Are multiplayer online games more compelling, more addictive?
Hey there,
Millions of gamers today are currently hooked to multiplayer online games. The most important reason being –
Majority of the players wants a competitive gaming experience and thanks to these games, gamers can compete with live players and not with a preset piece of code.
As all of us know it is very hard to predict a human behavior especially in gaming, this makes the multiplayer gaming even more challenging and interesting.
I am a big follower of multiplayer online games and play them at a number of portals.
By Gregory M. Lamb | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor When “World of Warcraft,” a new multiplayer online computer game, came out last November, Trevor Maltbie bought it immediately. Through the winter and into the spring, the 16-year-old high school student in Ipswich, Mass., played it more and more. By summer, with school in recess, he was playing up to 15 hours a day. “It got to be embarrassing,” he says. “It got addictive. It’s a pretty addictive game.” Trevor’s mother, Jan, became concerned. “He was putting every spare minute into it,” she says. But then, as summer gave way to fall, Trevor started his junior year of high school and began a part-time job. He decided he needed to cut way back. Now he plays at most a few hours a week. “He seems to finally have gotten bored with it,” Mrs. Maltbie says with relief. That ability to quit seems true for the majority who play “World of Warcraft” and other MMORPGs, short for Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games. Most
