Dissertations / Theses: 'MMORPG'

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Pahlin, Daniel. "Problemlösande MMORPG-Design." Thesis, University of Skövde, School of Humanities and Informatics, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-1421.

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Detta arbete diskuterar och visar förslag på lösningar till problem somjag har stött på under min tid som mmorpg spelare. Lösningarnaappliceras i mitt egna påbörjade mmorpg i formen av ett highconcept dokument.Problemen som tas upp i detta arbete handlar om tiden som krävs föratt spela ett mmorpg och jag försöker ge spelarna makten att väljasjälva hur de vill spendera sin tid inne i spelet.Senare i den reflexiva rapporten diskuteras metoder och lösningarnasom har arbetats fram.

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Linhart, Pavel. "Obchodní modely MMORPG." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-72544.

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This thesis studies massive multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPG) and their business models. Purpose of this work is to analyze current MMORPG market and business models which are currently used. The main goal and asset of this thesis is concept of new business and payment models that could be used in MMORPGs in order to increase number of customers and to raise profits. Part of the concept is the analysis of possibilities of player's history to create a profile suitable for personalized advertising. The last goal is analysis of ways that developers of MMORPGs use to motivate players to to play long-term, so they use the service and generate profit.

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Schliemann, Erik. "Identitetsskapande och socialisering i onlinespel : Formandet av en digital identitet." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för informatik, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-73312.

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As social interactions migrate to the ubiquitous Internet we are facing a change in theway we relate to each other, which presents interesting new opportunities foranonymity to create identities. An aspect of this radically evolving technology thatexhibits strong possibilities for altering or producing identities is the rapidly growingonline game genre MMOG (Massive Multiplayer Online Game) which isentertainment that millions of people all over the globe engage in daily. Thisrelatively new platform for socialising has become of cultural and social significance,which is why it calls for examination and research. Thus, the main research questionsasked in this thesis are as following: How does players of MMOGs utilise the nighcomplete anonymity to present or modify their identities online? In which ways areMMOGs used as a platform for socialising and development of social groupdynamics? After observing a large group of players in a popular MMOG, as well asconducting several interviews with key identities within the group, I discovered three fundamental parts of identity creation, and created a model for use and applicationin different social situations and constellations.

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Esbjörnsson, Robert. "Hur skapar man longterm gameplay i MMORPG." Thesis, University of Skövde, School of Humanities and Informatics, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-97.

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Detta arbete tar upp frågan hur man får onlinerollspel, så kallade (MMORPG) att erbjuda bättre longterm gameplay och ge spelarna en intressantare upplevelse under längre tid. Frågeformuleringen detta behandlas utifrån är: ”Hur skapar man longterm gameplay för olika spelartyper i ett MMORPG?”

Frågan undersöks genom att utforska vad för typ av gameplay olika spelartyper är intresserade inom genren. Spelartyperna kommer från Bartle’s (1996) uppställning av fyra typer av spelare: achivers, explorers, socializers och killers.

Frågan besvaras sedan genom ett designdokument till ett MMORPG där olika typer av spelelement introduceras för ändamålet.

Resultatet som framkommer visar på att man ska ta vara på det som gör MMORPG till en sådan intressant spelform. Genom att erbjuda omväxling, social interaktion och inte minst nya utmaningar. Samtidigt som det sker en långvarig vidareutveckling av spelarens karaktär så sätt lockas spelarna till att stanna kvar och har alltid något underhållande mål att sträva efter. Spelaren vill få belöning och uppmuntran i förhållande till den tid och arbete som investeras i spelet.

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Södertun, Markus, and Pontus Sjögren. "Sociala relations som skapas i Mmorpg-spel." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-18101.

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Wahlbäck, Emmy. "Online Roleplaying : Collaborative storytelling in an MMORPG." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för kommunikation och information, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-5024.

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Rollspel kan ske i många olika former, och rollspelandet online erbjuder spelare en mängd olika möjligheter för interakton och socialt samspel. Hur går rollspelet tll och hur påverkar det spelarna som deltar? Den här studien tar upp hur rollspel i et MMORPG kan gå tll, hur det kan användas i skapande utanför spelets gränser samt hur de deltagande ser på sin egen medverkan i skapandet av en berätelse genom rollspel. Undersökningen har gåt ut på at under en td delta i rollspel för at sedan använda de intryck och händelser som sket inom spelets ramar för at skriva en text. Därefer har rollspelare intervjuats angående en rad olika områden som berör rollspel och hur de ser på det. Slutligen så sammanfatas spelarnas egna upplevelser och de slutsatser som kan dras utfrån dessa kan användas som en grund inför fortsata studier angående rollspel online.

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Heyde, Carla Junger. "Auto-realização de jogadores de Tibia : MMORPG." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/11382.

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Buscando analisar a natureza da sociedade na qual vivemos, que passa a ter uma dimensão virtual proporcionada por jogos massivos multijogadores de interpretação de personagens baseados na Web, ou Massively Multiplayer On-line Role Playing Games – MMORPGs -, recorremos à teoria de Axel Honneth. O autor identifica o surgimento de um individualismo da auto-realização em sociedades capitalistas modernas, em que os indivíduos demandam condições autônomas de busca por auto-realização para alcançar o que compreendem por “vida boa”. Esse trabalho analisa os motivos que levam os jogadores a optar por participar da “sociedade virtual” dos jogos, partindo da hipótese de que o ambiente social que estes proporcionam possibilita a construção da auto-realização dos jogadores de forma complementar ao ambiente social ao qual o indivíduo pertence de carne-e-osso. Os jogos MMORPGs estariam assim complementando as necessidades individuais de realização social e os ambientes sociais “virtuais“ sendo, portanto, concretos em suas contribuições para tais demandas individuais. O que explica a opção dos jogadores por vivenciar suas relações sociais dentro do jogo. Para investigar a veracidade dessa hipótese, realizou-se uma etnografia virtual no ambiente do jogo Tibia e utilizou-se a técnica de observação participante que nomeamos “Jogando”: assistindo, lendo, escrevendo e participando. Os dados foram coletados através de conversas informais com mais de quinhentos personagens por um período de dezessete meses, num total aproximado de quatro mil horas. Foram analisados conforme a particularidade de cada tipo de relação desenvolvida pelos jogadores: amorosas, jurídicas e de valoração social. Essa pesquisa contribui para a compreensão de diversos fenômenos sociais relacionados a esse tipo de jogo e para auxiliar os diferentes públicos - formadores de opinião, familiares de jogadores, jogadores em potencial, instituições de ensino - a avaliar o ato de jogar. Os dados confirmam nossa hipótese e possibilitam a elaboração de perguntas sobre fenômenos que se reproduzem no ambiente virtual e contradizem os anseios daqueles que acreditam que “um outro mundo é possível”.
In order to analyze the nature of the society we live today, which has a new virtual dimension possible by the Massively Multiplayer On-line Role Playing Games – MMORPGs -, we requested Axel Honneth’s theory. The author identifies the arising of an individualism of self-realization in modern capitalist societies, in which the individuals demand autonomous conditions of search for self-realization to reach what they understand as “good life”. This work analyzes the motives that lead the players to opt to participate in the “virtual society” of the games, starting from the hypothesis that the social environment that these games provide enables the construction of the players’ self-realization in a complementary way to the social environment which the individual belongs in flesh and blood. The MMORPGs are so complementing the individuals’ needs of social realization, and the “virtual” social environments being concrete in their contributions to such individuals’ demands. What explains the players’ option to experience their social relations inside the game. To investigate the veracity of this hypothesis a virtual ethnography was carried out in the Tibia game environment and the technique of participative observation was utilized, which we named “Playing”: watching, reading, writing and participating. The data were collected through informal conversations with more than five hundred characters for a period of seventeen months, in a total of approximately four thousand hours. They were analyzed by the particularity of each type of relation developed by the players: loving, legal and social appraisal. This research contributes to the comprehension of diverse social phenomena related to this kind of game and to assist the different publics – opinion creators, relative of players, potential players, and education institutions – to evaluate the act of to play. The data confirm our hypothesis and make possible the elaboration of questions about phenomena that are reproduced in the virtual environment and contradict the yearnings of those who believe that “another world is possible”.

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Östling, David, and Isak Sundström. "Spelares upplevelser av mörka designmönster i MMORPG spel." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-300189.

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Denna studie utfördes för att undersöka konceptet om mörka designmönster i MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games) spel och för att ta reda på vad spelarna tyckte om dem. Detta gjordes för att utöka kunskapen kring ämnet och för att lysa ett ljus på hur spelare blir påverkade av mörka designmönster. Denna studie gjordes dessutom för att det ännu inte finns några undersökningar om spelarnas upplevelser och åsikter kring mörka designmönster i datorspel. Vi valde att fokusera på spelet Runescape då det är ett av de mest populära MMORPG spelen just nu. Dessutom liknar detta spel många andra MMORPG spel i hur det är designat. Definitionerna på mörka designmönster i denna studie kommer huvudsakligen från José Zagals studie om mörka designmönster i spel som publicerades 2013. Denna undersökning utfördes genom att publicera en enkät på några olika Runescape-forum. Enkäten innehöll frågor till spelarna om deras åsikter och syner på de olika mörka designmönster som kan hittas i spelet. Studien visade att spelare har blandade åsikter och att det fanns många spelare som var generellt sett positiva mot de mörka designmönstren i spelet. Många var också väl medvetna om de problematiska aspekterna av dessa och hade negativa åsikter om dem. Trots det tolererade spelarna dem eftersom att de fortsatte spendera väldigt många timmar i spelet. Några av dem med negativa åsikter beskrev hur deras beroende av spelet fick dem att fortsätta spela även fast de tyckte illa om de mörka designmönstren.
This study was performed in order to investigate the concept of dark design patterns in MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games) games and what players think about them. This was done in order to deepen the knowledge surrounding this topic and to get more insight to how players are affected by dark design patterns since there are currently no studies on players' opinions on dark design patterns in video games. For the purpose of this study we focused on the game Runescape as it is currently one of the most popular MMORPG games. The game is also very similar to many other MMORPG games when it comes to its design. The definitions of the dark design patterns present in this study primarily come from José Zagals study on dark patterns in games from 2013. Our study was conducted by posting a survey asking the players about their opinions on the dark design patterns that could be identified in Runescape. The survey was posted on a couple of Runescape discussion-forums. The study showed that players had mixed opinions and that many players had a general non-negative view on the dark design patterns present in the game. At the same time, many were also well aware of the problematic aspects of the dark patterns and had negative opinions on them but nevertheless tolerated them as they kept putting many hours into the game. A few of the ones with negative opinions described how their addiction to the game made them keep playing despite disliking the dark design patterns.

