Power or Powerlessness

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Power or Powerlessness

• Inside the booming World of Warcraft

By Henrik Bennetsen Thorvald Kingbo
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Our presentation

• What
• Why
• How
• Other ways

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What

• You may not do anything that Blizzard
  Entertainment considers contrary to the essence
  of World of Warcraft
• Blizzard Entertainment reserves the right, at
  its sole discretion, to change, modify, add to,
  supplement or delete any of the terms and
  conditions of this Agreement at any time
• Where is the players power in all this?

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Why

• More than on entity
• The rights of players
• Company history

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How

• Case study of The Warrior Protest
• Other example The PvP system
• Solution to the problem?

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Then What

• Winner
• A long range toll in human freedom
• Koster
• Rights arent granted by anyone
• Players have the ultimate
• power

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But go where?

• Games Uru
• From broader cyberculture
• Open Source
• Wikipedia

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Why does it work?

• Players feel ownership
• Shared goals
• Self-sustaining world

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Power or Powerlessness

• Inside the booming World of Warcraft

By Henrik Bennetsen Thorvald Kingbo