Ditto

bruizar

@mhlaxp: mmyep. same here.

shatteredhalo

Sounds interesting, but sadly that website just keeps giving me a session cookie error and won't let me read.

mhlaxp

Maggie, could you change the link? The problem is the extra ?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0 at the end of your link.

kimsama

Too many hands in the jar, kids!
...

Yeah, I'll shut up.

MOP88

sc-error

richard733

@kimsama:

I was about to point out the same thing.

mjpm

@mhlaxp: @shatteredhalo: @bruizar: Try this link instead.

kimsama

There is a stereotypical gamer. Trust me, I've met them.

They're a minority, but they exist.

Zenanon

There is no such thing as a stereotypical gamer.

I am.... 40 years old..... female..... lesbian.... all but legally married (one day justice and equality will prevail.)

Favorite genre.... shooters (my motto is no gun = no fun) I HAVE shot guns in real life but am no gun fanatic. I don't even own a real gun, but prefer the strategy and gameplay of shooters over most other types of games.

I've played casually and I've played competitively.

I own 2 360's a PS3 and a Wii. I have three hdtv's and two surround sound systems.

I game, mostly shooters, with A LOT of women and A LOT of people over 30.

robinandtami

Stereotypical gamer: Complains that casual games are killing the industry, then plays Rock Band for hours.

Torgen got his apology faceplate but not his fixed GH3 disc

This work sounds all fine and such, but there's just something strange about how they acquired their sampling data.

Players with a character within the frame were then invited to participate in the survey if they logged in during the survey window. There were no special efforts made to hide the nature of the survey as it was what it was labeled to be: a general study of who plays EverQuest 2. If they agreed to participate, players were directed to a secure web page. After giving informed consent, the players completed the survey, which took about 25 minutes. Players were not offered a cash or prize incentive for their participation. Instead, they were promised a special virtual item that would be added to their in-game inventory as compensation. This item, the "Greatstaff of the Sun Serpent" was created by Sony for this unique use. It was considered desirable for players of all levels because of its rarity and its potency in combat and proved to be a valuable recruiting tool for the survey. It was considered desirable for players of all levels because of its rarity and its potency in combat and proved to be a valuable recruiting tool for the survey.

I suppose enticing people to take your survey is a problem for the majority of surveys. Not only do you have to attract a particular base of people, but you have to ensure it does not comprise the measurement aims of the survey.

In other words, the paper throughly establishes the attractiveness of the item they rewarded players with, but they did not give a through assessment of whether the enticement would draw gamers' sincere responses. For most gamers, these sorts of promotions are merely a means to an end, and because completion of the survey - rather than frank answers - was only needed to get the item, it would seem that the majority of subjects would simply attack the survey to complete it in the quickest time possible.

There's obviously no way to empirically record the validity of subjects' responses in this medium, so this is inherent to the survey with or without enticement. However, it does seem like the paper would benefit from conjecture as to how this sort of thinking skewed results.

unfathomablej

I like doing drugs, having sex, and playing games on the side...I hate all the nerd gamers that act like games are really important and anyone gives a shit, I just like getting on xboxlive telling dorks how many dicks they suck while I blow rails of coke off a hookers ass :P

Hahahahahahahahah...I dont know how rare the above " gamer " type is BUT oh boy will you never forget when you encounter one that is for sure " I have sex with lots of girls at the same time " thats nice to know sir well we have your 5$ down on Fallout3 could you please leave the store we have work to do.

spacecoffin2

@Torgen got his apology faceplate but not his fixed GH3 disc: Comment of the week, I say. Gave me a good chuckle.

I always considered myself a stereotypical gamer, but from what I'm reading I guess I somehow fall into the "casual" pool.

I liken most gamers to be equivalent to most readers. Frankly, I just like good stories and good gameplay. That carries me from World of Warcraft to Star Wars: Force Unleashed to Rock Band to Castle Crashers. They're a good time, and sometimes they hold that extra bit of meaning that just feels good for the soul.