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Yao, Yifei. "Exploring the sense of immersion of MMORPG game design." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för kommunikation, medier och it, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-7508.

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MMORPG game as the a representative product of video game from its birth to the present more than several decades, have been developing at an astonishing speed and MMORPG player groups have expanded. Nevertheless, there are questions being raised of the relatively new and successful field of sense of immersion of MMORPG game design. In the previous studies, the theory of flow had been testified to be the tremendously significant to explore sense of immersion while performing the activities and it had been applied to many different domains. Based on three conditions of that are necessary to achieve the flow state, the paper addresses the predicaments by analyzing the research results in relation to previous design report on the sense of immersion of MMORPG game design. The paper also provides the constrictive thoughts and productive sketches on how to promote the sense of immersion of MMORPG game using the design artifacts in an early design process.

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Sutton, April G. "Avatar identification and its effects on MMORPG game play." Xavier University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=xavier1444130344.

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SANTOS, Felipe Kühner Câmara dos. "Progressão individualizada em MMORPG: ajustando a dificuldade de quests." Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, 2014. https://repositorio.ufpe.br/handle/123456789/11405.

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O gênero dos jogos massivos de interpretação online (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games - MMORPG) vem ganhando cada vez mais espaço de mercado por proporcionar um ambiente simultaneamente cooperativo e competitivo. A grande variedade de perfis de jogadores com habilidades distintas torna necessário oferecer diferentes níveis de desafios que, à escolha do jogador, determinam as recompensas obtidas. Porém, tal tratamento não tem sido feito para quests, missões e desafios, que são elementos centrais na progressão do jogador em um MMORPG. Atualmente, quests possuem a mesma dificuldade e recompensa independente do jogador, o que pode frustrar alguns com quests difíceis ou entediar outros com quests muito fáceis. Este trabalho propõe uma abordagem original centrada em quests visando permitir que jogadores progridam no enredo do jogo com velocidades distintas, determinadas por suas escolhas de dificuldade para cada quest. Propomos um modelo para classificação e representação de quests com base nos parâmetros que afetam a dificuldade de seus desafios. Tal modelo foi construído com base na análise sistemática de mais de 700 quests dos jogos World of Warcraft e Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn. A solução proposta trata também dos desafios de se empregar o modelo em situações reais, e detalha cenários de conflito de balanceamento decorrentes de seu uso, apresentando uma coletânea de abordagens validadas por especialistas para implementação no gênero. Finalmente, este trabalho apresenta a ferramenta QuestBuilder, implementada com o propósito de facilitar o uso da modelagem desenvolvida no processo criativo de quests, e os experimentos realizados para sua validação.

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Lundgren, Annelie. "Föräldrars erfarenheter av onlinespelande barn : En kvalitativ studie kring problemformuleringar och orsakssamband." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-168299.

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Bakgrund: Barn har alltid haft andra förutsättningar än deras föräldrar. En skillnad idag jämfört med tidigare generationer är bland annat tillgång till nya medier för nöje, interaktion och informationssökande. Ett sätt att umgås på, är genom interaktiva onlinespel i en virtuell värld som aldrig tidigare varit möjligt. Detta har i vissa avseenden inneburit att frågor ställts över dess nackdelar i kontrast till den tjusning som onlinespelandet innebär. Syfte: Att beskriva och analysera hur föräldrar upplever ett problematiskt onlinespelande. Metod: Genom kvalitativa intervjuer har föräldrar fått definiera vad de anser vara ett problematiskt onlinespelande och vad de tror ligger bakom spelandet. Resultat: De frågeställningar som låg till grund för intervjuerna resulterade i vissa återkommande definitioner av ett problematiskt dataspelande såsom; kontrollförlust, manipulation, sviktande skolresultat, humörsvängningar och konflikter. Hur barnens spelande hade påverkat föräldrarna resulterade i definitioner av ökat kontrollbehov, konflikthantering, negativa förändringar inom familjen och självreflektion. Vad föräldrar trodde kunde ligga bakom det problematiska spelandet handlade om spänning och nöje, spelets konstruktion, lojalitet till andra spelare, identitetsskapande och oenighet mellan föräldrarna. Slutligen svarade föräldrarna på vilka råd de skulle ge andra; att reagera och agera, ställa ultimatum, samarbete mellan föräldrar och att anlita professionell hjälp. Reflektioner: Föräldrarna som deltog i intervjuerna hade visserligen i enlighet med syftet, erfarenheter av ett problematiskt dataspelande, men många av deras problemformuleringar var gemensamma. Föräldrarnas beskrivningar av ett problematiskt dataspelande skildrades genomgående utifrån tidsaspekten. Tiden som deras barn ägnade åt dataspel sågs av samtliga föräldrar som ett ogynnsamt och problematiskt inslag då det inverkade negativt på både barnens humör och skolprestationer. Föräldrarna beskrev också hur ett spelande som blivit problematiskt, hade påverkat både barnen, dem själva och familjen som helhet negativt. Samtidigt hade föräldrarna på olika vis egna teorier om varför det hade blivit problematiskt och vilka strategier och åtgärder som kunde vidtas för att förändra situationen.
Background: Children have probably always had different conditions than their parents. But in one aspect children nowadays differ from earlier generations. Today, children have access to a new media as internet for pleasure, interaction and information seeking. One way to interact is through online games in virtual worlds that have never before been possible. It has in one aspect involved issues concerning negative outcomes in contrast to the enjoyment that the game has to offer. Aim: Describe how parents explain a problematic online gaming. Method: Qualitative interviews where parents define their notion of problematic online gaming and what they think are the reason behind the problematic online gaming. Results: The questions in the interviews are the theme that gave different subthemes as result. The description of a problematic online gaming gave answers as; lack of control, manipulation, different temper and conflicts as well as school failure. How it had affected themselves gave answers as increasing control, handling conflicts, relations in the family and self-reflection. Parent’s hypothesis about what could cause or be a motive behind a problematic online gaming was excitement and pleasure, the construction of the games, loyalty to other players, identity seeking components and parental disagreement. Finally their advice to others was to react and act, ultimatum, cooperation between parents and to seek professional help. Reflections: The parents in the study had according to the study’s aim, experience of a problematic online gaming. Several of their definitions of a problematic online gaming where similar but the amount of time spending at gaming were the most frequent definition of the problem. The aspect of time had not only affected the children’s mood and school achievement but also themselves and others around them. At the same time, parents had their own theories about why it had become problematic and what can be done about it.

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Söderberg, Magnus. "MMORPG & färdighetsbaserade lootsystem : Real-cash i en virtuell värld?" Thesis, University of Skövde, School of Humanities and Informatics, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-4057.

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Massiva multispelar onlinerollspel (MMORPG) är idag en välutvecklad industri. Det finns även ett fåtal vars ekonomi och loot är baserade på riktiga pengar. Loot är de föremål en spelare kan erhålla genom att t.ex. döda monster och ett lootsystem är de interna mekanismer som hanterar hur loot distribueras i ett spel. Lotterilagen och Lotteriinspektionen reglerar vad som är ett lotteri i Sverige, om ett spel är slumpbaserat och spelaren eller spelarna kan vinna mer än de satsar, så måste arrangören få en licens utfärdad. Hur designar man ett enkelt lootsystem, baserat på riktiga pengar, utan att bryta mot Lotterilagen och som inte en stor mängd av spelarna kan utnyttja för egen vinning, och om spelarna förstår systemet hur skyddar man företagets intäkter? Denna avhandling tar reda på om det är möjligt att skapa ett spel som är kunskaps och färdighetsbaserat och som inte skulle kräva en licens. Spelet testas för att se om en spelare med kunskap får bättre resultat än en slumpmässig spelare. Den genomförda undersökningen pekar på att så är fallet.

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Södling, Gustav. "Disconnected : Berättelser om problematiskt spelande och genus i MMORPG-spel." Thesis, Linköping University, The Tema Institute, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-19339.

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Uppsatsen beskriver hur personer med erfarenhet av problematiskt spelande och efterföljande behandling berättar om sina erfarenheter. Studiens fokus har legat på problematiskt spelande av MMORPG-spel, deras sociala dimension och upplevelser av genus i dataspelen. Även respondenternas tankar kring dataspelandet som sådant och kring genus tas upp. Datainsamlingen genomfördes via kvalitativa intervjuer på ungefär en timme vardera med tre respondenter. Det empiriska materialet har tolkats genom meningskoncentrering och sedan analyserats genom en hermeneutiskt-narrativ analysmetod. Resultatet visar att problematiskt spelande haft en stor påverkan på respondenternas liv, både prestationsmässigt och socialt. Något exakt samband med kemiska beroenden berättas det inte om och gränsen för ett problematiskt spelande uppges vara dels en känsla av tvång och dels att spelandet går ut över spelarens övriga liv. MMORPG-spel beskrivs som speciellt problematiska både genom sina sociala möjligheter och sin dynamiska uppbyggnad. Respondenterna berättar även om hur andra sociala faktorer i MMORPG-spelen som tävlingsinstinkt, statusjakt och grupptryck kan leda till ett problematiskt spelande. Den behandling bestående av kognitiv beteendeterapi och regelbundna samtal med en psykoterapeut som respondenterna upplevt skildras som hjälpfull. Andra delar av behandlingen som begränsad tillgång till datorer och sociala aktiviteter tillsammans med andra beskrivs även de som gynnsamma. Genus är enligt resultatet en komplicerad fråga eftersom spelarens och avatarens kön kan skilja sig åt, och att spelarna sällan kan vara säkra på vilket kön den de möter har i det verkliga livet. MMORPG-spelen beskrivs dock överlag som mansdominerade med stereotypa och sexualiserade framställningar av framför allt kvinnor. Bemötandet av kvinnliga spelare beskrivs däremot inte som speciellt annorlunda av respondenterna.

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Martinsson, Christoffer, and Julia Nyström. "Vilka faktorer bidrar till att spelare fastnar i MMORPG spel?" Thesis, Örebro University, Swedish Business School at Örebro University, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-2172.

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Massiva onlinerollspel är idag mycket populära och försäljningen och spelandet utav dessa ökar markant. I och med detta väcks frågan om vad det är i dessa onlinespel som gör att människor spelar och fortsätter spela. Denna uppsats inriktas främst mot MMORPG:s, Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games, då författarna anser att det är i denna onlinespelsgenre den största möjligheten att finna och definiera de faktorer, som påverkar

spelares vilja att spela, finns. För att ta reda på dessa faktorer skapades en enkät vars frågor utformades med en gameflowmodell i baktanken. Denna enkät lades sedan ut på sex olika onlinespelsanknutna forum, där totalt 105 spelare anonymt deltog. Den bygger dock även på tidigare gjorda undersökningar och rapporter om onlinespelandets anledningar, analyserade artiklar inom ämnet MMORPG spel och sist men inte minst författarnas egna erfarenheter utav MMORPG spel.

