Privacy; Blizzard; and being the only one in costume…

Lucious the Luscious; Sabrina the Sorceress; Paul Philbaum, Crombie, PA, acct.; Rena Tsolitias, adm. asst to Mr. Philbaum; Larry Goldberg, CPA; Crombie, PA. (All names totally fictional, for the purposes of illustration)
 
Maybe your teammates figure out that you’re an accountant, too.  After all, if your friends all go by their real name and you’re simply “Grandmaster [...]

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Gamers Rights News

A listing of Gamers Rights articles in the gaming media.
An article on Skewed and Reviewed with ECA president Hal Halpin. I’m not familiar with this Website but the article seemed to be balanced and informative.
Nearly a Million X-box users banned from X-box Live, according to an article on Redorbit.com
Excellent article about a Facebook group [...]

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Stop, Thief

Someone stole my gold! Can I sue them? Number 1 question I see and hear about virtual property. Number 1 Answer, it depends!
Believe it or not, this seemingly simple question is too big for one post. In fact, it covers many, many professionally-written articles in sophisticated law journals. Today, I’m just [...]

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Transparency in Video Games

“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain”. You know what movie that is from, right?
There is a very interesting article on The reticule that talks about this concept. Personally, I loved the idea that “The main tenet of their design is not playability but profit and, while this is true of [...]

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Gamer’s Rights-Security

Seems minimal, yes?  When playing a free game, or “freemium”, or pay-to-play, or subscription; at the very least you should walk away with at least as much as you came in with, huh?
So does that mean “security” in the sense that the playing field is level? Is that the utmost goal in security you wish?  [...]

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Second Life sued in class action

JUST AN IMPORTANT NOTE: Some of the linked articles, even though digitally blurred, may be NSFW.
Copy of the public record lawsuit, Eros v Linden Labs, may be found here.
I know to most followers of virtual worlds a lawsuit within Second Life is not news, it’s a huge world, and it is the most litigious by [...]

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Gamer’s Rights

Yeah, I said it. Listening, Activision/Blizzard? EA? Linden Labs? Yes, the gamers are the people that pay the bills. So how are the gamers achieving their rights in games, and I’m talking now of specifically computer games, online or otherwise.
The three main avenues are public/peer/media pressure, legislation, and the efforts of game publishers, distributers, retailers, [...]

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