An ad for Dungeons and Dragons virtual gameFor the beginners in online gaming, MMORPG stands for massively multiplayer online role-playing games. It is a virtual gaming world that a very large amount of players participate in at the same time. Most of the games are fantasy related but not all of them are based on fictional settings. The player controls the characters actions among many other virtual players. MMORPG’s are different from RPG’s (its predecessor role-playing games) because the game’s publisher usually hosts the game on a server, so the game persists and evolves even while a player is offline or away from the keyboard (AFK). These games are played worldwide on a simultaneous level. In 2008 MMORPG pay to play games brought 1.4 billions dollars in revenue. The most popular games have up to 11.5 million subscribers alone. It is a fast growing industry that is attracting many newcomers.
