Physics – Physics and Society
Scientific paper
2009-04-30
Physica A 389 (2010) 807-814
Physics
Physics and Society
9 Elsart pages including 7 figures
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.physa.2009.10.028
Massive multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) are very popular in past few years. The profit of an MMORPG company is proportional to how many users registered, and the instant number of online avatars is a key factor to assess how popular an MMORPG is. We use the on-off-line logs on an MMORPG server to reconstruct the instant number of online avatars per second and investigate its statistical properties. We find that the online avatar number exhibits one-day periodic behavior and clear intraday pattern, the fluctuation distribution of the online avatar numbers has a leptokurtic non-Gaussian shape with power-law tails, and the increments of online avatar numbers after removing the intraday pattern are uncorrelated and the associated absolute values have long-term correlation. In addition, both time series exhibit multifractal nature.
Gu Gao-Feng
Jiang Zhi-Qiang
Ren Fei
Tan Qun-Zhao
Zhou Wei-Xing
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