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Session Name: Is Beauty Emotional or Rational?: Cosmetics and Consumer Choice in 'NARAKA: BLADEPOINT'
Speaker(s): Xinwei Chang
Company Name(s): NetEase
Track / Format: Design

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Overview: In NARAKA: BLADEPOINT, there are hundreds of cosmetics with diversified design styles. Although each skin is a delicate work of designers, in-game skins always have drastically different sales volume, which brings the key questions discussed today: What kinds of skins do players prefer? Do consumers usually buy cosmetics emotionally or rationally? Starting from the player's aesthetic preferences, this talk will introduce the way how NARAKA: BLADEPOINT's research team found regular patterns of consumer choice and quantified the abstractive beauty.

Game Developers Conference 2023

Xinwei Chang

NetEase

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