Is being an MMO Gamer more geeky than being an FPS Gamer?

I can only imagine how heated this conversation could get, but I'll bite.

I'd say yes, easily. I'm not saying playing an FPS makes you cool or anything, but hear me out. You play a FPS to...shoot things. Obviously, this is an experience that most of us (in the context of those kinds of games..so I don't mean hunting) will never experience and probably never want to experience. While it might be fun to fend off an alien invasion in a game, I hope I don't really have to do that one tomorrow outside of the game.

MMO's tend to lack real substantive gameplay- people cite the social aspect of the game as the compelling reason to play. So, at least to me, you're giving up social time (all gaming takes this up) to....socialize in a fake world. I think it just raises the question of, "If the main focus of an MMO is the socialization, why not go outside with real people and do it for free?" I'd never ask, "Well, if you really like shooting things in wars, why not go join the military and advocate for your government to invade your neighbor?" There are plenty of good rebuttals to that...but significantly less for the socialization aspect.

i think there both equal because you can get obbsessive fans of each of the genre you know the type who wakes up plays for hours on end.

FPS will give players that adrenaline rush or get them pumped up with situations they may never find themselves in and enjoy that rush they get from it so they will want to play as much as possible.

With MMO you get the same thing an escape from everyday life doing what you like with no actually worries or stress of real life but you get drawn in and this character you created could become your life with such cases posted here about these kids dying of malnutrition just because the parents played WOW non-stop.

Both can appeal to the casual audience or the gamers who are obbsessive and can control themselves in which i mean play the game for fun and some competition online but never taking it to the extreme eg. COD4, Halo, Geow etc. Or just wanting to chat and soclialise meeting new people around the world or doing some quests on games such as WOW or Guild. wars etc.