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social bookmarking soulmate epic fail, no body loves WarHammer
So Ive tried, fruitlessly, to look for a place to research social communities in mmorpgs. Twine came close but not completely (or I just have high standards aka, Im too lazy to put up with these social book marking thingys). To be honest I think what I am looking for is kind of difficult to find. Seeing as everytime you type in mmorpg, sites like freemmorpgs start popping up, advertising their free online games. Joy. Over all I searched things like “mmorpgs” “game culture” “online games” and got generally what I expected (ads ads and more ads). Though I found like 3 sites that talked about the psychology of mmorpgs but mostly academic. Which helps with the academic part of my blog topic but I feel like it doesnt give me a “real” enough perspective on things. Sure we need unbiased sources but I want opinions from people not bots. But I have to admit there has been some nice finds. Recently I found a page that belongs to a guy named Nick Yee. (sigh, hes not bad looking, haha jk) He’s exactly on target with what I want to study (which is behaviors and culture of people on mmorpgs). He kind of holds that academic tone, but some of his posts on his site are a little more laid back. He is actually a scientist that is “studying online games and immersive virtual reality”. He takes a look at the online society, is it good or bad, or why we get so addicted or who are the kinds of people who do get addicted. So I feel like hes somewhat of a godsend and that he is probably something I will be referring to a lot, later on. Another pretty interesting site I found is mmohub. They generally just have reviews and discussions about games but every once in a while they will have a nice article about the gaming community. One that stood out to me (which I cannot find at the moment) was something along the lines of “the future of mmos”. They have sprinklings of academic articles about game concepts, gaming benefits, the effects of video games on people, the community culture, and etc. As far as people on Twine, there seems to be a lot. There are several groups (?) that have 8k members. So that times at least 20 and you get the gist of it. And the interests seem pretty spread out. One of the most popular twines is about beer (go figure) to Obama to the iphone (eww apple) . Sadly, mmorpgs didnt make it that high in the Twine tree, but I take it as people arent 1337 enough =P (nerd joke). Honestly I expected there to be more hits on mmorpgs but I guess thats just because of the sheltered life I had as a gamer living in the cyber world. D: posted by GOTOMonster @ 12:15 AM On Friday, September 25, 2009 at 12:15 AM
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So, My name is Goto. Im a addicted gamer who'd probably be found dead one day in her room clutching a mouse and a cup of noodles. Im what people
call, a Zai Nu (在 女). Which is a girl version of a lazy person who sits eats sleeps and poops, at home while playing video games all day.
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