GAME SYSTEM, AND PLAY COMPENSATION CONTROL METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM OF THE SAME

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a game system capable of properly compensating a user for disadvantage experienced when abnormality has occurred in connection between a terminal device and a server device.SOLUTION: A game system in which a terminal device 4 is connected to a server device 2B via a network, and which allows a user to play a game for a fee, generates start notifications Ns1-Ns3 in response to the start of a pay play of each of modes 1-3, generates an end notifications Ne1-Ne3 when each of the modes 1-3 progresses to a prescribed stage, and records the notifications in storage means of the server device as information on the user. If there are modes 1 and 3 for which start notifications Ns1 and Ns3 are stored but end notifications Ne1 and Ne3 that should be paired with the start notifications Ns1 and Ns3, respectively, are not recorded, the game system provides, to the user, an opportunity to play the mode for free afterward.