Community Help the University of Missouri-Columbia answer: Why do you play games?

[Murk]

Neat stuff -- interesting seeing all the comments about the research being bad :3 (I do not think it is, but I don't think I'd ever focus on video games for something as large as this, either).

 

[Menckenstein]

Did you feed the poison to the Bioware fans? Or is that another study?

 

[Country_Gravy]

I find it fascinating how Baldur's Gate fans utterly hate losing.

It's actually the other way around -- sorry that's unclear! In the full article, we refer to that factor as "Loss-Aversion", and questions like "Winning is fun; Losing isn't" load upon it. So Baldur's Gate fans are actually some of the people most okay with getting crushed periodically. I was really hoping to get enough roguelikers in the sample to see how they compare, but didn't have the data for it... I'd guess that people who can deal with losing several hours' progress at Dungeon Crawl or blowing a promising Spelunky run are quite resilient.

So Fallout 1&2 fans love social stuff? 10 minutes of reading these forums shoots that down pretty soundly.

 

[Zed]

I find it fascinating how Baldur's Gate fans utterly hate losing.

Many of them seems to love cheating and modding, in any case.

 

[hipscumbag]

I find it fascinating how Baldur's Gate fans utterly hate losing.

It's actually the other way around -- sorry that's unclear! In the full article, we refer to that factor as "Loss-Aversion", and questions like "Winning is fun; Losing isn't" load upon it. So Baldur's Gate fans are actually some of the people most okay with getting crushed periodically. I was really hoping to get enough roguelikers in the sample to see how they compare, but didn't have the data for it... I'd guess that people who can deal with losing several hours' progress at Dungeon Crawl or blowing a promising Spelunky run are quite resilient.

So Fallout 1&2 fans love social stuff? 10 minutes of reading these forums shoots that down pretty soundly.

Oh no, the "Losing" scale is the only one that's reverse-coded. It's hard to talk about it without getting turned around, the idea of how upset losing makes you. Maybe I could've given it a catchier name...

But yes, all the other scales are scored the way you'd expect. So people who mentioned Fallout 1 or 2 as one of their favorite games tend to play by themselves.

 

[Country_Gravy]

I think you meant that they like to play WITH themselves, but thanks for clearing that up.

 

[Lady_Error]

So Fallout 1&2 fans love social stuff? 10 minutes of reading these forums shoots that down pretty soundly.

How do you people read these things? If WoW players have a positive score on social interaction and Fallout fans a very negative score, then that means Fallout fans are NOT into social stuff and like to play on their own.

 

[TwinkieGorilla]

You might know Joe Hilgard because he posts on the forums as @hipscumbag.

Nope.

 

[Night Goat]

Why is Story so low for Deus Ex? And why's it so high for Minecraft?

 

[Jasede]

I play games so I can post about them on RPG Codex.
Lately I have been too lazy to play games so I watch them on Youtube.

Yeah.

 

[Roguey]

Why is Story so low for Deus Ex? And why's it so high for Minecraft?

Why would anyone play Deus Ex for its dumb conspiracy-theory-kitchen-sink story?

 

[drae]

Why is Story so low for Deus Ex? And why's it so high for Minecraft?

More to the point, why is it so high for Skyrim?

 

[Night Goat]

Why would anyone play Deus Ex for its dumb conspiracy-theory-kitchen-sink story?

I find conspiracy theories fascinating, and not all of them are unwarranted. The story is more relevant now than ever, with the Kwan government using terrorism as an excuse to create a police state and wage war against its own people.

More to the point, why is it so high for Skyrim?

A story doesn't need to be good for the masses to like it, just look at Harry Potter ffs.

 

[deuxhero]

'Do you consider yourself hispanic?' is a extremely difficult question for an iberian (spaniard or portuguese)

Not really? Hispanic is those coming from south and central America. Spaniards are sometime mistakenly referred to as ''Hispanic'' but they're officially European or ''Caucasian''.

"Hispanic" has nothing to do with Hispania?

 

[Cursed Platypus]

'Do you consider yourself hispanic?' is a extremely difficult question for an iberian (spaniard or portuguese)

Not really? Hispanic is those coming from south and central America. Spaniards are sometime mistakenly referred to as ''Hispanic'' but they're officially European or ''Caucasian''.

"Hispanic" has nothing to do with Hispania?

It has to do with them taking over South America 500 years ago. And having a long lasting influence, therefore creating all these different Hispanic cultures. But Someone from Spain is referred to as a Spaniard, European or Caucasian.

 

[tuluse]

You're supposed to refer to people from central and south America as Latino/Latina to be 100% PC these days.

 

[Country_Gravy]

So, wait...They all aren't just Mexicans?

 

[Murk]

Nah, Mexicans look down on Hondurans. Familia mijo, familia.

 

[Cosmic Misogynerd]

Nah, Mexicans look down on central americans.

Fixed for ya'.