"massively multiplayer" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: massively multiplayers [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} massively multiplayer (plural massively multiplayers)
  1. Short for massively multiplayer online game. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of Alternative form of: massively multiplayer online game Categories (topical): Video game genres
    Sense id: en-massively_multiplayer-en-noun-CffN0MdN Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

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          "ref": "2002 January 30, IGN staff, “More of the No Care”, in IGN, archived from the original on 2023-10-15:",
          "text": "When massively multiplayers get patched, we post. We're cool like that. / I've explained time and again why posting on the updates to massively multiplayer titles is pointless. But, for the sake of consistency, and because I'm an obsessive compulsive perfectionist, I'll continue to inform you as to the patching status of said games even though the moment you try and play them again you'll be forced to update.",
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          "text": "KFR [Kerry Fraser-Robinson] thinks the resistance from existing players and companies – I used Mythic’s very public stand against VP and gold sellers as an example – is “quite natural, a sort of teething. I think what it is, from Mythic’s standpoint … they have a certain game, a massively multiplayer game that people play, and there’s an inherent value in the time people spend in the game. Mythic has the problem that they designed these worlds to be non-virtual economics worlds, so yes, of course, there are inevitably people churning out money, that’s kind of inevitable.” […] Are they fighting a losing battle? “Well,” he begins in a hesitant, wanting-to-be-diplomatic tone, “yeah. But I think it’s only a problem for them with the current generation of games. If they redesigned or remade those games, or in the next generation of massively multiplayers.”",
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