Communication in
Massively-Multiplayer
Online Games

Relations and communication evolve with game progress

Relationships cognitively comparable to real world

Gameplay

Cooperation

Conflicts

Coalitions

Attacks between coalitions

Guilds as workplace organizations

Geographic separated players

Work together to achieve goals

Use of email,chat, videoconferencing

Trust between players results positive group performance

Sharing property, items, user accounts

Subtopic

Studying social dynamics

Testing ground for human studies

Studying groups, teams, organizations

Different types of MMOG-s

Travian

Game X

Common things

Important operations

Raiding