Stealth has to have a paper to its rock if it's going to be in the game at all--but there have to be ways in which the actual playing skill of the stealther and the skill of the anti-stealther (or the challenge of the environment) are checked against each other.
Stealth is an in-game power which fundamentally alters the way the player consumes or experiences the virtual world itself. The game you play when you're a rogue in World of Warcraft or a scout in Shadowbane is in many ways a different game than the one everyone else is playing--but you're still in the same world with them. You can't fix that through design: you can only choose to have it or not have it.
26% of female players are introduced to an MMO by a romantic partner, compared with 1% for male players. A programming language and a programming paradigm can shape how we engineer a world. As with our natural languages perhaps there is a cognitive dimension, but without having to even reach that far it is safe to say that engineering practices establish approaches to problem-solving that bias solutions. These practices are hard to ignore in especially high-stakes, risk-adverse software development environments.
Under what circumstances, if ever, can players legitimately cry foul to a shift in game and content? This is not the place I thought I was buying into, this is not where I thought I'd end up! A programming language and a programming paradigm can shape how we engineer a world. As with our natural languages perhaps there is a cognitive dimension, but without having to even reach that far it is safe to say that engineering practices establish approaches to problem-solving that bias solutions. These practices are hard to ignore in especially high-stakes, risk-adverse software development environments.
Even for those who believe in caveat emptor and in migration coupled with a vibrant marketplace of many worlds as the best guarantor of personal satisfaction. Due to the time and social investments, players often perceive their virtual fruits as entertainment assets not easily abandoned This argument is complicated by yet another responsibility - that of the developers to insure to their best ability the viability and profitability of these worlds. A programming language and a programming paradigm can shape how we engineer a world. As with our natural languages perhaps there is a cognitive dimension, but without having to even reach that far it is safe to say that engineering practices establish approaches to problem-solving that bias solutions.
Players who behave poorly on a regular basis, primarily by trying to grab items that they can't use for the purposes of selling them on the Auction House, often find themselves effectively blacklisted. In one or two cases on my server, there are characters who have been mothballed or deleted by their owners due to the fact that no significant guild will tolerate their presence after the character gained a reputation for greedy or griefing behaviors. In many cases, at best, a level 60 griefer (or even simple incompetent) will be consigned to gnawing at the margins of the endgame, unless they're a healer, in which case many transgressions may be forgiven due to the urgency of demand for their services.
Generally, the "scant" research listed in the references section is skewed toward the educational and empirical, though it seems somewhat eclectic. The names that make the references list are all familiar, though. Constance, Nick, Richard, J.C. Herz, Liz Kolbert, and James Gee are mentioned.
It's a good thing for a server if the actions of players have consequences, if the culture of a server has a continuous memory and sense of history. It's a bad thing if players cannot only escape from those consequences with their own power and accumulated wealth intact, but in fact retain social power by having their entire group moved in toto to a new world. Given the public disgruntlement on their new server, it's clear that this guild's negative reputation will now follow them, but without the outcry, that might not have happened. A programming language and a programming paradigm can shape how we engineer a world.
Maybe the issue is the "larger" community. It's always easy to abstract and oversimplify at that level. But I know that on an individual level, there are real conversations and collaborations going on. I don't want this to turn into some rosy "it's better than we think" or "can't we all just get along" thing, but I do think that perhaps the situation is not as dire as it's hyped to be. But then again, I haven't gotte my evals back yet.
Maybe the issue is the "larger" community. It's always easy to abstract and oversimplify at that level. But I know that on an individual level, there are real conversations and collaborations going on. I don't want this to turn into some rosy "it's better than we think" or "can't we all just get along" thing, but I do think that perhaps the situation is not as dire as it's hyped to be. But then again, I haven't gotte my evals back yet.