The online gaming industry is incredibly huge. To give you an example, China is a major consumer of online games with figures (in the year 2005) of online game players reaching over 20 million players.

While several games have a mandatory charge of a particular monthly fee to various web surfers, scores of other sites actually relied on different advertising revenues from its on-site sponsor. Still others, permits gamers to play for nothing but offer players the option of making payment so as to unlock novel skills for members.

Massively multiplayer online games became a reality with the tremendous growth seen in broadband Internet access across countries. Thus hundreds of thousands of diverse players are allowed to simultaneously play the very same game together. There are different types. Ragnarok Online, for instance is one such massively multiplayer online role-playing game.