FireFly Interference
Posted: Wed Mar 13, 2013 11:48 am
Considering the additional powers and privileges that FireFly (or simply any game developer) possesses, let's debate about whether FireFly should allow its staff and moderators to intervene or interfere with the actual game world.
Having been one of many game moderators myself in the past (other game), I have seen game moderators justify their intervention with the reasoning that "they would like to spice things up and make things more fun".
Fun adds to the life of the game. In that sense, it is prolonging and constructive. That said, if the intervention is partisan, it can drive people away.
Normal players do not have the ability to make global proclamations that transcends worlds. (We will disregard the baseless and defamatory nature of certain "proclamations" for now.)
The problem is, once power abuse starts, it is hard to know when to stop. Till the world is ruined for good.
If the game population finds that there has been interference and such interference is partisan, what avenue or recourse does the game population have to set things right?
Having been one of many game moderators myself in the past (other game), I have seen game moderators justify their intervention with the reasoning that "they would like to spice things up and make things more fun".
Fun adds to the life of the game. In that sense, it is prolonging and constructive. That said, if the intervention is partisan, it can drive people away.
Normal players do not have the ability to make global proclamations that transcends worlds. (We will disregard the baseless and defamatory nature of certain "proclamations" for now.)
The problem is, once power abuse starts, it is hard to know when to stop. Till the world is ruined for good.
If the game population finds that there has been interference and such interference is partisan, what avenue or recourse does the game population have to set things right?