014: Why Do YOU Play Games?
Psychology of Video Games Podcast
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The Role of E-Sports in Participantship
The other kind of curveball question or the just sort of occurred to me is that there are other gaming activities besides playing a game, right? So one of the things that people are really into are watching e-sports, um, watching streamers on YouTube and Twitch and the like. I mean, can it are those motivations just like doing the things within the game? Are there certain types of people who just like to watch, watch competition or watch someone else explore the game or what's the intersection there? "I don't know for sure, but I think it is interesting to try to map out those, those meta variables as well," he says.
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