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Saw this article before and the title is very misleading. 53% is barely "most", and the biggest takeaway from it is that gamers age 16-24 greatly prefer multiplayer games while people aged 25-34 prefer multiplayer as much as singleplayer. Those age groups are probably most of the market.
This is a really bizarre point to try to make, to me. The headline doesn't say "the vast, overwhelming percentage of gamers"... It says most. 53% is most.
The bigger problem I had was with the categories, really.
"Most" in more than a simple majority in my understanding of English as a non-native speaker. "More" would be a better word for it. I'd also take "single player is the most popular" of two game modes which is true but still implies more than 6% difference.
Are you Spanish or Arabic speaking by any chance?
No. I am a native English speaker and writer.
That 3% could be a rounding error, "most" implies a much bigger difference, the title should say that half gamers prefer singleplayer games.
It doesn’t though. It doesn’t even need to mean more than half, it means more than anything else. If there are 8 groups of 10 and 1 group of 20, the last group has the most members.
People with lots of time and friends prefer multiplayer games more than people with little time and friends. Go figure.
I would assume people with lots of friends and little time will like them even less.
Their methodology also seems a little fucked, reads like this was a survey they offered to gamers. There's likely a lot of self-selection bias to the responses.
Yeah, multiplayer is preferred in their data until the 45+ age ranges. Weird article.