Nakamura

Racism in a video game... This isn't that much of a surprise to me, to be completely honest. This is just the first time I've heard of anyone calling attention to it. Actually, come to think of it, almost every video game that I have seen is racist in some way or another. Just think of games like Grand Theft Auto - one of the most popular and best-selling video games there has been on the market; extremely racist against African Americans. It is even more odd to me that this appears in World of Warcraft against Asians, when the majority of MMO games originating in Asia.

I thought it was interesting how Nakamura thinks that it is good for the video game industry if cheating occurs. Cheating keeps users from getting "stuck" in a certain part of the game and bored with it. I can remember a lot of games that I had played when I was younger and got really bored with because there was no way to get passed a certain point (also, I was way too stubborn to ask my older brother for help).

There is no way in the game to know if a player is Asian or not, so how is it bad that the farmers in the game are a racist remark? Asians who play World of Warcraft can choose to be any other player of the game can't they? Not only are the farmers in the game made to look and sound exactly like those of Asian heritage,  they are made to be one of the most hated players in the game, making users who play the game who may not be very familiar with the ethnicity biased.