Abstract
Game updates can affect player behavior. However, exactly how game updates affect players’ game engagement is unclear. In order to study this effect specifically, we took Defend of the Ancient 2, one of the most popular games on steam, as the background to analyze the change of players’ behavior before and after game updates. By collecting 17,253 players’ data and developing a two-way fixed effects model, two founding were discovered in our study. First, game updates can significantly enhance players’ engagement. Second, the effect of game updates is moderated by players’ game duration and recorded game rounds. We further explored the “paradox” phenomenon that game duration and recorded game rounds has the opposite effect on players’ game engagement.
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