Player identification in online games: validation of a scale for measuring identification in MMORPGs

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• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Fun and Games

• Publication date

  2010-09-15

• Fields of study

  Computer Science, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1145/1823818.1823832
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