Really light on stats this time around. The main statistical finding is that youngercplayers tend to be more rigid in dealing with dilemmas and minor infractions, kicking people from groups and so on. On the other hand, there’s a fascinating interview on the topic of game addition with a practicing therapist. Worth reading. The link: the DAEDALUS PROJECT: MMORPG Research, Cyberculture, MMORPG Psychology.

Another day, more changes to the blogroll.

Over at OverModerated (a blog dealing exclusively with community management issues in online games), there’s this nifty article entitled The Virtues As Applied to Community Management. Overall, a solid overview of key lessons learned presented in the pithy bulleted way that gets a blog links. 🙂

But there’s a weird undercurrent in there that I can only term developer resentment!

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It’s available here and from the program page.

Whither Virtual World Research? is a thoughtful take on where the current state of “beardy” thinking about virtual worlds sits today. Sounds like, for whatever reason, there was a lot of self-criticism at SoP, but not necessarily a lot of self-analysis.