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The Curious Case Of The Poorly Behaved Professor
Broken Toys —
When someone talks smack to you in a PvP match, you might ragequit out of the game, or call your guildmates in for retribution, or make furious posts on your server message board, or something similarly dramatic.
When an “new media professor” gets talked smack to, he contacts the media.
The study’s results dismayed Myers, who in 1984 became one of the first university-level professors to study video games. He believes it proved that, even in a 21st century digital fantasyland, an ugly side of real-world human nature pervades, a ...
Mirror World Myers
Kill Ten Rats —
... if he decided to roleplay the Pied Piper in Everquest 1 to rid the region of invaders by training the mobs of that zone. I do like how Myers tried to distance himself from Twixt’s actions by writing as if Twixt was the one acting. Hopefully Myer’s peers that reviewed his paper are not themselves new to online gaming. Hat tip: ...
City of Twixt
Nerfbat —
... Loyala professor David Myers reminds me of myself in Ultima Online. He played his experimental City of Heroes character, Twixt, in much the same way I prefer to play characters in PvP MMOs–like a jerk who uses the rules of a game against its players. The difference between the two of us is that he did it for “research” while I do it “because I am awesome.” Read this article. ...
Twixt
Terra Nova —
Dave Myers, a long-time games researcher and commenter here at TN, received some media coverage yesterday for his tale of Twixt, prompting 132 comments. Scott Jennings has some snarky comments on his blog and thinks this is all about a game design flaw. Personally, I find these kinds of social "flaws" and how they are fixed pretty interesting. In my book, I'm using the story of Twixt to make a simple point that most readers of this blog will already appreciate. The rules that are enforced in MMOGs, like the rules enforced in any ...
Well Duh!
Stropp's World —
... The original title of this post was going to be “Professor Discovers That People Will Ostracise You For Bad Behavior“, but the title was a little too long. A more game oriented headline might have been, “Griefers aren’t terribly popular.” But I feel that both are more succinctly covered by, “Well Duh!” ...
On griefing
Greedy goblin —
... Spinks linked to a scientific report, and also commented it. I couldn't disagree her more. The researcher started a character, Twixt on City of Heroes/Villains, went to the PvP zone and ... PvP! The players hated him so much to start message boards and forums ...
Sympathy for a Griefer?
World of Matticus —
... If you’ve ever wondered what happens when PhD meets MMO, here’s an interesting read for you. It’s a far cry from carebear Professor Syd, but I find this bit of research interesting just because it differs so much from my own outlook on the game world. A couple weeks ago, nola.com ran an article on Loyola professor David Myers detailing his experience in the MMO City of Heroes / City of Villains. This article links to a draft of Meyers’ own academic paper on the subject, “Play and Punishment: The Sad and Curious Case of Twixt,” which is the ...
More Proof That All Scientists Are Evil
Bio Break —
... Remember way back when we all lost our collective cool because some media professor did a “social study” on how being an enormous griefer in PvP does not make one popular? Well, this might just well top it. ...
