In other words, you can lose even if you play perfectly, because someone else screwed up. Finally, the team-based aspect of the game can make victory a dicey proposition depending on the game and the situation, just a single Leeroy Jenkins can result in death for all forty of his teammates. Gotta Catch Em All is a big part of the genre's addictiveness: there's often a wide variety of Side Quests the player can choose to achieve, and pursuing them will often bring the player's character all the way up to maximum level. Of course, get too un-fun and people stop playing, so MMOs are constantly figuring out ways to give you little achievements that keep you interested (to the point of allegedly employing "Skinner Box" operant conditioning techniques to keep you playing). Furthermore, because an MMO company's livelihood is in those monthly subscriptions, it's in their best interests to make the game as draggingly slow, nitpicky, indirect or tedious as possible. While free-to-play MMOs do exist, they often contain reduced content, or restrict certain features to people who are willing to pay. Nonetheless, the whole ongoing-fee thing does rankle gamers who are just getting into the genre for the first time. And some people find 16 hours a week to be a slow pace. The math does line up if you bought (say) Tales of Symphonia at $50 when it came out and then played it for 50 hours, all you need to do is play your MMO at least 15 hours a month to keep up the same monetary efficiency. Having said that, you're paying a monthly fee, anywhere from $10 to $15, for this game. There's even a bit of an industry grown up around it, where people pay real money for in-game objects, currency or even characters some companies discourage this, while others facilitate it or even make it part of their own economic model by selling such things themselves. Innumerable friendships, both online and in Real Life, have started or been maintained via MMO games. The competition between "Guilds" (player-organized adventuring parties) can get heated ( just a little), and there's always one more boss to kill or piece of loot to collect. Player" zones where duels or team matches can take place. MMORPGs provide quests or dungeons which can take dozens of allied adventurers at once (and bosses that require them), or " Player vs. Now imagine 40-a-side soccer, 'cuz MMOs can do that. It creates the possibility of team-based gameplay elements as anyone can tell you, playing a soccer video game by yourself, with only the AI as company, is not nearly as fun, spontaneous or challenging as having friends over. Mumorpugers add a social and collaborative element to standard gaming, which obviously alters the experience. EverQuest would pave the way for which a great majority of the games listed below owe their conceptual existence to, though elements of the MMORPG are Older Than They Think, since they can be traced back to Dungeons & Dragons. While games like Meridian 59 and Ultima Online kept the genre alive throughout the 90s, it wasn't until 1999 that EverQuest put the entire genre on the map by introducing a gigantic and deeply fleshed-out fully 3D world for players to explore from a first person or third person perspective. Eventually, sprite-based graphics were introduced in 1991 with Don Daglow's Neverwinter Nights ( not to be confused with the traditional computer RPG of the same name by Bioware). The MMORPG has its roots in text-based Multi-User Dungeons (MUDs) and Multi-User Shared Hallucinations (MUSHes) originating in the mists of time. Most of these games are "pay-for-play", with gamers registering an account with their copy of the game and buying play time in monthly increments. The Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, or MMORPG is, as the name suggests, a roleplaying game with hundreds, thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of players all connected through the Internet.
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