The SIMS ONLINE OR PC GAMES
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A massively multiplayer online game is a multiplayer video game which is capable of supporting hundreds or thousands of players simultaneously, mobile devices and smartphones as well as the Iphone or Ipod Touch .
MMOGs can enable players to cooperate and compete with each other on a large scale, and sometimes to interact meaningfully with people around the world. They include a variety of gameplay types, representing many video games genres.
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Here it is, what for me is a very good example of artificiality, living in a fictitious world.The Sims city is Kind of Dreamland, addicts are cappable of transport not just their frustrations, secret dreams, but their hopes over which for them is The ideal World where everything can just happen as the player wants it to. I think this kind of games can really affect the real life, because users can become addicted to live the unreal life. I think that it could be counterproductive, and depending on the age people could get confused, as example: Teenagers, they love this kind of games, because they can play to be adults.
I deeply agree with this, people can be really lost between two worlds-the real one and the delusional.Good job!
ReplyDelete@ Barbara: we agree again!
ReplyDelete@@ Monica: as you mention, the more grotesque versions are games such as SIMS, where we play "ordinary people"--I guess the idea is that in this mini-me world you get to do what you cannot in your own world: have control...
There is another game similar to this one it's called Black and White. It is totally like playing to be "God", you are allowed to send natural disasters, to scare people so they are afraid of you etc..
ReplyDeleteImagine that this world is only a game that "God" is playing....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_%26_White_2
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