Here's Quantic Foundry's latest blog post summarizing the gaming personality of over 100,000 people. On Wedesday, I shared the results related to Second Life, now you compare that profile to players of not just Minecraft, but Europa Universalis IV, Candy Crush & Crash Bandicoot. Notably, Minecraft players put significantly less value on Design (i.e. generated content) than SLers: 53% versus 77%.
"We had about 1600 gamers who wrote down Minecraft as one of their favorite games," Nick Yee tells me. "We actually weren't planning to analyze the data like this. We included the 'favorite games' question as a way to potentially debug problems with the Gamer Motivation Profile.... But as we started to poke around with favorite games for each motivation and dug deeper, we realized how clear the profiles were. And that we had enough data not just for all the popular games, but for many niche/less well-known games as well."
Another notable finding with Minecraft: The survey respondents are actually more male than Google data suggests:
According to Google, Minecraft's actually more popular with females. Nick has a possible explanation for that: "One thing to keep in mind is that our youngest participant was 13, so if there are a large number of tween girls playing Minecraft (like my niece or Nic's daughter) then that may be part of the sampling skew."
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'Crash Bandicoot'? and I thought my Elite fave was odd :)
Posted by: sirhc deSantis | Friday, September 04, 2015 at 04:13 PM