• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.14-25
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• 2004

Currently in South Korea, the online game market brings in revenues of around 4,522 hundred billion Won. Thus, it becomes obvious that the number of online gamers has been increasing over the years and will probably continue to increase. Often times, the success of online games is determined by the characteristics of the game. This includes anything from the action to the plot and story development of the game. This is a crucial element in determining how interested a gamer will be in the game, which in turn can also lead to more effective technology development and cost investment in the overall game market. Research is being conducted by 'Mu', 'Ragnarok' and 'Laghaim', on the game characteristics of successful MMORPG online games. 'Mu's' target research are females, while 'Ragnarok' and 'Laghaim' are targeting the male gamer. This study will aid game companies in developing more games with successful game characteristics that are attractive to garners.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.65-77
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• 2023

Chinese martial arts culture is a kind of Chinese kung fu culture, a cultural category that uses martial arts kung fu for chivalry and justice. Chinese martial arts MMORPG online game is the embodiment of Chinese martial arts culture in online games, which is a unique Chinese online game. The image of beggar chivalry is a special chivalrous image in Chinese martial arts culture, and in the top 3 martial arts MMORPG online games, all of them have the image of beggar chivalry, which shows that this image has a wide player base. The Q methodology is an approach that endeavors to discover complex issues in human subjectivity, unlike existing empirical studies. In order to determine the type of beggar chivalry image preference of the game players, 32 beggar chivalry images were selected in the study and three types of beggar chivalry images were found through the Q method: Type 1 is the type of gorgeous and noble beggar chivalry; Type 2 is a competent type and is good at fighting the beggar's chivalry; and Type 3 is comparable relatively refined type. The result of this study is that the image of beggar chivalry preferred by game players is the opposite of the traditional Chinese image of beggar chivalry. The traditional image of beggar is the image of wearing plain and begging in the street, but the image of beggar chivalry that is liked in online games is luxurious, noble, exquisite and about the image of good at fighting. This research result has some value and significance in the development and design of beggar chivalrous image in future martial arts MMORPG online games.

• Information Systems Review
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.1-22
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• 2021

This study aims to analyze online game user's game items transacting behaviors for the two game genres such as MMORPG and sports game. For the sake of conducting the analysis, we adopted a fuzzy logic agent-based modeling. In the online game fields, game items transactions are crucial to game company's profitability. However, there are lack of previous studies investigating the online game user's game items transacting activities. Since many factors need to be addressed in a complicated way, ABM (agent-based modeling) simulation mechanism is adopted. Besides, a fuzzy logic is also considered due to the fact that a number of uncertainties and ambiguities exist with respect to online game user's complex behaviors in transacting game items. Simulation results from applying the fuzzy logic ABM method revealed that MMORPG game users are motivated to pay expensive price for high-performance game items, while sports game users tend to transact game items within a reasonable price range. We could conclude that the proposed fuzzy logic ABM simulation mechanism proved to be very useful in organizing an effective strategy for online game items management and customers retention.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.35-42
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• 2009

Analyzing the aspects of pattern in MMORPG that has been leading our domestic game industry to the climax, our game industry might be thought to orient the space narrative storytelling method containing the leading life in the virtual sociality to the nature of society. It is essential to have the convergence and linkage between media in describing the lifestyle in the virtual society, which should be operated in a very flexible manner. It is, however, true that we are lacking of the quantification of designing process until now, although the designing process should have the vivid academic functions between media in advance. In addition, the designing crossing over the MMORPG genre along with the game patterns in the MMORPG genre has close correlations with the spectrum of crises emerging recently in our domestic online game industry. In other words, this essay aims at raising an issue that the selective method to the lifestyle in the virtual society being settled down as characteristics inherent to the methods of our domestic online games might deliver the improving effects through the establishment of game designing jobs and compliant plans.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2016.07a
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• pp.307-310
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• 2016

국내 게임시장은 모바일을 기반으로 성정을 지속할 것으로 내다보고 있다. MMORPG 신작 부재로 국내 온라인 게임 시장의 성장은 다소 제한적일 것으로 예상했지만 다양한 신작 출시와 기존 온라인 게임의 모바일 게임 시장 진출로 시장이 활성화 되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 MMORPG 게임에 대표적인 두개의 길드 시스템을 분석하며 기존 시스템에 대한 보완과 새로운 시스템에 대해 제안하고자 한다. 두 게임에 공통적으로 들어가는 시스템에 대해 문제점과 보완방법을 제안하며 새로운 시스템에 대한 제안을 통해 게임을 즐기는 사용자들의 참여를 유도하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2023.07a
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• pp.151-154
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• 2023

국내 PC MMORPG 게임은 지난 약 20년간 많은 사람들에게 인기를 끌었으며, 한때 국내 게임 업계의 주요 성장 엔진이었다. 그러나 최근 몇 년간 여러 가지 원인들로 인해서 국내 PC MMORPG 게임의 유저 수는 감소하는 경향을 보이고 있다. 본 논문에서는 국내 PC MMORPG 게임의 유저 감소의 원인을 분석하고, 국내 PC MMORPG 게임의 재활성화에 방안을 제시하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.83-91
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• 2009

Recently game industry is emerging as a core of the domestic cultural contents by rapid development of IT technology and also the market scale has growing highly every year. Among various games, particularly the market ratio of MMORPG increases rapidly in domestic and oversea online game market. However it is true that the competition in the oversea market is too week for the investment to the MMORPG development efforts from the domestic game industry. Accordingly this paper collects the interests which players concern. Also this paper analyses and classifies design elements of successful MMORPGS as a way to obtain competition and shows a model in terms of game software qualify to be referred by MMORPG development organizations or companies.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.81-93
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• 2011

Identity theft happens frequently in popular MMORPG(Massively Multi-player Online Role Playing Games) where profits can be gained easily. In spite of the importance of security about identity theft in MMORPG, few methods to prevent and detect identity theft in online games have been proposed. In this study, we investigate real identity theft cases of an online game and define the representative patterns of identity theft as the speedy type, cautious type, and bold type. We then propose the automatic identity theft detection model based on the multi-class classification. We verify the system with one of the leading online games in Korea. The multi-class detection model outperforms the existing binary-class one(hacked or not).

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.53-66
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• 2009

The purpose of this study is to show typology of Non Player Character(NPCs) and to look out what narrative functions of NPCs are served in Massively Multi-player Online Role-Playing Game(MMORPG). As the relationship with player characters and the propensity of actions, NPCs are classified 4types; passive helper, active helper, passive antagonist, active antagonist. Each type performs different functions of game narrative. Especially passive helper functions as a essential glue of movement in game world and makes the chain of quest narratives. Active antagonist functions as the cause of space perspective and creates dramatic effect of game narrative. Those functions make spacial, dimensional and extensible game narrative.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.7 no.11
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• pp.69-75
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• 2007

In this paper, we propose a new distributed processing scheme to support MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games). But existing distributed game servers have some problems such as hotspot, congestion, server failure problems, and so on. To solve such problems, our proposed scheme begins by splitting the large virtual world into smaller regions, each region handled by a different server. We present a scheme that reduces the bandwidth requirements for both game servers and clients. Also our scheme allows seamless interaction among players residing on areas handled by different servers. We show an excellence of the proposed solution through various experiments.