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Player Commitment to Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs): An Integrated Model

Junghoon Moon Program in Regional Information, Seoul National University in Korea
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Md. Dulal Hossain Institute of Computer Science, Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission
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G. Lawrence Sanders Department of Management Science and Systems, University of Buffalo
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Edward J. Garrity Richard J. Wehle School of Business, Canisius College in Buffalo, New York
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Sooran Jo Business Data Mining Team, Daum Communications, Korea
Pages 7-38 | Published online: 08 Dec 2014

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