The evolution and social impact of video game economics. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Casey B. Hart.
• Editors: Hart, Casey B
• Contents: Contents ; ; Introduction ; <span style="font-style:italic;">Casey Hart ; <span style="font-style:italic;"> ; <ol start="1" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">"Show me the money!" - Shifting Fields of Capital in the Global Game Industry <span style="font-style:italic;">Casey O’Donnell ; <span style="font-style:italic;"> ; <ol start="2" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">Nintendo’s Retro Revolution: Commodified Nostalgia and the Virtual Console <span style="font-style:italic;">Steve Cuff and Christopher Terry ; <span style="font-style:italic;"> ; <ol start="3" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">Business Models, Planned Obsolescence, Externalities: Examining the Virtual Hand of the Video Game Industry <span style="font-style:italic;">Mark D. Cruea ; <span style="font-style:italic;"> ; <ol start="4" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">Prestige: A Cyclical Act for Consumer Control <span style="font-style:italic;">Brent Kice ; <span style="font-style:italic;"> ; <ol start="5" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">Free-to-play? Considering the interaction of functional factors in video game design influencing the economic effectiveness of microtransactions <span style="font-style:italic;">Casey Hart ; <span style="font-style:italic;"> ; <ol start="6" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">P(l)aying Pretty: Consuming Fairy Tales and Device Applications <span style="font-style:italic;">Emma Whatman ; ; <ol start="7" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">Playing with and against Microtransactions: The Discourses of Microtransactions Acceptance and Rejection in Mainstream Video Games <span style="font-style:italic;">Jan Švelch ; <span style="font-style:italic;"> ; <ol start="8" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">Smart Players and Happy Consumers: Effects of Game Characteristics and Player Emotional Experiences on in-App Ad Responses <span style="font-style:italic;">Hsuan-Yi Chou and Shaojung Sharon Wang ; <span style="font-style:italic;"> ; <ol start="9" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">Gold Farming in China—and in Western Academia, Journalism, and Fiction <span style="font-style:italic;">Bjarke Liboriussen ; <span style="font-style:italic;"> ; About the Editor and Contributors
• Publisher Details: Lanham : Lexington Books
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 338.477948; Video games -- Economic aspects; Video games industry; Video games -- Design -- Social aspects
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781498543422
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