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| MMORPG - Runescape |
What are these & How it relates to online gaming?
MMORPG's (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games) are another way of online gaming with the ability to play with several thousands players within the game with ease. Games such as Runescape, World of Warcraft, Adventure Quest & City of Heroes are world wide MMORPG's allowing players to play for free or pay for membership to enjoy the game more. They are normally quite basic in functionality with the game being mostly controlled by the mouse to click where you want the character to move to and what you want it to do, and then the arrow keys and keyboard to pan the camera and chat to other players.
These types of games having been included on the Internet for over a decade and are largely approved by millions of gamers, they are simple, easy to play and also a flexible gaming experience depending on what the player wants to do, some games have more areas of development than others however they all revolve around their own designed world & storyline and are predominantly set thousands of years ago.
Features:
- Can chat with friends as well as play
- Simple and easy to play
- Easy to understand the rules and guidelines
- Not graphical extensive
- Can be played worldwide at any location ensuring a network connection is there
- Doesn't need high end hardware
- No downloads or software needed
- Can be played for free or paid for
- Works directly in the browser
- If game servers go down, the game cannot be played
- Worldwide players may cause Internet lag
- Lots of advertisements in place
These features allow users to quickly log into their accounts straight from a browser window, full screen mode is available however is not required like other installed games would want. These games don't pose many drawbacks however they do have a few which need to be addressed.
