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Gaining significant competitive advantage through in-game purchases or monetized advantages.

Game-Level Webb and Soh Layer 7 (Application) Adjacent integrity issue 1 article 0 evidence links

Game-Level Adjacent integrity issue

Pay-to-Win Mechanics

Definition: Gaining significant competitive advantage through in-game purchases or monetized advantages.

What OSI Layer This Cheat Affects: Layer 7 (Application)

Other Information: Gaining significant competitive advantage through in-game purchases or monetized advantages.

Supporting Academic Articles

Pay to Win or Pay to Cheat: How Players of Competitive Online Games Perceive Fairness of In-Game Purchases

Guo Freeman et al.

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 6 CHI PLAY Article 247 (October 2022)

Target: Pay-to-win mechanics, functional in-game purchases creating unfair advantages

Aim: Freeman, G., Wu, K., Nower, N., & Wohn, D. Y. (2022). Pay to win or pay to cheat: How players of competitive online games perceive fairness of in-game purchases. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact., 6, CHI PLAY, Article 247.

Recommendation: (Freeman et al., 2022)

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