Clicky D1gital_Prob3 writes with this excerpt from a story about David Myers, a Loyola professor who spent some time studying superhero MMO City of Heroes/Villains: "... he aimed the pointer at his opponent, the virtual comic book villain 'Syphris.' Myers, 55, flicked the buttons on his mouse and magically transported his opponent to the front of a cartoon robot execution squad. In an instant, the squad pulverized the player. Syphris fired an instant message at Myers moments later. 'If you kill me one more time I will come and kill you for real and I am not kidding.' ... As part of his experiment, Myers decided to play the game by the designers' rules — disregarding any customs set by the players. in the pvp area..? His character soon became very unpopular. At first, players tried to beat him in the game to make him quit. Myers was too skilled to be run off, however. They then made him an outcast, a World Wide Web pariah that the creator of Syphris — along with hundreds of other faceless gamers — detested." Wow this is interesting, sounds like the guy basically had an unbeatable character, a character that could blast someone to an execution chamber that all died in. How could he make such a character, was he assigned the character by random chance, did he pick his powers? Any one play City of Heroes/Villains, I’m sure of the Slashdot effect the user base is going to go up with lots of forced fighting in the otherwise normal peaceful pvp area "Twixt" floats on his rocket boots in the online roleplaying computer game "City of Heroes."
I've been playing CoH/V for about a year on and off (just got my 12 month vet reward) what i *think* he was doing (although the article is very vague) was using the "teleport foe" power to teleport people into guard drones, which is an exploit. and tbh, i still don't see how this is new research: Gank people in games, people get pissed off, insults/smack talk follows. Happens in most games, and many sports for that matter. More importantly, that costume is horrible.
So basically this guy went into an MMO, cheated, pissed everybody off, and wonders why they are all pissed off? Yay for science!
