“I play a good guy, a white knight,” says Darren McDonald, a systems analyst from Dallas. In 37 months of playing Ultima Online, McDonald has created the valiant Darius — a mayor and a blacksmith who rescues people from a nearby dungeon. “I cannot understand playing a bad person. I cannot understand killing something on purpose, even if it is just a virtual game.”
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