Core gamers do not exist: A more accurate breakdown of the customer base

[Humanophage]

Personally, I really dislike the term 'video games'. Perhaps one of the symptoms of a healthy culture in Eastern Europe is that 'video games' generally meant 'console games', while computer games were called 'computer games'. Frankly, I don't see myself as sharing much with someone who has been mainly playing consoles, just like they probably don't think that they share a lot with Facebook gamers or mobile gamers. It is sad that 'video games' is such a wide-spread term in English.

Also, I've always thought that the huge genre sex gap is an interesting phenomenon: https://quanticfoundry.com/2017/01/19/female-gamers-by-genre/

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Fortnite players are the real core gamers, everybody else is irrelevant

This is your future

this is why bullying is a good thing

 

[Gangrelrumbler]

You forgot about the coomers.

Genreists that play dating sims and JRPGs.

That's not necessarily true. They often buy games from different genres if right characters are included.

 

[DJOGamer PT]

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Have

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sex.

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Dilate

Yeah, fuck it, white people really deserve to die off.

Location: Belgrade

 

[just_dmitri]

That's not necessarily true. They often buy games from different genres if right characters are included.

Technically, Genreists should be a subgroup of Taste Specialists: We have people who play only anime games from different genres but same characters(jrpg, 2d fighting, VN, etc.), we have people only playing CoD but no other FPS, we have football fanatics who play FIFA/PES AND Football Manager but will probably not play NHL/NFL or any other kind of excel simulations management game and we have people who love Heroes 3 but will never, ever play any other kind of turnbased strategy/tactics. Most of those have otherwise Secutor/Mainstream Hollywood action-adventure taste except those specific interests.

 

[J1M]

You forgot about the coomers.

Genreists that play dating sims and JRPGs.

That's not necessarily true. They often buy games from different genres if right characters are included.

Literally covered in the OP:
"will only play a limited number of genres or franchises"

I readily concede there could be a better name for that group.

 

[Grauken]

Fortnite players are the real core gamers, everybody else is irrelevant

This is your future

this is why bullying is a good thing

Doesn't work when even the bullies are into it

 

[Ghulgothas]

The archetypical Whale deserves recognition, especially with the rise of perpetually developed Lifestyle Games alongside the usual mobile tat. Perhaps as an extreme subtype of Genreist.

 

[Tigranes]

OP: I criticise existing system of categorising gamers
Reader: OK, sounds good
OP: I now propose my own model
Reader: OK, sounds good
OP: Here are a random bunch of labels with no data or theory or reasoning whatsoever
Reader: Wait what
OP: Also some of the labels are called like Genreists and shit

 

[Sweeper]

Here's a more accurate breakdown.
Autists
Normies
Housewives

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Have

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sex.

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No.