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GDC 2003 – Make Better Games

Confessions of an Arch-Wizard*

•*Written by Michael Lawrie, aka Lorry, for MIST back in 1991.

“Full purges can be great fun if you are bored...wipe a tenth of the persona file, randomly. This way everyone worries it may be them… Personally, I used to like going onto a game as a wizard and threatening someone… [Admins] are there for the people above them to abuse, but as a sideline, they are there to abuse the people below them… To be successful at being a "big" arch-wizard you need to be extremely arrogant… wipe them and all of their friends out in one fell swoop. Make a point of doing it loudly…The odd act of kindness, like say, making a novice with a cute name a wizard, can really annoy people who have been playing for months…”