Comments on: Games and MMORPGs – a clarification.

By: Erik C

Erik C — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 12:51:02 +0000

games don’t have to have a quantifiable opinion IMHO but one’s performance has to be evaluable (discernibly good or bad).

By: Jesper

Jesper — Wed, 10 Dec 2003 09:03:41 +0000

You can play tag with a time limit, saying that whoever is “it” at the end of the time period has lost.
But I think what you are saying simply means that “freeform” tag is a borderline case like MMORPGs. 99% of all “games” have quantifiable outcomes, that’s the point I was making.

By: Joey Lesh

Joey Lesh — Tue, 09 Dec 2003 17:30:57 +0000

The “game” of tag doesn’t have a quantifiable outcome. You play until you are too tired or too bored to continue playing, no one wins or loses …

My guess is that it’s competition or struggle within a well defined and balanced set of rules that makes a game, not an end point with winners and losers.