 | New Daedalus Project report on roleplayingJune 11th, 2006 |
The latest issue of the Daedalus Project is out. Key statistical findings this time:
- 60% of people say they have roleplayed, with no significant age or gender differences.
- Females are more likely to create background stories for their characters.
- Females are also much more likely to have other people’s characters in their backstory.
- They’re also more likely to roleplay with larger groups.
- Regular roleplaying (like, once a week) seems to be something around 1/5 of the playerbase does, and it skews older somewhat.
- 12-17 year olds don’t roleplay near as much as other age brackets.
- 80% of females and 60% of males have flirted with another player.
- No gender and age differences except for 12-17 year old males, who flirt less (this is not news
). - Women are significantly more likely to have developed romantic feelings online — half them ports having done so, versus less than a quarter of the men.
- The females are also far more likely to actually tell their crush about it.
- 29% of females in an MMO have dated someone they met in an MMO, versus 8% of males. This is apparently a big rise over the last time that Nick Yee asked this question.
As usual, there are essays, player submitted stories, and so on as well.
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