Player Kicking - Revision history

Staffan Björk at 14:44, 19 March 2018

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Staffan Björk at 08:23, 13 July 2011

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Staffan Björk at 09:22, 11 July 2011

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 == Consequences ==
-[[Player Kicking]] puts players under a threat that they can suffer [[Early Elimination]] in games due to causes besides those specifically inscribed in game rules. When players can kick each other through a [[Voting]] system, [[Player Kicking]] gives players a [[Freedom of Choice]] of whom they need to play with. While this may help create an [[Exaggerated Perception of Influence]], the possibility of being kicked oneself can work against having a feeling  [[Exaggerated Perception of Influence]].
+[[Player Kicking]] puts players under a threat that they can suffer [[Early Elimination]] in games due to causes besides those specifically inscribed in game rules. When players can kick each other through a [[Voting]] system, [[Player Kicking]] gives players a [[Freedom of Choice]] of whom they need to play with. While this may help create an [[Exaggerated Perception of Influence]], the possibility of being kicked oneself can work against having a feeling [[Exaggerated Perception of Influence]].
 The actual act of [[Player Kicking]] is an [[Extra-Game Actions|Extra-Game Action]] that leads to [[Player Elimination]] and [[Game Over]] for the affected players. Since this is usually something contested by these players, [[Player Kicking]] is often preceded by [[Negotiation]].
 == Relations ==
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 [[Game Over]],
 [[Negotiation]],
-[[Player Elimination]]
+[[Player Elimination]],
 ==== with [[Voting]] ====

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 Implementing the pattern consist either of giving [[Game Masters]] or [[Entitled Players]] privileges to access functionality to throw players from game servers, or implementing [[Voting]] system so players can initiate and enforce the kicking of other players on their own. It does not need to be supported explicitly through design in [[Self-Facilitated Games]] since players and [[Game Masters]] can there kick players on their own initiative.
 === Interface Aspects ===
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 === Can Modulate ===
 [[Multiplayer Games]]
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 [[Entitled Players]],
 [[Game Masters]],
 [[Voting]]
 === Can Be Modulated By ===
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 === Potentially Conflicting With ===
 [[Exaggerated Perception of Influence]]
 == History ==

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 [[Player Kicking]] is not so much a pattern concerning gameplay as it is one concerning the game activity as a whole. It is added to games that want to give players or [[Game Masters]] the power to police themselves when some player is not behaving. Reasons for these can be cheating, using [[Exploits]], repeatedly engaging in [[Friendly Fire]], or any other activity that is deemed socially unacceptable. [[Player Kicking]] does not directly have to do with gameplay progression, and therefore it does not make sense for game systems to perform this type of kicking. This makes the pattern make most sense in [[Multiplayer Games]] since cases where players of [[Single-Player Games]] - include those with [[Game Masters]] - perform in unacceptable ways and are kicked as a result are difficult to distinguish from other cases of [[Game Over]] in [[Single-Player Games]].
-Implementing the pattern consist either of giving [[Game Masters]] privileges to access functionality to throw players from game servers, or implementing [[Voting]] system so players can initiate and enforce the kicking of other players on their own. It does not need to be supported explicitly through design in [[Self-Facilitated Games]] since players and [[Game Masters]] can there kick players on their own initiative.
+Implementing the pattern consist either of giving [[Game Masters]] or [[Entitled Players]] privileges to access functionality to throw players from game servers, or implementing [[Voting]] system so players can initiate and enforce the kicking of other players on their own. It does not need to be supported explicitly through design in [[Self-Facilitated Games]] since players and [[Game Masters]] can there kick players on their own initiative.
 === Interface Aspects ===
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 === Can Be Instantiated By ===
 [[Game Masters]],
 [[Voting]]

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 == Consequences ==
-When players can kick each other through a [[Voting]] system, [[Player Kicking]] gives players a [[Freedom of Choice]] of whom they need to play with. While this may help create an [[Exaggerated Perception of Influence]], the possibility of being kicked oneself can work against having a feeling  [[Exaggerated Perception of Influence]].
+[[Player Kicking]] puts players under a threat that they can suffer [[Early Elimination]] in games due to causes besides those specifically inscribed in game rules. When players can kick each other through a [[Voting]] system, [[Player Kicking]] gives players a [[Freedom of Choice]] of whom they need to play with. While this may help create an [[Exaggerated Perception of Influence]], the possibility of being kicked oneself can work against having a feeling  [[Exaggerated Perception of Influence]].
 The actual act of [[Player Kicking]] is an [[Extra-Game Actions|Extra-Game Action]] that leads to [[Player Elimination]] and [[Game Over]] for the affected players. Since this is usually something contested by these players, [[Player Kicking]] is often preceded by [[Negotiation]].
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 == Relations ==
 === Can Instantiate ===
 [[Exaggerated Perception of Influence]],
 [[Extra-Game Actions]],

