Massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) - a proposed approach for military application

No type of game has altered the PC gaming landscape more than massively multiplayer online game (MMOG), where thousands to hundreds of thousands of players are connected simultaneously in a game cyberworld via the Internet, to participate and share in an online experience. As of today, there are more than 50 MMOGs online (and hundreds in development and beta testing [www.gameresearch.com]), with an estimated total of five million active subscribers to the more popular game titles [Woodcock, BS]. This paper analyses MMOG in detail and discusses whether the MMOG phenomenon can be leveraged for possible and suitable military applications