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Šataitė, Rasa. "Between real and virtual: and ethnographic research of MMORPG phenomenon." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2012. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2012~D_20120612_140953-54143.

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In the wake of recent discourses growing around metaphors like globalization and information age, information society, information and communication technologies move into cyber anthropology's focus. Although online games and online gaming communities are not new, the rising interest in online games and the number of people playing online games means that such games and the corresponding communities that seem to evolve out of then have potential to be fertile ground for social researchers. One particularly useful method is that of virtual ethnographies, or participant observation in the game itself. Through an ethnographical research of the Lord of the Rings Online and an online gaming community that has emerged within this game, this work attempts outline the process of virtual ethnography that combines emic and etic methods of data gathering adapted to the virtual context to provide a ‘true’ accounting of the social constructs inherent in the virtual world. Massive multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) are present for almost a decade now, but they have become significantly popular only over the past through years. During the past 6 years the MMORPG turned into a thriving cultural phenomenon with over 20 million people daily involved in various social interactions. MMORPGs provide a unique space for social interaction as players no longer share the same physical environment and the non-verbal communication in no longer available. In such games players also are no... [to full text]
Pastaruoju metu vis dažnesnis diskursas tokiomis temomis kaip globalizacija ir informacijos amžius, informacinė visuomenė, informacinės ir ryšių technologijos pereina pereina į kiber-antropologijos sritį. Nors internetiniai žaidimai ir internetinės žaidėjų bendruomenės nėra naujiena, tačiau vis augantis visuomenės domėjimasis žaidimais ir vis didėjantis žaidėjų skaičius parodo, kad šie žaidimai ir su jais susijusios bendruomenės sukuria gerą tyrimo pagrindą socialinių mokslų atstovams. Vienas iš itin naudingų metodų yra virtuali etnografija bei dalyvaujamas stebėjimas pačiame žaidime. Šiame darbe siekiama pateikti tikrą socialinių konstruotų virtualioje erdvėje formavimosi aprašą remiantis etnografiniu Žiedų valdovo internetinio žaidimo (Lordo of the Rings Online) bei tame žaidime susikūrusios bendruomenės tyrimu naudojantis virtualios etnografijos metodu apjungiančiu eminę ir etinę perspektyvą. Internetiniai žaidimai (MMORPGs) gyvuoja jau beveik dešimtmetį, tačiau pastaraisiais metais itin išpopuliarėjo. Per paskutinius 6 metus žaidimai virto klestinčiu kultūriniu fenomenu su daugiau kaip 20 milijonu žmonių kas dieną įsitraukusių į įvairias socialines sąveikas. Internetiniai žaidimai sukuria socialinių sąveikų unikalią aplinką, nes žaidėjų nebesieja ta pati fizinė aplinka, o neverbalinė komunikacija tampa nebeįmanoma. Internetiniai žaidimai leidžia žaidėjams bendrauti su kitais pasaulio žaidėjais, o pats žaidimas nebėra asmeniškas ar privatus, nes jame susitinka daugybė... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]

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Woods, Theresa Lynn. "An Examination of Motives, Experiences, and Behaviors of MMORPG Players." Scholar Commons, 2014. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5157.

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Massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) are growing in popularity and use worldwide. This study seeks to explore the motivations and experiences of MMORPG players through an extensive online survey with more than a thousand participants (n=1,422). The findings support a complex relationship between the variables, including the direct effects of motivations and flow on the time invested by players in MMORPG play, as well as the mediated effects of motivation via flow. Causal relationships are examined in addition to the significance of direct and indirect effects on frequency of play, yielding several significant results, including (1) the overwhelming importance of relationships as a motivation for MMORPG players, (2) the lack of motivation for manipulating players and elements of the game experienced by players, (3) the significance of achievement motivators when mediated by flow, (4) the significance of the direct effects of the mechanisms of flow (challenge, skill, and play) on MMORPG play behaviors, and (5) the recognition of the intricate network of connections between the variables in their effects on MMORPG players' habits.

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Bozcan, Selcuk. "A Tool For Network Simulation Of Massively Multiplayer Online Games." Master's thesis, METU, 2008. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12609985/index.pdf.

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Massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) have become highly popular in the last decade and now attract millions of users from all over the world to play in an evolving virtual world concurrently over the Internet. The high popularity of MMOGs created a rapidly growing market and this highly dynamic market has forced the game developers to step up competitively. However, MMOG development is a challenging and expensive process. In this study, we have developed a network simulation tool which can be used to model and simulate typical MMOGs that have client-server architectures. The main objective is to provide a simulation environment to MMOG developers that could be used to test, analyze and verify various aspects of the MMOG network architecture. We have also implemented a graphical user interface which allows constructing the simulation model visually. We have demonstrated the use of simulation tool by experimental simulations.

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Andersson, Annsofi, and Anna Johansson. ""Man vill vara som i spelet" : Hur ungdomar uppfattar MMORPG-spelande." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för pedagogik, psykologi och idrottsvetenskap, PPI, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-18239.

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Studiens syfte var att beskriva och analysera hur ungdomar i årskurs 8 i Växjö kommun uppfattar MMORPG-spelande och även ta reda på vilka anledningar som leder till att man börjar spela, vilka effekter som kommer av att spela samt var de kan få hjälp om de blir beroende. I denna studie användes en kvantitativ metod där en enkätundersökning genomfördes. Studien visar att många ungdomar känner någon som spelar MMORPG-spel och att ungdomars spelande påverkar deras kompisar. Många spelar för att ha något att göra och för att det är roligt, men de flesta är också medvetna om att man kan bli aggressiv och beroende av spelet. Ungdomarna uttryckte att de inte visste var de skulle vända sig om någon eller de själva blev beroende. Slutsatsen av denna studie är att det finns olika fördelar och nackdelar med spelandet för olika ungdomar.

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Vähä, M. (Mauno). "Applying microservice architecture pattern to a design of an MMORPG backend." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2017. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201712013266.

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Massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) is a game genre which allows thousands of people to connect and role-play in a virtual world. Typically, these games are experienced by controlling an in-game character which properties, such as name, race and skills can be customized. Hence, a big part of these games is about progression through quests and combat, because unlike FPS games, MMORPGs allows players to create characters which lasts between different gaming sessions. However, very little is known how these games are implemented in practice. The objective of this master’s thesis is to study how MMORPG backend can be designed using the microservice architecture pattern? In this context, MMORPG backend means a server-side game system which needs to be in place for thousands of people to connect and role-play in a same or separate instances of a virtual world. On the contrary, an application based on the microservice architecture pattern means a distributed system which is composed by a set of services, each of them designed to perform separate and well-defined task. The research was conducted with design science research methodology. Consequently, the search problem was approached by building a proof of concept implementation of an MMORPG backend which was developed according to principles of a microservice architecture pattern. These principles along the requirements of the system were derived from the existing literature because the research was not conducted in a company setting. The knowledge base of this research was the existing work towards designing MMORPG architectures, and the studies describing microservice architecture pattern in more detail. The developed system was rigorously evaluated by comparing the design against the principles, and the functionality against the requirements using three different test strategies: unit testing, service testing and end-to-end testing. From the results of the evaluation, and the process of developing the system, the research problem could be addressed. The results showed that there are multiple steps in the process of designing an MMORPG backend using the microservice architecture pattern, but the requirements engineering is the most important. Having a detailed understanding about the game requirements makes it possible to construct a distributed system in which multiple microservices works together to serve player goals. Hence, the architectural design developed in this research helps game developers to construct their very own MMORPG backend.

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Koptur, Evren. "TRANSFERABLE LEARNING SKILLS OF AN MMORPG: A WORLD OF WARCRAFT QUEST." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1459175932.

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Zhong, Zhijin. "The effects of MMORPG play on online and offline social capital /." access full-text access abstract and table of contents, 2009. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/ezdb/thesis.pl?phd-com-b23750820f.pdf.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--City University of Hong Kong, 2009.
"Submitted to Department of Media and Communication in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 110-125)

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Di, Campli Giovanna. "La localizzazione dei videogiochi: Analisi della traduzione del mmorpg world of warcraft." Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2015. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/9179/.

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La prima parte della tesi presenta una breve introduzione della storia dei videogiochi e del processo di localizzazione, seguita da un approfondimento sui metodi di traduzione dei localizzatori e sugli asset da tradurre. La seconda parte presenta un'analisi di parte della traduzione ufficiale del gioco online World of Warcraft.

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Liljegren, Oskar. "Välbefinnande i spel : Unga mäns upplevelser av socialt välbefinnande i MMORPG spel." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för hälsa och lärande, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-11836.

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I ett samhälle där unga mäns välbefinnande utges vara utsatt för risk av deras engagemang i en virtuell värld önskar den här studien lyfta fram hur unga män själva upplever välbefinnande ur ett socialpsykologiskt perspektiv. Fem spelare fick i kvalitativa intervjuer framföra sina egna upplevelser ifrån sina erfarenheter av att spela MMORPG-spel. Med detaljrika teorier om subjektivt välbefinnande, socialt välbefinnande och teori angående gemenskap har studien en teoretisk grund som tillämpades i en transcendental analysmetod. Resultatet klargjorde att socialt välbefinnande och gemenskap existerar i spelet och kan uppnås av de unga manliga spelarna. Essensen kretsade kring socialt samspel mellan de andra spelarna i MMORPG-världen och upptäcktes genom de tre teman grupp, kommunikation och framgång/utveckling. Slutsatsen var att unga män kan uppnå socialt välbefinnande inom MMORPG-spel och att det här har allt att göra med det sociala samspelet mellan alla spelarna i spelet.
In a society where young men’s well-being is proclaimed to be at risk due to their involvement in a virtual world this study wants to shed light upon how young men themselves experience well-being from a social psychological perspective. Five players partook in qualitative interviews to express their own experiences from their time playing MMORPGs. With detailed theories of subjective well-being, social well-being and theory of fellowship, the study has a theoretical foundation applied in a transcendental analysis. The result made it clear that social well-being and fellowship exist in the MMORPGs and can be achieved by the young male players. The essence revolved around social interaction between the other players in the MMORPG world and was discovered through three themes related to their group, communication and success/development. The conclusion was that young men can achieve social well-being in MMORPGs and this was due to the social interaction between all the players within the game itself.

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Santos, Vinicius Rodrigues Figueiredo. "Os Jogos MMORPG como Auxiliares no Processo de Aquisição de Língua Inglesa." Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1843/DAJR-8GLRA7.

