Our findings suggest the need for caution in employing current tools to assess “addictive” and “disordered” gaming, as our gamer respondents judged commonly used scale items, such as cognitive salience, withdrawal, and tolerance, as not fitting with their own understandings and experiences. Cultural consensus analysis revealed broadly shared understandings among gamers about online gaming involvement and its positive consequences, but less agreement about negative scale items. The latter derived from both ethnography and theory, and contained 15 items for involvement and 21 for positive and negative consequences. Our inquiry combines relatively unstructured in-game participant-observation, semi-structured interviews, and a web survey. Abstract: We employ ethnographic methods more attentive to insider gamer perspectives to develop culturally-sensitive scale measures of online gaming involvement and its positive and negative consequences. IN PRESS: Computers in Human Behavior This is a pre-publication review version of an article currently accepted for publication (pending minor revisions) by Computers in Human Behavior. Our study is the first to contribute a comprehensive insight into key motiva-tors of MOBA players and how PX in this genre is different from other genres. Additionally, while challenge and frustration are significantly higher in this genre, players get a sense of satisfaction from teamwork, competition and mastery of complex gameplay interactions. Among the results of our analyses are that games that are likely played with other players, such as MOBA games, stimulate less immersion and presence for players. We address this knowledge gap by presenting a PX study of different game genres, which we followed up with a second semi-structured interview study about PX in MOBA games. Especially, PX in the emerging area of massive online battle arena (MOBA) games is not well understood by researchers in the field. Prior research has looked at different game genres, but rarely through a PX lens. Video games provide unique interactive player experiences (PX) often categorised into different genres.
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