Table 1 Player type descriptions
Player type | Description | |
|---|---|---|
Philanthropist | Features | Collection and trading, gifting, knowledge sharing, and administrative roles |
First description | I enjoy sharing my basketball training experience with others and enjoy leading the team as a leader without expecting anything in return | |
Second description | – | |
Third description | – | |
Achiever | Features | Challenges, certificates, learning new skills, quests, levels or progression, and epic challenges (or “boss battles”) |
First description | I enjoy playing basketball because I can constantly challenge myself to accomplish new training skills and to win more | |
Second description | I can improve my basketball by completing various basketball skills drills and learning new basketball skills. I like to prove myself by facing challenges head on and overcoming the difficulties of training | |
Third description | – | |
Free Spirit | Features | Exploratory tasks, nonlinear gameplay, Easter eggs, unlockable content, creativity tools, and customization |
First description | I like to explore new ways of playing basketball and I like to break the rules of training to show off my unique skills | |
Second description | – | |
Third description | – | |
Player | Features | Points, rewards or prizes, leaderboards, badges or achievements, virtual economy, and lotteries or games of chance |
First description | I enjoy participating in basketball events and doing everything I can to win trophies and prizes, and playing well in basketball earns me a lot of praise and admiration from others | |
Second description | I like to participate in all kinds of basketball activities and do everything I can to win trophies and prizes. Playing basketball well gives me more opportunities to gain money status and power | |
Third description | – | |
Socializer | Features | Guilds or teams, social networks, social comparison, social competition, and social discovery |
First description | Playing basketball has allowed me to build my own social circle where I have made close friends and feel part of a community | |
Second description | – | |
Third description | – | |
Disruptor | Features | Innovation platforms, voting mechanisms, development tools, anonymity, anarchic gameplay |
First description | I like to play basketball with a critical eye, spotting the flaws in the team's training and finding problems with the style of play are my strengths and my favourite things to do | |
Second description | I enjoy analysing basketball games and basketball training, challenging authority and not being limited by the rules, advancing individual skills and team skills, commonly known as the "wild card" in basketball | |
Third description | I like to analyse basketball games and basketball training and often improve individual skills and team skills by improving team basketball strategies, without being limited by the rules | |