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In-Article Comments

These were two comments in the body of the article that I've moved here. --Beefnut 10:29, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

1. See Westward Journey with over 56 million registered accounts.

2. "Blizzard is taking in approximately 97.5 million dollars a month in subscription costs. ‹The template Talkfact is being considered for merging.› [citation needed]" This isn't true - There is a different subscription model in China which is significantly cheaper. Subscription monthly price multipled by customers can only be done for the European and North American Markets for which their are about 2 million players.

And regardless, any use of a formula to derive financial metrics would be original research unless we can point to a specific source that runs the numbers for us. Tarinth 13:52, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

MMOFPS

Hey I am wondering if this article should contain info on Massive Multi Player First Person Shooters. It seems it would fit in ths catagorie. Billybreaths21 22:30, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

I am afraid not. This article is about MMORPGs, the sub-genre of MMOGs. MMOFPS is another seperate sub-genre of MMOGs. The article about MMOGs already has a mention of MMOFPSs I think. Greeves (talk • contribs) 00:51, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Criticisms

Maybe there should be a criticisms section in the page.

(Game addictive in negative way / players perhaps lonely / socially inept / have difficulty in real world / problems with reality / sad etc.)

Often wikipedia pages have this kind of section, but oddly many of the gaming pages do not. Perhaps many gamers are wikipedia contributors? Perhaps a link or mention of Computer addiction or something along the lines of the "We can't forget" section above?

I think I'm gonna stop vandalising and actually join this place. How long would it take to read every article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.144.43.156 (talk • contribs)

New editors are always welcome. I think that a brief mention of the potential addiction in the Pswychology of MMORPGs section would be useful. To not even mention the potential problem is POV. For now, I have added it to the See also section. Feel free to edit the article constructively, perhaps adding a paragraph to that section (Psychology) and having a link there to the Computer addiction article. By the way, there is no need to add the HTML code for line breaks or most other formatting.
Oh, and with 1.6 million articles, it should only take a few decades to read them all. --Habap 16:46, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Free MMORPG

You have Runescape and Maple Story here. But Silkroad and Rappelz have more success. They should be mentioned. AWP_Lizard

Please see WP:NOT. Wikipedia is not a catalog of things, it is an encyclopedia. We should not be trying to list every example we can come up with, but only those that are notable, or that add important information to the article. If you want to create a list, there are guidelines for that, and you can reference the list from this article. --Bill W. Smith, Jr. (talk/contribs) 19:36, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Silkroad IS notable. It's one of the most played MMORPG, beating Maple Story and barely beating RuneScape. I can understand if you dont want Rappelz on the list (it's has only been out a few months). But Silkroad is one of the most notable MMORPG period. You might think that i'm just a fan and want to get some publicity for the game. But I assure you I'm not a fan of SRO, I hate their camera system. I'm just impressed by the game and truely feel that it should be mentioned. AWP_Lizard

While Silkroad Online is a notable game, this article should not list every example of a type of game, nor should it debate which game has more subscribers. We provide an example for each facet and leave it that way. Wikipedia is not the place to "get some publicity" (aka advertise) for a game. Unless there is some significant aspect of MMORPGs that is only present in SRO, there is no need to list it as an example. --Habap 14:44, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Foreign/Movie MMORPGs

Foreign (mainly asian) MMORPGs have been very compedative in the genre. I believe that they should be mentioned. I.E. MapleStory (korean), Rappelz (korean), Cabal Online (korean), Kal Online (chinese), Hero Online (chinese) and Phantasy Star Online (japanese). There are millions more, but these are the most notable.

Movie adaptation MMORPGs as well: Pirates of the Caribeans Online, Lord of the Rings Online, and Firefly (Serenity) Online. AWP_Lizard

These both sound to me like useful bits to be added to the "Current Trends" section, though if you can find stats on the rise of foreign MMORPGs (say comparative #s of domestic/foreign games produced in a year), and it's far enough back, that would merit a new paragraph in the History section. --Beefnut 17:54, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Listing of all MMORPGs

I know that WoW is the most popular, and Evercrest is the most famous, but there is no mention (unless I am blind, which is a possiblity) of DDO. Dungeon and Dragons is mentioned, as the "father" of all RPG-type games but I think DDO should be mentioned, at least, in this article to imform people the D&D DOES have their own out. After all, DDO has their own page on Wikipedia (as does WoW and others). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Trekkiexb5 (talk • contribs) 20:22, 6 February 2007 (UTC).

