First Wave of Project Massive Study Complete

Posted by Zonk on Sunday September 19, 2004 @02:33AM from the survey-says-LFG-or-SOW dept.

Project Massive, a Carnegie Mellon University study into the habits and tendencies of Massively Multiplayer Gamers, has completed research into their first wave of questions. The results are available on their site, and include some interesting observations (nearly 30% of players spend time in a MMOG to interact with real-life friends). If you're interested in participating, their second wave of questions is available. Similar projects include Nick Yee's The Daedalus Project, the TerraNova Blog, and Constance Steinkuehler's Selected Papers. Thanks to clampe for the submission.

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Genesis: Netrek from CMU by reporter · 2004-09-19 02:58 · Score: 4, Informative

CMU is the right university for conducting research into massive multiplayer online games. After all, CMU is the birthplace of the first such game: Netrek. There was once a time when Netrek so permeated the online geek community that Netrek games were running 24x7, and a sort of Netrek olympiad was held annually.