Yes, the infamous “Banhammer”.Creative Commons attribution license, Flickr. http://www.flickr.com/photos/powi/519822065/ The standards for banning gamers differ from community to community. But with a recent growing trend of acquisitions, is the standard changing via the takeover company? Should it? Does community standard even have a meaning anymore with worldwide gaming so predominant that you may not even have [...]
What is all the hub-bub about whether games ARE ART? Sure, a painting by a Renaissance artist dead 300 years ago may sell for tens of millions; but a videogame made by living graphic artists sold hundreds of millions(COD)… in the first day. Imagine what it could go for in the 24th century? (OK, maybe [...]
From the Movie ”Death Becomes Her”, “Now, a warning“, link to trailer. Well, they couldn’t say Blizzard didn’t warn them. More after the jump Photo by Megaman, http://www.flickr.com/photos/meta-man/4198170449/ Used via Creative Commons License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
Today’s article is MAINLY about lifetime, universal, or at last long-term banning. Let’s break down the component parts first of all. No discussion of legal terms is complete without a glossary, so I’m going to give you the abridged version. There will also be a referral for outside reading to understand the history of community [...]
What rights does a player have not to be banned; and what responsibility does a developer, and further an administrator, of a game have to ban cheating, harassing, or obnoxious players? First I’ll talk about banning a player for in-game conduct, either through speech that’s found problemsome; or either through conduct in playing the game, [...]
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