The Interplay between Real Money Trade and Narrative Structure in Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games
Joint Authors
Source
International Journal of Computer Games Technology
Issue
Vol. 2017, Issue 2017 (31 Dec. 2017), pp.1-8, 8 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2017-02-19
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
8
Main Subjects
Information Technology and Computer Science
Abstract EN
A narrative structure is one of the main components to constitute the genre of Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs).
Meanwhile Real Money Trade (RMT) enables a player to adjust an ex post level of challenge by skipping the narrative structure of a game.
However, RMT may concurrently disturb a player who enjoys game following the narrative structure hierarchically.
In pursuance of developing the knowledge about the relationship between RMT and the usage of MMORPG, we investigate the role of the strictness of predetermined narrative structure.
We present the dual structure of societies to describe a player that arbitrarily decides to reside in a virtual society.
Then we adopt the social nominalism to explain how individual motif of playing a game is expanded to the nature of game.
Finally, we argue that a game with weakly predetermined narrative structure is more positively associated with RMT volume, since these games arouse a player’s sentiment of fun by relying more on their socially oriented motivation.
With empirical evidence from the Korean MMORPGs market, we proved the hypothesis.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Park, Byungchul& Lee, Duk Hee. 2017. The Interplay between Real Money Trade and Narrative Structure in Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games. International Journal of Computer Games Technology،Vol. 2017, no. 2017, pp.1-8.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1165357
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Park, Byungchul& Lee, Duk Hee. The Interplay between Real Money Trade and Narrative Structure in Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games. International Journal of Computer Games Technology No. 2017 (2017), pp.1-8.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1165357
American Medical Association (AMA)
Park, Byungchul& Lee, Duk Hee. The Interplay between Real Money Trade and Narrative Structure in Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games. International Journal of Computer Games Technology. 2017. Vol. 2017, no. 2017, pp.1-8.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1165357
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1165357