story about MMO

I wanted to post a stories about the development of MMO that was mentioned during Thursday lecture. I just began to wounder what just caused the growing popularity of MMO. In today's gaming culture it seems that MMO has become one of the main stream games despite being fairly young in its age. Here are some reason as to why I think that is the case.  In order to talk about this I will be looking at several different MMO games that I know as an example.

Firstly I think that many MMO games tend to make games more realistic and allow players to explore the new world. what I mean MMO focuses not just on the aspect of fighting but also living in that virtual world. Here I shall take world of Warcraft as an example of this. In this game the players are encouraged to explore the different worlds and players can do other activities other then just fighting. They can trade to other players and They can just explore the areas ignoring the fighting. Unlike other types of games the players are not forced to do just one act. In most racing games for example the player is forced to do just race but with MMO players have choose on what they like to do, just like in real life. Also as it was mentioned by Xinran Zou  in his post, this aspect of MMO has been shown in the anime/light novel called "Sword art online." As in this anime it shows how in the future MMO games can be developed into something that is close to reality. I think many gamers are fascinated on how they can explore on in this new world and try things that were impossible in real life

Secondly I think the reason why MMO is so popular is because of the way people can interact with each other. With the exception of online console games, for the most videogames people often played by themselves alone or with just 2 or 3 friends. With the introduction of MMOs it enabled people across the word, from one side of the globe to another to play with each other. This can be seen through the way most MMOs have some way of forming parties or guilds. I think this aspect was seen as attractive because players enjoyed a chance to meet different people from all around the world while fighting the fictional creatures. this is even more so when computers became a necessary item in the 21th century. Unlike the console, since computers can be used for other then entertainment, more people had the ability to buy the game.

From the consumer's point of view I think these are the reason what makes MMOs so popular these days. For me I think MMOs are quite interesting because of the new possibility that gamers can experience in this new virtual world and meet other person that they could not meet otherwise.