AntiheroKing

Man, a study like this would have been so useful in June, when I was taking speech class and decided to have one of my speeches on society in online games.

But that's okay. I mean that speech was by far my best the whole semester.

Rubiximus

If you must have the stereotype...

The stereotypical gamer always talks about drugs. Whether it be deep philosophical discussion about them, the ways they are abused, bragging about being under the influence, they talk about drugs.

The stereotypical gamer takes whatever game he/she plays far too seriously. They don't know the meaning of "go outside." When losing a multiplayer game, the stereotypical gamer will blame his/her entire team for every mistake made. The stereotypical gamer will also accuse people of "kill stealing."

The stereotypical gamer has the mouth of a sailor, and is "No Holds Barred" about it. From sexual harassment to homosexual harassment, the stereotypical gamer will enter into tirades the likes of which rarely even have to do with the game.

The stereotypical gamer is a homophobic bigot that can, and will, mix the two together into an insulting soup of racist homophobic epithets.

How many of us are stereotypical?

Hardcore

Stereotypical gamer was broken with the Playstation 2. With MMOs, it's still a little more common but I think with WoW and its user base of 10 mil subscribers that the stereotypes are being shattered.

Take our guild for instance- top 50 raiding guild, #1 pvp guild in the world for a long time. A few of us decided to meet in Madison, WI since that was a central geographical point. I was working as a copywriter for a large, successful company (no name dropping!) and finishing my undergrad. Our co-guild leaders were brilliant; one was doing post-graduate work at Mayo clinic and the other was a successful hedge fund manager. Our main tank was studying robotics at one of the better schools in the state. So, we're all neckbeards and poopsockers? Ok.

Norislolz

@Torgen got his apology faceplate but not his fixed GH3 disc:

Precisely! Haha... I don't know if there's anything as a 'typical gamer', however from MY findings, it seems that the majority are 18-25 year olds, primarily with average jobs (retail and service sector), and students of sorts. However, my data could be skewed by the fact that I've always lived in college towns, so who knows....

Xero_Azmea

@robinandtami: well, I'd say my female lesbian friends (though I only have 2) both play shooters and love em, especially Call of Duty 4, and they both like ps3 for some reason (no clue why they would but oh well). Younger, though.

oh, and yeah i support gay marriage :D there is no reason not too, just stupid religion in politics is what i blame.

Shockadin

@Norislolz: what guild? my old server must have sucked soo bad zero raiding guilds worth anything. stupid blizz recommending medium pop servers.

Shockadin

@Shockadin: Insurrection-US Tichondrius. I got lucky and had friends on a PvP day 1 server, so when my guild wanted to up and leave we could go to Tich or Mal'g. I feel bad for people on dead servers, especially PvE. You're pretty much stuck there. =(

Norislolz

The only things that I have in common with the stereotypical gamer are the looks and the mouth of the sailor, then again i got that mouth before i started playing games online, so ya....

And the looks, well i'm working on that....

th3flyboy

I work at a video game store. The only time I really thought a customer was a "stereotypical" gamer was when he got into an argument with his friend over whether to call it "Final Fantasy 2" or "Final Fantasy 4".

And he tried to suck me into it.

...

My answer was 4.

Eshto

I believe that all gamers are in some way or another Brian Crecente

Mendoza68

@artofwar420: LOl, too slow, WAY slow, they definitely should do this on WoW.

artofwar420

Here's a mirror/link that works for me:

[www3.interscience.wiley.com]

Interesting indeed.

artofwar420

@Zenanon:

"There is a stereotypical gamer. Trust me, I've met them.

They're a minority, but they exist. "

Very true, but the biggest problem is the general public think those gamers are the norm, and not the minority...

Either way, most gamers are old enough that we won't limit ourselves based upon the misinformed assumptions of others.

Nubius