If you dont know what MMORPGs stands for, youve probably not watched enough of The Big Bang Theory. Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games have been around for a good couple of decades, and MUD (Multi-User Dungeon) games before them. Essentially, youre playing an RPG-style video game, through a decent online connection, with other players across the world. You log into the games server, which is running the game constantly, using your own software, purchased like a video game. Different games have different rules, architecture and protocols to follow, but the gist is very similar. The most famous of these games, at present, is World Of Warcraft, which is its own industry. Geeks have fought and killed each other over these games. We mean that literally. Season ones The Fuzzy Boot Corollary is the shows first instance of the guys playing a MMORPG, with World Of Warcraft getting an outing, while season two gives us Penny, of all people, becoming genuinely addicted to Age Of Conan in The Barbarian Sublimation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMpPaL_Xz2M
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