I visited about 20 in game battlegrounds as my avatar, of course, and wrote samplings of actual player text to get a solid representation of the character of battleground texting. I thought that most of the texts would be standardized statements, but that is not really true. The banter is truncated, but it also extremely human and interactive. The sampling portrays elation, encouragement, instruction, commands, and disappointment in an extremely minimalist raw modality. Battleground texting is unique because it is: (1) in real time, (2) between strangers, (3) temporal, (4) anonymous, (5) “unmedia-ated,” (6) uncensored, (7) unpaid, (8) unedited, (9) subject focused, (10) relatively democratic, (11) unwitnessed, (12) unrecorded, and (13) open forum. As such I think it represents human relations at their uncensored best or worst, and possibly a more essential form of communication.
Data was collected from early March to early May, 2009 in various level 80 World of Warcraft battlegrounds. This sampling is neither random nor complete since it had to collected between playing. There is no “observer status” in battleground play. In an effort to preserve the rawness of the data I did not correct spelling errors. The first section contains avatar names, but I dropped this practice midway through the project. For ease of reading, I kept the format of this section single spaced.
Manimal: random namecalling
Agrevious: nice
Unclemumu: WE NEED TO 5 CAP NO POINTS FOR THEM
Versolitaire: only 2 person hold back east
Tartymclang: just hold for 40 sec
Boostnrexx: gg guys
Tartymclang: do we have a plan
Feralfrenzy: Green!
Amarn:just keep getting vehicles
Versolitaire: gogo green get your charges
Amarn: get more
Amarn: gg
Versolitaire : grab east plz
Amarn: good, keep pushing up
Versolitaire: gj all
Deadrogue yells: GH 16 13
Adultxx: we lose
Sar: now you copy what I said
Manlaw: no u
Manlaw: lawl bad
Wenerna: can you both stfu
Wenerna: and playDinrael: did we win?
Crushlimb: Veteran says we need to defend Galv and hold choke hold
Rozak: its because they realize that the Horde can’t physically stop them unlike us who stop on the bridge and fight for 10 mins against 5 alliance defenders
Jamual: someone get mine
Simper: if you want to Zerg the bridge and take the points
Thyprue: we suck
Brainfreeze: jesus
Rozak: seriously . . . ride through them
Jamual: damit
Verdrentes: get in a tank and blow stuff up
Kelrian: plz share quests
Treant: mneed some at back western shop with me
Fhostbeard: I’ll be there shortly
Verdrentes: 13/12 I love wow
Ayee: nevermind this is over
Borisak: told you we lost
Ayee: saying “I told you so” is it stinks and you’re the first to know it
Borisak: that was almost as quick as the one we one
Borisak: and it wasn’t an I told you so
Borisak: its just a fact and you were being skeptical
Palvarose: we’ll do better next time
Borisak: maybe
Bonestripper: We’re terrible lol
Borisak: . . .
Borisak: no
Borisak: theres just more of them
Lathus: look you are both noobs
Lathus: so stfu
Alphastriker: holy shit I just got here a good one
(I altered the data gathering format at this point in that I am no longer collecting avatar names, it takes too long to get the textual data.)
Brindle u ass
Cry some more, my glass of tears isn’t full yet
That’s the spirit fortunecookie.
Lol do we ever win this
No way jose
Wow we owned van fast
Gg
They’re wiping
Go timeee
Just stunned the tank
Wow
Mine
Wtf
No mine
Everyone was behind me
Just lose for a quick mark
You have over game
So much nerd rage
Cuz our entire dumbass team is on d
We have to GY go figure
24 v 11 =/
Seems fair
Better than a lot 30 v 11 . . lol
Shit all the dks we got we should be able to take out van with all the towers up
Do eet
What bg weekend is it?
AV
Nice
Maybe there won’t be a lot of alli
U jinxed us
Maybe the economy is good
Is there a raid yet?
No
XD
Thanks
Lol
It did no jinx us blizz just don’t like us
Theres more alliance than horde on this server
You mean battlegroup
Ty
Group eh? Mind if I get an invite?
Not sure what you mean, WG is not a battleground
Inv plx
Invite plz
Its only ppl from scarlet crusade in WG
Wtb wg invite
How much you got?
I’m sorry was meant for another channel what I said
Where is reagent vendor in Dalaran?
Aight
2 mins
Buffs plz
Invite draknift
Behold the 5 minute battle shout
Could I please fucking lag more?
You cant
Zesper, don’t try to be buddy buddy with me, two faced fuck head
You can kiss my ass
Oookay
5 sec
Share quests please
Thx
HOLY CRAP were getting massacred up here
East tower going to go
Wtf were are u going
We’re lucky these alli are really stupid
Lol group up
COME WEST SIDE
Demolishers shoot doors from afar
Push in guys
Group up vehicles
Go quick because once all those people south get up here this is never happening
Seiges go
How the hell are all our towers down
Nice
Gj
We win
After shutting out Ally for 9 mins in SoA
Nice
Woop woop
Yaya
Hopefully they give up
Peel them allys off our demos
Im gonna sniff some coke
Ok Green
Purps weak
Stop fighting on the damn beach and head to yellow
Fall back to yellow
Go yellow guys
And gals
Might plz
We just suck
Fall back
Great job guys
Gj
Doin good guys
All rush blue
Zerg blue
Melee drive casters ride
Blue zerg
WE GOT THIS
Walkin on in
Doormat waitin for us
Yellow
Fight at broken gate
Get to yellow
Get off stairs
LoS
Come to me choke then
Good times
For sure
Good thing that wasn’t close
So we won the last one
Not yet
We have to get the relic now
Ah kk I just started pvping at 80
Push in groups
Go mine
Bloody assholes
Sounds painful
Some people are born loosers
I agree
ME
There wasting our cap time, go around them
Man some people like to waste time and ignore we lost
For school
Its Saturday lol
What school do you go to
Cedak is still asleep trust me I know
Ah ok ill take your word for it
Once people get demos go south
There on the east side
Warlock east side
Good work so far, nice communication
Striking west tower soon
1 confirmed friend
There are a decent amount of alliance with 2 cat
I got the cat
Love walkin in to failed bg
Gotta be used to it by now
Yah done like 15 avs we lost
But hey we got bal down
Buffs plz
Ty
39 22 hella odds
Are horde still losing av
Let them 5 cap guys
Its over
3 people afk at the gate eh
Fuck
What the
Is that a mod
I’ll never get my daily done
I know the feeling
Going to need help in the north bunker
So whats the plan
Zerg there back towers
And we win
Err how
No defenses
Run thru
Lol
Wont we lose without defense
Yes, no?
Yes
Cuz u don’t zerg
Learn to chek the number of players
Too much defense=defeat
They comin red
Blue first
Blue bad
Oom pally
Get the priest
Down the guns
Get the flag
That priest is retarded
Ya
Nm
Gg
What now bitchjes
Gg
Great
Motherfucker
Come to Drek and fear ally imao its fun
Holy shit
30+ coming down
We need some o
Lol
Turtle ftl
We doing the whole “best offense is a good denfesne thing
Im just killing ppl
We always lose anyways
Yeah pretty much . . .lets kill some
Gnomes especially
What if that one stray killed your mama
People need to work together and solo everything
. . and NOT solo everything
Lol
Haha
Does not compute
Are others getting dced a lot
No but ab was a bitch earlier
We need heals
Ouch
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