History Main / MassivelyMultiplayerOnlineRoleplayingGame

Note that not all massively multi-player games are RolePlayingGames; for instance, ''Videogame/PlanetSide'' is a Massively Multiplayer FirstPersonShooter, ''VideoGame/AutoAssault'' [[{{Cancellation}} was]] a DrivingGame with RPGElements, ''Drift City'' is what you get when ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious'' is turned into an MMOG, ''VideoGame/SecondLife'' is a social environment, ''VideoGame/ShatteredGalaxy'' is a RealTimeStrategy with RPG elements, and ''VideoGame/MagicTheGatheringOnline'' is a straight port of the CollectibleCardGame where the only "Massive Multiplayer Online" part is the lobby where you connect with other players. Massively Multiplayer [=RPG=]s are the most common, so common in fact, [[YouKeepUsingThatWord most people actually don't realize that the first three letters of the term "MMORPG" refer to "Massively Multiplayer Online"]] and that there ''can'' very easily be such a thing as an MMOG that is ''NOT'' an RPG. Nowadays, if you refer to a game as an MMOG, the first thing people will think about is this.

* The ''VideoGame/TOME'' game adaptation isn't a true MMORPG, like the game featured in the source material's story was, but is instead a simulated one inspired by the ''Franchise/DotHack'' video games.

Note that not all massively multi-player games are RolePlayingGames; for instance, ''Videogame/PlanetSide'' is a Massively Multiplayer FirstPersonShooter, ''VideoGame/AutoAssault'' [[{{Cancellation}} was]] a DrivingGame with RPGElements, ''Drift City'' is what you get when ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious'' is turned into an MMOG, ''VideoGame/SecondLife'' is a social environment, ''VideoGame/ShatteredGalaxy'' is a RealTimeStrategy with RPG elements, and ''MagicTheGathering Online'' is a straight port of the CollectibleCardGame where the only "Massive Multiplayer Online" part is the lobby where you connect with other players. Massively Multiplayer [=RPG=]s are the most common, so common in fact, [[YouKeepUsingThatWord most people actually don't realize that the first three letters of the term "MMORPG" refer to "Massively Multiplayer Online"]] and that there ''can'' very easily be such a thing as an MMOG that is ''NOT'' an RPG. Nowadays, if you refer to a game as an MMOG, the first thing people will think about is this.

* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' was the focus of the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Make Love, Not Warcraft", as the boys tried to deal with an overpowered "griefer" who kept killing everyone else's characters and threatened to bring about the end of the world... of Warcraft. Cites "HelloKitty Island Adventure" as a major rival to [=WoW=].

* Bart dominated ''Earthland Realms'' on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', which was basically a bloodthirsty (bloodthirstier?) [[HeroicFantasy Medieval Fantasy]] version of Springfield. At one point, Marge, being the loving mother she was, bought him some items in the form of a HelloKitty expansion pack.

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* ''ComicStrip/{{Foxtrot}}'' has a MMORPG called [[VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft World of War]][[VideoGame/EverQuest quest]]. It's a very-thinly disguised ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', which author [[JustForFun/OneOfUs Bill Amend plays]]. For example, one series of strips revolved around Jason's efforts to get the "Kingsquisher" title; in World of Warcraft, you earn the title "Kingslayer" by killing the Lich King (the Expansion 2 BigBad).

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* The plot of ''FanFic/FriendshipIsOptimal'' involves the release of ''Equestria Online'', and later players [[BrainUploading uploading]] [[InsideAComputerSystem themselves]] to live in the virtual world.

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* The {{Metaverse}} from the Neal Stephenson novel ''Literature/SnowCrash''.

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* ''Manhwa/{{Yureka}}'' Has Lost Saga and mentions of two "earlier" games.

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* In ''Videogame/StarOceanTillTheEndOfTime'', [[spoiler:the plot twist is the universe is an MMORPG for higher dimensional beings]].
* ''VideoGame/MegaManStarForce'' has the ever popular Burger Quest.
* The aforementioned ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarOnline2'' also has an ''in-story'' version of ''Phantasy Star Online 2'', which coexists with the universe the game itself is set in. [[MindScrew Try to wrap your head around that one.]]

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* ''VisualNovel/REAlistair'' begins in the fictional MMO Rivenwell Online, and the story begins due to an in-game incident. [[spoiler: All three [[DatingSim dateable boys]] play the same MMO.]]

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* The entire series ''WebVideo/TheGuild'' is about a group of MMO gamers playing an unnamed ''World of Warcraft'' clone. Except they're rarely shown ''playing'' it...
** A recent episode reveals the game they've been referring to as "the game" is actually titled ''The Game''.
* ''Franchise/{{Noob}}'' has ''Horizon'', in which most of the action happens.

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* ''ComicStrip/{{Foxtrot}}'' has a MMORPG called [[VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft World of War]][[VideoGame/EverQuest quest]]. It's a very-thinly disguised ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', which author [[OneOfUs Bill Amend plays]]. For example, one series of strips revolved around Jason's efforts to get the "Kingsquisher" title; in World of Warcraft, you earn the title "Kingslayer" by killing the Lich King (the Expansion 2 BigBad).

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* Major spoiler ahead: At the end of the first part of ''Fanfic/TheKeysStandAlone'', The Soft World, [[spoiler: the Pyar gods' reboot of C'hou turns out to be a virtual telepathic MMORPG designed and overseen by Jeft Indle, one of the two [[BigBad Big Bads]] of ''Fanfic/WithStringsAttached''. 20,000 players, at least 50,000 “Natives,” and uncounted numbers of AI personalities; hundreds of Towns and Cities of Adventure with plenty of comforts and mundane entertainments as well as adventures; endless dungeons, ruins, monsters, quests, and other exciting RPG stuff; reality mimicking down to the atomic level; and an overarching theme of Good vs. Evil, with endless scheming and sniping between the players as they struggle to obtain the pieces of the Nine-part Key to the Black Tower, make it a gamer's paradise. Not so much for the four, though, who are there ''quite'' unwillingly.]]

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* ''VideoGame/StargateWorlds''