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The Null Game: feature-specific player enjoyment in massively multiplayer online role playing games
DownloadSpring 2010
Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs) are complex and interesting objects of study. They are quite popular among both casual and connoisseur gamers, and they are often played continuously over many years. Despite a reasonable amount of existing research on MMORPGs, no clear...
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The WoW Factor: A Virtual Ethnographic Study of Sacred Things and Rituals in World of Warcraft
The WoW Factor: A Virtual Ethnographic Study of Sacred Things and Rituals in World of Warcraft
Download2015-05-29
This paper describes the method of complete participant observation-style virtual ethnography and how it was used to study sacred objects and rituals in the virtual world of Azeroth, from the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) World of Warcraft (WoW). Drawing heavily from...