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December 20, 2005
Character Gender and Server Type
As you can guess, it makes me really happy when survey data from The Daedalus Project matches census data here at PlayOn. The gender differences by server type is one of these matches. The survey data showed that players on PvP servers tend to be younger and more likely to be men. And because younger men tend to gender-bend less than older men (the most likely demographic to gender-bend), we would expect that overall that there are fewer female avatars on PvP servers than PvE servers. The census data showed this pattern.
The percentage of female avatars was highest in RP servers and lowest in PvP server.
If we actually calculate the precise gender ratio for the servers, we get a clearer graph. The graph below plots out the number of female avatars per male avatar. On the RP server, it's about 1:2. On the PvP server, it's 1:3.5
Server Sample: RP (High), PvE (Medium), PvE (High), PvP (High), PvP (High)
Sampling Period: 10/14/2005 12:00 am - 10/30/2005 12:00 am
Sampling Resolution: ~12 minutes
Collection Method: Please see our earlier post to get a sense for how we collected the data on gender.
Parsing Method: The sample unit is each unique character. Each character was tracked across the server logs. Total playing time, lowest observed level, highest observed level, guild affiliation, and zones seen in were parsed.
Data Filter: See below
Sample Size: 90,961 characters with known gender
Posted at December 20, 2005 03:26 PM
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