Gaming Mom

    Did I just accuse? Oh, I sure did.

I have played enough small scale MMO’s to have seen cheating at its best.  Usually these small scale MMO’s are made by guys or girls whom want to create a spin off of something they enjoy playing already, but somewhere along the line of playing this so called MMO, the admins of it changed something.  This player then decides he or she can make one just like it, but better, more destructive or the opposite, more sedative.

They make the game in every way they like, down to the ratios with sabotage or attack to the colors of the page, voila! Their perfect game. So while they are tweaking and adjusting, people come and play, and the creator plays as well. Hmm, he/she has the biggest account, the biggest DA the biggest total fighting force.. hmm indeed.  So the players of the game start to accuse and to question. When they do it in the games open chat area, they are banned, said reasons are “there are no cheating accusations here”

Things like this happen all the time in these small scale MMO’s that i know of.  So, if you create a game should you not be able to play it like the rest of the players you invite?   This is essentially why they created the game in the first place, to make a game to their design specifications, is it not? Or should you just keep your account to watch the game and see how it is going and to help solve issues in it when needed?

Ill give you an example of some issues with a game I know of that gets this a lot.  It has about 5k players. Now there are 2 creators of the game, the one was AWOL for a while and then came back secretly under and assumed game name (at first) and played the game, he immediately had a huge account and it was questioned as a cheat account. It was even suspended for a time, either to make it look good for the community or because the other admin actually didn’t know it was him.  Basically there is always a question about this Admins playing.  Okay so admin 1 decides he doesn’t want to deal with crap like this and”hires” other admins, the cheating accusations go on with the other creator of the game and now you find that one of the new admins is, as well  a top ranked account.  THEN we find out one of the admins new about a glitch in the system and used it to benefit his alliance, he resigned his position and the big accounts in his alliance were banned as well.

Okayyyy, this is a lot of stuff for one game, can anyone say Drama? BUT it leads back to the question, should the makers of game be allowed to play actively.  As a player some might say well they know all the ins and outs, they know how to get around certain issues, then as a creator some might say, but I made the game because I like to play these kinds of games.

There is the saying though, It is his/her game if you don’t like it, go play another one.  How fair is that though, they want people to play the game.  They want the game to be a big MMO (they being the creators/admins)  so what do you do?

Make the community happy and not play, or play the game because you love gaming and say, fuck it all to the community. Some would say it depends on if they made the game for fun or profit, but the games that are speckled with  Ad Sense add would suggest to me that some money is wanted to be made, marketing wise at that point I would say, don’t play the game for the betterment of the selling of the game to other possible players.  If its for fun, then who cares?

I know this much, games on the net get reputations like the 9th grade girl whom will go down on a first date, a reputation could make or break your game either way.  Hours upon hours are spent defining your game, do you want to be know as the “Game where Admins don’t give a shit?” or the game” dude, its richeous and the Admins rock” kinda game?

‘Tis a fine line in the net spectrum, what do you think?