That's a mouthful!

Perhaps I should have guessed. Once you get used to it, MMORPG.COM becomes a rather obvious acronym, though at first glance it seems rather daunting, even threatening. When you realize (or discover) that MMORPG stands for:

Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games

you realize that you've come to what seems to be the right place. But somehow, right place or not, something seems amiss. Registration is necessary in order to enter the chat rooms, and when registering you're requested to check which of the games interest you. The list is rather massive, over fifty games that have been released, and more than an additional fifty either in development or Beta testing. MMORPG.com let's us know that it has the goods. On the page that lists all the games they tell us:

This is a continually updated list of all MMORPG games known to be released or in production - to the very best of our knowledge. If you see an error or a game missing, please let us know so that we can update our list.

But among those more than 100 games, seven are listed as history, three as real life, one each as horror and superhero and all the rest either fantasy (though not fantasy baseball) or science fiction. Somehow you get the impression that there are lots of games out there, but that they're pretty much all the same. And apparently not all that interesting, either. As one reviewer of one game puts it:

It starts off great... plenty of entertaining story and training. Insightful missions. Great graphics causing many to just want to explore... But hold on to all that for as long as you can because once you get to the depth of the game, it's all about monotony so thick you'll be bringing a book along to every login to read in between trips across the universe. I strongly recommend this for anyone looking to catch up on a new book, or get their homework done while playing.

suggesting that, well, you might as well stay home.

Go to: It's all in the game.