Online Gamers Behavior in Backgammon and in General

Online Games Sales Drop…Guess Who’s to Blame…

According to the (former) head of the user research division in Microsoft, Bill Fulton, the average online gamer is responsible to drop in the sales of online games. In his, (and it is safe to say "his" in this case) "frequently barbaric" behavior, which in the worse case includes sexist and racist insults and cheats, team-killing, dropping in the worsen case, the online gamer sends away potential buyers.

To solve this problem and to increase the sales of Microsoft online games, Fulton suggests game designers to design a more sociable social design in games, such as a "swear words filter for text chat", or a different rating system that rewards players for not killing their teammates.

Luckily, backgammon is a two-players game, therefore team killing is not an issue for Play65. However, problems such as swearing and dropping do raise their ugly heads once in a while.

So How Play65 Handles Online Gamers’ Unfriendly Behavior?

When a player disconnects in the middle of the backgammon game played in a real money mode, the player will pay a penalty. The size of the penalty is determined by the win/lose percentages of the disconnected player. If a player disconnects constantly, he/she will be traced by Play65 system and their online account can be deleted and they will be banned from the software for good.

Players who will be caught by the backgammon bots busters using aiding softwares such as Snowie and others during play, will also have their account suspended, and their balance will be emptied and returned to the player(s) against whom they played the deceptive game(s).

Additionally, players who have joined Play65 backgammon community can, in a mouse click, to block opponents who drop, disconnect, use foul language or otherwise pollute the online backgammon environment.