Persistent World (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. A persistent world (PW) is a virtual world that continues to exist even after a user exits the world and that user-made changes to its state are, to some extent, permanent.The term is frequently used in the definition of the massively multiplayer online video games and can be considered synonymous with that class of games, including other narrative forms of a media franchise.The persistence comes from maintaining and developing a single or dynamic instance state of the world in the game around the clock shared and viewed by all players. Quite unlike other types of games, the plot and events in a single permainstance world game continue to develop even while some of the players are not playing their characters.