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Types of Gamers

The link from the title points to a Wiki on the different types of gamers that exist in the world. This effectively scientifically analyses gamers, but in reality we are obviously not as defined. There are a number of sub divisions of casual and hardcore players. A casual player can be anyone one plays Solitaire on their PC during the coffee break, or could be a console playing gamer. There are thousands of what I consider to be casual gamers who play sports or fighting games. They maybe play with their friends over a few beers.
There are also competitive professional players, or even cyberathletes (as some may be known) who travel the world and play in large tournaments for money.
There are also hardcore gamers like myself, who find the rich worlds and stories behind games immensely captivating. We tend to love action adventure and single player story driven games.
Very different to us are the perfectionist players, who will stop at nothing to complete a particular game 100%. They will unlock everything, beat every difficulty setting and always try to beat their high score. This type of gamer is a phenomenon I don't particularly understand. They generally make excellent computer programmers - many of the good programmers I have met in the past can stay up all night in order to get their one piece of code to work. They're incredible!

posted by qmchaz64 @ 3:03 pm