>RPG I know, but what is MMO?
>

Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game. Like Everquest.

So MMORPG could actually be vague to where Half-Life and Ultima Online would
fit in that category?

I WANT HALO!!!

"MathU41" <mathu41@aol.com> wrote in message
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> >RPG I know, but what is MMO?
> >
>
> Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game. Like Everquest.

>So MMORPG could actually be vague to where Half-Life and Ultima Online would
>fit in that category?
>
>I WANT HALO!!!

Ultima Online is one, yes. Half-Life isn't. It's not 'massively' multiplayer
(100+, at the least), and is a FPS (First Person Shooter), not an RPG. Halo
would fit in the multiplayer FPS category with Half-Life, CounterStrike,
various Quakes, and Unreal Tournament, UT2k3, and UT2k4, and of course the
smaller names. I'm not clear on Neverwinter Nights. Never played it or saw it
up close. I know it's an RPG, but not sure if it's actually 'massively'
multiplayer.

"MathU41" <mathu41@aol.com> wrote in message
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> >RPG I know, but what is MMO?
> >
>
> Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game. Like Everquest.

I guess I can count my lucky stars that I don't see the point of those type
of games. I'll take a good first person shooter any day of the week, thank
you very much.

From what I understand, they are not only addictive and all-consuming, but
also, for some reason unknown to me, expensive as hell(??? why is that? I
keep hearing about ebay auctions for everquest stuff...). I've already got
ONE expensive hobby, thank you very much.

--
Jeff Goslin - MCSD - www.goslin.info
It's not a god complex when you're always right

> From what I understand, they are not only addictive and all-consuming, but
> also, for some reason unknown to me, expensive as hell(??? why is that? I
> keep hearing about ebay auctions for everquest stuff...). I've already
got
> ONE expensive hobby, thank you very much.

Let's sort this out so you can answer your own question:

>expensive as hell(??? why is that?

>they are...addictive and all-consuming

"J. Hoyt" <nospamdbhoyt@nb.sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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> Let's sort this out so you can answer your own question:
>
> >expensive as hell(??? why is that?
>
> >they are...addictive and all-consuming
>
>

Something may be addictive and all consuming without being expensive. My
question is really this: what about these games costs exorbitant amounts of
money? I can understand a connect fee to play, something like a monthly
fee, something like that. But beyond that, I just don't understand what
people spend their money on with respect to these games. I hear of people
actually buying stuff *inside* the game, buying digital things, like
characters and whatnot. I kind of thought the point of the game was to PLAY
the game, rather than BUY the game. But hey, that's just me.

--
Jeff Goslin - MCSD - www.goslin.info
It's not a god complex when you're always right

Jeff Goslin wrote:
>
> Something may be addictive and all consuming without being
> expensive. My question is really this: what about these games
> costs exorbitant amounts of money? I can understand a connect fee
> to play, something like a monthly fee, something like that. But
> beyond that, I just don't understand what people spend their money
> on with respect to these games. I hear of people actually buying
> stuff *inside* the game, buying digital things, like characters and
> whatnot. I kind of thought the point of the game was to PLAY the
> game, rather than BUY the game. But hey, that's just me.

Most of the games can be played with only a fee to connect to the
appropriate server. However, people always want their characters
to be special and different. Some servers offer ways inside the game
to customize one's character beyond what the ordinary game engine will
allow (for a fee, of course). People who get addicted to these types
of games are all about customization, even for a price.

Then, you've got the folks who want to short-circuit the system and
have a kick-ass character without putting in any time or effort.
That's a lot of what you see on Ebay... folks sell their high level
characters to the greedy "want it now" masses. They build up a
powerful character, sell the access and password on Ebay for a
price, start a new character, rinse, repeat.

It's bizarre and somewhat sad... could be worse though. At one point
(and for all I know it's still the case) one could play collectible
card games online and buy "packs" of digital cards. You're paying
cash for collectible zeros and ones that you don't even have in your
own possession... they're stored on the game server.

BJJB

In article <s1Qvc.778$uX2.729@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.ne t>,
"-=GriFter=-" <speeder25NOSPAM@NOSPAMhotmail.com> wrote:

> I know that we have a couple gamers in here so I was just wondering if
> anyone has picked up this game yet (http://www.cityofheroes.com/)? This is
> the first MMORPG that I'm actually thinking about buying and paying to play
> just because it soulds pretty kick ass. More than likely I'll wait to pick
> it up untill the City of Villains extension comes out for it and hopefully I
> can pick up both as a package deal.

If you aren't already reading:

http://www.pvponline.com/archive.php3?archive=20040531

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