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What is MMORPG

Encyclopedia of Multimedia Technology and Networking, Second Edition
Massive multiplayer role-playing games. A genre of online computer role-playing games in which a large number of players interact with one another in a virtual world.
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Latest Trends in Mobile Business
Sumeet Gupta (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-014-1.ch113
Abstract
Since the 1990s, a surge in the popularity and usage of e-commerce has led to the recent emergence of conducting business transactions using handheld mobile devices connected by wireless networks (Andrew, Valacich, & Jessup, 2003). Known as mobile commerce, m-commerce allows for anytime and anywhere commercial transactions. M-commerce is an upcoming technology whereby commercial transactions are made through handheld devices, such as mobile phones and personal digital assistants (PDA), which are connected by wireless networks. The ability to conduct business anytime and anywhere through mobile commerce will remove the space and time constraints on an individual for conducting business. Different kinds of services have since emerged for conducting m-commerce, such as location-based services (LBS) (e.g., mobile advertising), pervasive computing, and mobile gaming. These services allow for conducting not only commerce but also business activities using mobile devices. Mobile business (mbusiness) allows for mainly two kinds of services, namely, push-based and pull-based. Push-based services are initiated by the vendor while pull-based services are initiated by the customer. We will discuss these services in m-business together with their advantages and disadvantages.
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Revisiting MMORPGs in Support of Learning: Changes in the Last Decade
Massive multiplayer online role playing game. An online video role playing game where thousands of users can play together on a single server.
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Addiction in World of Warcraft: A Virtual Ethnography Study
MMORPGs are a type of computer/video game; typically set in a virtual world, where thousands of players can socialise, explore, quest, and game together or even against each other.
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(Self-) Educational Effects of Computer Gaming Cultures
Massively multi-player online role-playing game, such as World of Warcraft (2005, Blizzard Entertainment).
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Internet Addiction in Context
Is the acronym for massive multiplayer online role-playing games, which are online games where a player is able to play with other people all around the world.
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Player Motivation and Understanding Game Dynamics
Massively multiplayer online role-playing game.
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A Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game, in which players interact with other players and non-player characters within a virtual world.
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An acronym for massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) in which a large number of players interact with each other online in a three-dimensional or text-based virtual world.
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Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games as English as a Foreign Language Learning Environments
A massively multiplayer online role-playing game is a video game that takes place in a persistent state world with thousands, or even millions, of players developing their characters in a role-playing environment.
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Designing Elementary Mathematics Games using Effective Mathematics Teaching Practices
A Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game in which a large number of people participate simultaneous.
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A Taxonomy of Online Game Security
A massively (or massive) multiplayer online role-playing game or MMORPG is a multiplayer computer role-playing game that enables thousands of players to play in an evolving virtual world at the same time over the Internet.
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A Review of Research on the Application of Digital Games in Foreign Language Education
A type of network-based role-playing game that frequently incorporates a fantasy narrative.
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Video game genre where a huge number of RPG players are involved.
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