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 ''The extra-game action of removing a player from game instances.''
-Even if all games have explicit or formalized rules at their core, additional rules govern the actual activities they support. These rules, called gaming rules<ref name="sjöblom"/> or implicit rules<ref name="Salen&Zimmerman"/>, also need to be followed and can in fact be more important to follow as long as failure to follow the formalized rules are unintentional (see Myers 2008 for an example of how following the official rules but not the social rules of [[City of Heroes]] can result in a player being hated <ref name="myers"/> ). When players do not follow these more important set of rules, either the other players or the game facilitators can enforce that offending players do not play anymore, [[Player Kicking]] them, in order to be able to continue with the gaming activity.
+Even if all games have explicit or formalized rules at their core, additional rules govern the actual activities they support. These rules, called gaming rules<ref name="sjöblom"/> or implicit rules<ref name="Salen&Zimmerman"/>, also need to be followed and can in fact be more important to follow as long as failure to follow the formalized rules are unintentional (see Myers 2008 for an example of how following the official rules but not the social rules of [[City of Heroes]] can result in a player being hated <ref name="myers"/>). When players do not follow these more important set of rules, either the other players or the game facilitators can enforce that offending players do not play anymore, [[Player Kicking]] them, in order to be able to continue with the gaming activity.
 === Examples ===
-Many team-based [[:Category:Sports|Sports]] such as [[Ice Hockey]] and [[Soccer]] have rules for banning players from the current match or future ones if they commit various fouls. Similarly, moderators of team-based [[:Category:FPS Games|First-Person Shooters]] such as [[Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory]], the [[Battlefield series]],  and the [[Team Fortress series]], can ban players but for the games players can ban each other through majority votes. This functionality is needed since not all games are supervised and since the players typically do not know each other and are distributed spatially.
+Many team-based [[:Category:Sports|Sports]] such as [[Ice Hockey]] and [[Soccer]] have rules for banning players from the current match or future ones if they commit various fouls. Similarly, moderators of team-based [[:Category:FPS Games|First-Person Shooters]] such as [[Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory]], the [[Battlefield series]],  and the [[Team Fortress series]], , can ban players but here players can also ban each other through majority votes. This functionality is needed since not all games are supervised and since the players typically do not know each other and are distributed spatially.
 == Using the pattern ==
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 === Interface Aspects ===
-The actual act of kicking a player is often proceeded by some type of [[Negotiation]]. For games that are not played face-to-face, this can be supported by [[Communication Channels]]. When the [[Player Kicking]] is enforced through [[Voting]], this similarly needs to be supported by [[Secondary Interface Screens]] if the game is not one played face-to-face.
+The actual act of kicking a player is often preceded by some type of [[Negotiation]]. For games that are not played face-to-face, this can be supported by [[Communication Channels]]. When the [[Player Kicking]] is enforced through [[Voting]], this similarly needs to be supported by [[Secondary Interface Screens]] if the game is not one played face-to-face.
 == Consequences ==
-The actual act of [[Player Kicking]] is a [[Extra-Game Actions|Extra-Game Action]] that leads to [[Player Elimination]] and [[Game Over]] for the affected players. Since this is usually something contested by these players, [[Player Kicking]] is often preceded by [[Negotiation]].
+When players can kick each other through a [[Voting]] system, [[Player Kicking]] gives players a [[Freedom of Choice]] of whom they need to play with. While this may help create an [[Exaggerated Perception of Influence]], the possibility of being kicked oneself can work against having a feeling  [[Exaggerated Perception of Influence]].
-When players can kick each other through [[Voting]] system, [[Player Kicking]] gives players a [[Freedom of Choice]] of whom they need to play with. While this may help create an [[Exaggerated Perception of Influence]], the possibility of being kicked oneself can work against having a feeling  [[Exaggerated Perception of Influence]].
+The actual act of [[Player Kicking]] is an [[Extra-Game Actions|Extra-Game Action]] that leads to [[Player Elimination]] and [[Game Over]] for the affected players. Since this is usually something contested by these players, [[Player Kicking]] is often preceded by [[Negotiation]].
 == Relations ==

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 <ref name="Salen&Zimmerman">Salen, K. & Zimmerman, E. (2003). Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals. The MIT Press. ISBN 0262240459</ref>
 <ref name="sjöblom">Sjöblom, B. (2008). The Relevance of Rules: Negotiations and Accounts in Co-operative and Co-located Computer Gaming. Proceedings of the [player] conference, IT University of Copenhagen, August 26-29, 2008, pp. 335-378.</ref>
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 == Acknowledgements ==