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Homework 4

1. What are MMOGs and how do they differer from regular video games? Ans. A massively multiplayer online game (also called MMOG) is a video game which is capable of supporting hundreds or thousands of players simultaneously. By necessity, they are played on the Internet, and feature at least one persistent world. They are, however, not necessarily games played on personal computers. Most of the newer game consoles, including the PSP, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Nintendo DSi and Wii can access the Internet and may therefore run MMO games. 2.Would there be stresses in living in a virtual world? Ans. At first people might think that a virtual world would be good, but actually they don't realize that their virtual world is not real. They forget about their real world and depend on the virtual world. Virtual world games will cause them addiction and make them stress when they look at themselves in real life. 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 economy for these games are real. There are many people that are into these games and want to be the best at it. For example trading real money with money in the game. People that do this have their own little world where they control themselves in the game and pretend it is real.