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An Analysis of the Preference Type of Internet Personal Game Broadcasting in China - focused on Player-Unknown's Battlegrounds Streaming  

Seo, Ryung (Department of Game Design and Development, The graduate school, Sangmyung University)
Kihl, Taesuk (Department of Game Design and Development, The graduate school, Sangmyung University)
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Journal of the Korean Society for Computer Game / v.31, no.4, 2018 , pp. 81-89 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to classify the types of internet personal game broadcasting in China and to examine viewers' preferences type of it. By targeting top 100 creators of Player-Unknown's Battleground streaming as a personal game broadcaster with over 100,000 followers, the game types were classified based on the purpose and characteristic of game broadcasting such as game play, entertainment, and audience participation. As a result, the type of internet personal game broadcasting in China was classified into progamer type, cooperative playing type, storytelling type, and reciprocal entertainment type. The progamer type was 38% and it was the highest proportion of Player-Unknown's Battlegrounds streaming. Next came storytelling type, cooperative playing type and reciprocal entertainment type with 25%, 19% and 18% respectively. In sum, progamer type and storytelling type which shows relatively low real - time communication with audiences accounted for a high percentage of 63%. This implies that the characteristics of the broadcast media focused on 'showing' have influenced the production and planning of personal game broad casting. The interactive characteristics of the platform of personal game broad casting can be expected to gradually change the conventional customs of broadcasting media.
Keywords
Internet personal game broadcasting; Progamer type; Cooperative playing type; Storytelling type; Reciprocal entertainment type; Player-Unknown's Battlegrounds streaming;
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