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  2. Old School RuneScape - Wikipedia

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    Old School RuneScape is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), developed and published by Jagex.The game was released on 16 February 2013. When Old School RuneScape launched, it began as an August 2007 version of the game RuneScape, which was highly popular prior to the launch of RuneScape 3.

  3. History of massively multiplayer online games - Wikipedia

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    Avalon, while not the first MUD, certainly set the bar for imitators, boasting never-before-seen features such as fully fleshed out economics, farming and labour mechanics, player-driven autonomous governments with ministers, barons and organization elections, a fully realized warfare conquest system featuring legions, battalions, trenches ...

  4. Massively multiplayer online role-playing game - Wikipedia

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    A massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) is a video game that combines aspects of a role-playing video game and a massively multiplayer online game.. As in role-playing games (RPGs), the player assumes the role of a character (often in a fantasy world or science-fiction world) and takes control over many of that character's actions.

  5. Gold farming - Wikipedia

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    Gold farming is the practice of playing a massively multiplayer online game (MMO) to acquire in-game currency, later selling it for real-world money. [1] [2] [3]Gold farming is distinct from other practices in online multiplayer games, such as power leveling, as gold farming refers specifically to harvesting in-game currency, not rank or experience points.

  6. Glossary of video game terms - Wikipedia

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    farming Repeating a battle, quest, or other part of a game in order to receive more or duplicates of specific reward items that can be gained through that battle or quest, such as experience point s, game money, or specific reward items. Gold farming is a type of farming done for in-game currency. See grinding. fast travel

  7. Multi-user dungeon - Wikipedia

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    A multi-user dungeon (MUD, / m ĘŚ d /), also known as a multi-user dimension or multi-user domain, [1] [2] is a multiplayer real-time virtual world, usually text-based or storyboarded.

  8. History of video games - Wikipedia

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    Massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) featured significant PC games like RuneScape, EverQuest, and Ultima Online, with World of Warcraft as one of the most successful. [146] Other large-scale massively-multiplayer online games also were released, such as Second Life which focused mostly on social interactions with virtual ...

  9. List of video game genres - Wikipedia

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    The action-adventure later became an established genre with Shigeru Miyamoto's The Legend of Zelda (1986), which became a success due to how it combined elements from different genres to create a compelling hybrid, including exploration, transport puzzles, adventure-style inventory puzzles, an action component, a monetary system, and simplified ...