Over the past month or so, we’ve reviewed 40 years of gaming history to look at how player-led governance of games has evolved over time. We’ve unearthed structures that bring scalability through decentralization with the council system and OSRS polling system solving the previous bottleneck of community managers, and instances of full-player led governance with institutions and social norms dating back to the 1980s.
I’ve compiled the list of articles here below.
Primer on Governance System Design History in Games
Delivering on an earlier promise:
This is a primer to a 6-part series on governance models used in games today, new models used by p2e and enabled by crypto, and where I see this design space going in the next few years.
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Summary of Articles - Potential Structures and Why we should Care
Player governance is going to be a core part of web3 games.
But why is governance good - and if so what are the structures / best practices to adopt that’ve worked in the past?
h/t @StingRayL0
Game Governance 1 - Ultima 4, Doom/Quake, Shareware and BBS/Usenet
Game Governance 2 - Eve/WoW and the Council System
Game Governance 3 - Runescape and Voting
Game Governance 4 - Illuvium and The Citadel Game
Game Governance 4
In Game Gov 4, we go over existing models and crypto governance in practice in @illuviumio and those proposed by @TheCitadelGame.
Game Governance 5 - Reputation Scaled Systems
Game Governance 5
Building on previous ideas of badge systems, @VitalikButerin's Coinvoting article, I believe games are uniquely positioned to implement non-coin based, reputation scaled voting systems.
Game Governance 6 - Virtual Worlds, LambdaMoo/Second Life
Decentralized virtual worlds have existed since the dawn of the internet. How were they governed and what can we learn from them?
At Metaportal we’re dedicated to helping build sustainable, scalable governance structures that actually help decipher feedback and add another fun aspect to the game itself. If you are a crypto-game interested in decentralization give us a DM on Twitter @metaportal_dao.
