Online Gaming: A Virtual Experiment in the Dark Side of Human Nature.
The article examines the financial motivations and techniques behind cheating in online video games. It focuses on massively-multiplayer online role playing games (MMORPGs) and discusses how players' achievements, accomplishments, and characters can be stolen by hackers through scams that then conve...
| Publicado en: | Skeptic Vol. 24; no. 1; pp. 14 - 18 |
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Skeptics Society
2019
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| Sumario: | The article examines the financial motivations and techniques behind cheating in online video games. It focuses on massively-multiplayer online role playing games (MMORPGs) and discusses how players' achievements, accomplishments, and characters can be stolen by hackers through scams that then convert the stolen items for real-world value. |
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