This article is not a list of all MMORPGs. See the following articles if you want that:
Thanks for your interest. --Habap 14:00, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Cleanup?!

I noticed that recently Mcfar54 tagged this article for cleanup - how does it need cleanup? Please tell me how it needs cleanup here (as if it actually does, I would like to help clean it up) and please, if possible, replace the cleanup tag with a more specific message. Thanks! Greeves (talk • contribs • reviews) 15:02, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Indeed, that's kind of strange. Although I noticed while browsing the Good Articles Nominations page that someone placed LONG next to the MMORPG article, indicating that perhaps the article is too long (and perhaps that's what the cleanup issue is all about). Mind you though, looking at the article, I don't see how it could be made any shorter without moving information out into new supplementary pages (but that could get messy). Hmmm just did a word count and realised it's ~5,500 words (and that's including lists and footnoes) which is actually below the threshold for a long article (6,000 words) so, I don't get it :/. --Rambutaan 22:15, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
When I nominated it, I placed LONG next to it as according to the GAC page:

"If the article is longer than 32 kB, add '''LONG''' to it."

So we are still left with the issue - how does this article require cleanup? I believe that maybe we should ignore this as Mcfar54 as had but five edits, three in mainspace; I guess that I should have checked into that earlier. Greeves (talk • contribs • reviews) 02:12, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
Yeah I recommend reverting it. The least someone could do if putting it up for cleanup is explaining why they did it. --Rambutaan 05:38, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi. I'm new here, so I'm not good at editing or anything, but Mcfar54 is a guy at my school, and I agree that it would be best to ignore the cleanup tag. -- Wolfgang.0000—Preceding unsigned comment added by Wolfgang.0000 (talk • contribs) 01:56, 27 February 2007

GA Fail

  • There is white space from the lead and th table of contents, remove.
  • Common features - can easily be converted from a list into two paragraphs
  • One sentence paragraphs, there's quite a few and they should be removed, merged or expanded.
  • All Images require fair use rationales - check the licensing tag or the pictures at Halo 2
  • Consistinacy - Silkroad online and Runescape are italicized but Maplestory isn't.
  • References - this article needs lots more. Every paragraph needs one or more references - every claim needs to be backed up a few examples
    • Many MUDs are still active and a number of influential MMORPG designers,
    • The first graphical MMORPG was Neverwinter Nights by designer Don Daglow and programmer Cathryn Mataga (not to be confused with Neverwinter Nights by BioWare).
    • Meridian 59, launched by 3DO in late 1996, was one of the first Internet MMORPGs.
    • It was the most commercially successful MMORPG in the United States for five years,
    • Although it also offered unlimited service for $119.99 per month, until AT&T acquired TSN and rendered it strictly an hourly service. etc etc
  • Psychology of MMORPGs - contains several external links
  • References are inconsistent format - they're missing a title, publisher, access date and author if applicable - {{cite web}} can help here.

Main issues is references, which will take some time, o and don't promote the article as a GA when it isn't. M3tal H3ad 07:03, 1 March 2007 (UTC) t

As the nominator, I'll help finish things up here... we've almost made it to GA! Greeves (talk • contribs • reviews) 22:45, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
I don't like the tone that guy used, but that is mostly constructive advice. I'll get to reference-hunting asap. --Beefnut 23:39, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Checklist for improvement of article

