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An online game is a game of certain types of network. At present, almost all means of Internet technology or its equivalent, but the games always have whatever technology is using the modem before the Internet, and cable modems before terminals. The expansion of online gaming has reflected the expansion of networks of small local networks to the Internet and the growth of Internet access itself. Online games can range from simple text to games incorporating complex graphics games and virtual worlds populated by many players simultaneously. Many online games have associated online communities, online games, a form of social activity beyond single player.

The increased popularity of Flash and Java led to an Internet revolution that websites can use streaming video, audio and a new set of user interactivity. When Microsoft began packaging Flash as a pre-installed IE, the Internet began to shift from a database / information spectrum to provide the entertainment. This revolution paved the way for sites that offer games online. Most online games like World of Warcraft, Final Fantasy XI and Lineage II charge a monthly subscription to its services, while games like Guild Wars offers an alternative plan without monthly fee. Many other sites based on advertising revenue to the sponsors of the site, while others, like RuneScape, the game made by Artix Entertainment Mabinogi, let people play for free, leaving the players the option of paying for Opening new content for members.

After the dot-com bubble in 2001, many sites rely on advertising revenue dollars to the extreme adversity. Despite the decreasing profitability of online gaming sites, some sites have survived the fluctuating ad market by offsetting the loss of advertising revenue, using the contents against a promotional tool for to drive visitors to other sites that the company owns.
As the World Wide Web developed and browsers became more sophisticated, people started creating browser games using a Web browser as a client. Simple single player games you can play with a web browser and HTML through the HTML scripting technologies (most of JavaScript, ASP, PHP and MySQL). More complicated games like Legend of Empires contact a Web server to allow a multiplayer game.

The development of graphical Web-based technologies like Flash and Java allowed browser games to become more complex. These games, also known by their related technology as "Flash games" or "Java games, has become increasingly popular. Many games originally published in the 1980s, like Pac-Man and Frogger, were recreated as games using Plug-in Flash on a website. Most browsers are not multi-games, which are often the single player games with a list of the highest among all players.

Browser-based games for pets are also very popular among the younger generation of players online. These games range from gigantic games with millions of users, such as Neopets, to smaller and more games for pets.

More recently, browser-based games use web technologies like Ajax to make it more complicated interactions.
With an increasing number of players, it becomes more difficult to maintain social order in online games, due to the large amount of information and the freedom given to players. Although there are many rules that are already in line at the place where there are people, there are conflicts.

More specifically, the advancement of technology allows online games to imitate the complex ecological, sociological, economic, and political dynamics of real life businesses. Unpredictable dynamic society such as hygiene, safety and pollution from the company to require some type of structured settlement. Barry Andrew wrote: "Regulation is often intended to protect and improve the health and safety of businesses, cities and individuals. As in real life business, online games, the company can justify the complexity and the need for some kind of government.

Popular online games are generally bound by the Agreement End User License Agreement (EULA), which establishes a limited yet definitive social order deemed necessary by the creators of the game. The consequences of breach of contract varies according to the contract, but a significant number of warnings to termination, for example, immersion in the 3D world of Second Life, where a breach of contract, the player to add warnings, suspension and termination according to the offense. The implementation of the agreement is difficult, due to high economic costs of human intervention and low performance for the company. Only the games on a large scale is profitable for the company to meet its EULA.

Edward Castronovo wrote that "there are issues of ownership and governance that wrinkle important affairs of state". The government divided into "good governance" and "foreign government. Bearing in mind that people want the government, but oddly, democracy can not be found in the synthetic world. Castronovo also mentions that synthetic worlds are good ways to test for the government and management.


 


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