Why online game interested me?

Hello ! Welcome for visiting my blog. This is my first blog to talk about online games. Since I am a youngster, who is a part of the video game generation, I am enthusiastic and excited about doing a research topic about my most favorite entertainment. Becoming a video game program designer was, once, my dream since I was 12. When I grew up, I learnt that creating a video game was not as easy as I imagine. Programming, image processing , graphic design were quite difficult processes for me to go through. For this reason, I gave up my dream , but I still company with my favorite in my school life and even up to now.

In virtue of technology advancement, video games do not plugged into a small television and restricted in a home play model any more . The birth of "massively multiplayer online role-playing game", which was named as MMORPG, expanded the capacity of players from original (2-8) to a very huge number ( over 3,000). Unlike traditional role playing game(RPG), the story all happened online. This game world is completely unique. More appropriately to say, the game world seems like a real world. There are thousands of player present at any moment, and outside of the world at any one time. The fantastic world also apparent to us with language, culture, and norms. You will soon find yourself immersed in such large social structure, which provide distinctive experience, social connections, collective knowledge and group action. These are most critical to the individual 's experience in game playing. According to Lawrence Lessig (1999), "the unusal thing about the cyber world is is that we can both here and there at the same time" (Synthetic worlds : the business and culture of online games,p.7). There is no doubt that the visual reality of the online game culture makes the line bewteen "real world " and "visual world " becoming blurred. This discovery is a big surprise to me and induces me to think of more questions. How do online game create this illusion of reality? how does it make us to immerse in ? And more importantly, what is the new trend of online game industry?
I hope I will have more understandings of what I am playing, after I have finished this research.