A qualitative study of Ragnarök Online private servers: In-game sociological issues

FDG 2010 - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 48-55

  Debeauvais, Thomas ^a   Nardi, Bonnie ^a  

^a Ringgold Standard Institution Informatics   (United States)

Author keywords

Games; MMOG; Private servers; Ragnar k online

Indexed keywords

GAME SERVERS; GAMES; ON-LINE GAMES; QUALITATIVE DATA; QUALITATIVE STUDY;

SERVERS;

EID: 77955127321     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1822348.1822355     Document Type: Conference Paper

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