What is MMOG?

Everybody, at least once, played some computer game. Computer games in the beginning was single player, then comes multiplayer, and nowadays we have massive multiplayer online games or MMOG for short. In single player game you opposing games AI (Artificial Inteligence), in multiplayer game your opponents are peoples playing in local network, and in mmo games you play against (or with) peoples around the world. From one player to thousands players.

Massive games begining from early days of computer age, but real massive use of massive games :) took place in the end of '90s years of the 20th century.

Main feature of those games are: they are massive, at least one persistent world and there is no an end point.

Brief history

MMO games started in their sub-genre MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Play Game) as MUD (Multi User Dungeon) like Devious MUD (which later turns into RuneScape) and adventure games such as Dungeon and Rogue. Those was pre-commercial games times and that games runs on "prehistoric" PDP-10 in text mode. First graphic MMOG was Air Warrior by Kesmai from 1987(air combat simulation game), and comercial MMOGs gained early acceptance in the late 1980s and early 1990s. As popularity starts to rise, developers applied generic MMO prefix to other computer games genres. Some of them are:

• MMORPG - Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games
• MMOFPS - Massively Multiplayer Online First-Person Shooter
• MMORTS - Massively Multiplayer Online Real-Time Strategy
• MMOTG - Massively Multiplayer Online Tycoon Game
• MMOSG - Massively Multiplayer Online Social Game
• and, of course, many others…

Our competitive nature make this genre very popular and in the years to come it will be more popular, reason is simple: people more likes to play against other people rather than machine's AI.