This study makes new theoretical and practical contributions by showing that fantasy, competition, and challenge play important roles to predict on intention to play esports games. Examining the gaming motivations of Turkish esports players, who represent a different culture, differentiates the study from its counterparts.

In particular, it has been determined that challenge motivation has a large effect on the intention to play. Challenge, competition, and fantasy motivations explain 65.5% of the variance in intention to play esports games. In addition, it was determined that social interaction and diversion did not have a statistically significant effect on the intention to play esports games. The results indicate that fantasy, competition, and challenge statistically affect intention to play esports games. An online survey was conducted with 502 esports players to test the research model. The factors influencing esports players' intention to play esports games were tested with partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM). The purpose of this study is to investigate Turkish esports players’ motivations for intention to play esports games. Also, the regression analysis showed that the social interaction motive was the strongest predictor of the time actually spend on gaming. More than 80% of our respondents were member of a clan. This study showed clearly that online FPSG are not played in isolation. On the other hand, our results cast doubt on the accuracy of the stereotype.

We also found that the most committed gamers, that is, the ones who were members of a (semi)professional clan, scored highest on motives with respect to competition, and challenge in comparison with members of amateur clans and online gamers who had not joined a clan.

The results of our survey on the one hand confirmed the stereotype of the gamer as it is often presented in popular media: the players of online FPS were indeed almost exclusively young men (mean age about 18 years) who spend a lot of their leisure time on gaming (about 2.6 h per day). We conducted an exploratory Internet survey (n 5 751) in order to gather information about who the players of online first person shooters are, and why they spend time on playing this particular kind of video game. Surprisingly, there is no published research available about playing these games. First Person Shooter Games (FPSG) such as Counter Strike are often the subject of public concern.

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