What I won’t do in pixels: Examining the limits of taboo violation in MMORPGs

Whitty, Monica T.; Young, Garry; Goodings, Lewis

doi:10.1016/j.chb.2010.08.004

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“…However, the studies of online games analyzed the characteristics [23,[25][26][27], motivations [10], attitudes and feelings about online games [14], cognitive influence [28], online game addiction [27,29], and psychological harm [15,16], but the literature on consumer engagement behavior is quite rare, which is the reason why this research pays attention to it.…”

Section: Massive Multiplayer Online Role-playing Gamesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Additionally, researchers who studied online games mainly analyzed the motivation and feelings for playing online games as well as engagement behaviors in online gaming communities [10][11][12], whereas another research path focused on the negative effects of online game, such as game addiction [13], time distortion [14], menticide [15,16], and cheating behaviors in online gaming communities [17,18]. Nevertheless, antecedent research has rarely taken the positive effects of the online game into consideration [19]; therefore, this study will adopt the perspective of online game players' consumer engagement behavior.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Promoting Consumer Engagement in Online Communities through Virtual Experience and Social Identity

Chuang¹

2020

Sustainability

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With the development and proliferation of online games, understanding how to seize these players has become an essential issue for academic scholars and practitioners. Based on virtual experience in online gaming communities and consumer engagement perspectives, this research developed and verified a multi-dimensional framework for assessing how to retain and encourage players continuous dedication and engagement behaviors. The proposed framework illustrates the interrelationships among six constructs in online gaming communities: social presence, telepresence, cognitive social identity, affective social identity, psychological engagement, and behavioral engagement. Data collected from 338 players who have experience in engagement behaviors in online gaming communities. The collected data were examined against the research framework using structural equation modeling (SEM). The research findings offer sufficient evidence that behavioral engagement is influenced by psychological engagement, which consecutively, are determined by cognitive social identity, affective social identity, social presence, and telepresence. More importantly, the mediating analysis indicated that psychological engagement is a crucial mediator, meaning that consumer engagement is a sequential process, and behavioral engagement cannot independently exist without psychological engagement. Taken together, the research results of this study have several critical theoretical and practical implications for future academic researchers and practitioners to have better understanding of consumer engagement. By doing so, the game companies can have sustainable competitive advantage and support sustainable development.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Promoting Consumer Engagement in Online Communities through Virtual Experience and Social Identity

Chuang¹

2020

Sustainability

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“…We cannot harm a character without triggering unpleasant stress reactions. 1 Whitty et al (2011) find that we shy away from breaking realworld taboos (like rape) in virtual worlds.…”

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Virtual world order: the economics and organizations of virtual pirates

Mildenberger

2015

Public Choice

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This paper investigates how order may emerge in anarchy using a novel empirical approach. It analyzes the predatory and productive interactions of 400,000 users of a virtual world. Virtual worlds are computer-created environments that visually mimic physical spaces, where people interact with each other and with virtual objects in manifold ways. Notably, the paper examines the behavior of users acting as virtual pirates. The paper finds that even in a largely anonymous and anarchic virtual world private rules of order mitigate the most destructive forms of conflict. This is true even though the virtual pirates are found to be conflict-loving rather than conflict-averse. Although the costs of conflict are dramatically reduced in virtual worlds, private rules that limit violence spontaneously emerge. An important part of the paper's contribution is methodological. The analysis of the problem of order in anarchy serves to exemplify the power and usefulness of the new approach.

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“…A number of authors have speculated that there are positive effects of online 80 gaming [6] even in violent games [7], although there is some evidence of psychological effects in niche hyper-violent games, particularly when experiencing taboo activities such as rape and torture [8]. However, the systematic review by Connolly et.…”

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Deconstructing who you play: Character choice in online gaming

Hodges

Buckley

2018

Entertainment Computing

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The major growth in gaming over the last five to ten years has been through the expansion in online gaming, with the most frequent gamers now playing more games online than with others in person. The increase in cooperative multiplayer online gaming, where players who do not know each other come together in teams to achieve a common goal, leads to interesting social situations.The research in this paper is focussed on the online multiplayer game Overwatch, in this game playable characters are grouped into a number of classes and characters within these classes. A player chooses the character at the start of a given round, and whilst they can change the character during the game round this is generally undesirable. In this research we were interested in how players go about selecting a character for a given round of the game, this is a complex interaction where a player has to balance between personal character preference (either a character they enjoy playing or is well-mapped to their playstyle and skill) and ensuring a team has a balance of player classes. The interaction is complicated by the online nature meaning it is difficult to reward a team-mate for selecting a character they may not wish to play or playing a character which may mean they will perform poorly but the team will win.We recruited over 1,000 Overwatch players and surveyed them on how they make their character choices within the game, they were also asked to complete various psychometric tests. We found that a gamers player 'type' (i.e. Killer, Achiever, Explorer or Socialiser) was defined by their agreeableness and their gender. We also found that player's choice of character class was related to their level of agreeableness and extroversion modulated by the player's gender. We also found that those who rate highly in conscientiousness and agreeableness and are socialisers or achievers were more likely to choose a character in order to achieve a balanced team rather than personal preference.The research is unique in the scale and number of respondents, it also addresses a problem in co-operative gaming where players must negotiate the composition of a team. This negotiation is often performed without any background knowledge of other player's skill levels, this is the first study at this scale considering this within the context of co-operative online gaming.

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What I won’t do in pixels: Examining the limits of taboo violation in MMORPGs

Cited by 37 publications

References 22 publications

Promoting Consumer Engagement in Online Communities through Virtual Experience and Social Identity

Promoting Consumer Engagement in Online Communities through Virtual Experience and Social Identity

Virtual world order: the economics and organizations of virtual pirates

Deconstructing who you play: Character choice in online gaming

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