{"id":787,"date":"2021-12-21T19:24:30","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T19:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/?p=787"},"modified":"2022-10-21T16:08:13","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T16:08:13","slug":"episode-32-what-we-can-do-about-the-wicked-problem-of-ethics-in-online-multiplayer-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/?p=787","title":{"rendered":"Episode 32: What we can do about the wicked problem of ethics in online multiplayer games ? (with Lucy Sparrow)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[Release Date: December 21, 2021]&nbsp;Online multiplayer games are notorious for having hopelessly toxic environments where harassment and griefing abound.&nbsp; Game companies are obviously aware of the problem and have both moral and financial reasons to make player interaction more ethical \u2013 and still the unethical behavior persists.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What makes ethics in online multiplayer games such a hard problem to tackle and what can we do about it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/52YX9cJe97TCUNEswsNcVk?utm_source=generator&#038;theme=0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"232\" frameBorder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Release Date: December 21, 2021]&nbsp;Online multiplayer games are notorious for having hopelessly toxic environments where harassment and griefing abound.&nbsp; Game companies are obviously aware of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":789,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[18,55,121,120,119,106],"class_list":["post-787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-podcast","tag-ethics","tag-game-design","tag-griefing","tag-mmo","tag-riot","tag-video-games"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/32-1-logo.png?fit=1200%2C628&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":820,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions\/820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}