The MMORPG : The Evolution Of Online Role-Playing Games

Online gaming is big business these days, with thousands of people connected to each other every

There are many threats that CanGo can face by joining online gaming. Cyber security, FCC regulations, and Hardware and software issues are a few that must be addressed. According to Computer Weekly Top Five Threats, security can be grouped in three layers. The first layer is an intrusion prevention system that monitors user traffic. The second layer is the installation of a security management system that will provide anti-virus for the virus and protect against back door entry. The third layer being a thorough assessment of which systems are most open to cyber-attacks. New technologies and ensuring hardware and software can meet the ever changing needs of online gaming will be necessary so that products and services do not become obsolete.

So, I’m going to change things a bit. Instead of just talking about dates and numbers, which can be boring; I’m going to give this a little casual twist. So, in order to start the history let’s get a few facts out of the way. Let’s talk about gamers, mainly because I’ll be using the term a lot; gamers are people who spent a lot of time playing videogames. The Average gamer playing video games has spent twelve years playing them. Adult gamers have an average of fourteen years of playing videogames, guys have an average of sixteen years, and girls have an average twelve years. Speaking of girls did you know that 47% of gamers are girls? I would have never guessed that, but it’s a fact. So, as of 2013 49% of all people who live in The United States owns a console. All of them that own a console have at least two of them. Me, I own eleven… I think I may have a problem. Anyway, now that some of the facts are out of the way let’s start, THE HISTORY OF VIDEOGAMES! Now before I start I want to talk about all the most important events in the history of videogames, as I call them eras. Each era is very important because they shaped the videogames we know and love today.

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What is the cause of addiction(s)? An addiction is cause by a person’s psychological habit that got developed into the person’s mental and physical condition, in which a person is unable to take control. The reason why people develop an addiction is because they have psychological, emotional, and interpersonal problem that they don’t want to deal with, so they find alternative ways to avoid the problems. Some people turn to drugs as a way to escape reality, but the majority of the people turn to the virtual online world to escape from their psychological, emotional, and interpersonal problem. A virtual online game that is currently popular for people to escape their psychological, emotional and interpersonal problem would be a game called World of Warcraft. World of Warcraft is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game(MMORPG), in which player have a vast of task they can do, ranging from exploring areas, fight monsters to level up, quests, interacting and battle with other players to unlocking abilities and spells. World of Warcraft, like many other MMORPG, is a highly addicting game. The reason for that is because there are always new things to do, there are a lot of people to socialize with, and it is a place where a person can go to escape from reality. World of Warcraft, get people addicted by creating habit(s) to their consumer causing them to want to play regularly. In the book, The

Online multiplayer games which run at real-time encapsulate the majority of gaming to-day. With most games on PC and console having competitive matchmaking, and co-operative gameplay. Both cases will involve players interacting with the world. These so

World of Warcraft is the one of the most popular MMOG in the world, produced by Blizzard entertainment. It has over 11 million players around the world – 2.5 million of them in the US. The game is one of the most dominant games in the global market today, which is available in 7 languages and played in all continents, North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia, including South Korea, China, Singapore, Hong Kong and Macau. Despite many scholars believe that “the virtual worlds are always in some basic way the expression of utopian desire” (Monson). WoW is far from a perfect world. In addition to the ethnic discrimination I’ve read about in the reading this semester by Lisa Nakamura, I also realized it involves extreme stereotypes.

In the article, “Hyperconnected,” Nicholas A. Christakis and James H. Fowler discuss the development of identities that are constructed from social networks. They use World of Warcraft to illustrate their main point, which is integrated with logical appeal (Logos) and ethical appeal (Ethos). Certainly, Nicholas and James comprehend that technology has blossom throughout the years, thus leading to the innovation of the printing press, the television, and the Internet, components that we depend on a daily-basis. Here they state that “Within this game, people form friendships, have sustained interactions as groups, communicate using instant messaging, collaborate to achieve shared goals, engage in economic transactions, and fight

[2] A career choice related to networking, and massive multiplayer online games (MMOs), is an application software developer. A software developer develops and programs the applications for people to use on their computers or other devices, games would be an example of what an application software developer would make. Furthermore, they also run and control the networks that people use.

Gaming community is a type of community whose members have a common interest. Gaming community is contrary to social communities where members may exhibit different interests. Over time, computer games have grown contributing greatly to the growth of online gaming communities. In this regard, these gaming communities may be divided into two; game specific community and general gaming community (Ahmed, 2010). Game-specific communities mainly focus on a particular single game. Everything in this community is specific to that particular single game. Therefore, discussions in these forums tend to be more specific and related to a particular game. On the other hand, general gaming community encompasses various games in one forum. This type of the gaming community tends to attract many members who can then engage on a general discussion on various games. In this kind of communities, it is also common to find demo games presented before the real game is played. With time passing on, the number of gaming community members is increasing throughout the world (Herald, 2014).

Internet gaming is one of the most common problem of which many people around the globe are facing in their daily lives. Addiction, one of the serious problems with internet gaming have caused severe changes to their behavior and attitude to life. Majority of teenagers and

A virtual world is a computer-based online community environment that is designed and shared by individuals so that they can interact in a custom-built, simulated world. Users interact with each other in this simulated world using text-based, two-dimensional or three-dimensional graphical models called avatars. Avatars are graphically rendered using computer graphics imaging (CGI) or any other rendering technology. Individuals control their avatars using input devices like the keyboard, mouse and other specially designed command and simulation gadgets. Today's virtual worlds are purpose-built for entertainment, social, educational, training and various other purposes. All virtual worlds possess the qualities of persistence and interactivity. This enables the

This research attempts to identify if any, a relationship between playing multiplayer online games and developing communication like skills. Online multiplayer video games involve thousands of players all over the world who may play solo, in teams, or with one other player. To begin the study, a survey will be created in order to gather information on the communication skills of collaborative gaming individuals. The survey will have subjects answer different questions regarding their communication behavior during videogame playing. In addition the number of years that a subject has played a particular video game or participated in online video gaming will also be gathered. The reason why using surveys is the method of choice for this study

Development in technology brings many things that people don't have many years back. One of these things is online gaming that is provided by the internet.

Information technology is now ubiquitous in the lives of people across the globe. These technologies take many forms such as personal computers, smart phones, the internet, web and mobile phone applications, digital assistants, and cloud computing. In fact the list is growing constantly and new forms of these technologies are working their way into every aspect of daily life. In some cases, such as can be seen in massive multiplayer online games (see section 2.1.1 below), these technologies are even opening up new ways of interacting with each other. Information technology at its basic level is technology that records, communicates, synthesizes or organizes information. Information can be understood