User talk:Art

Hi,

My name is Phuchit Thanabodeekij. You can call me Art. Now, I'm 19 years old. I have one brother and two sisters. I'm a BBA student, and my major is finance. My favourite activities are watching movies, listening to musics, and playing sports with my friends. Moreover, I also love to play with my pets in my leisure time. I'm not really good in computer so much,actually, I had learned some Flash and Photoshop in my high school, but I completely forget it. Now, I just know about basic programes I have to use in my daily life such as Microsoft word, Power point, Internet explorer, and BitTorrent. In this term, I have to learn Flash, and I just know that it is the application that create basic animation. I think it is very interesting. After this class, I sure that I will get more computer skills.

Phuchit Thanabodeekij(Art) 5180466 Art 03:08, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks and glad to have you in class. --Icns141 14:16, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Homework4
1.What are MMOGs and how do they differer from regular video games? MMOG is Massive Multiplayer Online Game. It is the game that a large number of people can play together at the same time (about hundred of thousands). MMOGs create a persistent universe through a huge computer network. Moreover, each player will have their own character, avatar. To support all those players, MMOGs have large-scale game worlds and servers to connect players to those worlds. MMOGs usually have sharded universes which a universe is copied onto different servers for separating players to provide a server load solution. Other games may have a single universe separated among servers which requires players to switch.

There are some common differences between MMOGs and other online games. MMOGs can support thousands of players online at the same time. On the other hand, Non-MMOGs, such as Battlefield 1942 or Half-Life have the maximum only 50 online players (per server). Players of MMOGS have to pay a monthly or bimonthly fee to have access and play in online servers. Furthermore, the server of MMOG are rarely resets which means that every thing players gained today will still the same tomorrow when the player logs back on. MMOGs often have communities by creating clans and guilds which members can participate in activities with one another and show the symbols of clan or guild.

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

I think there is no stress in MMOG, even though, the players seem to have other lives in the game or we can call “avatar.” However, every thing that happens to these avatars will not affect the players such as painfulness, sadness, or depression. The players just control their avatars and do what they want. Therefore, I think MMOG provide artificial world that players can enjoy happy with the freedom and the community in the game.

'''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?'''

The economy of this game is absolutely real because people can make money from this game. Many people exchange real money with new clothes (US $ 6-10 ), rare items, second life lindens (US $24.88 for 5,000 lindens), and new characters. The stuff from secondlife are widely sold in both e-bay and others online forum.

Phuchit T. 5180466

Art 08:10, 23 January 2010 (UTC)