8 Best Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing Games (MMORPG) for Linux
May 11, 2010, 01:32 (3 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Jun Auza)
"Massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) is a
kind of computer role-playing games (RPG) that takes place in an
online virtual world where a huge number of players interact with
each other. Like in role-playing games, each player handles the
role of a fictional character represented by an avatar and take
control over many of that character's actions. MMORPG players
utilizes a client to connect to a server that is typically run by
the game publisher, which hosts the virtual world and stores or
saves information about the player.
"MMORPGs are really popular nowadays that they are played all
over the world, and revenues are said to be more than US$1 billion
a year since 2006. World of Warcraft (WoW) is currently the world's
most-subscribed MMORPG but its client only runs on Windows and Mac
OS X platforms. So if you are using Linux, you may have to rely on
Wine to play the game (see 10 Best Windows Games That Can Be Played
on Linux). However, if you want to play MMORPGs that are native on
Linux, check out this list that I've compiled:
"8 Best Massively Multiplayer Online Roe-playing Games (MMORPG)
for Linux (in no particular order):"
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