What Makes Online Gamers Dissatisfied with Online Games?

What Makes Online Gamers Dissatisfied with Online Games?

Fan-Chen Tseng (Kainan University, Taiwan) and Ching-I Teng (Chang Gung University, Taiwan)
Copyright: © 2016 |Pages: 10
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9787-4.ch126

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The literature has explores sources of satisfiers and dissatisfiers and recognized that they are typically different. Dissatisfiers refer to the necessary but not sufficient antecedents for service performance (Cadotte & Turgeon, 1988). That is, the absence of such performance results in dissatisfaction. Contrarily, satisfiers refer to unusual performance that triggers strong satisfaction (Cadotte & Turgeon, 1988). For example, attribution of service failure to the firm determines reduced quality perception and reduces satisfaction (Iglesias, 2009).

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Key Terms in this Chapter

Deceptive: Likely to deceive; capable of deception.

Restriction: A limitation on the use of (online game functions or properties).

Customer Support: A range of customer services to assist customers in making cost effective and correct use of a product or service.

Design: The act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan).

Regulation: The set of rules governing certain actions (in online games).

Dissatisfaction: The condition or feeling of being displeased or unsatisfied; discontent.

Online Game: A video game played over some form of computer network, including the Internet.

Discourteous: Showing bad manners; impolite; rude.

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