We're Coming For Your Children: Mainstream Media Discovers Griefers! From GamePolitics comes a Reuters article that will probably make you foam at the mouth, both for its lovely 'how did it take you people this long to notice?' quality, as well as the rather unfair characterization of the industry by an 'expert.' Dr. Sally Black expounds on griefers as well as her personal opinions on gaming, which span from 'games are addictive' to 'the industry is going after your children with advertising,' including nice comparisons to the tobacco and alcohol industries.
"... Right now these marketers are going straight after the young ones to try to get them addicted at an early age, and it's like a parent trying to fight tobacco and alcohol. It's very difficult," she said.
There's actually some interesting discussion over at GamePolitics once you get past the frothing and foaming at the mouth.
Physical violence isn't the only form of bullying, and it's hard to just not play or find somewhere else to play when it's a character in an MMO you've invested a lot of time in.
In some respects I'd welcome the removal of anonimity for people in online games, as that in itself sometimes seems to encourage atrocious behavior from otherwise nice people.
FatherJack wrote:Physical violence isn't the only form of bullying,
This is very true, but IME (especially with kids) most of the bullying that happens is either violence, or threats of.
FatherJack wrote:and it's hard to just not play or find somewhere else to play when it's a character in an MMO you've invested a lot of time in.
that is true.
FatherJack wrote:In some respects I'd welcome the removal of anonimity for people in online games, as that in itself sometimes seems to encourage atrocious behavior from otherwise nice people.
We're Coming For Your Children: Mainstream Media Discovers Griefers!
From GamePolitics comes a Reuters article that will probably make you foam at the mouth, both for its lovely 'how did it take you people this long to notice?' quality, as well as the rather unfair characterization of the industry by an 'expert.' Dr. Sally Black expounds on griefers as well as her personal opinions on gaming, which span from 'games are addictive' to 'the industry is going after your children with advertising,' including nice comparisons to the tobacco and alcohol industries.
that is true.