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The recent development and popularization of computer and technological resources have brought new interaction possibilities and potentials among their users. One of these possibilities that is still beginning to develop in this field is the usage of commercial electronic games as auxiliary tools for learning, despite the fact they are not programmed for such objectives. One game genre that is getting more attention is the MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer On-line Role-Playing Game). The MMORPGs, as the other games, also present traits with great potential for learning, but their particular characteristics are the main affordances for language acquisition. Based on that, this research aimed to verify if the MMORPGs can act as auxiliary and motivational tools for their players process of second language acquisition. In order to do so, this work investigated the occurrence of game-related motivation and acquisition of English language by Brazilian players of the MMORPG Tibia. The data analysis was based on several acquisition theories, such as input hypothesis (KRASHEN, 1985), acculturation model (SCHUMMANN, 1978), interaction hypothesis (HATCH, 1978; LONG, 1981) and complexity and chaos theories in language acquisition (LARSEN-FREEMAN e CAMERON, 1997, 2008; PAIVA, 2005, 2008), as well as the concepts of communities of practice (WENGER, 1998), learning through games (GEE, 2004, 2007; MATTAR, 2010) and motivation (GARDNER e LAMBERT, 1959; ELLIS, 1997). The research demonstrates how MMORPGs can work as facilitators and motivators for second language acquisition due to their predominantly social and cultural traits that stimulate integration through the second language.
O desenvolvimento e popularização de recursos computacionais e tecnológicos nos últimos anos trouxeram novas possibilidades e potenciais de interação aos seus usuários. Dentre essas possibilidades, uma, ainda pouco explorada nesse campo, é a utilização de jogos eletrônicos comerciais (ou games) atuando como ferramentas auxiliares na aprendizagem, apesar de não serem programados com tais objetivos. Um dos gêneros de game que tem ganho destaque é o MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer On-line Role-Playing Game, ou jogo on-line de interpretação em massa para múltiplos jogadores). Os MMORPGs, assim como outros games, também têm características de grande potencial para a aprendizagem e seus traços particulares propiciam a aquisição de línguas. Mediante o exposto, a presente pesquisa visou verificar se os MMORPGs podem atuar como auxiliares e motivadores no processo de aquisição de segunda língua de seus jogadores. Para tanto, foram investigadas, junto a jogadores brasileiros do MMORPG Tibia, a ocorrência da aquisição de inglês e a motivação de aquisição da língua baseada em MMORPGs que tivessem relação com o game. A análise foi ancorada em diversos aportes teóricos de aquisição, como a hipótese do input (KRASHEN, 1985), modelo de aculturação (SCHUMMANN, 1978), hipótese da interação (HATCH, 1978; LONG, 1981) e teorias da complexidade e caos na aquisição de línguas (LARSEN-FREEMAN e CAMERON, 1997, 2008; PAIVA, 2005, 2008), além dos conceitos de comunidades de prática (WENGER, 1998), aprendizagem facilitada por games (GEE, 2004, 2007; MATTAR, 2010) e motivação (GARDNER e LAMBERT, 1959; ELLIS, 1997). A pesquisa demonstra como os MMORPGs podem se constituir como facilitadores e motivadores para a aquisição de segunda língua de seus jogadores, principalmente devido a suas características predominantemente socioculturais que estimulam a integração por meio dessa segunda língua.

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Soto, Ramonda Rodrigo. "Descripción del estado actual de la adicción a los videojuegos a partir de una revisión bibliográfica integrativa." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2014. http://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/135632.

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Los videojuegos son una forma de entretenimiento muy difundida. Uno de sus potenciales efectos negativos es el uso excesivo. Varios factores han dificultado el estudio de esta materia, como por ejemplo abordajes sesgados o el uso de diferentes criterios diagnósticos e instrumentos de medición, lo que ha impedido la obtención de datos concluyentes y consensos en la comunidad científica. El presente estudio realiza una revisión bibliográfica de las investigaciones posteriores al año 2000, para precisar el estado del arte con respecto al tema. Se hace énfasis en la nueva propuesta de trastorno de juego por Internet del DSM-5 y un análisis en profundidad al género MMORPG. Se concluye que el uso excesivo de videojuegos puede llegar a constituir un trastorno de adicción conductual, que tendría características similares a las adicciones a substancias y afectaría a un pequeño porcentaje de usuarios, generando un impacto importante en sus vidas

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Fuster, Laseca Héctor. "Influencia de las Motivaciones y los Estilos de Juego en Jugadores de MMORPG." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Ramon Llull, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/403376.

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En els darrers 30 anys els videojocs han esdevingut un dels productes d’oci més prevalent i transversals en les societats desenvolupades. Degut a la seva naturalesa, els jocs digitals permeten un ampli ventall d’interaccions complexes i els jocs multi-jugadors massius en línia (MMORPG, per les seves sigles en anglès) són els que ofereixen oportunitats més complexes d’acció e interacció entre jugadors. Per això és necessari l’estudi d’aquest fenomen i els aspectes psicològics associats al mateix. Així, la present tesis explora l¡àmbit de les motivacions per a l’ús de videojocs, així com la identificació de l’ús problemàtic i no problemàtic associat a aquestes motivacions. El primer estudio en el que participaren 253 jugadors hispanoparlants de World of Warcraft va tenir com a objectiu la identificació de les motivacions associades al joc en MMORPG. Un anàlisis factorial va mostrar la presència de quatre motius pel joc: socialització, exploració, assoliment i dissociació. El segon estudi l’integraren 430 jugadors de MMORPG i el seu objectiu era la caracterització de la població de jugadors en quant a motivacions i estils de joc. En el tercer estudi participaren 410 jugadors de MMORPG i es definir un model que aglutinava les motivacions per al joc en MMORPG així com el model dual de la passió, amb l’objectiu d’identificar les motivacions que s’associaven al joc no problemàtic (passió harmoniosa) i aquelles que s’associaven al joc problemàtic (passió obsessiva). Finalment, es realitzar una traducció i validació de l’instrument IGD-20 que avalua el Trastorn per joc a internet (IGD, per les seves sigles en anglès), amb una mostra de 1074 jugadors espanyols. Així mateix, aquest estudi va permetre trobar diferents patrons d’ús de videojocs que poden facilitar la identificació de l’ús problemàtic així com la seva associació a les motivacions per al joc.
En los últimos 30 años los videojuegos han devenido uno de los productos de ocio más prevalentes y transversales en las sociedades desarrolladas. Debido a su naturaleza, los juegos digitales permiten un amplio abanico de interacciones complejas y los juegos multijugador masivos en línea (MMORPG, por sus siglas en inglés) son tal vez los que ofrecen oportunidades más complejas de acción e interacción entre jugadores. Por ello, es necesario el estudio de este fenómeno y los aspectos psicológicos asociados al mismo. Así, la presente tesis explora el ámbito de las motivaciones para el uso de videojuegos, así como la identificación del uso problemático y no problemático asociado a dichas motivaciones. El primer estudio en el que participaron 253 jugadores hispanoparlantes de World of Warcraft tuvo como objetivo la identificación de las motivaciones asociadas al juego en MMORPG. Un análisis factorial mostró la presencia de cuatro motivos de juego: socialización, exploración, logro y disociación. El segundo estudio lo integraron 430 jugadores de MMORPG y su objetivo era la caracterización de la población de jugadores en cuanto a motivaciones y estilos de juego. En el tercer estudio participaron 410 jugadores de MMORPG y se definió un modelo que aglutinaba las motivaciones para el juego en MMORPG así como el modelo dual de la pasión, con el objetivo de identificar las motivaciones que se asocian al juego no problemático (pasión armoniosa), y aquellas que promueven el juego problemático (pasión obsesiva). Finalmente, se realizó una traducción y validación del instrumento IGD-20 que evalúa el Trastorno por juego en internet (IGD, por sus siglas en inglés), con una muestra de 1074 jugadores españoles. Asimismo, este estudio permitió encontrar diferentes patrones de uso de videojuegos que pueden facilitar la identificación del uso problemático y su asociación a las motivaciones para el juego.
In the last 30 years, video games have become one of the most prevalent and transversal leisure products in developed societies. Due to their nature, digital games allow for a wide range of complex interactions, and massively multiplayer online games (MMORPGs) are perhaps the ones that offer more intricate possibility space for action and interaction between players. Therefore, it is necessary to study this phenomenon and the psychological aspects associated with it. Thus, this thesis by compendium of publications explores the scope of motivations for the use of video games, as well as the identification of problematic and non-problematic use of video games associated with such motivations. The first study involving 253 Spanish-speaking World of Warcraft players aimed to identify the motivations associated with MMORPG play. A factorial analysis showed the presence of four motivations: socialization, exploration, achievement and dissociation. In the second study participated 430 players of MMORPG and the objective was the characterization of the population of players related tomotivations and styles of play. In the third study participated 410 players of MMORPG and a model was defined that agglutinated the motivations for play in MMORPG as well as the dualisticmodel of passion, with the objective of identifying the motivations that are associated to non-problematic play (harmonious passion), and those that promote problematic play (obsessive passion). Finally, a translation and validation of the IGD-20 instrument evaluating the Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD) was carried out with a sample of 1074 Spanish players. In addition, this study allowed us to find different patterns of video game play that can facilitate the identification of problematic use, and their association with the motivations.

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Soares, Wilka Catarina da Silva. "A aprendizagem de ingl?s mediada por jogos eletr?nicos do tipo MMORPG." Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, 2013. http://repositorio.ufrn.br:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/16264.

