A bunch of teenagers group their orcs around where my avatar appears and beats my brand new character to death with battle hammers as soon as I appear.
That's great citizenship alright.
Jerks.
Sorry to hear this, but I am not surprised. WoW is a Player vs. Player (PvP) environment in which this kind of thing happens with annoying frequency. Payer vs. Evnironment games (PvE) have a much different feel and play.
I find it curious that professor Steinkuehler cherry picks her data, much to the demise of the scientific methods she claims to find at the game boards. She, unfortunately, fails to include in-game chat, which when it comes to WoW I understand to be vulgar and combative or both at once.
As to her assertion that the world of WoW is creative rather than consumptive, I say “posh”. Apparently she have never played the end game where “phat lewt rulz”. Just how creative can you get in an environment tightly controlled by game code?
The NappyOne