World of Warcraft Avatar History Dataset

From the perspective of game system designers, players ’ be-havior is one of the most important factors they must con-sider when designing game systems. To gain a fundamental understanding of the game play behavior of online gamers, exploring users ’ game play time provides a good starting point. This is because the concept of game play time is ap-plicable to all genres of games and it enables us to model the system workload as well as the impact of system and network QoS on users ’ behavior. It can even help us predict play-ers ’ loyalty to specific games. In this paper, we present the World of Warcraft Avatar History (WoWAH) dataset, which comprises the records of 91; 065 avatars. The data includes the avatars ’ game play times and a number of attributes, such as their race, profession, current level, and in-game lo-cations, during a 1; 107-day period between Jan. 2006 and Jan. 2009. We believe the WOWAH dataset could be used for various creative purposes, now that it is a public asset of the research community. It is available for free download a