Study what makes games addictive

What Makes Online Collectible Card Games Fun to Play?

Online Collectible Card Games is a relatively new genre of games that allow the players to collect cards, combine them into decks, and play the decks against opponents through the Internet. Players get engaged in all these three levels of the game, and we relate these levels to the theories of what makes a computer game fun to play. The Eye of Judgment (EoJ) is taken as an example of such a gam...

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What is Addictive in Internet?

Focusing on World of Warcraft (WoW), the most popular massive multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG), the present article stresses, that, similarly to addictive drugs, certain features of Internet applications may act on the mesolimbic dopaminergic system, and thus become addictive. The distinction is made between addictive products (e.g. nicotine, specific stimuli), first order vectors ...

What Makes a Revolution

Although property rights are the cornerstone of capitalist economies, throughout history existing claims have been frequently overturned and redefined by revolution. A fundamental question for economists is what makes revolutions more likely to occur. A large literature has found contradictory evidence for the effect of income and income inequality on revolt, possibly due to omitted variable bi...