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 [...]
10 things every online game should have. (From blog Imtalkingames) Photo Credit: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/; http://www.flickr.com/photos/fotologic/216182916/ Great series of articles, at “clicknothing” by a known game designer, Part 1 and Part 2 (And yes, I don’t understand it all… but thankfully it’s a series… I’m hoping there’s a happy ending at the curtain). Gamer Entitlement, (from a game [...]
Photo: Flickr, from Cornell College Collection, no known copyright restrictions. Huhh, Jun-Sok, An Economic Analysis on Online Game Service (August 28, 2009). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1335120 (A not-quite-so-recent article which talks about the nuts and bolts of running a for-profit game online. )…. a couple more articles after the jump
Gaming: the Spectator Sport 20 years ago; there were a lot of kids skateboarding. And about a decade later, a lot of kids snowboarding. Not a lot of people watching. AND CERTAINLY not anyone paying to watch. Fast forward. Today, the ratings of the X-games are not the ratings of the Olympics. But you know, check [...]
This is just a short news post about credit card overcharges at Warhammer Online. It’s so peripheral to the “business” of video games that I don’t have much original to add from a legal standpoint. But I do have a short personal commentary at the end(after the jump) .
I believe I read it in the intro to a science fiction novel. “Who will mourn the earth when she is gone?” It just goes to show: when you hear complaints, and compliments, and rivalries, between games, or pasttimes, in online discussions and blogs, it seems to continue forever. Yet “There.com” is shut down, March [...]
Yes, the one that hits the mainstream media. Allegedly security called, developers dismissed from their office, power struggles, money struggles, the biggest one-shot in gaming history (bigger than movie Avatar). This could be “THE ONE” that the mainstream media reports on as if it were a movie star or a rock star. Anonymity goodbye? More [...]
(Lawsuit, that is). Apparently the holiday seasons were an excellent time for Hasbro to sue. This story from Industrygamers says Hasbro ” today (Dec 17) announced its intentions to file a lawsuit against Atari, accusing the game publisher of fraud and five separate licensing agreement breaches of the Dungeons & Dragons brand.” Here is the [...]
This is the best definition of “Griefing” that I have found. Buy Mortal Gold calls it ” the act of chronically causing grief to other members of an online community, or rather, intentionally disrupting the immersion of another player in their gameplay.” There aren’t any lawsuits for griefing, or glitches, or general screwball hatefulness that [...]
FTC’s report on adult content in online worlds A full story from PC Mag says report claims adult content still viewable by children, despite precautions. Notably, “It is far too easy for children and young teens to access explicit content in some of these virtual worlds,” FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz said in a statement. ” [...]
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