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Cookie akzeptierenAhmed Elmezeny
The Complete Cost of Play
- Cuvillier
- 2021
- Taschenbuch
- 246 Seiten
- ISBN 9783736974012
Free-to-play (F2P) games have been recently taking the market by the storm, proving to be both popular among users and developers. Delivering the core experience for free and functional or decorative benefits within the game for a small price (microtransactions), can these games really be labelled free? This research explores the costs involved in playing or taking part in free- to-play game communities through an 18-month virtual ethnography. Using a specific F2P browser game which is developed and published in Germany as a case example, interviews are conducted with professionals from the game company, as well as players of the game to explore the influence the
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