Physics – Popular Physics
Scientific paper
2009-07-29
EPL 88, 48007 (2009)
Physics
Popular Physics
6 EPL pages including 10 eps figures
Scientific paper
10.1209/0295-5075/88/48007
Massive multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) are very popular in China, which provides a potential platform for scientific research. We study the online-offline activities of avatars in an MMORPG to understand their game-playing behavior. The statistical analysis unveils that the active avatars can be classified into three types. The avatars of the first type are owned by game cheaters who go online and offline in preset time intervals with the online duration distributions dominated by pulses. The second type of avatars is characterized by a Weibull distribution in the online durations, which is confirmed by statistical tests. The distributions of online durations of the remaining individual avatars differ from the above two types and cannot be described by a simple form. These findings have potential applications in the game industry.
Jiang Zhi-Qiang
Tan Qun-Zhao
Zhou Wei-Xing
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