Massively Overthinking: Doing crimes and getting punished in MMORPGs

A couple of weeks before Dual Universe’s snafu banning beta players for taking advantage of a developer’s poorly permissioned structure, I saw the game’s founder, J.C. Baillie, posting on Twitter about thievery in MMOs. “Regarding theft in @dualuniverse: the vision is that players should be given ways to retaliate within the game, with player-driven police […]