I would wholeheartedly agree. Especially, the line "The results are not surprising, interesting, or even insightful". The results were obvious. I play pvp worlds exclusively with coh/cov being one of the weaker pvp game types. Most good players aren't dicks like this unless there was something to fight over. The majority of the people don't want to play with people that just gank/harass others via the methods available in a game. On the other hand, if you are playing in a PvP game/world, shutup and don't whine. You have options, leave, logon a different character that might be able to kill the offending party, get some friends to help, whatever. I prefer games where you can be ganked like Shadowbane where after lvl 20 you are free game unless in the city. Therefore, get some friends. There are always these types of people.

The professor really just exposed his lack of experience in anything related to mmorpgs.

Not a bad idea. Watch it, someone might patent it then the patent office couldn't use it.

Too bad this is too logical.

Cheers

Instead of trying to write their product better, write some feature or features that will bolt onto their product and sell it back to them. Granted, they are on the only ones to that will buy the code but many times they are far enough behind schedule to want to work with someone. If you are on bad terms then it won't work, having a champion at the company does wonders too. Cheers