Massively multiplayer online role-playing game

MMORPG is shorthand for Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game. These are role-playing games where the game is played over the internet with thousands of other on-line players. Guild Wars is not a true MMORPG, it is instead usually classified as a CORPG. While players will be able to talk with and meet thousands of other players in outposts, once they venture into the game's explorable areas, they will be playing in a closed space that includes only their party.