- What Makes A Game Immersive
- Who Plays These Games
- Only 25 percent of MMORPG players are teenagers. According to some demographic surveys of WoW Players, the average player age is 28. Not too surprisingly, 84 percent of players are male and 16 percent are female. But female players tend to be older, with an average age of 32.
- Immersive games range from MMO to console RPG and Shooters
Examples
- How companies profit
- Virtual Outbreak - Key to Fefferman's idea is that in virtual worlds each character is controlled by a real person, rather than being just a statistic in a simulation, which means you don't need to try to predict their behaviour; you can observe it. "The real advantage of virtual-world modelling over statistical modelling is that for statistical modelling to work at all, you need to know how people will behave in advance," Fefferman says. In the virtual world you can look at the behaviour in response to the disease. For example, infected characters might flock to healing areas just as real-world victims would head for hospital
- A man in South Korea who went on a 50 hour binge playing World of Warcraft and died of heart failure, caused by dehydration and starvation.
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ABC News Online: A Shanghai online game player has stabbed to death a competitor who sold his cyber sword for real money.
The sale created a legal dilemma because China has no law covering the ownership of virtual weapons.
The China Daily newspaper reported that a Shanghai court was told Qiu Chengwei, 41, stabbed competitor Zhu Caoyuan repeatedly in the chest after he was told Zhu had sold his dragon sabre, used in the popular online game Legend of Mir 3,
The online game features heroes and villains, sorcerers and warriors, many of whom wield enormous swords.
Qiu and a friend jointly won their virtual weapon last February and lent it to Zhu, who then sold it for 7,200 yuan.
Qui went to the police to report the theft but was told the weapon was not real property protected by law.
"Zhu promised to hand over the cash but an angry Qui lost patience and attacked Zhu at his home, stabbing him in the left chest with great force and killing him," the court heard.
- Social apsects