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Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs) are role-playing games that, through the Internet, can integrate thousands of players interacting at the same time in at least one virtual world. This way, these games can provide, further than fun, a greater familiarity with the additional language and opportunity to improve the linguistic proficiency in a real context. Hence, what is proposed in this study is extended knowledge about the learning of an additional language mediated by MMORPGs for teachers to know how, if relevant, to present, use or encourage this practice to their students. Based on this major purpose, we seek to answer the following research questions: (a) what distinguishes the learning profile of the gamers and non-gamers; (b) if MMORPGs can, through a hybrid and systematic approach, assist the development of proficiency of the additional language and (c) what the think-aloud protocols show about the learning mediated by the MMORPG Allods Online. Following an experimental method (NUNAN, 1997), 16 students of the curricular component Reading and Writing Practices in English Language have comprised the control group and 17 students of the same class formed the experimental group and were submitted to a pre and post-test adapted from the Key English Test (KET) by the Cambridge University (2008). The tests were conducted before and after a period of 5 weeks of 3 hours of practice with Allods Online a week (experimental group), and classes of the curricular component (both groups). A quantitative analysis of the questionnaires about the exposure to English profiles of the participants, a quantitative analysis of the tests scores and a qualitative analysis of the thinkaloud protocols collected during the experiment were conducted based on the theories of (a) motivation (GARDNER, 1985, WILLIAMS & BURDEN, 1997, BROWN, 2007, HERCULANO-HOUZEL, 2005); (b) active learning (GASS, 1997, GEE, 2008, MATTAR, 2010); (c) interaction and collaborative learning (KRASHEN, 1991, GASS, 1997, VYGOTSKY, 1978); (d) situated learning (DAMASIO, 1994; 1999; 2003, BROWN, 2007, GEE, 2003) and (e), tangential learning (PORTNOW, 2008; MATTAR, 2010). The results indicate that the participants of the experimental group (gamers) seem to be more engaged in tangential English learning activities, such as playing games, listening to music in English, communicating with foreigners and reading in English. We also deduced that the period of experiment possibly generated positive results on the gamers proficiency scores, mainly in the parts related to orthographic development, reading and comprehension, writing with focus on content and orthographic accuracy. Lastly, the think-aloud protocols presented evidences that the gamers have engaged in active English language learning, they have interacted in English with other players, and learned linguistic aspects through the experience with the MMORPG Allods Online
Os Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs) s?o jogos de interpreta??o de personagem que, atrav?s da Internet, podem integrar milhares de jogadores interagindo ao mesmo tempo em pelo menos um mundo virtual. Desta forma, esses jogos podem proporcionar, al?m de divers?o, um maior conv?vio com a l?ngua inglesa e a oportunidade de aprimorar a profici?ncia lingu?stica dentro de um contexto real. Por isso, o que se prop?e neste estudo ? um maior conhecimento sobre a aprendizagem de l?ngua adicional mediada por MMORPGs para que os professores saibam como, se relevante, apresentar, utilizar ou incentivar essa pr?tica junto a seus alunos. Com base neste objetivo principal, procuramos responder as seguintes perguntas de perquisa: (a) o que distingue o perfil de exposi??o ? l?ngua inglesa dos gamers e non-gamers; (b) se os MMORPGs podem, por meio de uma pr?tica h?brida e sistem?tica, auxiliar no desenvolvimento da profici?ncia na l?ngua adicional e (c) o que os protocolos think-aloud evidenciam acerca da aprendizagem mediada pelo MMORPG Allods Online. Seguindo o m?todo experimental (NUNAN, 1997), 16 alunos do componente curricular Pr?ticas de Leitura e Produ??o Escrita em L?ngua Inglesa fizeram parte do grupo controle e 17 alunos da mesma turma compuseram o grupo experimental e foram submetidos a um pr? e p?s-teste adaptados do Key English Test (KET) da Universidade de Cambridge (2008). Os testes foram administrados antes e depois de um per?odo de 5 semanas com 3 horas por semana de experimento com o game Allods Online (grupo experimental), e de aulas do componente curricular (ambos os grupos). Uma an?lise quantitativa dos question?rios sobre os perfis de exposi??o ? l?ngua inglesa dos participantes, uma an?lise quantitativa das notas dos testes e uma an?lise qualitativa de protocolos thinkaloud coletados durante o experimento foram feitas com base nas teorias de (a) motiva??o (GARDNER, 1985, WILLIAMS & BURDEN, 1997, BROWN, 2007, HERCULANOHOUZEL, 2005); (b) aprendizagem ativa (GASS, 1997, GEE, 2008, MATTAR, 2010); (c) intera??o e aprendizagem colaborativa (KRASHEN, 1991, GASS, 1997, VYGOTSKY, 1978); (d) aprendizagem situada (DAMASIO, 1994; 1999; 2003, BROWN, 2007, GEE, 2003) e (e), aprendizagem tangencial (PORTNOW, 2008 E MATTAR, 2010). Os resultados indicam que os participantes do grupo experimental (gamers) parecem ser mais engajados em atividades tangenciais de aprendizagem de l?ngua inglesa, como jogar games, ouvir m?sica em ingl?s, comunicar-se com estrangeiros e ler em ingl?s. Tamb?m conclu?mos que o per?odo de experimento pode ter gerado resultados positivos nas notas dos testes dos gamers, principalmente nas partes relacionadas (a) ao desenvolvimento ortogr?fico, leitura e interpreta??o; (b) ? escrita com foco no conte?do e (c) ? acur?cia ortogr?fica. Por fim, os protocolos think-aloud apresentam evid?ncias de que os gamers engajaram-se na aprendizagem ativa de l?ngua inglesa, interagiram em ingl?s com outros jogadores e aprenderam aspectos lingu?sticos atrav?s da experi?ncia com o MMORPG Allods Online

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Liu, Jiaxin. "Online MMORPG Games in China: Player Motivations and the Mediating Role of Flow." Scholar Commons, 2019. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7847.

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Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs) are gaining popularity and are being used widely in China. The aim of this study is to explore the relationship between the motivation and the experience of MMORPG players, and the effects of playing MMORPG through an extensive online survey of more than 300 Chinese participants (n = 305). Specifically, the findings support the complex relationship between variables, including the direct effects on motivation and flow, on the time the players invest in MMORPG games, and the mediated effects on motivations through flow. In addition to the importance of direct and indirect effects on the frequency of playing, the causal relationship between the two variables is also examined. This has resulted in several important outcomes, including (1) the overwhelming importance of achievement as a motivator for MMORPG players, and (2), there is a lack of motivation for escapism and the experience of the elements of the game by players, (3) the importance of achievement and relationship as the factors of motivation when mediated by flow, (4) the importance of the flow mechanism (challenge, skill, and play) for the direct effects of MMORPG play-behaviors, and (5) the effects of intricate connections between the variables on MMORPG player’s habits.

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Zamora, Joaquín. "Monster Wars: web based mmorpg relación del diseñador gráfico con el desarrollo de videojuegos." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2007. http://www.repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/101096.

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Mendonca, Sean Christopher. "WRITING FOR EACH OTHER: DYNAMIC QUEST GENERATION USING IN SESSION PLAYER BEHAVIORS IN MMORPG." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2020. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/2146.

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Role-playing games (RPGs) rely on interesting and varied experiences to maintain player attention. These experiences are often provided through quests, which give players tasks that are used to advance stories or events unfolding in the game. Traditional quests in video games require very specific conditions to be met, and for participating members to advance them by carrying out pre-defined actions. These types of quests are generated with perfect knowledge of the game world and are able to force desired behaviors out of the relevant non-player characters (NPCs). This becomes a major issue in massive multiplayer online (MMO) when other players can often disrupt the conditions needed for quests to unfold in a believable and immersive way, leading to the absence of a genuine multiplayer RPG experience. Our proposed solution is to dynamically create quests from real-time information on the unscripted actions of other NPCs and players in a game. This thesis shows that it is possible to create logical quests without global information knowledge, pre-defined story-trees, or prescribed player and NPC behavior. This allows players to become involved in storylines without having to perform any specific actions. Results are shown through a game scenario created from the Panoptyk Engine, a game engine in early development designed to test AI reasoning with information and the removal of the distinction between NPC and human players. We focus on quests issued by the NPC faction leaders of several in-game groups known as factions. Our generated quests are created logically from the pre-defined personality of each NPC leader, their memory of previous events, and information given to them by in-game sources. Long-spanning conflicts are seen to emerge from factions issuing quests against each other; these conflicts can be represented in a coherent narrative. A user study shows that players felt quests were logical, that players were able to recognize quests were based on events happening in the game, and that players experienced follow-up consequences from their actions in quests.

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Carlberg, Max, and Wictor Nilsson. "Visuell personalisering och karaktärsskapande i Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för naturvetenskap, miljö och teknik, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-35430.

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This study aims to investigate motives behind certain design choices of a player in an MMORPG game when creating their online avatar. The game used for the study is Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn (Square Enix, 2013). To achieve this, we have interviewed two Free Companys (group of people playing together) and asked them a set of questions to find out similarities and differences among casual to semi hardcore players. For example one thing we noticed when asked the question if they have created their character based on their own visual traits the interviewed denied any similarities at first but when they thought harder about it they agreed that subconsciously there were traits that were similar even if it just comes down to hair color. Playing as the opposite sex is also a common theme when creating your character.

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Firmino, José Guilherme Abrão. "Amigos e guildas: performance, mídia e agência em MMORPGs." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2018. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/8896.

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The present study aims to explore the relationship between digital games, game communities and the agency for creating social bonds and emerging behaviors in interactive digital media: video games. To do so, we rely on Victor Turner’s concepts of liminality and communitas, as well as Richard Schechner's concepts of transport/transformation and I-not-I, and link them to Janet Murray's and Brenda Laurel’s definitions of games and video games, among others and recent publications about media working on such concepts as Ian Bogost's procedural rhetoric and Henry Jenkins' narrative architecture. We argue that through agency, video games allow players to create lasting and real bonds with each other, and to create and interpret meanings about the world around them and about themselves. For this, we are based on the play concepts of Johan Huizinga and Eugen Fink. To do so, we conducted a field survey in the MMORPG The Elder Scrolls Online accompanying a group of five players in their online activities over three months. We had as methodological base the digital ethnography of Robert Kozinets, the mechanism of Jon Elster and the study of behavior and facades of Erving Goffman. In this way, we were able to trace the profile and analyze the actions of our subjects and it was possible to conclude that they have in fact developed significant and lasting affective ties in the digital space without face-to-face contact with the other players. This study also allowed us to look at the social challenges a novice player undergoes in embarking on a massive online game as well as better delineate what motivates veteran players to continue playing. Thus, we argue that this study demonstrates the relevance of cultural performance studies as a theoretical-methodological framework for the study of the field of video games specifically and of social media in general. In addition, we believe that the results and data obtained in this research open windows to new issues in the field of digital media and especially for social studies and discourse analysis focused on video games in general and online video games in particular.
O presente estudo visa se aprofundar na relação entre jogos digitais, comunidades de jogos e agência para a criação de laços sociais e comportamentos emergentes em mídias digitais interativas: os video games. Para tanto, nos baseamos nos conceitos das performances culturais de liminaridade, communitas, de Victor Turner, e de transporte/transformação e do não-não eu, de Richard Schechner e fazemos a ligação entre eles com as definições de jogos e videogames de Janet Murray, Brenda Laurel entre outros e de publicações recentes sobre mídias trabalhando conceitos como a retórica procedural de Ian Bogost e a arquitetura narrativa de Henry Jenkins. Defendemos que, através da agência, os video games permitem aos jogadores criarem laços duradouros e reais entre si, além de criarem e interpretarem significados sobre o mundo ao seu redor e sobre si mesmos. Para isto, nos baseamos nos conceitos de play de Johan Huizinga e Eugen Fink. Para tanto, realizamos uma pesquisa de campo no MMORPG The Elder Scrolls Online acompanhando um grupo de cinco jogadores em suas atividades online ao longo de três meses. Tivemos como base metodológica a etnografia digital de Robert Kozinets, o mecanismo de Jon Elster e o estudo de comportamento e fachadas de Erving Goffman. Desta forma, nos foi possível traçar o perfil e analisar as ações de nossos sujeitos e nos foi possível concluir que eles de fato desenvolveram laços afetivos significativos e duradouros no espaço digital sem a realização de um contato face-a-face com os demais jogadores. Este estudo também nos permitiu verificar os desafios sociais a que um jogador novato está submetido ao embarcar em um jogo online massivo assim como melhor delinear o que motiva os jogadores veteranos a continuarem jogando. Desta forma, argumentamos que este estudo demonstra a relevância dos estudos de performance cultural como arcabouço teórico-metodológico para o estudo do campo dos video games especificamente e de mídias sociais em geral. Além disso, acreditamos que os resultados e os dados obtidos nesta pesquisa abrem janelas para novas questões no campo das mídias digitais e especialmente para os estudos sociais e de análise do discurso centradas em video games em geral e nos video games online em particular.

