I would not plant apple trees if the world will be wiped: Analyzing hundreds of millions of behavioral records of players during an MMORPG beta test

• Main Authors: Qatar Computing Research Institute, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, KWAK, Haewoon, Korea University
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2017
• Subjects: ArcheAge; Closed beta test (CBT); Massively multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG); Online games; Computer Sciences; Databases and Information Systems
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/5659; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/6662/viewcontent/1703.01500.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In this work, we use player behavior during the closed beta test of the MMORPG ArcheAge as a proxy for an extreme situation: at the end of the closed beta test, all user data is deleted, and thus, the outcome (or penalty) of players' in-game behaviors in the last few days loses its meaning. We...