Humphreys, Sal. “Ruling the Virtual World: Governance in Massively Multiplayer Online Games.” European Journal of Cultural Studies 11.2 (2008): 149-71. Scholar Search. Web. 18 Mar. 2010.
Sal Humphreys, a professor at the Queensland University of Technology, believes that Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOG’s) are designed to pull the player into a virtual social life so that the companies who make the games may make a profit. The article explains in detail how the control of the gamer’s life goes from the designers to the publishers to the community management and legal practices to the players.
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