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Quantification of EQ Players

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the grats dept.

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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  1. Argh! by Nickovsky · · Score: 4, Funny

    So is he saying, that hot elf chick that I adventure with really isnt a chick!? No!!!! Say it isnt so!

  2. Awww c'mon, incomplete survey! by Zico · · 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:

    • How much do you weigh?
    • What r u wearing?
  3. oh geez.... by vex24 · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...and I thought playing EQ was a waste of time! ;)

    --

    People shape laws. Not the other way around.

  4. evercrack by blowhole · · Score: 3, Funny

    I played for about a month until I realized that the game just wasn't fun enough to justify playing a game in a horrendously ancient outdated 3d engine. And riding around in those slow slow slow boats is teh suck!

    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!

    --
    "Ask me about Loom"
  5. Looking at the numbers by BelDion · · Score: 5, Funny

    Though I`m not a whiz at math or statistics, my rudamentry understanding of both leads me to two conclusions:

    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! :)

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    I am BelDion's .Sig; Who the hell is Jack?
    1. Re:Looking at the numbers by DoasFu · · Score: 3, Funny

      If their name is HotBabe13, the odds are probably a lot slimmer than that.

  6. I played with my girlfriend by Om242 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I actually bought the game for my girlfriend and I when we first started dating. Me, having experience with MUDs from way back in 91, knew that this had the possibility to really get a hobby that we could do together, and also to see if she even liked this sort of fantasy stuff (which I do).

    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

  7. Re:I didn't find any of this especially... by dswensen · · Score: 5, Funny
    Of the three women in my guild, two have husbands - you know, real ones they sleep with - who play the game.

    Married people, sleeping together? Okay, now who's living in a fantasy world?