Uncompleted

  • One sentence paragraphs, there's quite a few and they should be removed, merged or expanded.
  • All Images require fair use rationales - check the licensing tag or the pictures at Halo 2
    • Hmmm the original posters of the images will need to be contacted to see if they can write-up fair use rationales I guess... --Rambutaan 00:18, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
      • Okay I've contacted all original posters of the images marked as being a computer game screenshot capped for fair use. I ignored one because it was under GPL. Hopefully we'll hear a response soon. --Rambutaan 01:56, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
  • References - this article needs lots more. Every paragraph needs one or more references - every claim needs to be backed up a few examples
    • Many MUDs are still active and a number of influential MMORPG designers,
    • The first graphical MMORPG was Neverwinter Nights by designer Don Daglow and programmer Cathryn Mataga (not to be confused with Neverwinter Nights by BioWare).
    • Meridian 59, launched by 3DO in late 1996, was one of the first Internet MMORPGs.
    • It was the most commercially successful MMORPG in the United States for five years,
    • Although it also offered unlimited service for $119.99 per month, until AT&T acquired TSN and rendered it strictly an hourly service. etc etc

Completed

Version 0.7 Release Nomination

I just thought that I would let everyone know that I have now nominated this article for inclusion in the Wikipedia 0.7 release. For those who don't already know, version 0.7 is the last step before Wikipedia 1.0, the stable version of Wikipedia's best articles based on quality and importance. Per the criteria, B-class articles with a high importance can be accepted - this article is top importance and pretty much GA now. I hope that this article is accepted into the program and I hope that we achieve GA soon (maybe even before this article is reviewed)! If you are on the review team, feel free to review the article. That's all for now! And on a side note, get referencing as that is one of the last steps towards GA (alongside getting our images FURs)! Greeves (talk • contribs • reviews) 00:42, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Requested move

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the proposal was PAGE MOVED per discussion below.

This one is controversial, so I'll explain why I closed as I did. I read all the arguments here, as well as Wikipedia:Naming conventions (precision) and Wikipedia:Naming conventions (acronyms) and relevant parts of the naming conventions policy, which has the clearest relevant statement: "Avoid the use of abbreviations, including acronyms, in page naming unless the term you are naming is almost exclusively known only by its abbreviation and is widely known and used in that form." Outside of the gaming community and nearby social circles, "MMORPG" isn't widely known and used, as noted in the discussion below.

A conflicting guideline in this case is WP:COMMONNAME, but even the very well known FBI is spelled out, as are all the examples of borderline cases at NCA, indicating a strong consensus to prefer full names over abbreviations. The usual counterexamples (NASA, radar, etc.) are pronounced as words, not as strings of letters. Additionally, WP:COMMONNAME explicitly defers to other naming conventions. -GTBacchus(talk) 03:20, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

MMORPG → Massively multiplayer online role-playing game – Massively multiplayer online role-playing game

This was a bold move done per WP:UCN though I believe that WP:PRECISION applies here. MMORPG is a term that is commonly used, though the full name is just as often used. MMORTS and MMOFPS also have their full title as their article as well. Greeves (talk • contribs) 18:08, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Survey

Add "* Support" or "* Oppose" or other opinion in the appropriate section followed by a brief explanation, then sign your opinion with ~~~~

