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1. Game design as marketing: How game mechanics create demand for virtual goods

   Juho Hamari, Vili Lehdonvirta in International Journal of Business Science and Applied Management (2010)

   Added 2011-08-18 35 readers
2. Designing Virtual Worlds

   Richard Bartle (2003)

   Added 2011-08-18 128 readers
3. Why People Buy Virtual Items in Virtual Worlds With Real Money

   Stuart Barnes, Yue Guo in SIGMIS Database (2007)

   Virtual worlds, such as Second Life and Everquest, have grown into virtual game communities that have economic potential. In such communities, virtual items are bought and sold between individuals for real money. The study detailed in this paper…

   Added 2011-08-18 19 readers
4. Virtual Property

   Joshua Fairfield in Boston University Law Review (2005)

   This article explores three new concepts in property law. First, the article defines an emerging property form - virtual property - which is not intellectual property, but that more efficiently governs rivalrous, persistent, and interconnected…

   Added 2011-08-18 27 readers
5. Pelimekaniikat osana ansaintalogiikkaa

   Juho Hamari, Vili Lehdonvirta in Pelitutkimuksen Vuoskirja 2010 (2010)

   Added 2011-08-05 2 readers
6. The “New” Virtual Consumer: Exploring the Experiences of New Users

   L.R. Wetsch in Journal of Virtual Worlds Research (2008)

   Added 2011-03-31 10 readers
7. Worlds for Study: Invitation-Virtual Worlds for Studying Real-World Business (and Law, and Politics, and Sociology, and....)

   R.J. Bloomfield in papers.ssrn.com (2009)

   Added 2011-03-31 2 readers
8. Another Time, Another Space: Virtual Worlds, Myths and Imagination.

   Beatrice Bittarello in Online-Heidelberg journal of religions on the Internet (2009)

   Added 2011-03-31 14 readers
9. " We Will Always Be One Step Ahead of Them" A Case Study on the Economy of Cheating in MMORPGs

   S. de Paoli, Aphra Kerr in Journal of Virtual Worlds Research (2010)

   Added 2011-03-31 6 readers
10. Consuming Code: Use-Value, Exchange-Value, and the Role of Virtual Goods in Second Life

    J. Martin in Journal of Virtual Worlds Research (2008)

    Added 2011-03-31 4 readers
11. From the Laboratory to the Virtual World: Applications for Financial Reporting Research

    R.J. Bloomfield, K. Rennekamp in papers.ssrn.com (2009)

    Added 2011-03-31 3 readers
12. Payback of Mining Activities Within Entropia Universe

    M. Falk, D.M. Besemann, J.M. Bosson in Journal of Virtual Worlds Research (2009)

    Added 2011-03-31 5 readers
13. Ideen über den Magnetismus

    Richard Kirwan in Annalen der Physik (1800)

    Added 2011-03-31 2 readers
14. The lab versus the virtual lab and virtual field—An experimental investigation of trust games with communication

    Marina Fiedler, Ernan Haruvy in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (2009)

    Added 2011-03-31 17 readers
15. On the Research Value of Large Games: Natural Experiments in Norrath and Camelot

    E. Castronova in Games and Culture (2006)

    Added 2011-03-31 32 readers
16. Understanding" Gold Farming" and Real-Money Trading as the Intersection of Real and Virtual Economies

    R. Heeks in Journal of Virtual Worlds Research (2010)

    Added 2011-03-31 12 readers
17. Macroeconomic indicators in a virtual economy

    Tuukka Lehtiniemi (2008)

    In this thesis, I examine the economic systems revolving around production and exchange of virtual property. From my viewpoint, the central forms of virtual property include e.g. virtual items in community sites, and virtual goods and characters in…

    Added 2011-03-31 6 readers
18. As real as real? Macroeconomic behavior in a large-scale virtual world

    E. Castronova, D. Williams, R. Ratan, B. Keegan in New Media & Society (2009)

    Added 2011-03-31 47 readers
19. DECISION MAKING IN VIRTUAL WORLDS : AN EXPERIMENTAL TEST OF ALTRUISM , FAIRNESS AND PRESENCE

    M Spann, O Hinz, I.H. Hann, B Skiera in Working paper Uni (2008)

    Added 2011-03-31 9 readers
20. Cash Trade Within the Magic Circle: Free-to-Play Game Challenges and Massively Multiplayer Online Game Player Responses

    Holin Lin, Chuen-Tsai Sun in Proceedings of DiGRA 2007: Situated Play (2007)

    Cash trades for virtual items in game worlds are now a recognized part of the “free game” business model, but perhaps at the expense of players’ senses of immersion, fairness, and fun. We review several perspectives related to Huizinga’s [8] “magic…

    Added 2011-03-31 9 readers

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