Mobile Game Price Discrimination effect on users of Freemium services– An initial outline of Game of Chance elements in Japanese F2P mobile games

This paper offers a look at the Japanese mobile free to play market with a focus on “Gacha”, a game of luck mechanism used in many Japanese games. The paper tries to explain about the concept of Gacha, its different forms, some known regulation issues and briefly looks at player and professional’s insights and discusses an analytical framework for further studies to figure out the reason of player’s acceptance of price discrimination in F2P mobile games.

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Year of publication:	2017
Authors:	Koeder, Marco ; Tanaka, Ema ; Sugai, Philip
Publisher:	Calgary : International Telecommunications Society (ITS)
Subject:	Free-to-play \| freemium \| mobile games \| lottery \| behavior \| attitudes \| virtual goods \| Japan

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Series:	14th Asia-Pacific Regional Conference of the International Telecommunications Society (ITS): "Mapping ICT into Transformation for the Next Information Society", Kyoto, Japan, 24th-27th June, 2017
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Conference Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	1007236116 [GVK] hdl:10419/168503 [Handle] RePEc:zbw:itsp17:168503 [RePEc]
Source:	EconStor

Persistent link: https://ebvufind01.dmz1.zbw.eu/10011720203