Ethical communities

In my opinion I don't think that online games can cause ethical groups to form. How can they really just based on ethics isn't it more time and place? Of course there are group of friends that play online games together. Obviously groups and factions are formed on online games but i dont think that they are based on ethics. I do think that the writer has looked to much into online gaming. I do think that when groups battle against other groups there is a ethical conection.

Ethics in gaming

I do believe that the virtual community can help foster ethical behavior and bring people together. Too often people get caught up in differences between themselves and someone else- (he's not cool, she's not pretty, etc) without seeing them for who they are- a human being just like us.

Because games are played using avatars, people can't make judgments about other gamers as readily, because their true identity is hidden.

Also, because we are in the virtual world and our identity in the game is not identifiable, we might be more willing to help people. It is a curious commentary on our culture that we are sometimes unwilling to help others in real life, yet online we are more likely to lend a helping hand.

Rules in these games also encourage ethical behaviors among players, so yes, I would say that ethical behaviors are taught by gaming networks.

Ethics

I think that games can create a sort of community. There are people who know each others skills and they are benefited by staying together. I see nothing wrong with it. I wish that I could join one for the sake of having some help in figuring out the game. I hitnk that rules are a good thing to have becasue while a community is good it can also be bad. Players can take advantages of tohers and they can be very mean. Just like in the real world players can no include others and hurt feelings. In a community there also can be an unfair advantage in fights. To my knowledge everyone has the option to join a guild but it is a choice. Those who choose are held accountable and so there is an atmosphere of prespect. I don't think religion has anything to do with it. It is players coming together to play a game and meet a purpose.

Ethical Communities

I believe that some online games can create ethical communities. I feel it also depends on the type of online games that can be able to attain this. If the people that play have a good strong base of ethics in the real world then it will carry into the virtual one, but someone that has no respect for rules and regulations or authority than why would they change for virtual reality. I guess that if they did it would be only because they are being watched or regulated and would be banned from playing. So I do agree that online gaming is not to be thought of as a place to be teaching ethics but how to abide by them.

Gaming Journal Questions Day 1

My avatar looks kind of like a bull I believe that it is called a Tauren. He has huge horns, a goatee, a giant hammer thing as a weapon. The gender is male the race is some type of bull. The Race is a Tauren. The colors are brown and a tan mixed in together. The thing that motivated my choices for the way I created my avatar was that the name has warfare in it so I wanted to make the biggest most intimidating character that I could make. The other choices that were available were Draenei, Blood Elves, Dwarves, Orcs, Taurens, Humans, Trolls, Night Elves, and the Undead. The other options didnt really appeal to me as much as the Tauren did because the Tauren is big and muscular and I like to think that im big and muscular. Other players will just percieve my character as just another tauren because I seen a few of them that looked just like mine did. Cultural norm did not help my decision because to me all of the characters are ugly and the Tauren is one of the ugliest ones. Also the avatar represents aspects of me that represent me like the strength and the power.

avatar choice

Avatar choice is important in an online multiplayer games because the character can desribe what your personality is like. I think that people might pick somethin that would look cool or somethin that appeals to them. I think those kind of things can tell a lot about a person even though that it is in the virtual world. When I did my avatar for World Of Warcraft I tried to make look really cool. My cousin on the other hand tried to make the biggest and most intimidating avatar as he could and it reminded me of him because he is really tall and intimidating if you dont know him. So I believe that the avatar tells alot about that user.

Avatar Choice

I think that avatar choice and customization has a lot to do with the game that your playing. I find it to be similar to everyday life in the fact the most people want to be considered "normal," which is very subjective because what is normal really? Anyways, I think that fitting in can be just as important in a virtual world as it is in the here and now. I think that being able to customize an avatar allows people creative freedom to be whatever character they would like to be, but at the same time these characters fit within a world. For example you would most likely not see sonic the hedgehog rolling into the mario bros world. So therefore there is some sort of limit as you have to pick a character within a subset. I think that in general people like choices and like the control of choosing different aspects of there characters. It helps to connect with ones virtual self. I think that it gives more interaction than if every character was just a standard unchangeable version. I think its a great feature, but i don't think that if a person truely enjoyed a game it would deter them if they were not able to customize there character.