What do we call This Thing Of Ours? (Or, desperately seeking alternatives to MMORPG)

I call it "Home Away From Home"

how about "simulated world" ?

With tongue firmly in cheek and English word order rules suspended from the yardarm, I suggest: PERV (Persistent Enhanced Reality Virtual).

i still like my suggestion:

Betaverse


of course, we could also go with something like..

Persistant Online MemeComplex


..i don't know..

i think i'll stick with Betaverse..

MMRS - Massive Multiplayer Reality Simulator

Maybe "virtual world" or "virtual space"? At least not a "game"

I don't very much like using words such as MMORPG or MMORPAFIAOJT or MUSDIAERJMMMPAERPAERNANFEN They just make my head tired and my tongue sour *giggles*

I just call it a game.

But if you're one of the people who froths at the mouth when you hear that, parse it as "Generic Application for Multiuser Experiences".

I prefer "Metaverse"

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Splitting Hairs since Nov 2003

MUSH
Multi User Shared Hallucination

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An oldie but a goodie

I know MUSH and I know MUD but what did MUX and MOO stand for?

Hey, I wrote about that one!

http://dir.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/01/27/nethack/index.html

MOO stands for MUD, Object Oriented

http://secondlife.blogs.com/nwn/2004/04/calling_it_what.html

Thanks to all who through in their nominations, and by
all means, keep 'em coming!

Lynch mob be damned:

Game.

Siggy.

Thanks for the link -- fun read! I remember playing Rogue when I was a wee babychild and rediscovering Nethack (fondly known as Gradewrecker by some) at uni.

*waxes nostalgic*

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In a side note, where are all the lynch mobs when I call SL a game?

Game game game... no mob yet? game game game.

You can refer to it as "game" all you want. but not "hey, it's just a game".

Multiuser Virtual Reality (MUVR)

Heh, MUVRs and shakers!

Glad you liked my Nethack article, Nergal. I blew an
embarassing amount of time playing that ingenius
game, figure I should git at least one article of it!

I think LL calls it a MMOP - Massively Multiplayer Online Place. I'm aurprised Hamlet wasnt aware of it.

I prefer ADOM to Nethack.

The Political significance of computer mediated communication lies in its capacity to challenge the existing political hierarchy's monopoly on powerful communications media, and perhaps thus revitalize citizen based democracy…

The vision of a citizen-designed, citizen controlled worldwide communications Network is a version of technological utopianism that could be called the vision of “the electronic agora.”

Howard Rheinhold (1993)

Rheingold, H. The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier. Reading, MA: Addison-Wilson, 1993. p.14

Whoa, good catch! Didn't know Howard used "agora"
to describe this first, but guess I should be surprised.

if you want to follow the traditional acroynmic template, just tack "world" on and call it a mmow.

or would that offend the people who don't have cats as pets?

okay then let's call it a mmog. we can all refer to it as a massively multiplayer online grid; and siggy can call it a mmo game. then everyone will be happy.

I like Betaverse as well.

Sure, anyone who's read Snow Crash wants the Metaverse, really wants to be a part of it, but the truth is that SL is far, far from the Metaverse. Not to hijack the thread, but a few major differences:

- Metaverse is like the Internet, universally accessable - not privately owned like SL
- Metaverse is worldwide used, SL is still in its infancy
- Metaverse is fully immersive 3D. SL is on PC monitorss.
- Metaverse can handle a much higher amount of people than SL
- Metaverse has the bugs worked out

Though many of us have Metaverse fever, I think calling SL the Metaverse would be like having a half-acre backyard and calling it the the Amazon jungle.

However, this is certainly a precursor to the eventual Metaverse. SL is a great experiment, a great community, a great game, a great leap forward from your very-restrictive MMOGames...

... in that spirit, I like Betaverse. Okay, it's still a bit presumptive to call it that, and the Beta part of it indicates its infant stage. Alphaverse may even be more accurate, but that just don't sound catchy.

One day we will have a Metaverse, and we will look back and laugh at calling SL the Metaverse... but Betaverse works. let's do it.

I won't be happy because I want MMOCA. You don't want me throwing myself on the ground in the park next to your house and kicking and screaming do you? It might frighten you and Siggy.