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The Daedalus Project
2005-01-14, 8:32 AM #1
The Daedalus Project is a longitudinal study of MMORPG players.
http://www.nickyee.com/daedalus/arch_cat.php

It's fascinating.

It finds that older men are the most likely to gender bend (have a character of the opposite sex), older women are more likely to have multiple accounts, and that female players are more likely to form social relationships.

It also has a few interesting essays about the socioeconomics of MMOs.
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2005-01-14, 9:39 AM #2
I am...
We are...

Yeeesss...

Oh, and an interesting read, if a bit of a slog.
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2005-01-14, 9:41 AM #3
:rolleyes:

Oh, if there only was a free MMORPG which would rock no matter what. Mm.
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2005-01-14, 9:47 AM #4
I guess you can call MMORPGs a "social world". Maybe I look at the players too much as bits of data and code instead of unique people behind the digital characters.
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2005-01-14, 10:10 AM #5
I do believe I heard about this when flipping through the net radio stations eariler
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2005-01-14, 3:16 PM #6
Hey, in WoW I'm "Gender bending" and actually pretend to be a girl.

But don't tell my guildmates that. Yay for free stuff >_>
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"Oh."
2005-01-15, 1:50 AM #7
Very interesting :), not to mention there's loads of documented information and feedback :D. Not many sites make it onto my RSS Feed list (I don't actually revisit that many sites that I find), but this one's going on :D

Thanks for the link :D

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