Motivation and Risk Sentiment of Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPG) Players

Abstract

The article examines massive multiplayer online role-playing games as a phenomenon of modern culture from philosophical, psychological and methodological points of view. It makes a survey of the latest foreign and national investigations MMORPG players motivations. It carries out an investigation of achieving success and motivation of avoiding misfortunes in terms of risk sentiment. The result of the investigation is a conclusion that gamers oftener have a higher motivation of achieving success than those who do not play, while combining it with a high motivation of avoiding failures. These are less numbered in their readiness to risk recklessly by choosing more careful variants of behavior. The players commitment to Goals and Process in the game speaks to the fact that high motivation of achieving the goal is combined with maximum diving into the game process. The players features of risk sentiment is that a person, by risking in the virtual space, checks potentially dangerous behavioral strategies in the game and can transfer them into the life already in this variant.