Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) routinely attract millions of players but little empirical data is available to assess their players' social experiences. In this p...
Nicolas Ducheneaut, Nicholas Yee, Eric Nickell, Ro...
Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) continue to be a popular and lucrative sector of the gaming market. Project Massive was created to assess MMOG players’ social experie...
A. Fleming Seay, William J. Jerome, Kevin Sang Lee...
In this work, we develop a hierarchical load testing architecture using large scale virtual clients to reduce the testing time and ensure the stability of the server for distribut...
— We examine the social behaviors of game experts in Everquest II, a popular massive multiplayer online role-playing game (MMO). We rely on Exponential Random Graph Models (ERGM)...
David Huffaker, Jing (Annie) Wang, Jeffrey William...
Massive Multiplayer Online Games with their virtual gaming worlds grow in user numbers as well as in the size of the virtual worlds. With this growth comes a significant increase...