Gamers buck stereotypes in a recent survey

Angry at being lumped in with the stereotype of a gaming loser who can't make a friend for all the effort in the world? It turns out you probably have a right to be upset. According to a survey by Bigpoint, most gamers are actually balanced, social and fairly good looking -- a far cry from the antisocial nerd who cannot understand this thing called "women."

The Bigpoint Gamer Survey covered 6,663 gamers across the globe in its research before coming to this startling (or not-so-startling, depending on your perspective) conclusion. The survey also showed that gamers are just as active with their online friendships as those in real life. 55% of players under 20 years old said they had more online friends than offline, and a quarter of gamers mashed the two social spheres together: 28% of those surveyed said that they eventually met their online friends in the real world.

Bigpoint's Janine Griffel thinks that this survey paints a very positive picture for the gaming community: "Our study shows that online gamers are attractive individuals with healthy and active social lives. Social and casual games are very popular among our users for the reason that they emphasize being social. The trend's definitely moving away from single-player games to social-based experiences."

You can read more about this fascinating survey at Game Politics.

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In fact, from my experience the antisocial nerds described are usually the ones that have never played a game in their life, as they are locked in their little one sided world of self important activities like political activists, professional athletes, science nerds, religious fanatics, heavy drug users, health food histericals etc. etc.

Most of these people are one sided drones of monolithic belief systems in their consecutive dogmas( sort of like religions). Gamers are usually well balanced individuals with alot of hobbies and activities, with healthy interests in the arts, cinema, music, motorcycles, cars, amateur sports, and of course in the opposite sex, as they feel the need to share their time among their activities and feel bored and supressed if forced to spend all of their time in one single direction.

rider_xx wrote:In fact, from my experience the antisocial nerds described are usually the ones that have never played a game in their life, as they are locked in their little one sided world of self important activities like political activists, professional athletes, science nerds, religious fanatics, heavy drug users, health food histericals etc. etc.

Most of these people are one sided drones of monolithic belief systems in their consecutive dogmas( sort of like religions). Gamers are usually well balanced individuals with alot of hobbies and activities, with healthy interests in the arts, cinema, music, motorcycles, cars, amateur sports, and of course in the opposite sex, as they feel the need to share their time among their activities and feel bored and supressed if forced to spend all of their time in one single direction.

Heh now you mention it I have to agree :p

TH