Abstract: Social features, matchmaking, and grouping functions are key elements of online multiplayer experiences. Understanding how social connections form in and around games and their relationship to in-game activity offers insights for building and maintaining player bases and for improving engagement and retention. This paper presents an analysis of the groups formed by users of the the100.io —a social matchmaking website for different commercial titles, including Destiny on which we focus in this paper. Groups formed on the100.io can be described...
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Topics: 
Social psychology
World Wide Web