Quantification of EQ Players 162
Nick Yee writes: "As part of a psychology thesis project, I collected data from about 4000 individual EverQuest players who together filled out about 25,000 surveys that focused on many facets of personal and social dynamics in real-time 3D immersive virtual worlds, such as: gender differences, gender-bending, addiction, friendships, romantic relationships, people who play with romantic partners and so on. Both quantitative and qualitative data were collected.
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Re:Everquest (Score:2, Funny)
If I understand correctly, there's far more to it than that. You can also take off all your clothes and run screaming through town in the dead of night with nothing but a lantern. Instead of being frowned upon, this kind of thing is a well accepted tradition in Britannia. Truly, it's a different world.
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Yeah (Score:2, Funny)
As part of a psychology thesis project
Yeah sure we believe you.
Evercrack (Score:2, Funny)
Btw, did any one else notice that most female everquest players seem to be married and almost/ greater then 30?
Playing with a romantic partner (Score:2, Funny)
Argh! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Everquest (Score:1, Funny)
Awww c'mon, incomplete survey! (Score:4, Funny)
I'll buy you a nice big Japanese beer if you go back and redo the survey, this time including the questions you somehow left out:
oh geez.... (Score:5, Funny)
evercrack (Score:3, Funny)
I actually never tried playing as a female character for some reason. I think I would have if the female character models were done better. I played the Rogue character in Diablo 1 just because of the "zoom" key!
slashdot representing (Score:2, Funny)
"Slashdotting geeks, and lots of old women are well represented in the cross-section of EQ players sampled. We were constantly amazed at how often spontaneous
There. Now go back to work.
Looking at the numbers (Score:5, Funny)
1) There's only a 16% chance that HotBabe13 is female.
2) There's only a 13.5% chance that if she is a she, she is single and not dating..
So, for anybody I meet, I have about a 2% chance that they a single female. Leaving out other variables, I like those odds!
I played with my girlfriend (Score:4, Funny)
However, the point where I knew things were going downhill was when we were sitting next to each other playing the game, and after winning the lotto on a new sword I see on my screen amongst a slew of other tells:
"Yiliae tells you, 'Gratz on getting that sword!'
I turn slowly to my girlfriend sitting next to me and say, 'Why did you just type that to me?'
++Om
Findings Summary: (Score:2, Funny)
45% - Dorks.
~jeff
Re:I didn't find any of this especially... (Score:5, Funny)
Married people, sleeping together? Okay, now who's living in a fantasy world?
Re:Looking at the numbers (Score:3, Funny)
favorite quote... (Score:2, Funny)
No, I know most males think with their gonads, and act accordingly. They live up to my low expectations. [m, 25]
Magius_AR