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Daedalus Project MMO Survey Updated

Posted by simoniker on from the giving-and-taking dept.

Nick Yee writes "The Daedalus Project, an ongoing online survey study of MMORPG players that started 4 years ago and has surveyed over 30,000 players, has published presentations of new findings, including whether players get more frustrated in MMOs or everyday life, quotes from players discussing why they play online games, and a statistical ranking of the motivations for MMORPG players. There's also a new multiple-choice survey MMO gamers can fill out."

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  1. New Game, New Content by Herkum01 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The drive for me has always been to find something new or interesting to do or try. It is amazing how often that games try to hide old material with a smatter of different pixels. That is why I am always looking for a new game to play, I want something that will provide something new and different. I don't want to got from kill 200 zombies, level up, now kill 200 ghouls!

    1. Re:New Game, New Content by Ieshan · · Score: 5, Insightful

      You know, this is a very frequent MMO complaint, and let me break the bad news: This is what players ask for, this is what players get.

      It's like any genre. There's still innovation in minor areas, but the basic themes are all the same. I don't know why this should upset you so.

      There are lots of different Genres of games. MMO Creators aren't trying to hide old systems behind new graphics, they're trying to make those systems playable in ways you haven't seen before. I mean, look, when you read a Murder Mystery novel, you know a few things coming in: There's a murder, and someone's trying to solve it. You don't accuse the author of trying to hide a murder mystery behind a new plot of descriptive phrase. You don't think, "Oh, damn that clever author! He made the murder really tricky this time! But the hero STILL figured it out! I wanted something new!"

      You play MMO because you want to buy into the current MMO system: Lots of people level their character for mindless reasons and make friends doing it.