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Prüfungsbehörde vorgelegen. Darmstadt, den 31st March 2011 Applying the peer-to-peer architecture to massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) is a concept that until now didn’t reach any commercial game. The idea of creating a game that allows players to play MMOG over a peer-to-peer system is a great step

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