29. Informal: virtual worlds are lack of support for it Permanent: groups would continue to exist when all their members were logged off R. Bartle, Designing virtual worlds . Indianapolis: New Riders Publishing, 2004. Category Number of Players Formality Duration Structure Pairs 2~5 Informal Temporary Flat “ Pickup” groups 3~5 Formal Temporary Flat Friends <50 Formal Permanent Flat Groups for raiding 5, 10, 20, 40. Formal Temporary Hierarchy Guilds and ally groups 10~480 Formal Permanent Hierarchy Hybrid groups 40 Formal Temporary Hierarchy
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37. Server Average level upgrading efficiency Average playing time per day (minutes) US 0.93 90.46 Taiwan 1.62 (Higher) 102.19 (Almost the same)
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Editor's Notes
目前 MMOGs 的玩家越來越多，更產生了許多跨界共玩的現象，因此值得探討（可以引用 Why game studies now 的系列論文。） 目前有兩大趨勢使得資訊學門可以在不重新開發遊戲的狀態下，介入或探索遊戲世界 Flexible UI 的出現 玩家設計遊戲內容的趨勢（設計介面、設計情景 design game context 、設計遊戲內容 design game content – second life ）是否可以用 GameAI 的四層談法來討論他？ WoW 和以往遊戲的不同。 Second life 和以往遊戲的不同。
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