The purpose of this paper is to focus on user innovation strategies and their stability in the video game industry. The main research questions addressed are whether a significant portion of video game companies employ user innovation, and how these strategies are showing signs of success and evolve over time.,From various online data sources, information was extracted for 2,003 video game companies and 3,923 video games and analyzed using quantitative statistical approaches.,The analysed data show that a significant proportion of video game companies rely on user innovation-related strategies. If user innovation possibilities are provided, user ratings also tend to be higher. Over time, this strategy of enabling user innovation becomes more prevalent, but companies do also abandon such strategies or use them selectively. Especially, never employing them is associated with decreased company lifespan.,This is the first paper providing a large-scale insight into the evolution of user innovation strategies in an industry.

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视频游戏生产商的用户创新策略的稳定性和发展

本文的目的是关注用户创新策略及其在视频游戏行业中的稳定性。解决的主要研究问题是，视频游戏公司中是否有很大一部分采用了用户创新技术，以及这些策略如何显示出成功的迹象并随着时间的推移而发展。从各种在线数据源中，提取了2003个视频游戏公司和3923个视频公司的信息。并使用定量统计方法进行了分析。分析数据显示，很大一部分视频游戏公司依赖与用户创新相关的策略。如果提供了用户创新的可能性，则用户评分也往往更高。随着时间的流逝，这种实现用户创新的策略变得越来越普遍，但是公司也确实放弃了这种策略或选择性地使用它们。特别，