I know some people that have completely intentionally devoted their life to an MMORPG. They have made a decision to live in the world of their MMORPG. Some might work part time just to support themselves enough so they can pay their bills, eat food, and go plug themselves in. Some people have given up their careers, education, and everything else so that they can go plug themselves in. The MMORPG is their life.

Not quite commendable. Pitiful is more accurate.

What MMO? Ultima Online? Guild Wars? FFXI? Anyway, it's cool. How do they get money though? Online jobs? Or do they play at work? I know people like that too. They're fun to play with I guess, you always win the pvp.

I have played a few different ones. There were 3 different ones that I played for over a month straight each.

The only one I play now is Second Life.
My average log-in is less than once per week.

I used to run one of the most popular and successful businesses in this game, but I sold everything, and took home some sweet profits. When I was making tons of money in the game, I used to play it about 25 hours per day for 9 weeks straight. And again for another 8 weeks straight. It was fun, but very bad for the human body.

Now I log on every once in awhile. I was just conducting pure business, so I never socialized or made friends. I rarely keep in touch with my former employees. When I log in, I just go to discussions once in awhile or hang out at one of the events. Since my I closed my business, the prostitution and strip club business went back into business, and are now thriving. I would like to reopen my business to put a stop to it all, but then it is too much effort.

25 hours a day, huh.

I would like to reopen my business to put a stop to it all, but then it is too much effort.
So you're too lazy to even have a pretend life?

Wow, that's lazy.
A little part of me is impressed.

:confused: What's a MMORGP???

Massive Multi-player Online Role-Playing Game

i play guild wars, i havent logged i nfor a ffew months though, but if you cna play a game 25 hours a day im proud of you! ;)

MMORPG = massive multiplayer online roleplaying game

It's a large, persistant, online world where people can interact, fight monsters, collect loot, etc.

Some of the most popular are Everquest and World of Warcraft.

People will spend real money on eBay to buy the currency used in the game, or spend real money to buy characters, equipment, virtual property, etc.

An economist found that if you play a popular MMORPG and sell what you collect, you can make about $3.50 an hour.
And this is what they're doing in China. They collect virtual stuff and sell it to Westerners. My friend was paying some Chinese company that would have his characters leveld up for him while he was at work or class. He told me that there are warehouses there where the Chinese people spend hours playing for Americans.

So you're too lazy to even have a pretend life?

Wow, that's lazy.
A little part of me is impressed.
Get realy. It's not my fault you are a zombie devoted to a video game.

Massive Multi-player Online Role-Playing Game:bugeye: Uhh, Oh.

Don't forget Lineage. Some idiot in Korea had a heart attack playing that one for 54 hours straight.

...bet he had some cool stuff tho. :(

Me, I prefer RTCW and ET. No accrued benefit from playing constantly, just your own reflexes and wits. And short games.

Is it like the Matrix? The movie?

Is it commendable to devote your life to an MMORPG?
No.

MMORPG = massive multiplayer online roleplaying game

It's a large, persistant, online world where people can interact, fight monsters, collect loot, etc.

Some of the most popular are Everquest and World of Warcraft.

People will spend real money on eBay to buy the currency used in the game, or spend real money to buy characters, equipment, virtual property, etc.

An economist found that if you play a popular MMORPG and sell what you collect, you can make about $3.50 an hour.
And this is what they're doing in China. They collect virtual stuff and sell it to Westerners. My friend was paying some Chinese company that would have his characters leveld up for him while he was at work or class. He told me that there are warehouses there where the Chinese people spend hours playing for Americans.

Americans are outsourcing their MMORPG gaming to China? :eek:

There's a lot of MMOs that aren't made by Americans, like shadowbane.

MMORPG is the entertainment venue of the future. World of Warcraft currently has over 7 million subscribers. MMO's are very addicting. My first MMO was Star Wars Galaxies. Being a Starwars geek, I was fasinated, the in game worlds were exact replica's of their movie counter parts. The ability to purchase Stormtroopers as your gaurds, flying X-Wings, Commanding AT-ST's, participating in an all out water between hundreds of people at once. And the graphics are to the point where the game looks like the movie itself. But unfortunately there's some people who live those games. I call them the uber noobs. These guys will base their entire lives on their characters. And these guys dominate everyone else. And the more they dominate the more they play. Because they're addicted to all the accolades they're recieving by the gamming community. The online gaming world is microcosim of socitey itself. The social ladder is based on who has the most gear. The more gear you have the more you dominate. It's that simple, and everyone is constantly trying to out due on another, I equte it to online chess, because there's alot of skill involved.

People are always making new stategies in MMOs too, like ninja logging.

Do whatever you want with your life. Just don't violate my rights or others.

:bugeye: Uhh, Oh.


Ya, I guess that's why they call them MMORPG's lol

No, It's pathetic. Do something in the real world.

Isn't sitting in your chair playing a game doing something in the real world?

Is it like the Matrix? The movie?
Yes.

I will note this: Anyone who plays MMORPGs "as their life" deserves to have that life taken away.

Seriously, MMORPGS are fun (in limited quantities). But you should consider yourself worth euthanizing is that is "your life", specifically as MMORPGS are some of the most vacuous games on the market.

"specifically as MMORPGS are some of the most vacuous games on the market."
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Wrong. No other game has the social capabilities that mmorpgs have. People get married within game. Have bf/gf relationships.

Then there is the whole Furry Community.

Like gays, there are a community of real life people that like to walk around as humanoid animals, and live their lives as humanoid animals. There is a huge community of people like this. It is easier to do so within a game, than to do so in real life. Unlike gays, where you are the opposite sex trapped in a body. The furries are a animal humanoid trapped in a humans body.

INFANTILES
There are also grown people that want to live their whole lieves like little children. They are little children trapped in the body of an adult. Again, there is a real world community just like the gay community that call themselves, Infantiles. They are people that talk like kids, play like kids, and act like kids. They love being kids.

Both types may have sexual connotations to them, but this is not a necessarily.

Then, there are baby furs. Furries and infantiles mixed together. They run around like cubbies. Child animal people.

Then there are the vapires.


The virtual world has a large community of such people. I have made friends with many such people online. They live within an MMORPG acting out their fantisies.

Why does it not surprise me that you regularly engage in social discourse with the insane?

Why does it not surprise me that you are a racist elitist that does not engage in discourse with everybody equally?

As Absane said, as long as they're not infringing on anyone's rights, it's not as if it should be a crime. But it is very pitiful.

Why does it not surprise me that you regularly engage in social discourse with the insane?

And who are these insane people of whom you speak? People who live in an MMORPG?

Athelwulf:

People who think they are furries, vampires, or toddler furrie vampires.

Haha!

And of course you would think this. :rolleyes:

Yes, being, as it were, sane.