Evaluating Telepresence Experience and Game Players' Intention to Purchase Product Advertised in Advergame

In line with changes of consumers modern lifestyle has call for the advertising strategy to change. This research is to find out how game with telepresence and product experience embedded in the computer game to affect users’ intention to purchase. Game content developers are urging to consider of placing product message as part of game design strategy that can influence the game player’s intention to purchase. Experiment was carried out on two hundred and fifty undergraduate students who volunteered to participate in the Internet game playing activities. A factor analysis and correlation analysis was performed on items designed to measure telepresence, attitudes toward telepresence, and game player intention to purchase the product advertise in the game that respondents experienced. The results indicated that telepresence consist of interactive experience and product experience. The study also found that product experience is positively related to the game players’ intention to purchase. The significance of product experience implies the usefulness of an interactive advertising in the game playing to attract players’ intention to purchase the advertised product placed in the creative game design. Keywords—Purchase Intention, Telepresence, Product Experience, Interactive Experience