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Dernbrant, Hanna, and Sanna Carlsson. "Utveckling av kompetenser i MMORPGs : Ur spelares perspektiv." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Sektionen för Informationsvetenskap, Data– och Elektroteknik (IDE), 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-15386.

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ABSTRAKT Under de senaste åren har det släppts flera onlinespel inom genren MMORPG och deras popularitet har ökat. Vid vår litteraturstudie framgick det att tidigare forskning visar på att spelare av MMORPG spel utvecklar olika kompetenselement genom sitt spelande men tar inte upp spelares uppfattning kring detta. Därför har vi undersökt spelares uppfattning kring sin egen kompetensutveckling i ett MMORPG spel samt vilka spelmoment som kan bidra till detta. Vi utförde en netnografisk studie med enkät, intervjuer och deltagande observation i World of Warcraft. Vår slutsats är att spelare uppfattar en utveckling av sexton olika kompetenselement. Nyckelord: Onlinespel, MMORPG, Kompetens, Kompetenselement, Kompetensutveckling, World of Warcraft
ABSTRACT In recent years several online games in the genre of MMORPG have been released and their popularity has increased. Our literature review revealed that previous research shows that players of MMORPG games develop different skill elements through their game play but does not address the player’s view on this. Therefore, we examined the players’ perception of their skill development in a MMORPG game and the game elements that can contribute to this. We performed a netnographic study with questionnaire, interviews and participatory observations in World of Warcraft. Our conclusion is that the players perceive a development of sixteen different skill elements. Keywords: Online games, MMORPG, Skill, Skill elements, Skill development, World of Warcraft

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Maumon, de Longevialle Nathalie. "L'intention du consommateur de s'immerger dans les mondes virtuels : l'influence de la présence d'interactions sociales, de la persistance et de l'avatar." Thesis, Nice, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013NICE0034/document.

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L’objet de cette recherche est d’étudier les antécédents de l’intention du consommateur de MMO/MMORPG en nous appuyant sur la définition de Bell (2008), qui propose un consensus quant à la définition des mondes virtuels. Par cette définition, tous les mondes virtuels possèdent trois concepts qui leur sont inhérents : la présence d’interactions sociales, la persistance et l’avatar. Nous avons adapté le modèle de l’acceptation technologique en représentant ces trois concepts par l’identité sociale pour laquelle nous distinguons la communauté du MMO et la communauté de la guilde, la perception du flow et l’avatar. Notre travail suit une démarche hypothético-déductive, qui s’est formalisée par l’élaboration d’une analyse qualitative et d’une analyse quantitative, en utilisant les équations structurelles.Les résultats ont montré que les facteurs motivationnels (Yee 2007) d’accomplissement et d’immersion influencent significativement et positivement la personnalisation des déterminants de l’avatar (le physique, l’habillement et les attitudes), a contrario du facteur de sociabilité qui l’influence négativement. Les trois concepts inhérents aux mondes virtuels ont une influence positive sur l’attitude qui, elle-même, influence positivement l’intention. Notre adaptation du modèle de l’acceptation technologique, en intégrant conjointement les trois concepts des MMO/MMORPG que sont l’identité sociale, la perception du flow et la personnalisation des critères de l’avatar, explique à 27,4 % l’intention du consommateur de mondes virtuels
The object of this research is to study the antecedents of the consumer’s intention of MMO/MMORPG by supporting the definition of Bell (2008), which is offering a consensus on the definition of the virtual worlds. By this definition, all the virtual worlds have three concepts which are inherent to them: the presence of social interactions, persistence and avatar. We adapted the model of technological acceptance by representing these three concepts by social identity at which we distinguished the MMO community and the Guild community, perception of the flow and avatar. Our work follows a hypothetico-deductive method, which was formalized by the development of a qualitative and a quantitative analysis, using structural equations method. The results showed that the motivational factors (Yee 2007) of achievement and immersion influence significantly and positively the personalization of the determinants of the avatar (physique, clothing and attitudes), a contrario of the factor of sociability which influences it negatively. The three concepts which are inherent to virtual worlds have a positive influence on the attitude which, itself, influences positively the intention. Our adaptation of the model of technological acceptance, by jointly integrating the three concepts of the MMO/MMORPG which are social identity, perception of the flow and personalization of the criteria of the avatar, explains to 27,4% the consumer’s intention of virtual worlds

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Campedelli, Gabriela. "Bem vindos a Azeroth: aspectos da economia lúdica nos mundos fantásticos." Universidade de São Paulo, 2009. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/27/27153/tde-29092009-154338/.

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Esse trabalho tem como finalidade a análise de aspectos econômicos e sociais do mundo sintético World of Warcraft, um Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG). A escolha desse jogo se dá pela sua popularidade no mundo, contando com mais de 11 milhões de jogadores segundo dados divulgados pela Blizzard Entertainment, em outubro de 2008. A etnografia, que se desenvolveu online realizada por meio de dez personagens especialmente criados para integrar o jogo nas terras virtuais de Azeroth, observa os aspectos de desenvolvimento da comunidade de jogadores e dos mecanismos de governança da Blizzard, constitui uma introdução a jogos desse gênero, com o objetivo de ressaltar a dinâmica econômica que se estabelece nesse complexo universo digital. O jogar é uma fonte de valor e o lúdico tem a sua própria economia.
This work aims to analyze economic and social aspects of the synthetic world entitled World of Warcraft, a Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG). This choice was made because of the popularity of this game around the world, counting 11 million players according to Blizzard Entertainments data published in October 2008. The etnography was developed online by ten avatars speacially created to take part of the world inside the virtual land of Azeroth, and observes the developing aspects of the player communities and their relationship with Blizzard governance while it also constitutes an introduction to this genre of game which highlights the economic dynamics of this complex digital universe. Play is a source of value and the ludicity has its own economy.

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Armelin, Lucy. "Fame and Celebrity Within A Virtual World : A Case Study Of World Of Warcraft." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för mediestudier, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-77680.

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Despite the vast amount of research conducted by media academics over the past decade, little is known about the concept of internet celebrity, or e-celebrity, within an online-gaming environment. The overall impression that emerges from literature in this field is that e-celebrity has been studied in popular, user-based or social networking websites. However, this paper aims to contribute to the field by further exploring the role, concept and practices of e-celebrity within a virtual world: the Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game World of Warcraft. By exploring Marwick’s concept of micro-celebrity and by studying players via qualitative means using virtual ethnographic participant observation supported by interviews, the data collected in this paper aims to add nuance to our understanding of the changing concept of celebrity on a virtual level.

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Nilsson, Linnéa, and Annie Haraldsson. "Även män bär klänning : Genuskonstruktion i World of Warcraft." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Sektionen för hälsa och samhälle (HOS), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-26149.

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Det är en ständigt pågående debatt i media gällande genus och datorspel, den handlar bland annat om problematiken att spelets spelbara karaktärer inte är genusneutrala nog. Vårt syfte är att studera hur genus konstrueras i World of Warcraft med de spelbara karaktärerna som medierande redskap samt hur spelet uttrycker genustypifiering genom icke-spelbara karaktärer. Syftet är även att studera på vilka sätt identitetskapande hos spelaren sker genom det sociala samspelet. Vi har observerat hur icke spelbara karaktärer och spelbara karaktärer uttrycker genus genom deras utseende och utrustning. Vi har även observerat vilka förutsättningar som ges för att kunna konstruera genus på sin karaktär. Observationerna innefattade även hur det sociala samspelet konstruerar genus genom användande av redskap som samlades in med utgångspunkt i två olika observationsscheman. Observationsschemat för utseende kopplat till genus innehåller olika rubriker som gör det möjligt för oss att studera enskilda bitar var för sig, till exempel frisyrer eller vilket vapen karaktären har på sig. Observationsschemat för socialt samspel innefattar främst studering av förekommande ord och begrepp, samt vilka emotioner som förekommer. Materialet kodades och kategoriserades inom lämpliga kategorier, för att sedan analyseras. Utrustningsobservationerna delades upp i kön på karaktär sen delades upp i icke spelbara karaktärer, skapandet av karaktär samt spelbara karaktärer. Resultatet blev att manliga och kvinnliga karaktärer uttrycker större genusskillnader inom icke spelbara karaktärer än de gör inom de spelbara karaktärerna. Inom de spelbara karaktärerna är genus ganska neutralt. Språket visar inga implikationer på att språk skulle vara en del av genuskonstruktionen utan har en större koppling medspelarens kunskaper inom spelet.
There is a continual debate in media that affects gender and online games, and it deals with the problematic that the games playable characters are not gender neutral enough. Our purpose is to examine how gender constructs in World of Warcraft with the playable characters as mediating tool and how the game express gendertypifications through non playable characters. The aim is also to study in which way identitymaking by the player occurs through the social interaction. We have observed how non playable characters and playable characters express gender through their feature and equipment. We have also observed which prerequisites that have been given to construct gender at your character. The observations also include how the social interaction constructs gender through the use of the tools which gathering in basis of two observation schemas.The observation schema for characters feature connected to gender includes different headings that make it possible for us to study particular pieces separately, for example hairstyle or which type of weapon the character has. The observation schema for social interaction includes principal studying of existing words and concepts, as well as emotions that were used. The material was encoded and categorized within appropriate categories in order to analyses.The result shows that both male and female characters express considerable gender differences within non playable characters than in the playable characters. Within the playable characters gender is quite neutral. The language does not indicate that the speech would be a part of the gender construction, but have a considerable connection to the knowledge in the game by the fellow-player.

