What is Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG)

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This game type connects thousands of players (usually via the Internet) within a persistent virtual world. This term can connote all massive multiplayer games, but game experts use it specifically to describe MMO games that do not contain a role playing component. Learn more in: The Virtual Social Continuum Expressed: Interaction and Community Formation in MMORPGs

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A game that provides a persistent environment in which large numbers of players can play and interact together. Learn more in: Social Psychology and Massively Multiplayer Online Learning Games

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Networked online games which can be played on different platforms (e.g., computers and cell phones) by players from around the world. Learn more in: Multiplayer Online Game Research: Navigating an Unreal-yet-Real Terrain

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A type of computer game that enables hundreds or thousands of players to simultaneously interact in a game world they are connected to via the Internet. Typically this kind of game is played in an online, multiplayer-only persistent world. Some MMOGs are played on a mobile device (usually a phone) and are thus mobile MMOGs or MMMOGs or 3MOGs. (Wikipedia, 2007b) Learn more in: Enhanced Interaction in Mixed Social Environments