I am writing a piece for an academic(-ish) site on my experiences in the I/P battlefield on Wikipedia and beyond. It's possible I may refer to the MMPORPG analogy. Does anyone claim responsibility for inventing the analogy? Or does anyone recollect where it came from?

(In case anyone is wondering who I am and how my account has run up over 100 edits without coming to your notice, I have been persuaded to rename this account from SelfHater.)

I think “MMORPG” is the more common acronym, “multiplayer” being treated as one word.

Searching WR on “MMORPG” gives 22 pages of posts, the earliest mention being this one.

Jon

Oh thanks. So the origin is apparently on Wikipedia. I had assumed it was an external critique.

In fairness, the Wikipedia admins themselves made the same point two years prior to that.

Oh, I didn't think the comparison originated here — Blu's note tossed it off as a well-worn cliche already by 2006 — but I just wasn't up to doing any further research.

Jon

There are numerous threads and meta*threads on the subject of MMORPGs and related subjects hereabouts — but the wiki-perennial question that might fill a dozen genu-whinely academic dissipations would probably have to be this:



In other words —



Jon