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The Journal of the Learning Sciences, 12, 307- 359.īioware Corporation. MMOG, player behavior, trust, cooperation, communication, raids, online community, ethnography, social normsĪxelrod, R. The team's success depended on its ability to define and retain a coherent group identity and establish shared social incentives rather than individual incentives for participation. The group's ability to reflect and be consistent about its desires for camaraderie allowed it to recover from a poor performing night, which threatened to disband the group. Trust was forged through a desire to ``hang out and have fun'' and was evidenced by the joviality of their communication. It focused on sustaining and building player relationships and learning together rather than the accepted norm of obtaining magical items. This motley group learned how to defeat an end-game dungeon through collaborative improvements on communication and coordination.
To do this, the author describes a team of players in the massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft. In applying traditional game theory to multiplayer computer games, not enough attention has been given to actual player practice in local settings.
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