User:Chotima/Homework4

1.What are MMOGs and how do they differer from regular video games?

AnS:MMOGs or Massively multiplayer online role-playing game is a genre of computer role-playing games in which a very large number of players interact with one another within a virtual game world. Things that make MMOGS different from other games is that the MMOG share characteristics that make them different from other multiplayer online games. MMOGs create a persistent universe where the game continues playing regardless of whether or not anyone else is. Since these games strongly or exclusively emphasize multiplayer gameplay, few of them have any significant single-player aspects or client-side artificial intelligence. As a result, players cannot "beat" MMOGs in the typical sense of single-player games.

2.Would there be stresses in living in a virtual world?

AnS: No, i think they wouldn't be any stressed as the money that we loose in the game is not a real money so there is nothing to worry about and it is just a game that provied us an entertainment not stress. Moreover, we can meet some new friends and chat together. We can sell items in the game and change into a real money. Somehow we can get stress if we paly the game seriously, like put pressure on yourself and try to collect the items for selling.

3. Look at e-bay and see what is being sold from secondlife and other on-line game forum. Is the economy from these games real?

AnS: The products that people sell on the ebay site are second life game bundle, killer guide, building guide and etc.For other game online people also trade the game items using real money.The ecomony from these game is real. Acoording to the research, the second life online game have people trading the game items for more than 1.8 million dollar per day, this led the second life economic so complicated and the secondlife money is fluctuate as like in the real world. On this present day, 1USD$ is eaqual to 200-200L$.