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. If you’ve been always assumed that online game played by many small children, then your assumption is wrong for.
Online game was much played by players with an average age of 31 years. The older gamers also spent more time per week more than the gamer kids. Even more surprising, according to the study, it appeared that more women lied about how much time they used to play games online.