  • Support - As nom. Greeves (talk • contribs) 18:08, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Oppose "MMORPG" is almost always used to describe the genre. The other two MMO terms are not even widely used. Lrrr IV 22:34, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Support per WP:PRECISION. As a general rule, abbreviations should be avoided, like FBI and USA, in favor of the fuller name. A title needs to be for the benefit of the average reader who is going to stumble upon MMORPG and wonder what the heck that is. If the title doesn't give at least a clue as to what it is about, then it is not a good title. 205.157.110.11 23:02, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
    • What about FIFA? Most people only know the abbreviations, same thing with MMORPG. All you have to do is say what it means in the intro (which is already does).
Bad example: FIFA is the common English language abbreviation for the French words. We have precedent and WP:MOS convention with cases like FBI, USA, etc. I'm sure that a greater majority of people know what USA stands for then what MMORPG means. But the convention applies equally to both. 205.157.110.11 02:58, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
MMORPG is the common aprreviation. FBI is one thing, but I don't know anyone who really says USA (unles they are chanting it, like USA! USA!), most people say United States or US. MMORPG is the most common name, so I think that WP:COMMONNAME would apply here. TJ Spyke 03:35, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
WP:COMMONNAME applies to the broader spectrum of Wikipedia readership, not just to adherehents of a specific clique. To the average Wikipedia reader, MMORPG is not common at all. Only those with intimate and specific knowledge of those games could consider the phrase common. On the contrary, the average Wikipedia reader will understand Masssively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game. To use a retail example, the most common phrase by far in speaking of profit margin is IMU. However, only those with intimate knowledge of retail will find that phrase "common". For the average Wikipedia reader, the more common phrase is Markup (business) and that is the appropriate title for that article. 205.157.110.11 12:10, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
I don't play MMORPGs (never have, and probably never will since I refuse to pay a monthly fee just to be able to play a game I already own) but MMORPG is still far better IMO. A quick Google search brings up over 27 million hits for "MMORPG" but only 340,000 for the full name. TJ Spyke 22:22, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
I had roughly the same Googlesearch results. Also, I led the opposition for the recent attempt to move UEFA. However, in that case the name is pronounced as a word, i.e. people say "you-ay-fa", not "you-ee-eff-ay". People spell out the "emm-emm-oh-arr-pee-gee" acronym, correct? If that's the case it'd follow the precedent of something like FBI, which despite being forty times more popular in Google, is only a redirect to Federal Bureau of Investigation. --DeLarge 11:37, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Support with re-direct. The full name will benefit new people, but experienced players who know the acronym will be able to access it the old-fashioned way. Philipwhiuk 23:27, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Oppose The article already says what MMORPG stands for (so new people won't be confused), and MMORPG is almost always used instead of the full name. TJ Spyke 01:34, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
FBI is how the Federal Bureau of Investigation is always referred to and is by FAR the most common name. However, we have distinct WP:MOS guidelines for acronymns and a naming convention WP:PRECISION that deals with such issues.205.157.110.11 23:08, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Discussion

Add any additional comments here.

I would just like to mention that although MMORPG is commonly used by video gamers, that doesn't mean to say that everyone uses that term more. Wikipedia is not just for gamers. Greeves (talk • contribs) 13:50, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

The opposite move was made last April. See Talk:MMORPG/Archive 3. I am indifferent to the name as long as we have the redirects and expect it will get changed back in 2008 by someone else. --Habap 15:53, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Another thought is that MMORTS and MMOFPS are both redirects to the spelled out version of the title. Greeves (talk • contribs) 22:05, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

It seems that there is no valid policy or consistency reason for this page to stay at the accronym but due to the "lack of consensus", the move probably won't go forward unless an admin delivers a healthy dose of WP:DIAR-Don't ignore all rules and goes with policy over "faux consensus". 205.157.110.11 02:45, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

I would like to see http://www.mmofish.com added into external links. This is an invaluable resource for finding MMORPG information.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Jargonator (talk • contribs) 15:21, 18 March 2007

I would have to say no for now because it is still in beta and it seems to be do different than Google; my tests have completely unrelated pages. Would anyone agree with me here? I do thank you for checking on the talk page first though. Greeves (talk • contribs) 21:38, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

I will admit I am the owner of the site but that also puts me in the position of being able to explain it's advantages more clearly. The main difference between mmofish and standard google is mmofish draws it's results purely from carefully selected quality content sites. i.e. there is none of the usual hack, bot, scam, and overly 'search engine optimized made for ads' sites which come high in the google rankings but offer little decent content. My own tests have shown that the percentage of relevant results are greatly increased due to the exlusion of the afore mentioned website types. I haven't found a way to get better results anywhere else so far. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jargonator (talk • contribs) 20:22, 21 March 2007 (UTC).

I tried it out and it didn't work well for me and it is in beta. I thank you for following WP:COI though:


Thanks! By the way, does anyone else have an opinion on this? Greeves (talk • contribs) 21:42, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Bold split of history section

I boldly split the history section of the article to a seperate article article as the section was huge. I tried to summarize the section, but whenever I summarize anything it always turns out still too big. Would anyone be able to summariize it a bit more (I never know what to cut out)? On the bright side, I brought it down from about five screens long to less than two.

