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Approaches To Teamwork In Online Games Surveyed

Posted by simoniker on from the friendly-kills-off dept.

Thanks to GamersWithJobs for their piece discussing a new study about teamwork in online games. The study homepage has a PDF download of the student-authored paper, which is based on a survey interviewing "a total of 4,712 people" about their team-based gaming experiences online. In terms of improving and evolving teamwork, a variety of options are discussed: "A central commander role like in [Half-Life mod] Natural Selection supports the team aspect... and received positive feedback. However, an unskilled commander might destroy the team experience, as indicated by the votes for S2's Savage."

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  1. Oh, I'd like to point out by PatrickThomson · · Score: 0, Troll

    that this was in fact a sideswipe at first post whores.

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