10% of All Video Gamers Are Addicted - What is the Percentage in Gaming Communities?
A recent study in a major neurology scientific journal noted that 10% of all video gamers are indeed addicted to playing these games.
This obviously didn't surprise many parents or teachers, and it hardly sent even a ripple of a shock wave into the video gaming software industry, as they are well aware of who their ideal consumers and clients are and have been aware of this for decades now.
Still, one has to ask; If the average video gamer is addicted to playing, then what is the number associated with those who are actually part of online video gaming communities? After all, those who are fully into playing are also discussing tactics, strategies, and even cheats with their friends online.
And if you go and check out some of the forums of the gaming communities you will see players posts 100s if not 1000s of posts in discussing various games.
It's absolutely amazing.
Many of these folks are teens and young adults, but you'd be blown away by how many 40+ video gamers there are in these online groups.
Many of the discussions are quite detailed and complex, and the strategies are nothing short of military scholars in discussing battle tactics of the civil war, WWII or modern day net-centric warfare exploits.
In viewing all this and thinking about it at length and dropping into random various online gamer communities, I'd say the addiction rates of these participants is probably nearly 75%.
Of course, we will have to wait for empirical and research to back that up.
Please consider all this.
This obviously didn't surprise many parents or teachers, and it hardly sent even a ripple of a shock wave into the video gaming software industry, as they are well aware of who their ideal consumers and clients are and have been aware of this for decades now.
Still, one has to ask; If the average video gamer is addicted to playing, then what is the number associated with those who are actually part of online video gaming communities? After all, those who are fully into playing are also discussing tactics, strategies, and even cheats with their friends online.
And if you go and check out some of the forums of the gaming communities you will see players posts 100s if not 1000s of posts in discussing various games.
It's absolutely amazing.
Many of these folks are teens and young adults, but you'd be blown away by how many 40+ video gamers there are in these online groups.
Many of the discussions are quite detailed and complex, and the strategies are nothing short of military scholars in discussing battle tactics of the civil war, WWII or modern day net-centric warfare exploits.
In viewing all this and thinking about it at length and dropping into random various online gamer communities, I'd say the addiction rates of these participants is probably nearly 75%.
Of course, we will have to wait for empirical and research to back that up.
Please consider all this.
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