On a side note, I am going to submit this article for GA again as we completed most of the checklist from last time. Greeves (talk • contribs) 23:33, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

I did this very thing a while ago, and as shown in Archive 3 there was a very brief discussion and it was moved back. I still support this move entirely - as you said, the article is simply way too big with History included, and also I believe that moving the history away will cut down on vandalism and ad-inserting considerably. However! If we do keep history moved, then before submitting the article for GA status we really need to make sure that remaining content does not suck. Out of courtesy for the GA reviewers we really should avoid submitting a premature article for the third time. -Beefnut 05:48, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
By the way... I get the feeling that it might be way easier to get History of MMORPGs to GA status first. --Beefnut 05:52, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

History of MMORPGs is in dire need of references though, which could take some work. Greeves (talk • contribs) 21:43, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

GAOnHold

On the whole, this is a solid start to this article, and I'm sure it will become featured as work continues. Few minor issues for GA status:

  • Some of the references, such as 9, need to be at least somewhat formatted (Template:Cite web is good to use).
  • There are several stubby, 1 sentence paragraphs and other prose glitches that should be easily identifyable if someone spends 10 minutes copy-editing. Transitions ("finally," "first," are overused a bit.
  • A few statements could use refs, such as "This is so for two reasons: first, players will demand new content to keep the game exciting, and second, players will always be developing new ways to cheat which need to be dealt with." Try to make sure the wording does not suggest original research or POV; otherwise, citing is good practice.
  • The second para of the lead can probably be expanded by 1-2 sentences to cover trends, etc.
  • Images need Wikipedia:Fair use rationale

— Deckiller 18:17, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

I will try and get this all done. I have created a checklist and have already crossed off the first one as per WP:GA?, there is no need for the citations to be in their proper format. By the way, when you put a GAC on hold, please change the banner at the top of the page. Thanks for the review! Greeves (talk • contribs) 21:26, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Checklist

Un-Completed

  • There are several stubby, 1 sentence paragraphs and other prose glitches that should be easily identifyable if someone spends 10 minutes copy-editing. Transitions ("finally," "first," are overused a bit.
  • A few statements could use refs, such as "This is so for two reasons: first, players will demand new content to keep the game exciting, and second, players will always be developing new ways to cheat which need to be dealt with." Try to make sure the wording does not suggest original research or POV; otherwise, citing is good practice.
  • The second para of the lead can probably be expanded by 1-2 sentences to cover trends, etc.

Completed

  • Some of the references, such as 9, need to be at least somewhat formatted (Template:Cite web is good to use).
  • Indeed and only one of them actually replied to my request (whether or not he/she has added the fair rationale notice is another matter entirely). Anyway, the only thing I can think of if we really can't get any responses back (since they may be inactive wikipedians for all we know) is we try our best to find active wikipedians who are also players of the games which the screenshots were taken from and ask them to re-take similar shots + add fair use rationales. --Rambutaan 21:53, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Best-established independent MMORPGs

Hey, I've noticed just a small error that I want an opinion on before I change. Thier is a list of "independent" project MMORPGs that are labeled some of the "best-established". This is an opinion, and the adjective should be removed (not many adjectives should be used on this domain, regardless; this is an encyclopedia, not an opinion poll). Thank you and please concider my opinion.Sec'qr-euin 12:06, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

I agree completely. Ideally, we should find some objective statistics ranking independent projects, reference them, and then pick the top few titles to list for the article. However, until we do find something like that, I'd prefer to have the list up there rather than throw it out entirely. --Beefnut 07:48, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

I'd like to see http://www.mmobay.net added to the external links. Since Ebay has stopped allowing gamers to list items,characters and other game items, I think this is a great alternative. Its new so not many users which is another reason it would be good to add. What do you think?— Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.0.154.234 (talk) 18:25, 23 March 2007

Please observe WP:TALK by signing your posts and adding new sections. On the topic of the external link, I would have to say no. There are no auctions going on at this point. Also, as useful as this is for MMORPG gamers, this I would have to say is not exactly fit for an encyclopedia, though as the site develops it could become very useful. By the way, do you run this site (just out of curiosity). Does anyone else have an opinion on this? Greeves (talk • contribs) 03:26, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
Agreed. No reason to link. Wikipedia is not a linkfarm. In the event that a particular company in the RMT industry begins drawing substantial media attention (i.e., they are on their way to becoming encyclopedic on their own) it would probably warrant mention within the article. Tarinth 12:33, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
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