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MM
2010
ACM
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14 years 10 months ago
Hybrid load balancing for online games
As massively multiplayer online games are becoming very popular, how to support a large number of concurrent users while maintaining the game performance has become an important r...
Rynson W. H. Lau
FPLAY
2008
14 years 12 months ago
Construction of cybertypes in Lineage II: an analysis of game interfaces and support documentation
This paper discusses social exclusion by analyzing the avatar creation interface of the massively multiplayer online roleplaying game (MMORPG) Lineage II. We use a previously deve...
Victoria McArthur, Tyler M. Pace, Aaron R. Houssia...
CHI
2007
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
The life and death of online gaming communities: a look at guilds in world of warcraft
Massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) can be fascinating laboratories to observe group dynamics online. In particular, players must form persistent associations or "guil...
Nicolas Ducheneaut, Nicholas Yee, Eric Nickell, Ro...
HICSS
2009
IEEE
123views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2009»
15 years 5 months ago
Users' Influence on the Success of Online Communities
This paper examines how different facets of favorable user behavior drive the success of an online community by using a unique data set with surveys from 1,389 participants from t...
Jakob Assmann, Philipp Sandner, Sophie Ahrens
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P2P
2009
IEEE
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Badumna Network Suite: A Decentralized Network Engine for Massively Multiplayer Online Applications
We present Badumna Network Suite, a network engine for Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) applications. MMO applications such as World of Warcraft and Second Life use client-serve...
Santosh Kulkarni