Research Article

The Interplay between Real Money Trade and Narrative Structure in Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games

Table 1

Descriptive information.

RankingGamePublisherThe date of issue (Korea standard)Ratings (role-playing)

1AionNC Soft (Korea)2008-11-256.9
2Lineage 2NC Soft (Korea)1998-09-016.8
3World of WarcraftBlizzard (US)2004-11-237.2
4Maple StoryNEXON (Korea)2003-04-297.2
5TERABluehole (Korea)2011-01-256.8
6MU OnlineWebzen (Korea)2001-11-196.8
7MabinogiNEXON (Korea)2004-06-227.4
8RohanPlaywith INC (Korea)2006-03-077.1
9Kingdom of the windNEXON (Korea)1996-04-017.1
10DekaronDekaron Project (Korea)2005-05-037.1
11Ragnarok OnlineGRAVITY (Korea)2002-07-297.2
12Hero OnlineMGAME (Korea)2005-01-255.9