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Laws on Online Gaming and Online Gambling in India : Future Market of India
singh, Aneesh - 2023
Online gaming has become a major source of entertainment and a growing industry worldwide. However, the taxation of online gaming remains a complex and controversial issue. This thesis examines the current state of online gaming taxation and analyzes the different tax regimes adopted by...
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"Lootboxes" in digital games : a gamble with consumers in need of regulation? : an evaluation based on learnings from Japan
Koeder, Marco Josef; Tanaka, Ema; Mitomo, Hitoshi - 2018
calls for regulation because if their gambling like elements. Japan had similar mechanics in games for a long time called … Lootboxes are in comparison to "Gacha" in Japan and investigates whether they would qualify as gambling using a gambling … taxonomy. Lootboxes and Gacha can be seen as very similar and comparable and both would not qualify as gambling in traditional …
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The Gambling Act 2005 and Loot Box Mechanics in Video Games
Arvidsson, Christopher - 2019
This article analyses loot box mechanics in relation to the Gambling Act 2005. These mechanics provide ‘gamers' with an … practice can be caught as a licensable gambling activity under UK law and relevant stakeholders should note that it is a … criminal offence to provide facilities for gambling without an operating licence. The dividing line between licensable and non …
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CRM adoption factors in the gaming industry
Faganel, Armand; Constanti, Mitja - In: Management : journal of contemporary management issues 25 (2020) 1, pp. 1-23
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Game of chance elements in free-to-play mobile games : a freemium business model monetization tool in need of self-regulation?
Koeder, Marco Josef; Tanaka, Ema - 2017
. Japan has a longer history and more experience in both monetization of mobile games with gambling like elements (Gacha) and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011777771
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Mobile game price discrimination effect on users of freemium services : an initial outline of game of chance elements in Japanese F2P mobile games
Koeder, Marco; Tanaka, Ema; Sugai, Philip - 2017
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...
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Exploring entertainment utility from football games
Pawlowski, Tim; Rambaccussing, Dooruj; Ramirez, Philip; … - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization 223 (2024), pp. 185-198
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A Welfare Analysis of Gambling in Video Games
Amano, Tomomichi; Simonov, Andrey - 2023
contentious. Regulators argue they constitute gambling, while game producers maintain they complement gameplay. In a prototypical …
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On the activating power of gamification - empirical evidence from an online community
Mutter, Tobias - 2015
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Susceptibility and influence in social media word-of-mouth
Claussen, Jörg; Engelstätter, Benjamin; Ward, Michael R. - 2014
Peer influence through word-of-mouth (WOM) plays an important role in many information systems but identification of causal effects is challenging. We identify causal WOM effects in the empirical setting of game adoption in a social network for gamers by exploiting differences in individuals’...
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