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Analysis of User Transfer of Successful Battle Royale Games - From Player Unknown's Battleground to Fortnite

성공적인 배틀 로얄 게임에서의 사용자 이동 원인 분석 - 배틀그라운드에서 포트나이트로

  • Song, Doo Heon (Department of Computer Games, Yong-in SongDam College)
  • Received : 2019.10.03
  • Accepted : 2019.10.29
  • Published : 2020.01.31
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Abstract

A battle royale game is a multiplayer video game genre that blends the survival and exploration with last-man-standing gameplay. The genre has been hot in recent years and the 'Player Unknown's Battleground' produced by Korean enterprise PUBG had been the hottest during 2017 and the first half of 2018. However, a similar battle royale game 'Fortnite' became the game of the year in 2018 and the Player Unknown's Battleground sustains the predominance only in Korea and China. In this paper, we investigate the game structure of those two games on combat, survival, farming and charging elements, We also conduct a user survey on what might be the weak point of the Player Unknown's Battleground and why they choose Fornite among users played both but currently play Fortnite. The result shows that the Player Unknown's Battleground sustains the advantage on battle elements but creative charging policy and the efficient survival elements are the reasons of choosing Fortnite between the two.

배틀 로얄 장르는 다수의 플레이어가 참여하는 전투 모드에서 최후의 1인 혹은 1 유닛이 살아남는 것을 목표로 하는 게임 장르이다. 최근 이 장르의 1인칭 슈팅 게임이 크게 유행했는데 2017년부터 2018년 상반기의 세계적 선두주자는 한국 PUBG의 Player Unknown's Battleground였다. 하지만 2018년 들어 같은 장르의 3인칭 게임인 포트나이트의 추격을 받고 있는데 한국과 중국을 제외한 국제 시장에서 PUBG가 고전 중이다. 본 논문은 이 두 게임의 내부 전투 구조, 무기 체계, 생존 장치 등의 게임 장치를 서로 비교하고, 두 게임을 모두 사용해 보고 현재 포트나이트를 사용하고 있는 플레이어들을 중심으로 어떤 점이 배틀그라운드의 약점이며 무엇이 후발 주자인 포트나이트를 선호하게 했는지를 알아보고자 하였다. 그 결과 전투와 관련된 게임성은 여전히 배틀그라운드가 높았으나 생존 요소와 과금 제도의 창의성과 사용자 친화성에서 배틀그라운드가 보완해야 할 사항들이 있음이 입증되었으며 이것이 2018년에 일어난 두 게임의 흥행 곡선의 차이를 설명하는 요소로 작용한다고 주장한다.

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