Passively Multiplayer Online Game launches News
MMO News by Oli Welsh
PMOG, the Passively Multiplayer Online Game, has launched what could be the strangest concept in browser RPGs yet (and there are some pretty strange ones out there).
PMOG has been in beta for the last 10 weeks, and in that time has already succeeded in ensnaring several friends of Eurogamer MMO.
PMOG is an extension for the Firefox browser that allows you to play the internet as if it were an MMORPG. You can level up and build a player profile through surfing, leave loot and traps on certain sites for other players to discover, and take missions sending you to the furthest reaches of the internet - for example, find the best sites for rumours about Apple hardware.
Bizarrely, PMOG also features a back-story and lingo drawn from surreal science-fiction Victoriana. On top of this, you can earn badges for completing certain tasks.
Yes, that's right: the internet's very own Achievements. Example: "Indie - for players who go a 24 hour period without using Google."
We'll have more on PMOG on Eurogamer MMO in future. It's just too curious to ignore.
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Comments: 1-22 of 22 in total
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Really, it's a crate game. You'd be mission out if you didn't play. Just mine out for the traps :D
http://pmog.com/users/suttree |
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mrtrevelyan
14/05/08 @ 21:44
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I would read the full privacy and data-collection policy on the PMOG website (http://pmog.com/about/privacy/) before installing the PMOG add-on.
To highlight a few items from the said privacy policy, the providers of PMOG will have a record of your basic registration details that you fill in (name, address etc - although some of these are optional) as well as a list of URLs (save for secure URLS - those starting with https) that you visit. This data may be shared with a number of parties as described in the privacy poilcy. I was initally up for installing this, but having discovered what a potentially powerful data-collecting tool this PMOG add-on can be, I'm personally going to refrain from doing so. I am being paranoid I know - (the privacy policy reassures users that you can pause the data collection at any time and even delete your account altogether if you wish) - sounds like a great idea for a game but just wanted to advise people to read the terms & conditions together with the privacy policy fully. |
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OrgasmicMutton
14/05/08 @ 23:20
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Is seems utterly pointless so far.
Reckon I'll be uninstalling it soon. |
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charliemouse
15/05/08 @ 07:52
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Bunch of miserable sods.
It is still a bit buggy but is regularly updated; it's still in beta after all. I've been a PMOGer for a couple of months and it's great. The point is that it's passive, you don't do much unless you want to. |
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OrgasmicMutton
15/05/08 @ 09:08
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Dull, annoying blank links, absolutely no sense of achievement and a million uninteristing missions which mostly seem to be about bands and games that people like. Oh and did I mention I hate toolbars. So to sum up I don't like what 'gameplay' there is but playing passively is utterly pointless considering I can surf the web quite fine without it and the interruption of mines!
Not to mention the all too tangible whiff of spyware. Uninstalled after one evening and it isn't coming back.
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actionfitz
15/05/08 @ 14:40
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"Gnort
14-May-08 21:24:33 Internet is serious business!" really? i thought that... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etVCUmgfMag |
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