Gaming Culture: Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOG)

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Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOG).
The years 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019 have proven to be significant times of people's realization of the importance of gaming, particularly online gaming. This is because this is the period when most Massively Multiplayer Online Games like Final Fantasy XI and World of Warcraft, among many others, were on their initial rise to financial success and popularity all over the world. MMOG, commonly referred to as MMOs, are online video games whose servers allow many people, mostly millions, to play simultaneously on a single server over an internet connection. The set comes about when an individual purchase or installs the software on their phone or computer, then get connected to the shared platform where he or she meets other players and plays with them in real-time.
The alarming popularity and love for games such as Fortnite and Player Unknown Background (PUBG) inspired my analysis of a game called Paladins. I chose to research this specific online game because to win while playing against many other people around the world with the same motive; you ought to learn a new set of different skills on how to handle the gameplay. Paladins is a first-person and third-person online multiplayer game where a group of people forms a team to play against another team in various game modes. The different styles of the game are the sense that a team tasked with the responsibility of achieving several primary objectives, which include capturing a central base and drawing the owners of the ground away and pushing them towards the base of the enemy. It also includes participating in numerous battles to win over a number of killing points, killing the defending players, and taking over their territories. Players are allowed to choose a set of characters which are unlocked upon the achievement of an objective. These characters have different special abilities to enable the player to utilize them in times of attack, defense, or push. After finishing my first match, it was clear to me how winning a game demands co-ordination and co-operation with team players, perfect aiming and shooting skills, and, most fundamentally, full knowledge of the specific abilities of different characters.
The designer, Gee, succeeds at including the feature that enables players to choose their characters from the game's lobby as it is a learning principle on identity. This is because understanding the different abilities of each of the characters is one of the crucial requirements of the game. Therefore, this shows that the player should commi...