Cash Trade in Free-to-Play Online Games

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3000228
AutoresHolin Lin (0000-0001-6075-956X, National Taiwan University, autor correspondente), Holin Lin Holin Lin, Chuen-Tsai Sun (0000-0002-4757-9131, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University)
Ano2011
Volume6
Fascículo3
Páginas270-287
Data de publicação2011-05-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoGames and Culture (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1555-4120 • E-ISSN: 1555-4139
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1555412010364981
OpenAlexW2135693853
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas19
Referências citadas2

The rapidly expanding ''free-to-play'' online game payment model represents a huge shift in digital game commercialization, with cash payments for virtual items increasingly recognized as central to ''free game'' participation. In this article, the authors look at implications of this trend for gameplay experiences (especially in terms of immersion, fairness, and fun) and describe a fundamental shift in player self-perceptions as consumers rather than members of a gaming community. This change is occurring at a time when the line separating game and physical worlds is becoming less distinct. The new business model entails a subtle but significant reduction in consumer rights awareness, which explains why some members of the greater gaming community are negotiating a new sense of fairness and arriving at a new consensus regarding legitimate gameplay

Advertising · Business · Business model · Cash · Commercialization · Economics · Game design · Game Developer · Game studies · Game theory · Immersion (mathematics · Internet privacy · Media studies · Metagaming · Microeconomics · Multimedia · Negotiation · Non-cooperative game · Payment · Perception · Simultaneous game · Sociology · Video game · Cinema and Media Studies · Computer Science · Digital Games and Media · Impact of Technology on Adolescents · Psychology · Marketing