23 03, 2017

Competition Is Not The Opposite of Community

By |2017-03-23T13:06:20-07:00March 23rd, 2017|Analytics, Video Games|8 Comments

As many of you know, Nic Ducheneaut and I focused on MMOs when we began our careers in games research. And in both the research and gaming communities of these online games, there’s a commonly-held assumption about how gamers fall along the social spectrum. In its most basic form, the spectrum has warm, fuzzy, social [...]

11 08, 2016

5 Things We Learned About The Appeal of Competition From Over 239,000 Gamers

By |2016-10-17T20:02:32-07:00August 11th, 2016|Analytics, Video Games|14 Comments

The data we’ve collected from over 239,000 gamers via the Gamer Motivation Profile allows us to explore how gaming motivations do and do not change with gender and age with incredible detail. Back when we had a sample size of around 140,000, we blogged about the Competition and Strategy motivations. With the larger sample size, [...]

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