Online Gamers More Women Long Lasting

September 25th, 2009  |  Published in Technology Feature

When talking about online gaming, men almost always dominated over all existing game titles. However, it does not guarantee that gamers play older men than women. According to research by Dmitri Williams, professor at the University Annenberg School for communication, shows that in some cases women play online games longer than men, and even got the nickname gamer freak.

Research conducted at the 7000 games player massively multiplayer online RPG (MMORPG), EverQuest II. MMORPG is a genre of online game that allows players to explore the game world. Usually, to raise the level of character, they have to kill monsters or do the work that had been prepared.

Female gamers spent about 57 hours a week, more than male gamers who play their characters for 51 hours in one week. Meanwhile, if averaged female gamers spent 29 hours a week and 25 hours a gamer man within a week. Read the rest of this entry »