Timeline for Why are FPS teams called "clans"?
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| May 12, 2015 at 15:21 | answer | added | radwar | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 10, 2015 at 6:38 | vote | accept | congusbongus | ||
| Mar 4, 2015 at 8:58 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/TheArqade/status/573044887773454336 | ||
| Mar 4, 2015 at 8:17 | comment | added | zamnuts | In Novalogic's Delta Force series (including DF1), we call them squads (dfbarracks source, novahq source). In fact, the term clan is frowned upon. | |
| Mar 4, 2015 at 4:30 | comment | added | Tyler Durden | I remember when that first happened. It came from some pretty obscure game that had a brief popularity. I will try to find out what it was. | |
| Mar 4, 2015 at 3:10 | comment | added | user101016 | I believe clans extend to RTS too. Guilds tend to have more of a story behind them, an identity if you wish, that fits in directly with the nature of RPGs. Clans are more a collection of people just out to beat another team/clan competitively. | |
| Mar 4, 2015 at 0:31 | comment | added | congusbongus | @MooingDuck I don't understand why I should not imply the FPS/clan correlation. To reiterate, in my experience most FPS teams are called clans, but many non-FPS games also use the word clan. In fact, I know of no FPS game which doesn't call them clans; Doom, Quake, Half life, Halo, CoD... | |
| Mar 4, 2015 at 0:19 | answer | added | user6789 | timeline score: 17 | |
| Mar 4, 2015 at 0:16 | comment | added | Mooing Duck | I didn't mean they were interchangeable in a single game, sorry to be unclear on that. But I don't think clan is the usual choice for FPS either. Your question is a good one, I just think you should remove the implication that there's a correlation between "clan" and FPS. (Of course, I could be entirely mistaken. Wikipedia implies you're right, that more FPS use "clan" and other genres use other terms) | |
| Mar 3, 2015 at 23:52 | comment | added | congusbongus | @MooingDuck I didn't say they were restricted to the FPS genre. Read the question carefully. Also, I'm not aware of any specific games where the two are actually interchangeable, usually in one game, they are all called clans or guilds, not both. Clan just happens to be the usual choice for FPS games, guild in (some) RPGs and so on. | |
| Mar 3, 2015 at 23:30 | comment | added | Mooing Duck | I think you're mistaken, I know many games that use the word "clans", none of which are FPS games. I think "guild" and "clan" are used more or less interchangeably. | |
| Mar 3, 2015 at 23:12 | history | asked | congusbongus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |