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Simulation & Gaming | 2013

Social Network Games: Players' Perspectives

Janne Paavilainen; Juho Hamari; Jaakko Stenros; Jani Kinnunen

This article presents the results of an interview study on how people perceive and play social network games on Facebook. During recent years, social games have become the biggest genre of games if measured by the number of registered users. These games are designed to cater for large audiences in their design principles and values, a free-to-play revenue model and social network integration that make them easily approachable and playable with friends. Although these games have made the headlines and have been seen to revolutionize the game industry, we still lack an understanding of how people perceive and play them. For this article, we interviewed 18 Finnish Facebook users from a larger questionnaire respondent pool of 134 people. This study focuses on a user-centric approach, highlighting the emergent experiences and the meaning-making of social games players. Our findings reveal that social games are usually regarded as single player games with a social twist, and as suffering partly from their design characteristics, while still providing a wide spectrum of playful experiences for different needs. The free-to-play revenue model provides an easy access to social games, but people disagreed with paying for additional content for several reasons.


Proceedings of the 22nd International Academic Mindtrek Conference on - Mindtrek '18 | 2018

Free-to-Play Games: Paying Players' Perspective

Kati Alha; Jani Kinnunen; Elina Koskinen; Janne Paavilainen

This paper investigates the free-to-play revenue model from the perspective of paying players, focusing on high-spenders. As the free-to-play model has proven successful, game developers have increasingly adopted it as their revenue model. At the same time, worrying concerns over the revenue model have been voiced, calling it exploitative, unethical, or simply claiming it to offer poor gameplay experiences. We investigated these concerns by conducting an interview study with 11 players who have spent money on free-to-play games, on their perceptions about free-to-play games, experiences on playing them and paying in them, and opinions on ethical issues in the games. The results shed light on how players themselves experience these games.


Proceedings of the 15th International Academic MindTrek Conference on Envisioning Future Media Environments | 2011

Giving good 'face': playful performances of self in Facebook

Jaakko Stenros; Janne Paavilainen; Jani Kinnunen


DiGRA Nordic '12: Proceedings of 2012 International DiGRA Nordic Conference | 2012

Gambling in Social Networks: Gaming Experiences of Finnish Online Gamblers

Jani Kinnunen; Erkka Rautio; Kati Alha; Janne Paavilainen


Proceedings of the 20th International Academic Mindtrek Conference on | 2016

Creating play money for free-to-play and gambling games

Jani Kinnunen; Kati Alha; Janne Paavilainen


Archive | 2008

Järjellä vai tunteella? : Nettipokerin pelikokemus ja pelaamisen hallinta

Mikko Svartsjö; Jani Kinnunen; Eetu Paloheimo; Frans Mäyrä


Archive | 2016

Free2Play Research Project Final Report

Janne Paavilainen; Elina Koskinen; Juho Hamari; Jani Kinnunen; Kati Alha; Lauri Keronen; Frans Mäyrä


Archive | 2018

Hybrid Social Play Final Report

Janne Paavilainen; Katriina Heljakka; Jonne Arjoranta; Ville Kankainen; Linda Lahdenperä; Elina Koskinen; Jani Kinnunen; Lilli Sihvonen; Timo Nummenmaa; Frans Mäyrä; Raine Koskimaa; Jaakko Suominen


Asia Pacific Gambling Studies Conferences | 2013

At the Interface of (Ir)Responsible Online Gambling? Experiences and Practices of Recreational and Problem Gamblers

Jani Kinnunen; Maria Heiskanen


Asia Pacific Gambling Studies Conferences | 2013

Learning to Play Online: Social Gambling and Identity Play in Social Networks

Jani Kinnunen

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Kati Alha

University of Tampere

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Juho Hamari

Tampere University of Technology

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Jonne Arjoranta

University of Jyväskylä

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