World of Warcraft is very popular among researchers. No surprise though, it really suitable for various research. Though much of this research is the same, it sometimes brings forth interesting topics. Enter Rene Glas from the University of Amsterdam. He looked at how people were playing another game in WoW: 'twinking'. Here's the excerpt:
"This paper investigates one of the more controversial player practices in MMORPG's, twinking, not in terms of value judgement but as a play from negotiating, working against and even transforming a MMORPG's intended structure and design. Making use of participatory ethnographic observations of one of the World of Warcraft's particular forms of twinking, this devious behaviour is discussed as being luxury play, dominance play, transformative play and standardized play, each form having its own influence on the way these virtual worlds are experienced by the player community and, notably, twinkers themselves."
This should've been Dutch pride #4, since Rene rocked the Digra audience with this one.
"This paper investigates one of the more controversial player practices in MMORPG's, twinking, not in terms of value judgement but as a play from negotiating, working against and even transforming a MMORPG's intended structure and design. Making use of participatory ethnographic observations of one of the World of Warcraft's particular forms of twinking, this devious behaviour is discussed as being luxury play, dominance play, transformative play and standardized play, each form having its own influence on the way these virtual worlds are experienced by the player community and, notably, twinkers themselves."
This should've been Dutch pride #4, since Rene rocked the Digra audience with this one.
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