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Soares, Nilson Valdevino. "Mundos virtuais e externalidades midiáticas: as possibilidades de práticas do jornalismo nos jogos on-line." Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, 2009. https://repositorio.ufpe.br/handle/123456789/3641.

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Esta dissertação procura analisar o fenômeno dos mundos virtuais e das mídias que os orbitam, às quais denomina externalidades midiáticas . Em um primeiro momento, o trabalho visa estabelecer um horizonte teórico que torne possível a compreensão dos mundos virtuais, acompanhando suas características, do surgimento ao presente. Faz-se um estudo de como em torno desses jogos se forma uma cultura de relações que transcende o espaço puramente de jogo e se entrelaça com a realidade da vida cotidiana dos jogadores, condicionando o aparecimento das mais diversas formas midiáticas e da potencialização dos acontecimentos do jogo como notícias. No segundo momento da dissertação, é feito um estudo de caso de duas dessas externalidades, especificamente os jornais de mundos virtuais The City Scoop e EVE TV, corpora escolhidos de acordo com a sua relevância e representatividade das externalidades. O objetivo é, no caso, verificar de que se constitui a estrutura desses veículos e qual público pretendem alcançar. Objetiva-se ainda, durante o trabalho, perceber as possibilidades que estabelecem a criação de um novo tipo de jornalismo, um jornalismo preocupado com a cobertura dos fatos dos mundos de jogo, um jornalismo nos jogos, um jornalismo de mundos virtuais

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Winn, Joshua D. "Integration of Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games Client-Server Architectures with Collaborative Multi-User Engineering CAx Tools." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2012. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6209.

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This research presents a new method for integrating client server architectures that are used for the development of Massive Online Role Playing Games (MMORPG) into multi-user engineering software tools. The new method creates a new architecture named CAx Connect by changing the client-pull-server communication pipeline to a server-push-client communication pipeline, effectively reducing the amount of bandwidth consumed and allowing these tools to utilize multiple server processors for complex calculations. This method was used on the new NX Connect multi-user CAx prototype developed at BYU. The new method provides a road map to further implement this architecture and its services into additional multi-user CAx tools. To demonstrate the effectiveness of this technology, a prototype architecture was built to provide a front end service, a message relay service, and a database insertion service, which were integrated into the current architecture. The front end service provides load balancing of clients, while the feature administration service passes messages throughout the architecture. The database insertion service inserts features passed from the NX Connect client into the database. The results show that this architecture is more efficient and that a scalable architecture was created, successfully demonstrating the integration of this architecture with multi-user CAx tools.

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Bäckman, Susanna, and Paula Bel. "Mer än ett spel : – en kvalitativ studie om MMORPG-spelens påverkan på spelarnas liv." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för socialt arbete - Socialhögskolan, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-37570.

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The phenomenona MMORPG-games – a qualitative study on MMORPG-games effects on the players life The aim of this study was to shed lights on what it is that makes some people play MMORPG-games, get a insight in how a gamers social network can look like and how the game can change the players everyday life. To acchieve this aim the authors carried out four individual interwievs with MMORPG-players. These interwieves was hermeneutic interpreted with the socialantropology networkstheory, roletheory, social identitytheory and the entirety was interpreted with the concept: “the late modern society”. The conclusions that was found were that the games helps the players to handle their everyday life and has a condition for the players to produce relationships with other players. The study also reviled that the games can have different effects on the players and the amplitude of the effects depends on how deep the players involve themselves into the games. Furthermore the study showed that the players has a possibility to create identities in the MMORPG-games but it also showed that there are a conflict between the gameworld and the physical life where the gameworld is understood as the “secondary world”.

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Helbig, Alina, Madeleine Kreher, and Robert Piehler. "Prosoziales Verhalten in MMORPGs." Thesis, Universitätsbibliothek Chemnitz, 2007. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:swb:ch1-200700777.

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Obwohl sich aus medienpsychologischer Sicht auch nach der vorliegenden Untersuchung bisher nur eine eingeschränkte Perspektive zur Bewertung von prosozialen Verhaltensweisen in MMORPGs ergibt, zeigen die ersten Ergebnisse, dass die Problematik eine nicht zu unterschätzende Relevanz in der Erklärung sozialer Präsenz in virtuellen Welten hat. Prosoziales Verhalten tritt in allen MMORPGs auf und ist wahrscheinlich ein konstituierender Faktor sozialer Präsenz. Diese wiederum scheint das Spielerlebnis von "World of Warcraft" und ähnlichen Spielen entscheidend zu prägen und erklärt, unter Umständen, ihren Reiz für die Spieler. Daher müssen weitere Anstrengungen unternommen werden, den scheinbaren Widerspruch zwischen prosozialem Verhalten in MMORPGs und deren Regelspielcharakter aufzulösen und das Phänomen Altruismus in virtuellen Welten stärker zu operationalisieren. In diesem Kontext ist anzunehmen, dass Erfolg im Spiel nicht nur durch das Erreichen von expliziten Spielzielen, sondern auch in Form eines verdeckten Prestiges als sozialer Status manifestiert wird. Beide Bewertungskategorien des Erfolges stehen dabei in Interdependenz. Wie in der wirklichen Gesellschaft, kann ich Hilfe in schwierigen Situationen nur erwarten, wenn ich selbst bereit bin zu helfen.

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Gracia, Tjong Richard Jake. "Escapism in to the Virtual World : A study on the accumulation of Bourdieu’s forms of capital in online games." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-29219.

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This study aims to present the characteristics and functions of Bourdieu’s forms of capital;economic, cultural, social and symbolic capital in large online social games genre called Massive multiplayer online roleplaying games (MMORPG). This is done in order to determine if these are reproduced in an online society consisting of thousands of players, which of the forms of capital are of outmost importance and how the accumulation of these affect the players lives using qualitative methods. Results show that the forms of capital in-game carry similar characteristics to the accumulation of such in the real world but are not transferable to the real world to the same extent. Which of the forms of capital was most of importance than others was not evident from the results, however, the empirical material shows of an interrelationship between the accumulation of capital between the dimensions; real world and game world.

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Cho, Yoon Sang. "Playing for Resistance in MMORPG: Oppositional Reading, Emergence, and Hegemony in the Lineage II "Bartz Liberation War"." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2012. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/communication_theses/89.

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Massively multiplayer online role playing games (MMORPG) open new worlds and new societies in the virtual space. Those worlds and societies rapidly expand and become important to the real world. Therefore, to understand them, this thesis examines the meanings and impacts of resistance in the MMORPG worlds and gaming culture from the case of an unprecedented grassroots revolution in Lineage II, which is called the “Bartz Liberation War.” By using the concepts of “oppositional reading,” “emergence,” and “hegemony,” this thesis examines how playing for resistance emerges and becomes dominant and explores the impact of resistance in both the gaming and real worlds. Also, this thesis shows the cultural struggle for hegemony in the game world and gaming culture as well as in the real world culture and politics.

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Chollet, Antoine. "Apprentissage et mobilisation de compétences managériales des joueurs de jeux de rôle en ligne massivement multijoueurs (MMORPG)." Thesis, Montpellier, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015MONTD049/document.

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Les média relatent des cas de joueurs de MMORPG recrutés sur des postes à responsabilités au regard de leurs compétences managériales acquises en jouant. Les joueurs de MMORPG développent-ils réellement des compétences managériales en jouant, et si oui, dans quelles conditions ? Pour explorer ces questions de recherche, nous fondons nos travaux sur la Théorie de l'Apprentissage Social ainsi que sur la Théorie Sociale Cognitive, toutes deux issues des recherches d'Albert Bandura. La revue de la littérature ainsi qu'une étude qualitative exploratoire (13 joueurs et anciens joueurs de MMORPG) nous amènent à proposer un modèle structurel de l'apprentissage des compétences managériales des joueurs de MMORPG. Ce modèle est testé grâce à une étude quantitative menée auprès de 4.397 individus. Deux analyses ont été réalisées. Pour la première, à visée exploratoire, permettant d'épurer les instruments de mesure, 414 questionnaires ont été validés (sur 707 reçus). Pour la seconde, à visée confirmatoire, permettant de vérifier les hypothèses, 2.628 questionnaires ont été validés (sur 3.690 reçus). Après avoir dessiné le profil des joueurs de MMORPG, nous montrons qu'il existe des phénomènes d'apprentissage de compétences managériales perçues par les joueurs, développées puis mobilisées dans les MMORPG, selon certaines conditions liées à l'environnement du jeu ainsi qu'à l'état intérieur du joueur. Le modèle proposé est ainsi validé. Les conclusions de cette recherche offrent des perspectives pour les joueurs ainsi que les organisations dans divers domaines, tels que le recrutement ou la formation, en tirant profit du potentiel des MMORPG. Des études longitudinales mériteraient d'être menées pour explorer l'évolution de l'apprentissage des joueurs de MMORPG et confirmer nos résultats
Media relate instances where MMORPG players are being recruited to responsibility positions, thanks to their managerial skills, acquired through playing. Do MMORPG players really develop such skills though playing, and if so, under what conditions? To explore these research questions, we're basing our works on the Social Learning Theory as well as the Social Cognitive Theory, both resulting from of Albert Bandura's researches. Literature reviewing as well as an exploratory qualitative study (13 players and older MMORPG players) led us to propose a managerial skill learning structural model of the MMORPG player. Two analyses were realized.The first one, in an exploratory aim, allowing to refine measuring tools, saw 414 questionnaires being validated (on 707 collected). The second one, with a confirmatory aim, allowing to verify hypothesis, saw 2 628 questionnaires being validated (on 3 690 collected). Once we've drawn the MMORPG player's profile, we're showing that there are managerial skill learning phenomena perceived by the players that are developed then mastered in MMORPG, under specific conditions linked to the game's environment, as well as the internal state of the player. The proposed model is thus validated.Conclusions of this research offer possibilities for players as well as organizations in various domains, such as recruitment or training, by benefiting MMORPG's potential. Longitudinal studies would deserve to be done in order to explore the MMORPG's player learning evolution, and confirm our results

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Silva, Renata Prado Alves. "World of warcraft: semioses para produção de envolvimento em jogos eletrônicos." Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), 2010. https://repositorio.ufjf.br/jspui/handle/ufjf/2695.

