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  • Having alts is a big part of the game, if you're like me you try about every class or race to see which "sticks" the most, and most people's mileage will vary.

    REVIEW: World of Warcraft Peter 2005

  • Underlying this concern, however, is a legitimate issue about players' use of alternate characters, known as "alts" to participate in the experiment multiple times using different avatars, a practice I refer to as experiment farming.

    Lying Online 2008

  • If you think players and their movements in this ecosystem is difficult enough to decipher and interpret, let me now introduce into the mix "alts".

    November 2007 2007

  • If you think players and their movements in this ecosystem is difficult enough to decipher and interpret, let me now introduce into the mix "alts".

    A culture of mistrust in Eve-Online 2007

  • Being anonymous, using pseudonyms or, as Internet sub-culture calls them, "alts" as in alter-egos is actually one of the great advantages of the Internet.

    Archive 2007-07-01 2007

  • I also feel that as a phenomenon "alts" beyond a simple thumbs up or down evaluation (from a game world perspective), it is something that seems to have emerged over a while and in its own right is extremely fascinating (**).

    Strange company in Eve-Online 2007

  • Throw into the mix "alts" alternate characters and one might imagine the total unravelling of a social system: "whose alt are you?"

    A culture of mistrust in Eve-Online 2007

  • Some "alts" may be alternative characters played on one account - and cannot be played concurrent.

    November 2007 2007

  • Some "alts" may be alternative characters played on one account - and cannot be played concurrent.

    A culture of mistrust in Eve-Online 2007

  • Throw into the mix "alts" alternate characters and one might imagine the total unravelling of a social system: "whose alt are you?"

    November 2007 2007

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