Definition: A Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, sometimes also referred to as a Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game. In these types of games large numbers of players battle together, or against one another, in a huge online environment. The RPG element of MMORPG indicates that games of this type also include Role Playing Elements, suggesting that the characters you play as will 'level up,' or increase their abilities as their experience and time put into the game increases.
Examples:
Everquest, Everquest II, and World of Warcraft for the PC are all MMORPG games. In the MMORPG Everquest II, it can take the efforts of up to 80 different players to defeat one boss.
