Bridging Space Over Time: Global Virtual Team Dynamics and Effectiveness
Organization Science
"Alone together?": exploring the social dynamics of massively multiplayer online games
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Strangers and friends: collaborative play in world of warcraft
CSCW '06 Proceedings of the 2006 20th anniversary conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Sociable killers: understanding social relationships in an online first-person shooter game
Proceedings of the ACM 2011 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
"I'm just here to play games": social dynamics and sociality in an online game site
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Computers in Human Behavior
Unveiling group characteristics in online social games: a socio-economic analysis
Proceedings of the 23rd international conference on World wide web
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Team collaboration in multi-player online games provides opportunities for players to interact with each other. Facilitating teams has become one of the main design principles to increase social activities. However, there is no research evidence that collaborating on tasks in game teams can produce the desired relational outcome. This paper examines more than half a million solo and team activities during a week in Dragon Nest, an MMO game. We measure the degree of team engagement using the percentage of time played in teams and the percentage of play with repeated teammates, and we then identify different types of players using this. The results show that solo players and team players are two distinct populations and they are highly predictable based on players' in-game status. Moreover, we find that spending more time in teams does not always lead to more social interactions. The interviews with players are conducted to validate the findings.