You are here: What makes these two games separate from each other? Yes, they are two separate games/genres, but digging more deep into the components of what makes the games special, the space and characteristics are entirely different.
As Celia Pearce describes in “Narrative Environments & Productive Play”, there are different categories of play that promote social interaction, already said above as Virtual Worlds and MMORPGS for reassurance. Both styles of promote different play styles for social influences, such as the Virtual Worlds having full control under the form of “sandbox play”, where social experiences are from participation within the world (Pearce 2007). MMORPGS are rather different, as they are classified as narrative environments (hence the RPG aspect), creating “task-oriented” and goal driven type of play (Pearce 2007).
Within the game of Habbo Hotel, it is very normal to jump into an environment and see avatars chatting with each other. it is common to see players simply standing around and chatting with other avatars. It is quite normal to meet someone new in this social environment (You happen to be in the kitchen when she/he is, and you start a conversation). It is pretty interesting to look at because this openness to meet new people seems to be more inhumane than our natural setting. We do not just walk up to someone and start talking to people. Therefore, I feel habbohotel coins exemplifies the natural setting of conversation.
Guild Wars works a little bit differently. Since this game play world revolves around a theme park atmosphere with a lot to do (Pearce 2007), most of the social interactions you have with other players are around task-oriented situations. Whether these tasks revolve around killing and slaughtering drakes or bandits, or trading wares and goods between players, the tasks cause interaction. Since Guild Wars gives you many reasons to further and promote through the game levels, most of the time, the social interactions are only intended for the self promotion.
The only combination for the social language between both games is the guild system in Guild Wars and the mobile app within Habbo Hotel. Players in Guild Wars can join guilds that have a leader, officers, and members (this bands players together to collaborate throughout the whole game). The mobile app in habbohotel coins is a friend list, where you can have close connections with your friends (fast access, such as the guild system is).
We have always been told that we are unique in our own way to the world, in a way we do not look alike and personify a similar characterization as another. In most online and multiplayer communities, there are many ways a character can be custom made to manipulate a unique individual within the massive population.
For Guild Wars, they have a lot of qualities for unique character customization. For starters, you choose a profession to play as (elementalist, warrior, necromancer, etc.), with unique skill sets to make your character skill bar unique. As well as character profession choices, you can also create an avatar (hairstyle, skin, etc), and create a totally new character, even if another character has the same profession style as you. As Taylor points out in “Multiple Pleasures: Women and Online Gaming”, multiplayer games present the player with multiple customization choices, normal choices of class (profession) and gender/race, which are based upon well-established game play (Taylor 2003).
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