A lot of thoughts lately from various sites about the role of your avatar and your identity. From Pixels and Policy, a great article about the attractiveness of avatars, and how it influences your popularity in virtual worlds. From a site focusing on gender, gender equality, and other issues, a great article entitled “Real World [...]
Sony is being sued again, this time it is a visually-impaired gamer who does not feel he is getting proper support from the gaming company. You can also read a report at Gamepolitics.Here are a couple of articles with different viewpoints of the case. From the Website Ablegamers (for challenged gamers of all types) This [...]
“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 most [...]
What happens to your online world when your real-life world ends? When you give it up by choice, or through circumstances such as disability, or even worse, death? This is not a long, dry exposition on the intricacies of estate law. Heck, there’s not enough case law out there to do a seminar or a [...]
According to multiple sources, this article by Pr-inside reports that a US shareholder sues China’s the9 and executives. Here is the full original story on Reuters that they refer to. The main focus is that “A U.S. shareholder sued Chinese online role-playing game developer The9 (NCTY.O) and its top executives on Wednesday, claiming they made [...]
Free to play is the newest model for income-producing games. Here are some authoritative articles to help familiarize you with this new game model. No cases, since free-to-play is so new, especially to the North American model. Game design as marketing: How game mechanics create demand for virtual goods, download link: Cite as: Int. Journal [...]
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, [...]
For the second time in as many weeks, a major company is the litigant in a class action. The consumer (Kennedy) alleges the PS3 firmware update 3.0 harmed his system, and that the followup update 3.01 further damaged his PS3 by affecting his Blu-Ray drive on the PS3. Here are the major game reporting outlet [...]
No, this isn’t going to be a “creepy” post. It’s just a little sampling of those “weird stories” about virtual worlds that the mainstream media seems consumed by. For the most part, there’s less theft, less cheating, less adultery, and less “playing outside the rules” in VWs than in RL(real world). But that doesn’t make [...]
The World of Warcraft MMO, an Activision/Blizzard product, is now back online in China with NetEase as the administrator. Earlier this year World of Warcraft was suspended in China. The Chinese government administration did not license the continuation of a server for WOW. This online game has about five million active users in China, accounting [...]
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