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Why else would so many stories repeat the exact same tropes, like gaining magical powers and fighting off orcs with the help of dwarves and/or elves? Because coming up with reasons to justify shooting, stabbing and magicking things is hard, that’s why. Using science to reform toxic player behavior in League of Legends. Riot Games founders and League of Legends creators Brandon Beck and Marc Merrill have encountered bad behavior in massively multiplayer online games since the days of Ultima Online and EverQuest.
In all that time, the typical moderator response to the all-too-common racial epithets, homophobic remarks, and bullying that borders on psychological abuse in MMOs has been to simply ban the players and move on. League of Legends definitely could have afforded to go the same route, bleeding off a few bad apples from its 12 million daily players and 32 million active monthly players (as of late 2012) without really affecting the bottom line. But Beck and Merrill decided that simply banning toxic players wasn’t an acceptable solution for their game. Riot Games began experimenting with more constructive modes of player management through a formal player behavior initiative that actually conducts controlled experiments on its player base to see what helps reduce bad behavior. Molyneux On Curiosity, GODUS, And Forgotten Promises. Most cubes contain air, sugar, or tiny men named Rubik.
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