Massively multiplayer online role-playing game

Wikipedia, with minor editorial changes, says:

A massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) is a genre of computer role-playing games (CRPGs) in which a large number of players interact with one another in a virtual world. The term MMORPG was coined by Richard Garriott, the creator of Ultima Online, the game credited with popularizing the genre in 1997. As with all RPGs, players assume the role of a fictional character, often in a fantasy world, and take control over many of that character's actions. MMORPGs are distinguished from single-player or small multi-player CRPGs by the number of players, and by the game's persistent world, usually hosted by the game's publisher, which continues to exist and evolve while the player is away from the game. MMORPGs are very popular throughout the world. Worldwide revenues for MMORPGs exceeded half a billion dollars in 2005 and Western revenues exceeded US$1 billion in 2006.

Most people over the age of 40-45see, with greater hostility as you get older, these games as diversions threatening to undermine the foundations of character and society. But with a market this big, could we be missing something. I think we are. They offer tremendous potential for entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship to conduct tests of a product idea. An entrepreneur can develop whole businesses, and if they fail, start another one and see what happens. He then can transfer his ideas to the real world which, I'm sorry to reveal to other boomers, is getting to look more and more like the gamer world.

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