OMG it’s an MMOG!

Social and Economic Evolution of Online Gaming

Prove Your Feathers, Zempel 2007

Links to MMOG-related Comics, VIDEOS, ELEMENTS OF POP CULTURE, ETC.

The popular cartoon South Park aired an episode entitled “Make Love not Warcraft,” parodying the obsessed lives of Warcraft fanatics.

 

The Stanford Daily ran this comic, by Stanford undergraduate Christina Zempel (AB 07), in April of 2007.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Even such sacred works as Avenue Q's "The Internet is for Porn" and MC Hammer’s “Can’t Touch This” have fallen prey to the influence of popular MMOGs, in this case to World of Warcraft.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For an extensive list of charts and responses collected through player interviews, please click here to view the Daedalus Project.

 

For a listing of academic articles and studies conducted on MMOGs, please click here for a list.