Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games, as the name suggests involves role playing.
Now though online MMORPG games have been around only a few years, role playing itself is a concept that has existed for centuries.

Since time immemorial people have taken on another person's garb, sometimes to maybe explain a situation with more clarity, and sometimes just for one.

We see role playing every day in our lives. Every drama, movie, and even advertisements that we watch on television is a form of role playing where the actors play another character, the traits of who could be entirely different from theirs.

Now role playing in games are a little different than what we normally see in other media.
Games have the ability to take players beyond the normal realms that they have seen or even imagined in life. Games can take them to another planet, another era, and even another plane in the universe. Now while all these may just be a figment of the developers imagination, the gamers who play multiplayer games online!

do get involved in them and pick up a few traits that these characters might have.

Whether this is a good thing or bad is a debate that could go on forever, but the fact remains that those who play games have also experienced an increase in their confidence levels.
For one, they are nor more acceptable to their peers at college or school. Free multiplayer games tend to have a huge fan following and huge groups in college or high schools follow the same games for months on end until the trend changes.

When youngsters with common interests come together it becomes easier for them to mingle and interact with each other.

Games therefore also act as a catalyst for strong interpersonal relationships too.

Games that are MMORPGs also have a lot of factors that pose a whole lot of challenges. Now while all these challenges cannot be overcome alone, they require the help of allies, in this case online friends.
So eventually games help one make friends in the real world as well as the online world.

Some free MMORPG games have also been known to improve concentration levels in those who lack it. These games are designed in such a way that the attention to details is simply amazing.

As the gamers get involved in the game they realize that they truly require all the concentration that they can gather to get through to a certain goal. Studies have found that since games are a lot more interesting and fun to play, it is easier to pay attention while playing games than while doing many other activities.

One however does need to remember that moderation is required in almost everything one does, and so is it with games!