Abstract The Video Game Industry (VGI) is a highly innovative and rapidly growing sector
that has become the dominant force in the entertainment industry, with significant economic …

The aim of this study was to examine the relevant characteristics and motivations of 1144
international players of FIFA Ultimate Team for spending money on player packs (ie, loot …

E-commerce offers goods via digital channels and the delivery of those goods mainly by
parcel post. In contrast, i-commerce offers information goods–content and software–also via …

We consider the optimal operating policies of a free-to-play multiplayer game with a
premium subscription to maximize its lifetime operating profit. Accounting for social …

Gacha game is a special opaque selling approach, where the seller is selling gacha pulls to
the buyer. Each gacha pull provides a certain probability for the buyer to win the gacha …

Loot boxes are virtual products in video games that provide randomized rewards and,
accordingly, share structural similarities with gambling. Policymakers around the world are …

Executive summary This report outlines research aimed at understanding the risks posed by
loot boxes to adolescents (12-17) and young adults (18-24) in NSW. Loot boxes are a …

A loot box is a probabilistic allocation of virtual products, the exact outcome of which is
known to consumers only after purchase. Consumers sometimes purchase these goods …

In the context of free‐to‐play (FTP) mobile games, this paper seeks to examine one
question: Which factors affect a player's play duration or in‐app purchases (of virtual items) …

The market for online games is huge, but research on the economics of online game
operations remains nascent. In this paper, we focus on “free-to-play” online games in which …