MMORPG's & Online Gaming

[Kyuuketsuki]

[Darwinian]

As for Second Life I absolutely agree with you. As far as I can tell there is no point at all to 'being' there, apart from wandering around looking at virtual scenery.

[theVOID]

[Tiberius]

I'm a Second Life fan, but maybe it's because I've been so long in the game and formed a load of friendships that I wouldn't be able to keep up otherwise. I'm currently building my second house in the game.

The people who own Second Life are earning a lot of money out of it though. In order to get money in the game (other than working for it) you have to buy it through the exchange on the SL website. If you want to host a SL server you must pay them a monthly fee, and given the size of SL, there are a heck of a lot of servers out there (they don't come cheap either).

[leo-rcc]

I'd love to see a GTA MMORPG. See how a lawless civilization breaks down in days.

[theVOID]

That would be sick leo. There once existed an mmo mod for GTA3 on PC.

[Violet]

WoW is great... but maybe that's because there's a point to it. I think my biggest attraction to it is my friends though... It is meant to be a social game after all.

[dry land fish]

I work with online gamers. They come to work and talk about it all the time. They use their code words and call eachother by their gaming names. It's hilarious. I have never been able to get into gaming. Some of us at work make fun of them but we do it to their face of course. I learned something about gaming. I thought that all of the gamers basically played D&D in their parents basements and then went around dressed up as characters all day. Apparently there are different breeds of gamers. I went to school with a couple students who played Magic the Gathering and sadly we all gave them a hard time. The acronyms kill me. Everything is abbreviated in the gaming community.

[Violet]

Of course... nobody is going to say: "There is an alliance priest, hunter, and a warrior entering via tunnel"...

We abbreviate that to: "inc tun". Text messaging on steroids. > . >

[dry land fish]

Do any of you get foam swords and go outside and hit eachother with them? There is a park here where people do that. They dress up and then have battles. There may be a hundred or so people doing it. Used to a friend and myself would go and park in the parking lot and watch them while we smoked pot. It was great entertainment.