An acronym for Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing (Life Consuming) Game. This can also be referred to as Many Males Role Playing Girls. If you're playing a female character then you're cheating. An example is Kelly Martin or Rebecca on the Wikipedia MMORPG.
An MMORPG is an unpaid, expensive, hard, boring, tiring and drama-generating job. The whole sense of MMORPG is that you pay to become fat and to keep your virginity. MMORPG's are also unique in that they are the only known method of living your own life vicariously. Which is pathetic. And more than a little bit sad. Actually, it's very, very, very sad. Even sadder than Richard Simmons.
MMORPGs are a sinister communist plot. They enthrall people to the point they no longer bother to shower, shave, sleep, eat, drink, get up to go to the bathroom, or take care of their children. People actually sell magic items from MMORPGs on eBay, thus unintentionally making a brilliant satire of capitalism.
The gameplay of every MMORPG goes as follows: Do something. Do the same thing again. Keep doing it 9 hours a day every day for the rest of your life. MMORPGs are exactly like having a job except you pay for it instead of making money. EverQuest, for example, is called "EverCrack" in an unfunny attempt at fanboy humor, but few know that the game is actually in fact laced with crack.
A lot of male humans IRL seem to enjoy playing a female characters on MMORPGs. To most people this would be a sign of being fruity or something similar, but when confronting a player who does this, they'll usually counter with something along the lines of; "I don't wanna sit around watching a guys butt move all day" or "I just want sum eyecandy".
Is this really a desire for a girlfriend? Or is it a cry for a sex change? Do you ever hear of girls playing as guys on MMORPGs? As a matter of fact, have you ever heard of a girl playing as any kind of character on a MMORPG? Only the morbidly obese, and underage emos.
The alternative is that the player has a god complex -- usually evident to the player -- which causes them to create characters that act as a controlled underling rather than a digital version of the player. This likely comes from failing at real life, so someone will pay, even if that person is their own creation within someone else's creation.
Terms & Acronyms
An agro.
Aggro - Appeal to enemies. The MMORPGs are all about whomever has the prettiest armor, so tell the whole undead-dragon castle about it with your friends and group members. Or it can refer to the picture to the right.
Epic - Usually a UBER RARE item that people will kill you for IRL.
Farmer - Somebody working in a sweatshop in some god-forsaken city somewhere in south Korea. They are well known for annoying you in-game by forcing you to buy massive amounts of gold for like two dollars. Their Gold:Hourly Wage ratio is about 100:15 cents.
Grind - This is 90% of a MMORPG, the other 10% are wacky novelty items like Christmas hats.
Guild - A group of players, banded together with a crummy tag or logo. This is where a lot of drama comes into MMORPGs.
Loot- The reason why anybody plays an MMORPG. It ranges from a criminal's quest items to a gigantic Mace. Without loot, an MMORPG will cease to exist.
Lvl- Short for "level," a rough measure of how much time and money life you've spent wasted on the game. Used mainly to determine whether you're about to get beaten by the guy you just picked a fight with.
Ninja - Normal person who realizes waiting 6 months for their turn to loot is absurd. Also see Troll.
Party - Huge bonanza with girls and beer... Just kidding, all MMO players are Asexual
Eve Online - Space MMO by some basement guy in Iceland. Takes everything every MMO does and makes it better and in space. People say it's too hard at first and quit.
EverQuest - Ancient. Responsible for spawning almost everything else.
EverQuest II - More like WoW than its own prequel. Used to have a pizza-ordering system ingame.
Mabinogi - Another bad game from the guys who publish Maple Story. You can't get anywhere without spending money, so it is predominately played by spoiled rich kids who whine about everything.
