ANALYSIS OF REALM OF VALOR AND ITS BUSINESS MODEL ON PC AND MOBILE PLATFORM COMPARISON

This paper explores the attractiveness and sophistication of Realm of Valor (ROV) using game refinement theory and analyzes its business model by gamification. ROV is one of the most attractive and popular MOBA games in mobile platform. It is free-to-play (F2P) game which is the most popular busines...

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Main Authors: Punyawee Anunpattana, Mohd Nor Akmal Khalid, Umi Kalsom Yusof, Hiroyuki Iida
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: UKM Press 2018-12-01
Series:Asia-Pacific Journal of Information Technology and Multimedia
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Online Access:https://www.ukm.my/apjitm/view.php?id=11
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author Punyawee Anunpattana
Mohd Nor Akmal Khalid
Umi Kalsom Yusof
Hiroyuki Iida
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Mohd Nor Akmal Khalid
Umi Kalsom Yusof
Hiroyuki Iida
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description This paper explores the attractiveness and sophistication of Realm of Valor (ROV) using game refinement theory and analyzes its business model by gamification. ROV is one of the most attractive and popular MOBA games in mobile platform. It is free-to-play (F2P) game which is the most popular business model for mobile platform. The result shows that ROV has game refinement value in sophisticated zone that implies entertainment and competitiveness experiences. Moreover, the results are used to make a comparison of platform transformation of MOBA genre which causes from quick time battle characteristics. We also present the result of evolution skin revenue essentially increase over the year due to number of mobile users. Finally, ROV is one of the best examples in monetization while introducing suitable characteristics for the mobile platform such that players can feel entertainment and excitement.
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spelling doaj.art-4cd307db0a22410aa7b58da4ae00dd022022-12-21T22:05:07ZengUKM PressAsia-Pacific Journal of Information Technology and Multimedia2289-21922018-12-0172-2111https://doi.org/10.17576/apjitm-2018-0702(02)-01ANALYSIS OF REALM OF VALOR AND ITS BUSINESS MODEL ON PC AND MOBILE PLATFORM COMPARISONPunyawee AnunpattanaMohd Nor Akmal Khalid Umi Kalsom YusofHiroyuki IidaThis paper explores the attractiveness and sophistication of Realm of Valor (ROV) using game refinement theory and analyzes its business model by gamification. ROV is one of the most attractive and popular MOBA games in mobile platform. It is free-to-play (F2P) game which is the most popular business model for mobile platform. The result shows that ROV has game refinement value in sophisticated zone that implies entertainment and competitiveness experiences. Moreover, the results are used to make a comparison of platform transformation of MOBA genre which causes from quick time battle characteristics. We also present the result of evolution skin revenue essentially increase over the year due to number of mobile users. Finally, ROV is one of the best examples in monetization while introducing suitable characteristics for the mobile platform such that players can feel entertainment and excitement.https://www.ukm.my/apjitm/view.php?id=11game refinement theory; moba; realm of valor (rov); gamification; evolution skin; arcana system
spellingShingle Punyawee Anunpattana
Mohd Nor Akmal Khalid
Umi Kalsom Yusof
Hiroyuki Iida
ANALYSIS OF REALM OF VALOR AND ITS BUSINESS MODEL ON PC AND MOBILE PLATFORM COMPARISON
Asia-Pacific Journal of Information Technology and Multimedia
game refinement theory; moba; realm of valor (rov); gamification; evolution skin; arcana system
title ANALYSIS OF REALM OF VALOR AND ITS BUSINESS MODEL ON PC AND MOBILE PLATFORM COMPARISON
title_full ANALYSIS OF REALM OF VALOR AND ITS BUSINESS MODEL ON PC AND MOBILE PLATFORM COMPARISON
title_fullStr ANALYSIS OF REALM OF VALOR AND ITS BUSINESS MODEL ON PC AND MOBILE PLATFORM COMPARISON
title_full_unstemmed ANALYSIS OF REALM OF VALOR AND ITS BUSINESS MODEL ON PC AND MOBILE PLATFORM COMPARISON
title_short ANALYSIS OF REALM OF VALOR AND ITS BUSINESS MODEL ON PC AND MOBILE PLATFORM COMPARISON
title_sort analysis of realm of valor and its business model on pc and mobile platform comparison
topic game refinement theory; moba; realm of valor (rov); gamification; evolution skin; arcana system
url https://www.ukm.my/apjitm/view.php?id=11
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