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newbie - what's it all about?

  • 21-04-2004 4:31pm
    #1
    dynamic.ie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 135 ✭✭


    Hi,

    Someone mentioned Massively Multiplayer games to me recently but didn't know much about them. Found this on boards and hoping someone can point me to a newbie topic or something that'll explain the whole thing.

    How many people play at once? What's it all about?

    Sorry for my ignorance but only being playing BF, RTCW, Unreal multiplayers and don't know much about this.

    Thanks in advance,

    Dave


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  • #2
    Hobbes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,264 ✭✭✭✭Hobbes


    MMO games tends to have a player base 100+ although all the games I have played the average tends to be around 500.

    Think of it as a world where nearly all the people in it are players. You need an item, or help you have to find someone to help you. Or you could be hunted or hunt people in the game.

    The majority of the genre tended to be wizards and warriors type game worlds. But in the last few years the genre has expanded a lot. For example a few here play Star wars while I play neocron (cyberpunk world). Also someone just recently is trying a Superhero based game.

    The one thing to note is that these games you have to pay a monthly fee as they have to manage servers which are huge beasts (normally cluster of them). Also the games tend not to remain static. If you left a game for 2-3 months and came back it would more then likely not be the exactly the same kind of game you left. Also new content is always being added.


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