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<blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 4384819" data-attributes="member: 11760"><p>I'm familiar with the Daedalus Project.</p><p></p><p>Nick Yee's 2005 paper on demographics in WoW looked at 1,000 players when the game was, at that point, above 5 million players. That's statistically worthless.</p><p></p><p>His paper is a collection of interesting anecdotes, not a basis for any sort of sweeping generalizations.</p><p></p><p>But you said that gnome players picked the race because it's tiny. So let's go off of Nick Yee's research, which you pointed to.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>He should have said "character races" on that chart, obviously. But what we see is that, based on his anecdotal survey, gnome players tend to value roleplaying and being unique, and aren't that worried about playing a powerful race, being better than other players or even what the mechanics of the race are. (Which is ironic, since gnomes make excellent spellcasters in WoW, probably the best on the Alliance side.)</p><p></p><p>In other words, pretty much what gnome players on D&D threads tend to say.</p><p></p><p>And that's it for the 2005 study. There's no evidence that people pick gnomes because they want to be short in that one.</p><p></p><p>Looking at the comments he included in a later update of the PDF, you see people saying they play gnomes and dwarves exclusively (which the chart above also hints at).</p><p></p><p>Gnomes resurface in his Norrathan Scrolls survey (I couldn't find the date on it). Gnome beggars got more money than half-elf or ogre beggars, especially if they were female.</p><p></p><p>And that's about it. If Nick has any results that say "people play gnomes in MMOs because they're short," he hasn't posted it as far as my Google Fu shows.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Could you <em>please</em> drop the hostility?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Whizbang Dustyboots, post: 4384819, member: 11760"] I'm familiar with the Daedalus Project. Nick Yee's 2005 paper on demographics in WoW looked at 1,000 players when the game was, at that point, above 5 million players. That's statistically worthless. His paper is a collection of interesting anecdotes, not a basis for any sort of sweeping generalizations. But you said that gnome players picked the race because it's tiny. So let's go off of Nick Yee's research, which you pointed to. He should have said "character races" on that chart, obviously. But what we see is that, based on his anecdotal survey, gnome players tend to value roleplaying and being unique, and aren't that worried about playing a powerful race, being better than other players or even what the mechanics of the race are. (Which is ironic, since gnomes make excellent spellcasters in WoW, probably the best on the Alliance side.) In other words, pretty much what gnome players on D&D threads tend to say. And that's it for the 2005 study. There's no evidence that people pick gnomes because they want to be short in that one. Looking at the comments he included in a later update of the PDF, you see people saying they play gnomes and dwarves exclusively (which the chart above also hints at). Gnomes resurface in his Norrathan Scrolls survey (I couldn't find the date on it). Gnome beggars got more money than half-elf or ogre beggars, especially if they were female. And that's about it. If Nick has any results that say "people play gnomes in MMOs because they're short," he hasn't posted it as far as my Google Fu shows. Could you [i]please[/i] drop the hostility? [/QUOTE]
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