes words are used to define not what the game is but what it is expected to be.</li><li>Calling the game a one-time purchase ARPG will be enough to keep everybody satisfied.</li><li>People are trying to make the best of an awkward situation with some creative marketing when they have nothing but bad options.</li><li>When Amazon says New World is something other than an MMORPG, it doesn't really mean the game as it exists has changed.</li><li>It's simply signaling that it doesn't plan to support the game with MMORPG-tier content the way MMORPG fans expect.</li></ul>

Vague Patch Notes: The ridiculous marketing doublespeak around MMORPGs

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