[FYI] MMO Gaming - Virtually Too Real?

["Axel H Horns" <axel.h.horns@gmx.net>]

<http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/02/28/0233241>

MMO Gaming - Virtually Too Real?

Posted by simoniker on Saturday February 28, @06:57AM from the 
griefing-for-fun-and-profit dept.  

bippy writes "The Rocky Mountain News has an article about the 
evolving face of massively multiplayer online games. PC MMOGs have 
fostered debates about free speech, made money for people and been 
home to virtual and real crime. Or as the Rocky put it: 'In a time of 
global terrorism, high crime rates and world hunger, the virtual 
evils of a computer game are really trivial. But in a way, that's the 
point: Why do even our games have to be subject to crime, no matter 
how virtual?'" A spokesperson for Ultima Online comments on 
Electronic Arts' view of virtual crime: "EA owns your gold, your 
swords, your characters - they are all just digital bits. If your 
entertainment is to destroy other peoples' entertainment, you're 
going to be tossed." 

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