MMOs from the Outside In: The Massively-Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games of Psychology, Law, Government, and Real Life

Introduction

This is the companion volume to MMOs from the Inside Out: The History, Design, Fun and Art of Massively-Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games. You should probably read that one before this one, unless you don’t mind coming across articles with titles such as “Games You Should Have Played #8” without having read “Games You Should Have Played #1–#7”.

I wrote both books at the same time and originally planned to publish them as a single unit. Unfortunately, the physical practicalities of book manufacturing put to rest that idea, but the connection between both volumes still holds. It’s not like a comma-relationship, in which MMOs from the Outside In flows seamlessly from MMOs from the Inside Out and I could have broken up the narrative ...