Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game

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Massive(ly) Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG) is a genre of online role-playing video games (RPGs) in which a large number of players interact with one another in a virtual world.

As in all RPGs, players assume the role of a fictional character (most commonly in a fantasy setting)^[1] and take control over many of that character's actions.^[2] MMORPGs are distinguished from single-player or small multi-player RPGs by the number of players and with a set of common global themes, such as global economic systems & global communications systems, it can also be noted that many MMORPGs are sandboxes, that make the players take thier own direction in the game, rather that having a preset storyline such as with many RPGs.

^ Tobold (2003). "What IS a MMORPG actually?". Tobold's MMORPG Blog. Retrieved 2007-04-01. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |day= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
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[MMORPG?-2] Cite error: The named reference MMORPG? was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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