Introduction to MMORPGs

MMORPG is short for Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game. MMORPGs are client-
server model games in which players, running the client software, are engaged in the game
world through a player-customized character an avatar. The game provider or publisher hosts
through a server the persistent, or virtual, world that these players inhabit. A world-wide stream of players constantly interacting with this ever-changing virtual world, always available for play, mark the principle characteristic of the Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game.