Autumn 2007

Playing in virtual worlds

Imagine a world which does not physically exist and yet which has an economy that is larger then many small countries.

03 March 2009

This world has its own population, politics, clubs, societies, professions and industries – just like any country in the real world.

Welcome to Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games, or simply MMORPG. They are internet based computer games, each game hosting multiple worlds or ‘shards’ played by thousands of people. Games vary from fantasies involving the trolls and elves of World of Warcraft, the most popular of the MMORPGs, to the sci-fi universe of EVE-Online.

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