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An Empirical Study on Online Game Players' Characteristics in Japan : Hardcore versus Casual Gamers (일본 온라인 게임시장에의 성공적 진출을 위한 기반 연구 - 게이머 유형별 특성 차이를 중심으로 -)

  • Um, Myoung-Yong;Kim, Tae-Ung;Kim, Young-Ki
    • THE INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE & LAW REVIEW
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    • v.26
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    • pp.285-313
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    • 2005
  • Online game business has emerged as the most lucrative entertainment industry, with over 10 million players in South Korea and over 30 million in Japan in 2005. The popularity of online games can be attributed to the availability of broadband network, pushing online games into the mainstream entertainment culture. The age distribution of online game players is expanding and a variety of new games are under development to target certain age groups. While the interactive entertainment market continues to expand, with many new online game publishers entering Japan, relatively little is known about which factors influence online game players' behavioral intentions to play continuously in this area. It appears that in this extremely attractive and growing services segment, academics, as well as practitioners, would benefit from investigating the difference, among the types of players, in demographic and social trends, perceptions related to game-design factors, and attitude toward the games. Based on data collected from online questionnaire survey, the differences between hardcore and casual players have been analyzed, and interesting conclusions have been provided concerning the online-game design and development strategies for Japan online-game players.

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A Study on Extended Technology Acceptance Model for On-Line Games : Japanese Experiences (확장된 기술수용모형을 이용한 온라인 게임 성공요인 분석 - 일본 게이머를 중심으로)

  • Um, Myoung-Yong;Jo, Sung-Han;Kim, Tae-Ung
    • THE INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE & LAW REVIEW
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    • v.29
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    • pp.173-196
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    • 2006
  • Online game business has emerged as the most lucrative entertainment industry, with over 10 million players in South Korea and over 30 million in Japan in 2005. The popularity of online games can be attributed to the availability of broadband network, pushing online games into the mainstream entertainment culture. The age distribution of online game players is expanding and a variety of new games are under development to target certain age groups. While the interactive entertainment market continues to expand, with many new online game publishers entering the Japan, relatively little is known about which factors influence online game players' behavioral intentions to play continuously in this area. This study investigates major factors which influence the acceptance of online game services based on the theoretical backgrounds of the technology acceptance model(TAM) and the flow theory. This paper extended the Davis' TAM model by including the flow concept as another major factor toward the intention to play online game. Based on data collected from online questionnaire survey, we show that the proposed model provides an adequate fit to the data, and that the flow experience is another important factor influencing the intention to play online game, as well as the perceived ease of use.

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A Study on the Analysis and Device Immersion of Game Platforms Optimized for Metabus Environment - Comparison of popular games in Korea, China, and Japan - (메타버스 환경에 적합한 게임 플랫폼과 디바이스 몰입요소 분석 - 한·중·일 인기게임 비교를 통해서 -)

  • Lim, SangGuk
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.25 no.6
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    • pp.852-865
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    • 2022
  • During the COVID-19 pandemic, games played an important role in people's lives. Numerous online users flocked to the game platform, and brand companies started using online games to promote their products. Medical institutions have also implemented policies for healthy physical activity through online games. In order to attract more global game users, research on immersion in games is also very important to prevent users from leaving the platform. Therefore, it is necessary to analyze the common immersion elements of popular games by country and study them from the perspective of changing devices. In this paper, representative popular games of Korea, China, and Japan, which are recently called the dark horse of the game industry, are classified by devices of mobile, online PCs, and VR games and analyzed using immersion analysis tools proposed by researcher. Next, the representative metaverse games of the Web 3.0 era were analyzed, and their characteristics were compared with the results of the immersion analysis between Korea, China, and Japan, and proposed as game immersion elements suitable for metabus games.

A Comparative Study on Players' Satisfaction, Trust toward Game Publishers, and Roles of Community in Korean and Japanese Online Game markets (한국과 일본 온라인 게이머의 게임 만족도, 신뢰도, 온라인 게임커뮤니티 인식에 관한 실증적 비교연구: 멀티그룹 공분산 구조분석을 중심으로)

  • Um, Myoung-Yong;Kim, Tae-Ung
    • Asia pacific journal of information systems
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.103-125
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    • 2006
  • Online game business has emerged as the most lucrative entertainment industry, with over 10 million players in South Korea and over 30million in Japan in 2005. While the interactive entertainment market continues to expand, with many new online game publishers entering the market, relatively little theory has been developed about which factors influence online gamers' behavioral intentions (i.e., loyalty, satisfaction, words of mouth, etc.) in this area. The purpose of this research is to investigate the relationships among the gamers' satisfaction, trust toward game publishers, the role of online game community, social reputation, and the managerial support of game publishers. We also examine the differences between Korean and Japanese gamers concerning the relationships of these key success factors. The structural model is tested with the data from entire data samples (i.e., Korean and Japanese gamers pooled together) and each of the sub-samples (i.e., Korean and Japanese gamers taken separately). Properties of the causal paths, including standardized path coefficients, the significance of difference, and variance explained for Trust and Satisfaction in the hypothesized model, are presented. Following the model test, we conduct a test of the differences in path coefficients between Korean and Japanese gamers. Statistical results show that, compared to Japanese gamers, Korean gamers had a greater salient effect on Social Reputation in determining. Trust, in addition to placing a greater emphasis on Support of Game Publishers in determining Social Reputation. Other interesting results concerning game Publishers' strategy are also presented.

