Loyola Professor becomes CoH's most hated player

lol CoX pvp

I read the article and it's a bunch of crap. He purposely griefs people and then writes a paper about how they got mad. I love the parts where he describes how good he was. The whole thing is a joke and that guy's feeble claim to fame of tormenting pre-teens.

"Wahhh Wahhh, no one likes me!"

"I griefed players and they calle me names...wahh wahh"


Craptacular.

you could have stopped reading here:

"David Myers, a Loyola professor and computer game scholar"

WTF is a computer game scholar? I believe he has the office right next to Peter Venkman.

I for one have never heard of the most hated player in the COH universe, apparently if you are a computer game scholar you can make up titles like that for your self.

From now on please refer to me as the most equivocal player in the COH unverse. I may also dub myself COH professor emeritus.

And you guys can Call me as "Master" and i demand some PL













LOL

Just a joke guys, but you felt offend i blame Pax

Well the thing about this guy, is that despite the fact that he was using what GM's and devs have deemed as acceptable PvP practices, he wasn't doing anything that requires skill and only encourages bad behavior and negative reactions. I mean all he did was run around zones and fear villains and then TP them into hostile NPC mobs where the villain would die almost instantly. So yeah, most people would consider that griefing and would elicit negative comments/reactions.


Though as for the rest of what he did, isn't it kinda messed up with how he did his "experiments"? I mean shouldn't he have been observing and had other people actually doing the work? Cause this provides a bit of irony to have his real life name/location revealed when he was getting death threats...

The guy used tactics that have been debated and discussed by players, and often become flame wars, on the official forums. Things like TPing into NPC's or droning are despised by probably 95% of the player base, and when you have some player that uses this tactic they end up becoming notorious and despised.

Pinnacle had something similar to this, there was a player who would target villains and TP them into groups of Longbow and then pin them via force bubbles or other repel powers. There were threads calling this player out, rallying other players to beat the snot out of him, ect. Heroes in the PvP zones would help the villains to chase off this player. It was one of those rare times when players who hated each other would team up and help out each other.

So yeah, while these people were doing things considered legit by the devs...the players have developed their own set of rules and code of conduct that pretty much anyone followed and these guys went in the face of that. People went into these zones to have challenges against other players and have some sense of enjoyment out of it - and these sort of deviant tactics were the opposite. Players got pissed off because it was no fun to be killed repeatedly by NPC's and earn debt and also have no chance to do anything in the zones. And if you can't chase the person off, you get even more angry and either you end up leaving the zone or you vent somewhere about it all.

Yeah, where do I sign up for that job?!

It would beat mine for sure!

You guys are already Prof's of gameology, Just no cool grant money or published papers(excepting this fantabulous forum) to prop your views. Perhaps you do not need to be propped. Perhaps your ego is strong enough to not require such props. or....

Maybe we are all in the same social "misfit" category, and can not see his point of view. or....

I don't care what the putz writes about, as long as I'm having fun pounding "evil" its good enough for my myopic point of view.

Apparently he needs these things, like we need to play.

Perhaps even more interesting than the article are the comments posted below it. The comments range from "All online gamers are fat, lazy, unemployed couch potatoes" to 'All gamers are the next round of bazillionaires in the making".

I think this guy is a complete toolbag just based on the way that the article is so one sided and self aggrandizing (sp?). I understand that he was supposedly conducting an experiment, but I think his findings are about as revolutionary as declaring that water is wet.

How about we try for a grant to determine if for extended periods of time affects your social abilities(for instance if you play all x2 exp weekend long will you loose sleep, get grumpy, be short with family, affect work performance on Monday, etc.). My theory is that adverse effects are not recognizable(sp) for at least 48 hours.

You can live on Monster and sugar for extended periods, can't you?

THIS!