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Griefing in MMORPGs

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Anti-Social Behavior; Ganking; Griefers; Griefing; Harassment

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MMORPGs refer to massively multiplayer online role-playing games, in which many players play cooperatively or competitively within a persistent world. Griefing is generally defined as a type of online bullying within a gaming context and is quite common in MMORPGs. Griefing involves one player intentionally disrupting another player’s game experience, through some form of harassment, as they enjoy doing so.

Introduction

Massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPG) are a genre of game that is played online with hundreds to thousands of people playing simultaneously. Each player controls an avatar and can play cooperatively or competitively in the persistent virtual world (Achterbosch et al. 2008; Wolf 2012). In MMORPGs and other online virtual worlds, players may encounter what is known as griefing. This is when one player deliberately disrupts another player’s game experience for their own...

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  1. Faculty of Science and Technology, Federation University Australia, Mt Helen, Ballarat, VIC, Australia

    Leigh Achterbosch & Peter Vamplew

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  1. Applied Computer Science Department, Woodbury University Applied Computer Science Department, Burbank, California, USA

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Achterbosch, L., Vamplew, P. (2018). Griefing in MMORPGs. In: Lee, N. (eds) Encyclopedia of Computer Graphics and Games. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08234-9_200-1

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