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Os MMORPGs são um fenômeno à parte na indústria dos jogos eletrônicos. Possuem um desenvolvimento paralelo, trazendo sempre elementos novos e diferenciados para a cultura dos games. World of Warcraft, lançado em 2004, é o mais expressivo representante do gênero MMORPG, com 11.5 milhões de usuários pagantes no mundo. O jogo é constantemente alvo de críticas devido ao alto grau de envolvimento dos jogadores (fenômeno denominado ―vício‖ ou ―uso problemático‖) que passam, em média, 20 horas por semana conectados. Entender o desenvolvimento deste game e como se dá a participação nele conduziu à verificação da existência de padrões na concepção do jogo que buscam criar hábitos específicos nos jogadores, resultando no alto grau de envolvimento. Partindo da hipótese de que os jogos eletrônicos estão modificando hábitos, comportamentos e até a sociabilidade, uma contextualização bibliográfica sobre o desenvolvimento dos jogos eletrônicos, desde seus primórdios, indicou que o gênero MMORPG sempre encerrou características essenciais para este envolvimento. O detalhamento de World of Warcraft como mídia híbrida - por meio das Matrizes da Linguagem e do Pensamento de Lúcia Santaella, apoiadas na semiótica peirceana -, conduziu a uma análise das dominâncias sonoras, visuais e verbais no jogo, assim como os hibridismos que atuam potencialmente sobre a formação de hábitos. A análise das semioses para produção de envolvimento apontou que o universo do jogo é concebido e modificado para adequar os hábitos dos jogadores aos interesses comerciais dos desenvolvedores.
The MMORPGs are a phenomenon apart in the industry of electronic games. They have a parallel development, always bringing new and different elements to the culture of games. World of Warcraft, launched in 2004, is the most significant representative of the MMORPG genre, with 11.5 million paying users in the world. The title is constantly criticized because of the high degree of engagement of the players (called "addiction" or "problematic use") that are on average 20 hours per week online. Understanding the development of this game and how does the participation in it led to the determination of standards inside the game design seeking to establish specific habits in the players, resulting in the high degree of involvement identified. Assuming that electronic games are changing habits, behavior and even sociability, a bibliographic research on the development of electronic games, since its inception, said the MMORPG genre always ended the essential characteristics for this involvement. The details of World of Warcraft as hybrid media – through Matrix of Language and Thought by Lucia Santaella, supported by Peirce's semiotics –, led to an analysis of dominances of sound, visual and verbal aspects in the game, as well as hybrid forms, potentially acting on the formation of habits. The analysis of the semiosis for the production of engagement pointed that the game world is designed and modified to suit the habits of players to the developers‘ commercial interests.

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Carvalho, Leonardo Filipe Batista Silva de. "Aplicação do modelo de algoritmo genético baseado em tipos abstratos de dados (GAADT) na adaptação de cenários bidimensionais de MMORPGs." Universidade Federal de Alagoas, 2011. http://repositorio.ufal.br/handle/riufal/846.

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The importance of using Artificial Intelligence in video games is growing in response to the need that videogames have of showing behaviors and other game elements in a closer regard to what is witnessed at the real world. This need combined with a high level of user interaction and a large variety of games offering different situations and behaviors in complex controlled environments, places the videogames as an invaluable exploring niche for the application of different artificial intelligence techniques. This was the initial concept that led to the idea of using a MMORPG as background for demonstrating the application of artificial intelligence techniques, a game genre which values a rich environment, full of interactivity and with significant events happening simultaneously, in a similar manner to what is witnessed at the real world. Taking advantage of the MMORPG context, this essay will demonstrate the application of the genetic algorithm based on abstract data type (GAADT) to provide the modification of a game map features due to the course of time, closely resembling what would happen at the real world. A concept that is thus far, little explored in videogames, particularly in MMORPGs. In addition, it is expected that the application created here for validating the GAADT s algorithmic model for the problem presented here can be refined, thus, providing educators with a tool that allows them to use a MMORPG game scenario as a way to draw didactic parallels between the game environment and the content seen at the classroom.
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A importância do uso de recursos de Inteligência Artificial em jogos eletrônicos cresce em resposta a necessidade de jogos que apresentem comportamentos e elementos mais próximos da realidade. Uma necessidade que aliada ao alto nível de interação com o usuário e uma grande variedade de jogos, que oferecem a possibilidade de simular diferentes situações e comportamentos em ambientes complexos controlados, caracteriza os jogos eletrônicos como um importante nicho a ser explorado para a aplicação de diferentes técnicas de inteligência artificial. Este foi o conceito inicial do qual partiu a idéia de utilizar um jogo de MMORPG como pano de fundo para demonstrar a aplicação de técnicas de inteligência artificial, um gênero de jogo que preza por um ambiente rico, interativo e com eventos significativos ocorrendo de forma simultânea, similarmente ao que ocorre no mundo real. Tomando proveito do contexto do MMORPG, esta dissertação irá demonstrar a aplicação do algoritmo genético baseado em tipos abstratos de dados (GAADT) para proporcionar a alteração das características de um mapa de jogo em razão da passagem do tempo, de forma similar ao que ocorreria no mundo real. Um conceito ainda pouco explorado em jogos eletrônicos, sobretudo em MMORPGs. Espera-se ainda que a aplicação criada aqui para a validação do modelo do GAADT a este problema possa ser refinada, de modo a proporcionar aos educadores uma ferramenta que lhes permitam utilizar o cenário de jogo de um MMORPG como um meio para traçar paralelos didáticos entre a ambientação do jogo e o conteúdo de sala de aula.

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Isaksson, Susanne. "Karaktärsskapandets karaktär : En undersökning om karaktärsskapandets betydelse i MMORPGs." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för datavetenskap, fysik och matematik, DFM, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-12972.

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Denna uppsats undersöker vad spelare vill uppleva i sitt karaktärsskapande iolika spel. Syftet med arbetet har varit att få bättre förståelse för vad enanvändare vill ha ut av sin karaktär och sitt karaktärskapande.Frågeställningen i arbetet löd: ”Vad är för en designer viktigast att tänka pånär man designar en karaktärsskapande del i ett spel?” Förhoppningen varatt få en djupare förståelse för karaktärsskapandets karaktär för att bättrekunna designa den karaktärsskapande delen i ett spel. Undersökningengenomfördes med en kvalitativ metod för att belysa frågorna djupare. Förstskapades en kvalitativ intervju, och efter intervjuerna skapades tre nyafrågor som lades ut på två internetforum med inriktning mot MMORPGs.De spelare som verkade vara mest intresserade av karaktärsskapande ochprocessen kring karaktärsskapandet, var de spelare som ibland ägnade sig åtrollspelande. De spelare som delvis eller helt ägnade sig åt Player versusPlayer verkade ha svårt att se någon mening med att skapa en identitet ellerett unikt utseende överhuvudtaget. Det viktigaste som framkom iundersökningen var att man måste känna sin publik. Som designer behöverman veta för vilka spelstilar man designar spelet. De faktorer som varviktiga för spelarna, för att kunna fördjupa sig i sina karaktärer, var att deraskaraktärer hade möjligheten att bli unika.
This paper is focused on a better understanding of what computer gameplayers want to get out of their character and the character creation. Thequestion addressed in the paper was: "What is most important for a designerto consider when designing a character-creation part of a game?" The aimwas to gain a deeper understanding of the nature of the character creationprocess in order to better design the character creation part of future games.The study has been conducted with a qualitative method to illuminate thequestions in more depth. First, a qualitative interview was made, and afterthe interviews, three new questions were created, which were then postedon two Internet forums focusing on MMORPGs. The players who were themost interested in character creation and the process of this, were theplayers who sometimes engaged in role play. The players who partially orfully engaged in Player versus Player combat, had difficulties seeing anypoint in creating an identity or a unique look at all. The most importantthing that emerged from the investigation was that the designer needs toknow his audience. As a designer, you need to take into account whatplaying styles you design the game for. The important factors for theplayers to immerse themselves in their characters, was that their characterscould be made unique.

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Johannesson, Noa, and Adam Jonsson. "Datorspel: Ett omedvetet lärande : Datorspelandets påverkan på engelska ordförrådet hos andraspråksinlärare." Thesis, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, Högskolan i Jönköping, Språk-, litteratur- och mediedidaktik, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-39189.

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Syftet med denna studie är att utifrån existerande forskning undersöka på vilka sätt datorspel som inte är utformade i undervisningssyfte påverkar elevers vokabulär i engelska samt vilka aspekter från datorspel vi kan använda oss av i engelskklassrummet. Det finns många studier som menar att datorspel gynnar barn och ungdomars utveckling av engelskt vokabulär och språkinlärning i allmänhet. Andra studier visar att datorspel stjälper språkinlärning genom att skapa aggressivitet och fokus på fula ord. Det finns många spel som tekniskt sett har beståndsdelarna för att vara en bra miljö för andraspråksinlärare av engelska. Denna studie undersöker vad forskning säger om detta och ställer deras resultat mot och med varandra för en sammanställning. Studien berörs av artiklar som är både svenska och internationella eftersom syftet handlar om engelska för andraspråksinlärare vilket innebär att det appliceras till alla barn och ungdomar som spelar datorspel oavsett ursprung. Artiklarna vi har valt att använda oss av handlar om hur datorspel påverkar språkinlärning på ett eller annat sätt. Vi har valt att avgränsa oss till spelgenren ”mmorpg” (massivley multiplayer online role playing game) av anledningen att det är den spelgenren som enligt forskning tilltalar flest barn och ungdomar i form av intresse. Resultatet visar att datorspel kan bidra till ett utökat ordförråd i engelska för andraspråksinlärning. Dock för att datorspel ska kunna bidra till det på bästa sätt bör andraspråksinläraren ha ett intresse för datorspel eller vara villig att lägga ner mycket tid för att skapa ett intresse. Resultatet visar också att det finns aspekter från datorspel som dess uppbyggnad, design och dess mål- och belöningssystem som kan implementeras i engelskundervisningen för att bygga upp ett intresse om ämnet och skapa motivation.

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Jagad, Lakshmi Ms. "Online Gaming and Teamwork." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2011. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/communication_theses/83.

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This thesis aims to find out the relationship, if any, between playing multi-player online games and developing teamwork qualities. Online multi-player games involve thousands of players who play in teams (or solo, as the preference may be) in sophisticated gaming environments. As gamers team together to complete missions within the game, teamwork concepts such as communication skills, leadership, coordination, negotiation and other similar qualities come to the fore. The research component of this thesis consists of a survey where respondents answered questions about their online gaming behavior. They also answered questions about their experience working in teams in the offline environment. A total of 202 responses were collected and analyzed. There was a significant negative association found between autocratic leadership ability and hours spent per week playing online games in teams/groups. Team communication skills and leadership communication skills were significantly related to the degree of involvement in the gaming community, but only for individuals with low leadership-work experience. A significant relationship was also seen between democratic leadership skills and the degree of involvement in the gaming community. In addition, a significant negative relationship was found between autocratic leadership ability and degree of involvement in the gaming community.

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