Massively Multiplayer Online Solitude

March 15, 2008

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Remember when a massive multiplayer gaming experience consisted of your system, a couple controllers or a mouse, and a few buddies sleeping over for the weekend?

I do, pretty fondly in fact. But today’s idea of multiplayer has become much different.

These days you have MMORPGs like World of Warcraft with a subscriber count in the millions, demographics all over the place, and concurrent online user counts that put your multi-tap parties to shame. [Read more]