Addiction to Online Role-Playing Games
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| Year of publication | 2010 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | Online role-playing games (MMORPGs) belongs to one of the most extensive Internet applications and as such are also frequently discussed by academics, media and professionals as potentially leading their gamers to overuse and addiction. These games, like World of Warcraft e.g., became immensely popular with dozens of millions of gamers worldwide. Significant feature of these games is the intensity how long gamers stay online; it is more then 25 hours with frequent periods of playing more then 8 hours in a raw. The majority of gamers are males in the age between late adolescents and young adulthood. The factors of addiction in the game features are described, mainly pointing out persistency of the game, social bounds and easiness to reach flow state. On the contrary, the factors of addiction on the player site are introduced as well, identifying lower self-esteem and self-efficacy as key factors. |
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