Strategy of Market Penetration in Japanese Internet Market: Comparing Online Game Loyalty between Korea and Japan with MSEM (한국 기업의 일본 인터넷 시장 진출 전략: 멀티그룹 구조분석(MSEM)을 이용한 한국과 일본의 온라인 게임 충성도 비교를 중심으로)

  • 김남희;이상철;서영호
    • Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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    • v.31 no.1
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    • pp.21-41
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    • 2003
  • The purpose of this research is to identify if psychological temptation, site quality and sense of community influence user's flow and addiction and if causalities among flow, addiction, customer satisfaction and customer loyalty are different between Korean and Japanese online games. To perform our research, we use MCSF(Multi-group Confirmatory Factor Analysis) and MSEM(Multi-group Structural Equation Model). The empirical results of SEM(Structural Equation Model) including high-order factor analysis indicate that all of paths in our model are the same for both countries. Therefore, site quality and sense of community have impacts on the flow, while on the other hand, psychological temptation has impacts on the addiction. Customer satisfaction and loyalty are positively related not with the addiction but with the flow. In addition, customer loyalty is significantly influenced by the flow and the customer satisfaction. In Conclusion, the empirical results of MSEM(Multi-group Structural Equation Model) indicate sense of community to flow, flow to loyalty and customer satisfaction to loyalty are different between Korea and Japan. This indicates that companies to penetrate into Japa online game industry should have a concern with Japanese Social and Cultural features and to develop strategies which correspond with Japanese culture.

Research on the Design of Chinese Online Games in the Application of Cultural Content (문화 콘텐츠를 응용한 중국 온라인(MMORPG)게임 디자인 연구 -돈황벽화를 중심으로-)

Study on the game graphic contents of the China's MMORPG (중국 MMORPG 그래픽 콘텐츠에 관한 연구)

  • Ning, Shu-jia;Kueng, Byung-Pyo;Ryu, Seuc-ho;Lee, Wan-bok
    • Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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    • 2010.05a
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    • pp.37-39
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    • 2010
  • China's online games have been developed a decade, the online game development is very fast. The last monitoring from "gameScan$^{TM}$" shows that there are 6 local manufacturing MMORPG games in the top 20 in march 2010 of china.Through research top 4 MMORPG games, their graphic content is too similar. All of them are the subject of Chinese Martial-Arts and Chinese Mythology, the graphic design elements all from China's traditional culture. This phenomenon will be two defects, the first if the design follow the trend, it can reduce the risk of failure, but it'll lack of competitiveness also. The second is it can meet the needs of Chinese culture for the game players in china, but the complex Chinese mythology and the culture of Martial-Arts are not easy to be accepted for foreigners. There are many European and American games failed in China, because of the differences cultural, the Game players can't understand the history, religion and culture. so, we can get some experience from the successful game cases of Korea and Japan. Use of common cultural elements combined with some Chinese traditional culture to create a new fantasy world. And try some now contents about future or science fiction.

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A study on the Tendency of Localization for Game Environment Design - Based on the Analysis in Romance of the Three Kingdoms (게임배경디자인의 한.중.일 지역적 특성에 관한 연구 - 삼국지게임 대상으로)

  • Wei, Meng;Cho, Dong-Min
    • Journal of Korea Game Society
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    • v.13 no.5
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    • pp.31-42
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    • 2013
  • With the development of chinese online games rapidly, Game markets need the actual possibilities of practical game's technology increasingly. Additionally Lack of originality of the Chinese online games couldn't be appropriated for consumer's preferences, so it is necessary that the talents in a game design and management should be cultivated. When we cultivate the talents, we should pay attention to the various styles in different countries, that is why we will make a comparative study on the games respectively achieved in China, Japan, and Korea according to the romance of the three kingdoms. They respected the traditional Chinese cultures as materials of this theme, it is worth learning and referencing. We had selected representative 6 games among 25 three Kingdom games and 2 games for each country as a stimulus of the game architectural design in the backgrounds design, with using of SPSS regression analysis, Therefore, this research will provide the references for the better development talents of whom can not only understand Chinese traditional culture but also adapt to the needs of game development.

Psychological Analysis on Consumer Sentiment for Gacha (게임 내 캐릭터 뽑기 사용자의 과금 심리 분석 : 퍼즐 앤 드래곤을 중심으로)

  • Kim, Soul
    • Journal of Korea Game Society
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.77-86
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    • 2016
  • As the focus of game market moves to mobile era, payment on cyber money, specifically for Gacha system, possesses a large portion for creating profit in game industry. For this reason, this study mainly focuses on Puzzle and Dragon, the mobile game of Gungho online entertainment in Japan, which has made enormous profit for several years. The analysis on consumer sentiment for Gacha are categorized as below: (1) gambling mentality and cognitive error in stochastic game in God festival (2) reactional psychology for scarcity message in limited time God festival and collaboration (3) personal satisfaction through friend system and character collection.

The Hidden Catalyst for Industrial Convergence between the MMOG Industry and the Online Broadcasting Industry in South Korea

  • Park, Jae-Hwan;Evans, Steve;Kim, Young Roak
    • Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.69-85
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    • 2014
  • This paper explores the convergence process by focusing on the massively multiplayer online game(MMOG) industry and the online broadcasting industry in South Korea. In doing so, the paper seeks to establish the concept of Hidden catalysts for the integration process between the two industries and explore the roles of the Hidden catalysts in triggering the industry's transition. Further, the modified multi-level socio-technical model we applied in our research allows us both to understand each industry's development towards convergence in various dimensions and also to focus on the activities of the Hidden catalysts. In assessing the role of Hidden catalysts in industry convergence, we found that Hidden catalysts depend on two essential features: first, appropriate technology leading to the new industry dominance; and second, managerial capabilities to deal with conflicts among other new interest groups, to harmonise with government initiatives for industry development and to create new value in the integrated market to please the demand of mixed customers.