An analysis of WoW players' game hours

Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Network and System Support for Games, NetGames'08

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 47-52

  Tarng, Pin Yun ^a   Chen, Kuan Ta ^b   Huang, Polly ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS MODELS; GAME PLAYERS; MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER; ON-LINE GAMING; PILOT STUDIES; PREDICTION MODEL; ROLE-PLAYING GAME; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 70349127191     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1517494.1517504     Document Type: Conference Paper

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